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Acrimony
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Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility. adj. acrimonious
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Affinity
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Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship
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Ambivalent
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Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive n. ambivalence
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Cessation
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A stopping either final or temporary
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Emaciated
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Very think or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny
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Enclave
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A district region or community enclosed within a larger territory
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Engender
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To bring into being, to produce
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Exacerbate
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To make more severe, bitter, or violent
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Illicit
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Not allowed, improper, or unlawful
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Indigenous
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Naturally living or growing in a certain area; native
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Inexorable
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Not able to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless
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Infatuated
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Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire. n. infatuation
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Insatiable
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Never satisfied; greedy
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Poignant
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Painfully moving, affecting or touching
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Proselytize
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To convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause.
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