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Bide

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To remain in a condition or state; wait

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Consent

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To approve; agree; yield

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Volition

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A conscious choice or decision

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Nascent

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Coming into being; being born

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Amplify

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To make larger

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Lurid

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Causing shock or horror; tastelessly vivid; growing like fire through a haze

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Own

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To admit, esp. Taking personal responsibility for one’s own actions or thoughts

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Collude

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To plot secretly for a deceitful or illegal purpose

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Tally

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To count; add

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Disarray

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Confusion, disorder

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Tepid

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Moderately warm; lacking force or enthusiasm

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Conjecture

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An inference or conclusion based on incomplete evidence

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Pious

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Exhibiting reverence and religious observation

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Abet

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To encourage, assist, or support, usually in wrongdoing

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Interloper

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One who interferes with the affairs of others; a meddler

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Subsequent

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Happening afterward; following in order

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Surmise

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To infer something by intuition or with slender evidence

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Jot

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To write briefly and hastily

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Discern

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To perceive and understand so as to make distinctions

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Blight

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A plant disease; something that impairs growth, process, or prosperity

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Voluble

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Divine

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Related to a god; supremely good or beautiful

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Premonition

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A sense of a future event; a warning in advance

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Proverbial

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Well-known because widely repeated

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Grave
Serious; dignified; formal
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Indefatigable
Tireless, unceasing
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Deploy
To station or assemble troops or forces in position
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Codify
To organize something such as laws or rules into a system
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Relent
To become less severe; to give in
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Loathe
To dislike something greatly
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Cumbersome
Clumsy or difficult to manage
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Affected
Behaving in an artificial way to impress people
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Skittish
Nervous; easily frightened
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Colloquial
Appropriate to spoken, as opposed to written, language; informal
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Scenario
An outline for a planned series of events, either real or imagined; a summary of a work of fiction
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Drastic
Extreme; severe
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Inept
Without skill; absurd or foolish
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Multifarious
Having many different parts or forms; numerous and varied
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Efficacy
The power to produce the desired effect
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Dissonant
Harsh and disagreeable in sound
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Brusque
Abrupt and curt of manner
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Ambiance
Environment
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Voluminous
Having great size or fullness
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Vanquish
To defeat, esp. Totally
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Pilfer
To steal a small amount
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Disdain
A feeling of contempt
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Reconcile
To make friendly again; to settle a dispute; to make seemingly incompatible things fit together or coexist
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Banish
To drive away; to force to leave a place by official decree
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Vacillate
To swing back and forth
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Morose
Sour tempered and inclined to be silent