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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Aberrant

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Deviating from normal

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal

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Approbation

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Approval

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Assuage

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Relieve , To ease or lessen

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Audacious

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Daring, bold

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Capricious

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Unpredictable, erratic

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Censure

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To criticize severely

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Connoisseur

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An informed and astute judge in matters of taste, expert

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Discordant

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Conflicting or dissonant or harsh job sojnd

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Disparate

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Fundamentally different

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Eloquent

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Well spoken, articulate

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Enervate

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Reduce in strength

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction a d restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language to mislead

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Exculpatory

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Exonerate

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Exigency

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Urgent

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Filibuster

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Intentional obstruction,

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Ingenuous

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Artless, lacking in sophistication , childlike

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Inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable, hardship - inured to cold

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Magnanimity

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The quality of being generously noble inundated and heart

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Martial
Associated with war and military
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Mundane
Typical, concerned with the ordinary
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Nascent
Coming into being, early stages of development
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Nebulous
Vague, cloudy
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Neologism
A new word, expression
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Noxious
Harmful, injurious
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Ontuse
Lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise
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Obviate
Make unnecessary
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Onerous
Troublesome, oppressive
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Parody
Humorous imitation for comic effect
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Perennial
Happening repeatedly in two years
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Perfunctory
Down without care of interest
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Prattle
To babble meaninglessly
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Prescience
Foreknowledge of events
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Prevaricate
Lie
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Refute
To disprove
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Relegate
To forcibly assign esp. To a lower position
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Solocitous
Concerned or attentive, eager
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Sporadic
Occurring only occasionally, or Ina scattered instances
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Static
Not moving
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Stupify
Baffle ,amaze
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Tortuous
Winding, twisting
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Truculent
Fierce or cruel
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Voracious
Ravenous
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Waver
To move to and for, sway, unsettled in opinion.
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Ravenous
Extremely eager and avid
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Avid
Extremely enthusiastic