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abate
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to make less in amount, degree, to subside, lessen, dimminish, decrease, subside, let up
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adulation
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praise or flattery that is excessive, adoration, idolization, hero-worship
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anathema
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an object of intense dislike, melediction, imprecation, abomination
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astute
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shrewd, crafty, cleaver, acute, wily, judicious
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avarice
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a greedy desire, particularly for wealth, cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness
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culpable
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deserving blame, worthy of condemnation, guilty, delinquent, peccent, blameworthy
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dilatory
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tending to delay or precrastinate, not prompt, stalling, slow, tardy, laggard
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egregious
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consqicuous, standing out from the mass, glaring, flagrant, blatant
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equivocate
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to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation, to talk out of both sides of one's mouth
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evanescent
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vanishing, soon passing away, light and airy, ephemeral, transient, transitory
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irresolute
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unable to make up one's mind, hesitating, indecisive, vacillating, wavering
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nebulous
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cloudlike, resembling a cloud, not transparent, vague, confused, indistinct, hazy, fuzzy, murky, indeterminate
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novice
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biginer, neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice
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penury
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extreme poverty, barrenness, insufficiency, destitution, want, indigence
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ppretentious
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done for show, striving to make a big impression, inflated, ambitious, ostentatious, affected
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recapitulate
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to review a series of facts, to sum up, review, summarize, sum up, go over
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resuscitate
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to revive, bring back to consciousness or existence, revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate
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slovenly
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untidy, dirty, careless, unkempt, slatternly, slipshod, lax
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supposition
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something that is assumed or taken for granted with out conclusive evidence, assumption, presumption, hypothesis
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torpid
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inactive, sluggish, dull, lethargic, otiose, languid
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