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Abridge

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To shorten or diminish

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Abrogate

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To abolish

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Afoot

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Developing or in the process of happening

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Anomaly

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Irregularity: Straying from the Norm

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Antiquated

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Obsolete

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Baseness

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The quality of lacking higher values

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Bestial

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Brutal without reason, savage

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Bourgeois

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Pertaining to the middle class

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Brazen

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Shameless, insolent, disrespectful

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Carnal

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Marked by sexuality that is often frank and unrelieved by higher emotions

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Chary

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Careful, cautious

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Circumscribed

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Restricted or limited

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Clemency

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Leniency

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Cognate

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Related

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Communal

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Pertaining to a group or community

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Compliance

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A yielding; acquiescence

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Confound

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To cause one to become confused

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Conjecture

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An inference or conclusion drawn by guesswork

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Consonance

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Agreement or harmony

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Convocation

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An assembly where there is a coming together

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Cursory

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Superficial

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Desultory

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Disconnected, rambling

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Dexterous

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Skillful and active with the hands

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Discord

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Lack of agreement, strife, tension

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Edifying

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Instructing and improving spiritually or emotionally

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Chide

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To voice disapproval, to scold