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aberrant
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abberation, away from norm
antithetical
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contrasted in character or purpose
approbatory
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expressing praise or approval
arch
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deliberately teasing
brisk
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quick and energetic
byzantine
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intricate and complex
cadaverous
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emaciated, gaunt
connive
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taking part in immoral plots
demur to
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object to
demure
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shy or modest
destitute
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wanting or lacking
dolorous
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showing sorrow
facile
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lacking depth
facetious
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cleverly amusing in tone
factious
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characterized by internal dissension
fastidious
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overly concerned with details
glib
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speaking with ease, but without sincerity
improvident
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not giving careful consideration
inviable or unviable
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not able to work or survive
languish
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to become weak or feeble
loath
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unwilling to do something contrary to your custom (loath to)
moot
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open to argument or debate, undecidable in a meaningless way
mordant
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biting and caustic in thought
morose
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gloomy and ill tempered
perspicacious
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acutely insightful and wise
plodding
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slow
ponderous
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weighed down, moving slowly
propulsion
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a force pushing forward
provisional
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under terms that are not fully finalized
quixotic
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wildly idealistic
sanctimonious
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HOLIER than thou
splenetic
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very irritable
surreptitious
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stealthy, taking pains to not be caught or detected
temperate
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free from extremes
tempestuous
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driven by turbulent, conflicting emotions
tenacious
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unchanging or stubborn
timorous
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timid by nature
treacherous
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dangerously unstable
unprepossessing
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creating an unfavourable or neutral first impression
urbane
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high degree of refinement
vehement
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marked by extreme intensity
vociferous
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vehement
wane
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decrease in power or size
wanton
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without check or limitation
rapture
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intense pleasure or joy
hubris
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excessive pride and self-confidence
baleful
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menacing
insouciance
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lack of concern
salubrious
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healthy
vilipend
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regard as worthless, hate or contempt
enmity
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hostility
perspicuous
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easily understandable
thwarted
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prevent someone
stymied
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prevented
obdurate
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stubborn
saprophytic
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obtaining food by absorbing dissolved organic material
exigent
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pressing
fecundity
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ability to produce many new ideas, fertility
circumspection
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wary
calorific
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lots of calories
BENEDICTION
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HOLY
appellation
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name or a title
aphorism
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phrase that is a general truth "it is what it is"
flouted
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disregard
contrived
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forced or strained, done dliberately
consecrated
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declared SACRED
remedial
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given as a cure
intrepid
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fearless
conjure
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to call upon
inveterate
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habitual
garrulous
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full of trivial conversation
munificent
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very generous
dilettante
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ameteur who pretends to know a lot
foment
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stir up public opinion
sanction
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give authority or permission to
resurgent
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rising again as to new life
insolent
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rude or arrogant
trite
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repeated too often
subversive
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in opposition to an established institution
lionize
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assign great importance to
circumscribe
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restrict or confine
propriety
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behaving according to conventional morals
pernicious
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exceedingly harmful
inscrutable
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not easily understood
pedestrian
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lacking imagination
hegemony
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dominance over an area
intrepid
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fearless
scrupulous
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great care or effort
propitious
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likely to result in success
erudite
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showing profound knowledge
askance
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look of suspicion or disapproval
antipathy
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intense dislike
nonplussed
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unsure how to act
duress
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threat
specious
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based on pretense, plausible bu tfalse
capricious
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impulsive
mundane
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not SPIRITUAL
craven
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pathetically cowardly
rebuke
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censure
dispassionate
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unaffected by strong feelings
deleterious
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harmful to living things
efficacious
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producing the intended result
contrition
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feeling of remorse or guilt
polemic
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piece of writing or speech attacking someone, can be controversial
maladroitly
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with little skill, clumsy
ingeniously
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cleverly
froward
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dificult person to deal with
limpid
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clearm uncloudy, accessible
earthy
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uninhibited (especially when related to sexual things)
salutary
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producing good effects
dour
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severe, gloomy
unadulterated
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unfiltered
gadlies
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annoying person
sybarites
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self-indulgent
wanton
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sexually provocative, deliberate and unprovoked
ebullient
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full of energy
esurient
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hungry or greedy
peevish
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easily irritated by unimportant things
execrable
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extremely bad
palaver
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complex procedure
blather
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talk long windingly withough making much sense
epigrams
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pithy saying said in an amusing way, short poem with amusing ending
disconcerted
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unsettled or confused
jocund
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cheerful and lighthearted
histrionic
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dramatic
sententious
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moralizing in a pompous manner
pontificate
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to talk in a pompus manner
desideratum
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something desired as a necessity
disenfranchise
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deprive of voting rights
coalesce
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fuse or cause to grow together
presumptuous
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excessively forward
doleful
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evoking sadness
principle
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rule or idea
principal
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primary
turpitude
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depravity, depraved act
smattering
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superficial understanding of a subject, a small amount of something
quail
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draw back with fear or pain
irresolute
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uncertain how to act or proceed
anodyne
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inoffensive
facile
