Vocabulary For Achievement Fifth

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Revulsion

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A sudden, intense feeling of disgust

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Spurn

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To reject scornfully

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Vitriolic

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Intensity and bitterly harsh; stinging

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Remiss

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Lax or careless in attending duty

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Accountable

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Responsible required to answer one’s actions, explainable

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Default

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A situation that remains in effect unless specifically set another way

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Liability

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A legal responsibility or obligation something that holds one back; handicap

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Aspersions

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Attacks on a person’s character or honesty; damaging or unfavorable

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Mandatory

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Required or commanded by authority

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Negligence

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Neglect, lack or proper care/attention

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Scurrilous

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Vulgar, coarse, abusive in expression

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Incumbent

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Imposed as a duty or obligation, person holding a position in office

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Disapprobation

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Moral disapproval

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Ostracize

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To banish or exclude from a group; shun

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Feckless

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Ineffective, feeble, useless, careless

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Onerous

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Difficult to bear, carry or do; troublesome

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Assiduous

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Giving constant attention; hard-working

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Metamorphosis

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A marked change in form or in character

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Derision

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Hateful or mocking laughter; ridicule

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Supersede

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To replace, take place of

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Elude

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To escape from cleverness or skill, escape grasp or understanding of

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Eschew

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To avoid especially on moral or practical grounds

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Evasion

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To pretend to be ill or injured in order to avoid duty or work

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Oblique

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Indirect, intentionally vague or ambiguous

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Shirk

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To neglect, put off, avoid duty or responsibility

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Initiate

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To take first steps in a process, to begin something

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Abeyance

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Suspicion, condition of being temporarily set

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Degradation

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A decline to a lower condition, quality or level

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Tangential

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Superficially, relevant, only slightly connected

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Sequel

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A continuation; something that follows, the next installment something

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Terminate

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To bring to an end or halt

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Pivotal

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Being of vital importance

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Penultimate

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Second from last

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Crux

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The main, central, critical point, or feature

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Converge

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To come together at the same point from different directions

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Circumvent

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To avoid or get around by clever maneuvering

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Shun

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Willfully ignore, stay away from

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Abstemious

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Eating and drinking little or in moderation restricted by bear necessities

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Inconceivable

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Impossible to comprehend or fully grasp so unlikely, unimaginable

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In vain

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Without success, completely ineffective

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Perchance

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Perhaps, possibly

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Preposterous

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Absurd; contrary to nature, reason or common sense

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Proclivity

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A natural, inclination, a tendency

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Prone

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Having a tendency, incline, likely, to do or have something

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Theoretical

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Restricted to ideas, abstract or unproven

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Implausible

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Difficult to believe, not likely or credible

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Eventuality

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Something that may occur; a possibility

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Contingent

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Conditional, dependent on other things

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Vulgar

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Of or related to the language of the common people, crude indecent

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Polyglot

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Using several languages, speaking several language

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Patois

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A regional dialect, especially a non-standard one that has no written

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Parlance

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A particular manner of speaking

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Neologism

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A new word, expression or usage

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Malapropism

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Ridiculous misuse of a word, especially by confusing it with one of a similar sound

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Linguistics

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The study of the nature, structure, and variation of language

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Eponym

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A person whose name is or is thought to be, the source of the name of something

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Appellation

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A name, title, or designation

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Annotation

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A critical or explanatory note

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Faculty

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A natural power or ability, division of university

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Cerebral

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Of or relating to the brain using intellect

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Acumen

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Quickness and keenness of insight or judgment

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Modulate

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To adjust or to adapt to a certain level or proportion

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Volatile

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Tending to vary often or widely as in price, tending toward violence

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Transmute

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To change from one form to another transform

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Ascertain

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To discover or determine with certainty

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Protean

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Redily taking on different forms, characteristics or meanings

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Tenet

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A principle or belief had by a person or organization

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Immutable

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Unchangeable; not subject or susceptible for change

