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Rueful |
adj-causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable: a rueful plight |
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Havoc |
n-great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage |
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Dilatory |
adj - tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy |
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Insidious |
adj- sinister and menacing; intended to entrap or beguile |
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Contemptible |
adj- shameful and disgraceful; despicable |
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Elusive |
adj- hard to express or describe; cleverly evasive |
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Improvisation |
n- an act of ad-libbing or making do |
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Calamity |
n-a great misfortune or disaster |
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Cliché |
n- a stereotyped expression; an overused sentence or phrase |
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Scourge |
n-a plague, a curse; a cause of affliction or calamity |
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Waver |
to sway to and fro; flutter |
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Eloquence |
n-the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness |