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lacking depth
impecunious
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lacking money
effable
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to SACRED to be uttered, defying expression or description
zeitgeist
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spirit of the times
misanthrope
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a hater of mankind
sordid
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involving ignoble actions and motives
scrupulous
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characterized by great care and effort
tribulation
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something, an event, that caused difficulty and suffering
subterfuge
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intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
puissant
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powerful
deleterious
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harmful to living things
repudiate
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reject as untrue
wax
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decrease in size
cavalier
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haughty disregrad of others
evanescent
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tending to vanish like vapour
specious, spurious
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plausible but false
apposite
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remakably appropriate
reprobate
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a person without morals who is disapproved of
junta
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military junta (takeover)
exegesis
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critical explanation or analysis
effervescent
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high spirits
internecine
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conflict within an organization
contentious
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likely to argue
illustrious
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widely known and esteemed
hagiographic
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excessively flattering toward someone's life or work
pastoral
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relating to the countryside in a pleasant sense
sagacious
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smart, shrewd
despondent
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very sad
miser
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someon who does not like to spend money because they are greedy
panegyric
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formal expression of praise
prognositcation
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statement made about the future
veritable
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truthfully, without a doubt
perennial
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lasting indefinitely, everlasting
vitriolic
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harsh or corrosive in tone
penurious
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miserly
beatific
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blissfully happy
recrudesce
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break out or happen again
derogative
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expressed in negative terms
protean
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taking on different roles
sedulous
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done diligently
chary
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cautious, reluctant to do something
inveterate
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habitual
exhort
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strongly urge on
malingerer
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shirking duty by pretending to be sick of incapacitated
dissipate
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disappear or cause to disappear, squander
dog
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to pursue relentlessly
tender
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offer something formally
err
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to make an error
macabre
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horror, death, decay
tirade
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rant
voracious
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approaching something with gusto
thoroughgoing
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very thorough
acme
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highest point of achievement
indict
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to formally chare or accuse of wrong-doing
peruse
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go through carefully
underwrite
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to support financially
vindictive
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strong desire for revenge
insolvent
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banckrupt
miser
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someone who does not like to spend money because they are greedy
remiss
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negligient in one's duty
amok
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in a frendzied state
disparate
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two things that are fundamentally differnet
raft
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large number of something
desecrate
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to violate a SACRED place
sanguine
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really happy
stem
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to prevent the flow of something
virago
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ill-tempered woman
moment
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significant and important value
exhort
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to strongly urge
bellicose
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intended to quarrel
replete
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completely stocked
fleece
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to decieve
pugnacious
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eager to fight or argue, verbally combative
started
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to suddently move in a particular direction
consummate
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to make perfect, having skill or revealing supreme mastery
malady
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disease or sickness
appreciable
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large enough to be noticed
ingenuity
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power of creative imagination
ascendancy
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a state that exists when one group has power over another
BOON
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a desirable state, very close and convivial
flounder
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behave awkwardly
inclement
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unpleasant (for weather), showing no mercy
pithy
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concise and full of meaning
renege
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to fail to fulfill a promise
hamstrung
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made ineffective or powerless
benign
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harmless, kind
rankle
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to annoy, gnaw into
cornucopia
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abundant supply of something good
spurn
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to reject
illicit
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contrarty to law
elicit
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to conjure
assail
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attack in speech or writing
irresolute
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unsure how to act
whimsical
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determined by impulse
inadvertent
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happening by chance
vacuous
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devoid of intelligence or significane
derisive
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contempt or ridicule
debase
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reduce in quality
presumption
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assumption that is taken for granted, aduacious
devolve
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grow worse, pass on or delegate to others
discord
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lack of harmony
credulity
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tendency to believe readily
eke
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to live off meager resources, to scrape by
unprecedented
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having never been done before, novel
destitute
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lacking, poor enough to need help form others
foible
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attitude that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
exemplify
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to be an example of, to be characteristic of
goad
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to urge on with unpleasant comments
placid
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not easily irritated
maxim
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a short saying expressing general truth
brusquely
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blunt and direct
quip
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witty saying or remark
profusion
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property of being abundant
glean
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collect info bit by bit
incense
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make furious
behoove
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to be one's duty or obligation
clemency
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leniency and compassion
cerebral
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involving intelligence and not emotions
begrudge
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to envy someone for possessing or enjoying something, to give reluctantly
foolhardy
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disregard for consequences
veneer
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superficial layer than hides the underlying substance
antedate
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precede in time
prevail
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to be widespread, to be current, to prove superior
preempt
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take the place of or have precedence over
besmirch
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damage the good name
decimation
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destory or killing large part of population
creditable
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deserving of praise but not amazing
besiege
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to harass
carping
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persistently petty, continually complaining
dispatch
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prompt and efficient, dispose of rapidly
perquisite
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right reserved for a particular person or group, heriditerary or official right
enumerate
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to determine the number, specificy individually one by one
boorish
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ill mannered

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