Vocab Level G

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Acquisitive

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(adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

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Acquire

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Arrogate

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(v.) to claim or take without right

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Arrogant

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Banal

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(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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Boring

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Belabor

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(v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

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Labor

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Carping

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(adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism

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Harping

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Coherent

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(adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

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Hear it

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Congeal

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(v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

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conjello

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Emulate

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(v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

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imitate emu

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Encomium

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(n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

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communion

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Eschew

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(v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from

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ah chu

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Germane

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(adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

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Jackson 5

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Insatiable

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(adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

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unsatifsfied

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Intransigent

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(adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

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Invidious

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(adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

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vicious

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Largesse

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(n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

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big ass

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Reconnaissance

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(n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

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Substantiate

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(v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

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Taciturn

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(adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

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silent

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Temporize

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(v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

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Tenable

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(adj.) capable of being held or defended

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tent

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Accost

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(v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

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Animadversion

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(n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

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mad

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Avid

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(adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

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Brackish

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(adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

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Celerity

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(n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

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acceleration

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Devious

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(adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

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troll

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Gambit

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(n.) In chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage

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risky

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Halcyon

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(n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) calm, peaceful, golden; prosperous, affluent

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Histrionic

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(adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

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history of actors

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Incendiary

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(adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist

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incinerate

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Maelstrom

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(n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction

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storm

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Myopic

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(adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

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my eye

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Overt

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(adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

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not covert

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Pejorative

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(adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, belittling

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not joy

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Propriety

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(n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness

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Sacrilege

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(n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

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Summarily

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(adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely

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Suppliant

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(adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

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someone will be compliant

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Talisman

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(n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers

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Undulate

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(v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

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Articulate

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(v.) to pronounce distinctly; (adj.) to expressed clearly and forcefully

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Cavort

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(v.) to romp or prance around exuberantly

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Credence

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(n.) belief, mental acceptance

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Decry

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(v.) to condemn, express strong disapproval

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dean decrys demons

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Dissemble

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(v.) to disguise or conceal

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a's necklace

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Distraught

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(adj.) very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict

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get traught or get dead

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Eulogy

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(n.) a formal statement of commendation

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Evince

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(v.) to display clearly, to make evident. to provoke

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evidence

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Exhume

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(v.) to remove from a grave; to bring to light

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Feckless

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(adj.) lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak

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Murky

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(adj.) dark and gloomy

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Nefarious

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(adj.) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards

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Piquant

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(adj.) stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative

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Primordial

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(adj.) developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage

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Propinquity

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(n.) nearness in place or time; kinship

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vicinity

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Unwonted

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(adj.) not usual or expected; not in character

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Utopian

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(adj.) founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world

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Verbiage

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(n.) language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content

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Verdant

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(adj.) green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgment

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Vern

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Viscous

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(adj.) having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking easy movement or fluidity

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viciously stuck to the floor

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Atrophy

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(n.) the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v.) to waste away

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if weak dont get a prize

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Bastion

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(n.) a fortified place, stronghold

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Gaston

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Concord

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(n.) a state of agreement

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agree to meet at ____

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Consummate

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(adj.) complete or perfect in the highest degree; (v.) to bring to a state of completion

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Disarray

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(n.) disorder, confusion; (v.) to throw into disorder

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Exigency

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(n.) urgency

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Flotsam

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(n.) floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

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Frenetic

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(adj.) frenzied, highly agitated

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frenzied=frantic

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Glean

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(v.) to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers

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Grouse

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(n.) a type of game bird; a complaint; (v.) to complain, grumble

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Incarcerate

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(v.) to imprison, confine, jail

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Incumbent

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(adj.) obligatory, required; (n.) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of

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Jocular

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(adj.) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking

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joking jester

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Ludicrous

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(adj.) ridiculous, laughable, absurd

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Mordant

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(adj.) biting or caustic in though, manner, or style

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Nettle

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(n.) a prickly or stinging plant; (v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience , or anger; to vex or irritate severely

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to nettle the worst

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Pecuniary

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(adj.) consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money

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The cunning thief stole lots of money

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Pusillanimous

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(adj.) contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited

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pussy

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Recumbent

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(adj.) in a reclining position, lying down

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reclining

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Stratagem

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(n.) a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end

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strategy