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cogent
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convincing reasonable
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didactic
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intended to instruct
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discourse
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verbal expression or exchange; conversation
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implication
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act of suggesting or hinting
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lucid
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easily understood; clear
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arbiter
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judge who decides disputed issue
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exculpate
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to free from guilt or shame
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incontrovertible
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not able to be denied or disputed
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objectivity
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treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
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penitent
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expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
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substantiated
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supported with proof or evidence; verified
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contemptuous
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feeling hatred; scornful
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despotic
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exercising absolute power; tyrranical
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imperious
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arrogant; vainly proud
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convoluted
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intricate; complex
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cryptic
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difficult to comprehend
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quandary
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a state of uncertainty or perplexity
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indolent
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lazy
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insipid
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uninteresting; unchallenging
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torpor
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laziness, inactivity, dullness
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florid
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describing flowery or elaborate speech
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poignant
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profoundly moving; touching
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ebullience
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intense enthusiasm
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effusive
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emotionally unrestrained; gushy
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egregious
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conspicuously bad or offensive
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flagrant
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extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
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frenetic
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wildly excited or active
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gratuitous
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given freel; unearned; unwarranted
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spurious
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not genuine
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astute
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shrewd; clever
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disingenuous
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not straightforward; crafty
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ruse
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crafty trick
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wary
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on guard
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capricious
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impulsive and unpredictable
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inconsequential
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unimportant
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tenuous
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having little substance or strength
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assiduous
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hard-working
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dogged
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stubbornly perservering
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intrepid
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courageous; fearless
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maverick
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one who is independent and resists adherence to a group
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incumbent
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imposed as a duty; obligatory
Since you are the host, it is incumbent upon you to see that everyone is having fun. |
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dogmatic
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stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
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inherent
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inborn; built-in
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innate
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possessed from birth; inborn
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inveterate
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long established; deep-rooted; habitual
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transient
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passing away with time; passing from one place to another
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affable
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easy-going; friendly
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amenable
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responsive; agreeable
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facetious
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playfully humorous
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inpinge
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hinder; interfere with
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anthology
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collection of literary pieces
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dilettante
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one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
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virtuoso
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tremendously skilled artist
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equanimity
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quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
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propriety
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appropriateness of behavior
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staid
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unemotional; serious
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disparage
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to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
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pejorative
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describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
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villify
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to make vicious statements about
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brusque
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rudely abrupt
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caustic
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bitingly sarcastic or witty
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fractious
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quarrelsome; unruly
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incorribile
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unable to be reformed
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ingrate
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an ungrateful person
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deleterious
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having a harmful effect; injurious
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enmity
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mutual hatred or ill-will
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malfeasance
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wrong doing, misconduct
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rancorous
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hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
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hackneyed
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worn out through overuse; trite
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mundane
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commonplace; ordinary
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ponderous
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extremely dull
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prosaic
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unimaginative; dull
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harbinger
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something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
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nascent
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coming into existence; emerging
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fastidious
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possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
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pragmatic
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practical
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solvent
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able to pay one's debts
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anachronism
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something out of place in time or sequence
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anthropomorphism
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attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature
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apology
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defense of an idea
e.g. Du Bellay wrote an apology in which he justified the use of French in place of Latin. |
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gesticulating
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making gestures while speaking
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lexicon
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word book describing language with definition; dictionary
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panegyric
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an example or model
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pernicious
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causing great harm
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propitious
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presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
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sardonic
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disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic
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syllogism
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form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole
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