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Abrasive

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Rubbing away

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Abate

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Subside, moderate

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Abstemious

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Sparing in eating and drinking, temperate

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Acute

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Quickly perceptive, keen, brief and severe

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Adulation

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Flattery, admiration

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Affinity

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Natural liking, similarity

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Amorphous

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Formless, lacking shape or definition

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Ample

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Abundant

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Antidote

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Medicine

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Apprehension

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Fear, discernment, capture

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Arbitrary

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Unreasonable or capricious

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Ardor

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Hear, passion, zeal

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Ascendancy

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Controlling influence

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Atrophy

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Waste away

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Aversion

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Firm dislike

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Bequeath

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Hand down

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Brawn

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Muscular strength

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Censorious

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Critical

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Certitude

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Certainty

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Charlatan

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Deceiver

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Disposition

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Bias

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Clemency

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Lenient

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Concede

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Admit

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Conflagration

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Great fore

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Contemporary

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Person belonging to the same period

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Contend

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Struggle, compete

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Criterion

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Standard using in judging

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Cursory

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Casual

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Debilitate

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Weaken

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Deference

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Respecting another person’s wishes

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Degenerate

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Deteriorate

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Delineate

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Portray

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Deplore

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Regret strongly

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Depravity

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Corruption, wickedness

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Deprecate

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Protest against

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Devious

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Not straightforward, erratic

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Diffuse

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Wordy, rambling

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Discount

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Disregard

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Discursive

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Digressing, rambling

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Disinterested

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Unbiased

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Dispassionate

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Impartial, unbiased

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Disseminate

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Distribute, scatter

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Dissent

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Disagree

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Dissipate

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Squander, waste, scatter

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Dissuade

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Persuade not to do

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Divulge

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Reveal

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Ebb

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Recede, lessen

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Elusive

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Evasive, baffling

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Epicure

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Connoisseur of food and drink

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Erudite

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Learned, schoalrly

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Espouse

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Adopt, support

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Ethereal

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Light, heavenly

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Evanescent

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Fleeting, vanishing

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Exalt

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Praise

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Expository

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Explanatory

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Extant

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Existant

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Facile

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Easily accomplished

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Fallacious

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False

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Fastidious

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Difficult to please

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Fervour

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Glowing ardor, intensity of feeling

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Flagrant

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Outrageous, wicked

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Foolhardy

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Rash, heedless

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Forestall

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Prevent by taking action in advance

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Forsake

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Desert, abandon

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Forthright

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Outspoken, frank

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Foster

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Encourage, nurture

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Founder

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Fail completely, sink

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Frivolous

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Lacking in seriousness

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Furtive

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Stealthy, sneaky

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Germane

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Pertinent, relevant

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Glib

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Fluent

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Grandiose

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Pretentious, impressive

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Gratuitous

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Given freely, uncalled for

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Guile

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Deceit

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Hallowed

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Blessed

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Hardy

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Sturdy, robust

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Heresy

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Opinion contrary to popular belief

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Husband

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Conserve, save

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Iconoclast

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One who attacks cherished traditions

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Immutable

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Unchangeable

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Impel

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Drive or force onward

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Impetuous

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Violent, hasty, rash

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Implicit

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Understood but not stated

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Impudence

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Impertinence, insolence

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Inadvertently

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Unintentionally

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Inane

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Silly

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Incense

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Enrage

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Incessant

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Uninterrupted

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Incisive

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Cutting, sharp

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Incite

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Arouse to action

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Incorrigible

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Uncorrectable

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Indict

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Charge

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Indigent

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Poor, destitute

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Indiscriminate

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Choosing at random, confused

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Indolent

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Lazy

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Indomitable

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Unconquerable

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Industrious

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Hard working, diligent

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Ineffectual

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Not effective, weak

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Inequity

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Unfairness

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Inexorable

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Relentless, implacable, cruel

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Infraction

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Violation

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Ingenious

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Clever

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Ingrate

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Ungrateful person

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Inimical

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Hostile

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Insolvent

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Bankrupt

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Insularity

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Narrow-mindedness, isolation

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Insuperable

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Unbeatable

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Insurgent

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Rebellious

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Intangible

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Elusive, vague

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Intermittent

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Periodic, irregular

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Intractable

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Stubborn

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Intransigence

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Stubbornness

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Intrepid

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Courageous

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Introspective

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Looking within oneself

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Inundate

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Flood, overwhelm

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Invert

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Turn upside down or inside out

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Irascible

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Irritable, easily angered

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Irreproachable

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Blameless, impeccable, perfect

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Irresolute

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Uncertain how to act

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Kindle

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Inspire

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Lassitude

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Languor, weariness

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Lethargic

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Drowsy, dull

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List

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Tilt, lean over

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Listlessness

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Lack in spirit or energy

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Lofty

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Very high

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Lucid

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Easily understood, clear, intelligible

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Marred

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Damaged

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Idealize

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Romanticise

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Scanty

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Inadequate, meager

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Meek

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Quiet and obedient, spiritless

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Melancholy

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Gloomy, morose

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Monotony

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Sameness leading to boredom

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Mundane

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Worldly as opposed to spiritual

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Mutability

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Ability to change in form

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Naïveté

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Unsophisticated, gullibility

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Oblivion

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Obscurity, forgetfulness

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Obtuse

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Stupid, plunt

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Officious

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Meddlesome

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Ominous

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Threatening

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Paltry

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Insignificant

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Parsimony

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Stinginess

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Pensive

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Thoroughful

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Pernicious

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Very destructive

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Perpetuate

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Make something last

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Perturb

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Disturb

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Pious

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Devout, religious

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Pitfall

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Hidden danger

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Pithy

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Concise, meaningful

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Placate

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Pacify, conciliate

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Polemical

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Controversial

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Ponderous

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Weighty

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Potent

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Powerful, persuasive, influential

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Precarious

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Uncertain, risky

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Preclude

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Make impossible

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Precocious

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Advanced in development

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Predilection

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Preference

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Proclivity

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Inclination

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Prodigal

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Wasteful

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Profane

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Violate

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Profound

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Deep, not superficial

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Profusion

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Over abundance, excess

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Protract

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Prolong

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Tentative

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Provisional

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Qualified

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Limited, restricted

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Quandary

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Dilemma

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Querulous

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Fretful, whining

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Recalcitrant

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Obstinately stubborn

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Recant

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Disclaim, retract a previous statement

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Rectify

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Correct, set right

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Relegate

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Delegate, assign

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Replete

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Filled to the brim

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Reprehensible

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Deserving blame

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Repress

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Restrain

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Reprove

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Censure, rebuke

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Rescind

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