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Abate
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to reduce in amount, degree, or intensity.
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during the drought the live plants abated.
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Aberration
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the act of departing from the right, norm or usual course.
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how strange/ out of the ordinary.
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catholic
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broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like. broad-minded
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open minded. NOT the religion
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circumvent
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to go around
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antonymn:to run into
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cogitate
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to think hard; ponder; meditate
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to cogitate about the answer
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deprecate
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express earnest disapproval of.
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antonymn:to approve of something.
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dolorous
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causing pain or sorrow;grievous;mournful
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antonymn:to cause joy, happiness.
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encomium
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formal expression of high praise.
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eulogy. talking about how good someone is, or was.
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ethereal
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light, airy, or tenuous. heavenly
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her beauty is ethereal
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founder
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to fall or sink down.
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NOT someone who starts something. The building began to founder.
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gregarious
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fond of the company of others.
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antonymn:unsociable. a hermet is not gregarious.
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harangue
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a scolding or long or intense verbal attack.
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rarely are harangues quiet, most people do not get a harangue for doing something good.
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inundate
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to flood;cover or overspread with water.
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to get overtaken by the ocean or a river or any body of water.
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inexorable
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not capable of being persuaded by entreaty;relentless.
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stubborn. He was so inexorable he wouldn't change my grade.
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irascible
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easily provoked to anger;very irritable
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"ir"ritable. don't push their buttons.
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jocose
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given to or characterized by joking.
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goofball, silly.
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largess
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liberality in bestowing gifts, especially in a lofty or condescending manner.
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generous gift. a "large" gift.
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mettle
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courage and fortitude.
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antonymn:coward.
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neophyte
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a beginner or novice
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antonymn:expert
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ostensible
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outwardly appearing as such professed;pretended.
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people don't always act the way they look like they would act.
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penchant
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a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something.
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had a desire, strong like for music
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pithy
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brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning,
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not long.
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plethora
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overabundance;excess.
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antonymn:lacking in, running out of.
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protract
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to draw out to lengthen, esp. in time.
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prolong, seems like forever.
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purge
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to rid of any impurities
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to throw up rotten food. to expell slackers out of school.
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respite
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a delay or cessation for a time, esp. of anything distressing or trying
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relief, oh man it's finally over!
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somnolent
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sleepy, drowsy
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a boring class would make you this.
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turgid
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swollen;distended;tumid
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punches to your face would make it swollen or...
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bellicose
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inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile
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very angry, not very nice. don't mess with this person.
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morass
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tract of low, soft, wet ground.
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a bog or swamp. 'yuck'
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accolade
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praise
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amendable
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controllable
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blithe
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carefree
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coalesce
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gel, come together
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construe
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comprehend
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cursory
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NOT thorough, random
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dichotomy
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separation of a whole into two parts
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droll
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oddly funny
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equanimity
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composure, evenness of temperment
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expedient
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makes something more efficient
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fulsome
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excessive to a fault
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gauche
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socially awkward
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hackneyed
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cliched
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imbue
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to embed, embody
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innocuous
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benign
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inter
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to bury
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laissez-faire
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a policy of noninterference
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malevolent
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bad, w/bad, harmful intentions
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onerous
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burdensome
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pariah
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social outcast
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pertinacity
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diligence, persistence
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quell
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to calm
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recumbent
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lying down[not a position of the body]
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sinecure
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esay job w/pay
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soporific
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sleep inducive
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supercilious
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haughty, contemptuous
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taciturn
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quiet, reserved
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upbraid
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to scold, criticize
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virtuoso
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someon good at something, pertaining to the arts
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zealous
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enthusiastic
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