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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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Talkative

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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

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Serious; dignified; formal

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Indefatigable

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Tireless, unceasing

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Deploy

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To station or assemble troops or forces in position

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Codify

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To organize something such as laws or rules into a system

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Relent

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To become less severe; to give in

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Loathe

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To dislike something greatly

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Cumbersome

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Clumsy or difficult to manage

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Affected

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Behaving in an artificial way to impress people

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Skittish

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Nervous; easily frightened

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Colloquial

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Appropriate to spoken, as opposed to written, language; informal

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Scenario

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An outline for a planned series of events, either real or imagined; a summary of a work of fiction

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Drastic

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Extreme; severe

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Inept

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Without skill; absurd or foolish

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Multifarious

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Having many different parts or forms; numerous and varied

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Efficacy

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The power to produce the desired effect

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Dissonant

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Harsh and disagreeable in sound

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Brusque

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Abrupt and curt of manner

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Ambiance

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Environment

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Voluminous

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Having great size or fullness

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Vanquish

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To defeat, esp. Totally

45
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Pilfer

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To steal a small amount

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Disdain

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A feeling of contempt

47
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Reconcile

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To make friendly again; to settle a dispute; to make seemingly incompatible things fit together or coexist

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Banish

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To drive away; to force to leave a place by official decree

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Vacillate

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To swing back and forth

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Morose

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Sour tempered and inclined to be silent