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defenestrate
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to throw a person or thing out a window
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gauche
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lacking social grace or sensitivity
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diatribe
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a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation or criticism
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charlatan
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a person who claims or pretends to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses
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subterfuge
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an artifice used to evade a rule
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denigrate
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to speak damagingly of
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maelstrom
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a large violent or powerful whirlpool
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truculent
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fierce or cruel
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specious
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apparently good or right though lacking merit
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dilettante
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a person who takes up an art, activity or subject merely for amusement
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