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Amalgamation

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A combination

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Abstemious

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Sparing in consumption, ESP of food and drink

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Analgesic

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Capable of relieving pain

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Antropocentrism

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Theory that regards humans as the central element of he universe

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Avuncular

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Resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence

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Bromide

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A common saying

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Byzantine

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Highly complex or intricate

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Cacophony

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Harsh jarring sound

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Calumny

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A false statement intended to harm someone’s reputation

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Canonical

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Authorized or accepted

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Chicanery

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The use of tricks to deceive someone

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Churlish

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Rude and vulgar

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Circumlocution

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Indirect way of expressing something

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Concomitant

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Existing or occurring at the same time

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Corpulent

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Excessively fat

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Cumbersome

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Clumsy awkward and heavy

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Demarcate

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To set mark or draw the boundaries of something

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Disenfranchise

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To deprive of voting rights

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Draconian

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Harsh and severe

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Egalitarian

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Characterized by the belief in equal rights for all people

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Egregious

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Outrageously bad or offensive

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Emollient

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Having a softening or soothing effect ESP to he skin

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a very a short time

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Epistolary

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Relating to letters

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Erudition

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Knowledge gained by study

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Exculpate

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To clear from blame

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Exegesis

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Explanation or critical interpretation

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Flotsam

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  1. Floating wreckage

2. Useless discarded items

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Foible

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A minor flaw or weakness of character

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Formentation

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A push for trouble or rebellion

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Foppish

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Affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

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Gustatory

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Relating to the sense of taste

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Halcyon

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Joyful peaceful or prosperous

hint think of Ellie Goulding k

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Histrionic

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Overly dramatic

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Ignominious

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Disgraceful and shameful

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Impious

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Lacking respect or devotion usually for a god or religion

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Impute

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To attribute or credit to

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Inchoate

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In the early stages of development

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Inimical

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Harmful or hostile

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Insidious

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Intended to entrap deceive or harm

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Invidious

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Intended to hurt offend or discriminate

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Irascible

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Quickly aroused to anger

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Lexicography

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The act of writing dictionaries

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Loquacious

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Extremely talkative

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Lugubrious

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Extremely mournful; sad and gloomy

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Malediction

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A curse

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Malodorous

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Having an unpleasant smell

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Mélange

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A mixture

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Mendicant

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Begging

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Morass

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  1. Swamp

2. Difficult situation

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Moratorium

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Suspension of an ongoing activity

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Munificent

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Very generous

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Myopic

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Lacking long term vision

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Nascent

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Being born or the beginning

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Neophyte

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A beginner

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Nihilism

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Belief in the rejection of rules and he destruction of social and political order

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Obfuscate

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To confuse or make unclear

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Obstreperous

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Noisily defiant or aggressive

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Panacea

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A cure for all diseases or a solution to all problems

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Parsimonious

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Extremely reluctant to spend money; frugal and stingy

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Paucity

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An insufficient quantity or number

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Penurious

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Extremely reluctant to spend money; stingy and fugal or extremely poor

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Perfidious

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Tending to betray

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Pernicious

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Exceedingly harmful

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Perquisite

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A payment or benefit in addition to ones regular pay

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Picayune

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Small and of little importance

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Polyglot

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Able to speak read or write in many languages

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Potentate

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A powerful rulwrr

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Progenitor

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A direct ancestor or originator

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Proletarian

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Of the working class

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Proselytize

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To convert someone to another belief or religion or party or cause

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Pugnacious

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Tending to quarrel or fight easily

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Punctilious

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Marked by precise accordance with details

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Quixotic

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Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic

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Raiment

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Clothes

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly resistant to authority or control

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Remuneration

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Payment

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Rhapsodize

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To talk with great enthusiasm

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Schism

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Division of a group into opposing factions

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Sentient

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Experiencing sense perception and consciousness

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Sibilant

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Having a hissing sound

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Somnolent

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Sleepy or drowsy

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Sonorous

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Full and loud and deep as a sound

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Sophistry

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A false argument meant to trick someone

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Soporific

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Tending to make sleepy or drowsy

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Specious

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1 plausible but false

2 deceptively pleasing

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Stevedore

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A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

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Stricture

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Criticism

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Stultify

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To make one appear foolish stupid or useless

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Supercilious

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Arrogantly disdainful

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Temerity

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Fearless daring

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Tinder

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Easily combustible material used for starting a fire

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Treacly

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Overly sweet or sentimental

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Truncated

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Shortened by cutting off a part

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Turpitude

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Vile, shameful behavior

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Unctuous

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Unpleasantly and excessively suave

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Vainglorious

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Feeling excessive self importance or pride for ones own accomplishments

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Verisimilitude

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The appearance of truth; he quality of seeming to be true

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Vitiate

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To make imperfect; to corrupt

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Vitriolic

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Harsh or corrosive in tone

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