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped or formed as by hammering or pressure

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Sporadic

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Scattered, occurring, at irregular intervals

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Obfuscate

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To make difficult to understand, to darken

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Obtrusive

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Difficult to understand

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Evolve

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To develop or achieve gradually

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Surmise

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Guess, draw a conclusion, guess conclusion on without sufficient evidence

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Stymie

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To prevent from making a progress, frustrate or thwart efforts

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Inveterate

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Firmly established and having existed for a long time, deep-rooted

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Ruminate

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To deeply think about, to chew or partially digest food

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Tractable

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Easily managed or controlled

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Compliance

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The act of going along with a request

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Camaraderie

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Comradeship, lighthearted good will

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Balk

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To stubbornly refuse, to stop short

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Proficient

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Able to do something very well, expert

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Inept

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Lacking skill or judgment; clumsy

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Facile

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Easy and done or achieved with little effort

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Cunning

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Marked by using silly deception, skill in cleverness

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Prowess

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Superior strength, skill, courage

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Rebuke

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Criticize sharply. Strong criticism

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Deft

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Quick and skillful

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Endowment

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A natural gift

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Cantankerous

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Disagreeable, bad-tempered, likely to quarrel

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Propitiate

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To soother bad feelings, to appease

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Adamant

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Stubbornly determined, not swayed by pleas, appeals or reason

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Acquiesce

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To agree, to accept passively without protest

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Consummate

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Supremely accomplished or skilled to bring to completion

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Prescient

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Having foresight, having knowledge events before they occur

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Presumptuous

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Excessively bold or forward

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ambivalence

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conflicting feelings

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avail

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use, benefit, advantage

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vanquish

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to defeat in battle, conflict, or competition

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abound

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to be in great number or amount

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amplitude

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greatness in size

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augment

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to make greater in size

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brevity

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briefness of duration

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commensurate

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of the same size

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diminish

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to make smaller or cause to appear smaller

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infinitesimal

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immeasurably tiny

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modicum

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a small amount or quantity

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prodigious

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impressively great in size

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quota

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proportional share assigned to a group

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abdicate

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v, to relinquish formally

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Adverse

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contrary to ones interest

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Averse

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referring to a feeling of avoidance and dislike

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Ingenious

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maked by inventine skill and imagination

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Ingenuous

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unable to deceive, openly straightforward

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Persecute

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to continuously mistreat or be cruel to someone

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Prosecute

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to bring action against, in a court of law

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Quorum

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the minimum number of people who must be present to make a decision

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Respectfully

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with regard and esteem

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Respectively

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referring to thing or people in the order given

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Banal

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unoriginal or commonplace, trite

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Camouflage

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concealment by disguise

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Emulate

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to strive to equal or excel

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Mimicry

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imitation or copying

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Platitude

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an overused dull and unoriginal remark or statement

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Prototype

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an original type, form, or instance that serves as a basis or standard

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Redundant

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extra, exceeding what is necessary

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Rendition

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an interpretation or a performance of a musical or dramatic piece

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Sham

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something false or empty that is presented as genuine

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Simulation

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an imitation, representation, or reproduction of a situation or experience

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Behemoth

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something enormous in size or power

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Beseech

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to request earnestly, to implore

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Cajole

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to urge with gentle, repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery

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Elicit

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to bring out or call forth

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Enjoin

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to direct or order with authority

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Exigency

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the state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action

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Imperious

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arrogantly bossy. Domineering, overbearing

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Injunction

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a command, a directive, or an order

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Mendicant

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dependent on begging for a living

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Query

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a question. An inquiry

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Servile

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slavish. Bhevang like a servant. Excessively submissive

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Acuity

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sharpness of vision or perception

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Volition

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the power of choosing or deciding, free will

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Compunction

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a strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt

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Malinger

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to pretend to be ill or injured in order to avoid duty or work

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Abstruse

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difficult to understand