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Abstruse

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Hard to understand

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Ameliorate

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To make better

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Adulation

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Excessive admiration

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Alacrity

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Liveliness and eagerness

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Anachronistic

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Out of chronological order

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Arboreal

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Relating to trees

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Assiduous

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Constant and attentive

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Auspicious

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Favorable; fortunate

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Austere

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  1. Strict; disciplined; serious

2. Simple; undecorated

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Avarice

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Extreme greed for material wealth

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Banal

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Repeated too often

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Bombast

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Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

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Castigate

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To criticize or punish severely

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Cataclysm

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A violent upheavel

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Cathartic

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Inducing a release of tense emotions

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Clandestine

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Secret

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Conflagration

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A destructive fire

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Conscientious

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Characterized by extreme care and great effort

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Contrite

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Feeling guilty and remorseful

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Dalliance

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Deliberate act or delaying and playing instead of working

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Decorous

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Proper and dignified

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Deleterious

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Harmful

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Denigrate

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To damage the reputation of

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Didactic

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Educational

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Dilatory

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Intending to delay

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Disseminate

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To spread widely

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Ebullient

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Extremely excited or enthusiastic

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Eclectic

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Made up of choices from diverse sources

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Efficacious

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Effective

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Eminent

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Distinguished and prominent

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Empirical

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Resulting from an experiment

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Enervated

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Lacking strength or vigor

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Enigma

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A Puzzle

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Equanimity

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Steadiness if mind under stress

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Equivocate

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To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold info

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Esoteric

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Intended for a select group of people; secret or confidential

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Espouse

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To adopt or marry (such as an idea or cause)

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Evanescent

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Vanishing

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Exonerate

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To clear from blame

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Exorbitant

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Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

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Exuberant

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Overflowing ESP with joy

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Facetious

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Not intended to be taken seriously

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Fastidious

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Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please

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Felicity

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Pleasing an appropriate style

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative or wordy

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Gratuitous

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Free; given without reason

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Gregarious

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Sociable

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Hackneyed

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Repeated too often; over familiar through overuse

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Harangue

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A long pompous speeh

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Impervious

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Not capable of being affected

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Impugn

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To attack as false or wrong

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Incongruity

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The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

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Incorrigible

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Incapable of being corrected or punished

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Indigenous

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Native to

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Ineffable

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Incapable of being put into words

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Insipid

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Bland full or uninteresting

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Insolence

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Rudeness

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Intransigent

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Refusing to yield or compromise

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Juxtapose

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To place side by side

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Machination

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A crafty plot

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Magnanimous

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Nobel and generous in spirit

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Malevolent

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Evil

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped or influenced

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Mendacious

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Lying false or untue

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Meritocracy

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A form o f social system in which power goes to those with superior abilities

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Morose

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Gloomy

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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

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Obsequious

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Overly flattering or obedient

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Opulent

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Rich and luxurious

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Ostensible

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Pretended

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Pedagogical

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Relating to education or teaching

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Pedantic

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Overly focused on small details while teaching or learning

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Perspicacity

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Intelligence manifested by being astute

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Petulant

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Easily irritated over small issues

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Precocious

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Advanced in development or maturity

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Pristine

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Pure clean or unused

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Proliferate

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To grow rapidly

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Prosaic

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Dull and lacking excitement

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Querulous

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Complaining

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Quiescent

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Being quiet or still or inactive

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Rancorous

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Showing deep seated resentment

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Raucous

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Unpleasantly loud and harsh

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Repudiate

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To reject

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Repugnant

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Offensive

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Sagacious

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Acutely insightful and wise

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Sanctimonious

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Being hypocritically religious or righteous

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Sanguine

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Confidently optimistic and cheerful

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Scintillating

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Brilliantly clever or flashy and exciting

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Sedulous

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Marked by persistent effort

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Solicitous

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Anxious eager or worried

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Spurious

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False joy legitimate

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Subterfuge

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Something intended to deceive

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Surreptitious

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Stealthily and secret

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Tacit

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Unspoken and implied

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Tenuous

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Very thin; lacking substance

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Truculence

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Brutal cruelty and aggressiveness

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Tumultuous

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Characterized by unrest commotion or agitation

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Vociferous

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Marked by loud outery

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