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aberration

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disorder of the mind, wandering or going off track

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lackadaisical

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Listless, not interested

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Punctilious

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Exact detail, careful

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quixotic

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Idealistic, not practical, imaginary

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recalcitrant

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Showing stubborn opposition, unruly

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cupidity

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Coordinate desire, greedy

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exigency

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Emergency; urgency, immediate need

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innocuous

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Without bad effect, harmless

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sycophant

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Insincere, flatterer, parasite

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pandiculation

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Instinctive stretching as awakening and yawning

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efficacy

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The power to produce an effect

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excoriate

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to flay, to censure scathingly

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bombinate

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to buzz, to hum, to drone

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surreptitious

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secret stealthy

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glower

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to stare angrily or with a scowl

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amity

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friendship; good will

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rusticate

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to go into or reside in the country to require or compel, to banish

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effulgence

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a brightness , shining, radiation, luster

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sallow

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Having a sickly or yellowish color

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impregnable

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Unconquerable, unyielding, not to be entered

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acrimonious

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caustic, biting, or rancorous

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desultory

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jumping from subject to subject, erratic

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eschew

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to avoid on moral or practical ground, to shun

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sequancious

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proceeding smoothly and regularly, disposed to for now

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persplacious

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acutely perspective shrewed