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Dilatory
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Tending to procrastinate or delay
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Bombastic
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Using pompous language
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Lucid
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Clear
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Surreptitious
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Secretive
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Pejorative
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With unpleasant connotation
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Superfluous
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Extra unnecessary
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Impetuous
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Rash, impulsive
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Reverent
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Showing respect
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Ingenuous
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Naïve, frank
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Disingenuous
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Sophisticated, not naive
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Enervate
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To weaken, to sap
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Ubiquitous
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Everywhere, omnipresent
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Dilettante
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A dabbler in the arts, an amateur
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Disseminate
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To publish or to make known, to scatter
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Desultory
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Aimless, without purpose
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Placid
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Calm
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Caustic
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Burning, severe
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Extenuating
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Serving to make something seem less serious
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Erudite
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Scholarly
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Expiate
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To try and make up for, to atone
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Epicurean
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One who lives for pleasure
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Soporific
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Causing sleep
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Efface
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To destroy, to wipe out
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Extol
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To praise
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Vicarious
Obtained through experience of another
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Charlatan
An imposter
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Coalesce
To join in union
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Sanguine
Cheerfully optimistic
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Sanguinary
Bloody
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Effusion
An outpouring
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Ascetic
One who practices self-denial
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Credulous
Gullible
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Insipid
Tasteless, bland, dull
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Arcane
Mysterious
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Dolorous
Sorrowful
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Forensic
Characteristics of law, court, or public debate
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Trepidation
Fear
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Gainsay
To deny, to contradict
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Obdurate
Stubborn
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Intransigent
Stubborn
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Ebullient
Boiling with optimism, exuberant
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Laconic
Brief, not saying much
