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Conscientious

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Showing care and precision

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Crass

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Dull- witted; unrefined

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Impart

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To give a portion of; to make known

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Spendthrift

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One who spends money wastefully

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Tabulate

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To count

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Adroit

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Naturally skillful

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Dexterous

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Skillful with hands or mind

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Redolent

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Aromatic; fragrant

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Foreboding

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A sense of impending evil

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Denouement

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Conclusion

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Subsidy

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Monetary assistance

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Prevalent

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Dominant

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Incumbent

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Necessary or obligatory

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Mimic

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To copy closely

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Beacon

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A signaling light

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Supplant

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To take place of

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Scythe

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A long- handled, bladed instrument used for harvesting crops

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Shard

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A fragment of brittle substance

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Wayard

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Stubbornly going against what is expected or required

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Effrontery

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A bold insulting behavior

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Vagary

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An erratic notion or action

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Agile

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Quick and easy in movement

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Glut

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An oversupply

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Cursory

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Superficially done

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Spurn

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To push or drive away contemptuously with or as with the foot