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acrimonious
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marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce
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bovine
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dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy
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conducive
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tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; "working conditions are not conducive to productivity"; "the seaport was a contributing
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consternation
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alarm: fear resulting from the awareness of danger
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corpulent
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excessively fat; "a weighty man
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disavow
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disavow (refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with) "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children"
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dispassionate
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(adj) dispassionate, cold-eyed (unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice) "a journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact"
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dissension
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(n) discord, dissension (disagreement among those expected to cooperate)
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expurgate
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(v) bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten (edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate) "bowdlerize a novel
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elan
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n) ardor, ardour, elan, zeal (a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)) "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor"; "he felt a kind of religious zeal
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