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Palimpsest

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A manuscript on more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.

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Garble

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Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or a story

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Proliferate

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Grow rapidly

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Gesticulate

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Show, express or direct through movement

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Fulminate

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Cause to explode violently and with a loud noise

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Convoluted

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Rolled longitudinally upon itself; coiled

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Actuate

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Put in motion or move to act

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Anodyne

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Capable to relieving pain

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Saccharine

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Overly sweet

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Implicate

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bring into intimate and incriminating connection

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Debase

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Corrupt

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Venerate

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Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

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Vapid

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lacking significance or spirit

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Multifarious

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Having many aspects

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Sinecure

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an office that involves minimal duties

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Deride

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Treat or speak of with contempt

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Dissemble

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Behave unnaturally or affected by

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Lassitude

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A feeling of lack interest

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Cumbersome

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Difficult to handle or use especially because of height or weight

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Pedantic

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Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially it’s trivial aspects

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Repository

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A facility where things can be deposited for storage

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Equivocal

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Open to two or more interpretations; uncertain

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Imbecility

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Retardation more severe than a moron

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Nostalgia

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Longing for something in the past

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Altercation

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Noisy quarrel

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Repudiate

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Refuse to acknowledge

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Shirk

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Avoid assigned duties

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Axiom

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A proposition that is not susceptible or proof or disproof

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Furtive

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Secret and sly or sordid

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Labyrinth

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Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost

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Sordid

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Foul and run-down

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Recreation

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An activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates

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Din

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Loud harsh noise

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Flit

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Move along rapidly and lightly

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Niggle

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Worry unnecessarily or excessively

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Expropriate

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Deprive of possessions

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Simian

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Relating to or resembling an ape

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Febrile

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Of or relating to or characterized by fever

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Drivel

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Saliva spilling from the mouth

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Fecundity

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The state of being fertile

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Deprecate

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Express strong disapproval of

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Titular

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Existing in name only

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Fatuous

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Devoid of intelligence

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Inimical

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Not friendly

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Acrid

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Strong or sharp

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Adulation

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Servile flattery; exaggerate and hypocritical flattery

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Preponderance

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Exceeding in heaviness

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Oligarchy

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A political system governed by a few people

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Gratuitous

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Unnecessary

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Intermittent

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Stopping and starting at irregular intervals

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Pretentious

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Making claim to or creating an appearance of importance

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Demur

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Take exception to

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Reprisal

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A retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime

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Harangue

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A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

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Evade

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Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering or performing

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Diminution

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Change toward something smaller

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Privation

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The act of depriving of food or money or rights

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Vanquish

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Come out better in a competition

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Gyrating

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To move in a circular motion

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Inscrutable

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Incapable of being investigated; mysterious

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Pneumatic

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Pertaining to air, gases, or wind

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Orifice

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An opening or hole

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Purges

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To rid of what is impure

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Denunciation

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Public condemnation

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with minute details

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Dispatch

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Send off with speed; to dismiss; to put to death

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Protuberant

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Protruding

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Pannikin

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A small pan

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Subsidiary

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Serving to assist or supplement

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Reverie

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A dream like state

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Inextricably

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Incapable of being undone, solved

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Aquiline

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Like an eagle

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Paraffin

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Chemical substance

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Palpable

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Plainly seen, heard or perceived

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Anodyne

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Anything that Relieves stress or pain

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Amulets

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Small object that’s wards off evil

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Pugnaciously

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Inclined to fight

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Reconnoiter

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To inspect, observe, or survey in order to gain information

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Rectify

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To set right by adjustment

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Fatuous

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Foolish

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Extricate

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To free from entanglements

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Guise

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General external appearance

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Etiolated

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To cause to grow pale, become sickly

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Incredulity

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Inability to believe

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Obeisance

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Movement of the body expressing deep respect

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Infallible

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Absolutely trustworthy

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Versify

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To relate or describe in verse

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Vestibule

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A passage or hall

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Effigy

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A representation or image

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Demur

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To make objection

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Copiously

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Abundant

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Desultory

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Lacking in consistency

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Sanctimonious

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Righteousness

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Torpid

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Sluggish

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