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Voracious

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Desiring or consuming great quantities

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Eminent

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Of high reputation, outstanding

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Steeped

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Soaked, drenched, saturated

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Replete

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Completely filled or supplied with

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Abound

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To exist in great numbers

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Prognosticate

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Predict or foretell a future event

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Automaton

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Robot; mechanical person

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Matron

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Older married woman

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Annals

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Historical records

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Tinge

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A trace, smattering, or slight degree

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Implore

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To plead urgently for aid or mercy

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Drudgery

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Unpleasant, dull, hard work

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Laconic

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Expressing much in few words

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Throng

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Crowd

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Accost

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To approach and speak

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Hapless

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Unfortunate

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Adroit

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Skillful

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Pretext

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An excuse

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Cajole

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Coax

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Wrest

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Take by force

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Caustic

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Sarcastic, biting

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Incipient

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Just beginning to exist

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Repudiate

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To reject, decline

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Bristle

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Quivering

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Mundane

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Worldly

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Belligerent

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Seeking war, hostile

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Brash

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Insolent, impudent

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Disdain

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Scorn

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Feint

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Pretense, sham

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Frenzy

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Frantic outburst

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Octogenarian

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Person of eighty years of age

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Promulgate

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Make public, proclaim

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Pugnacious

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Combative

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Scoff

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Mock

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Sordid

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Filthy, ignoble

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Clandestine

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Secret, undercover

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Inane

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Foolish

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Rampant

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Going unchecked, widespread

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Admonish

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To warn, to reprove

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Duress

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Compulsion, force

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Inexorable

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Inflexible, unrelenting

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Egregious

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Remarkably Bad

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Duplicity

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Cunning, trickery

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Paucity

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Scarcity

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Pernicious

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Harmful, causing injury

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Impunity

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Freedom from punishment

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Consternation

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Dismay

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Precocious

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Reaching maturity early

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Perfunctory

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Done without care, superficial

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Chagrin

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Feeling of disappointment, humiliation

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Perverse

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Contrary, persisting in error

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Deride

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To ridicule, scoff at

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Disparage

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Ti discredit, belittle

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Laudable

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Praiseworthy

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Obsolescence

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Process of wearing out

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Dubious

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Doubtful

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Implacable

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Cannot be pacified, inexorable

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Paroxysm

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A fit, sudden outburst

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Reprehensible

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Worthy of blame

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Monolithic

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Massively solid

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Indigent

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Poor, needy

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Arbitrary

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Based on whim, dictatorial

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Stymie

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To hinder, impede

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Effigy

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A likeness (usually of a hated person)

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Privation

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Lack of necessities

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Ubiquitous

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Being everywhere at the same time

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Respite

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An interval of relief, delay

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Fretful

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Worrisome, irritable

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Bigot

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A narrow-minded, prejudiced person

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Virulent

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Full of hate, harmful

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Loath

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Unwilling, reluctant

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Amicable

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Friendly, peaceful

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Vexatious

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Annoying

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Malady

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Disease

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Peruse

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To read carefully

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Doleful

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Sad, melancholy

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Wan

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Sickly pale

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Frustrate

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Counteract, foil, thwart

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Interject

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Insert, interrupt

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Inert

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Without power to move

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Squeamish

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Easily shocked, over sensitive

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Inundate

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To flood

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Poignant

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Moving, painful to the feelings

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

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Phlegmatic

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Calm, hard to rouse to action

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Domicile

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Home

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Conjecture

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Guess

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Lurid

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Sensational

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Quip

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Joke

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Diatribe

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Bitter criticism

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Fortuitous

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Accidental

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Ilk

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Kind, sort

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Placard

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Poster

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Remuneration

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Reward, pay

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Anathema

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something greatly detested

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Schism

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Split

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Timorous

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Fearful

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Truncated

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Cut short

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Jaunty

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Sprightly, gay

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Fractious

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Quarrelsome

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Ostentatious

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Showy

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Importune

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Ask urgently

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Incontrovertible

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Undeniable

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Surreptitious

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Stealthy, accomplished by secret

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Subjugate

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Conquer

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Eventuate

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To result finally

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Incredulous

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Skeptical

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Permeate

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To spread through

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Propitious

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Favorable

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Surmise

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Guess

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Repress

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To put down

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Cryptic

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Puzzling

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Inchoate

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In an early age

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Inveigh

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Attack verbally

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Nettle

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Irritate

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Overt

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Open

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Relegate

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Assign to an inferior position

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Supine

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Lying on the back

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Raze

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Destroy

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Incisive

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Acute

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Precipitate

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Hasten

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Stentorian

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Loud

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Singular

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Extraordinary

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Sinecure

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Soft job

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Complicity

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Partnership in wrongdoing

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Liquidation

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Disposal of, killing

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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abrogate

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Abolish

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Preclude

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Prevent

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Extrinsic

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Foreign, coming from outside

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Declaim

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Speak loudly

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Fetter

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To hamper

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Paragon

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Model of excellence

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Asperity

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Harshness of temper

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Epithet

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Descriptive name

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Gregarious

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Sociable

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Cursory

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Hasty, not thorough

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Interloper

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An unauthorized person

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Frugal

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Thrifty

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Antithesis

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Exact opposite

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Altruistic

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Unselfish

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Coterie

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Small group having something in common

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Cupidity

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Greed

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Temerity

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Foolish boldness

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Amorous

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Full of love

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Consummate

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Complete, of the highest degree

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Subterfuge

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Ruse, trick

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Fallacious

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Misleading

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Assiduous

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Devoted, attentive

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Manifold

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Complex, many

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Exult

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Rejoice greatly

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Enigma

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Riddle

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Innate

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Natural

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Veneer

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Thin covering

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Myriad

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Countless number

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Urbane

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Polished, witty

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Tortuous

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Winding

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Itinerant

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Wandering

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Peregrination

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Travel

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