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Arduous

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Strenuous

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Ameliorate

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Improve

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Ascetic

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Self denial practitioner

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Austere

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Barr, severely simple

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Bucolic

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Characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Contentious

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Argumentative, quarrelsome,

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Convoluted

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Complicated, complex

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Disabuse

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To set right

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Ecelectic

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Composed of elements drawn from various sources

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness

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Ephermal

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Brief , short lived

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Erudite

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Very learned, scholarly

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Eulogy

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A speech honoring the dead

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Extemporaneous

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Improvised, done without preparation

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Facetious

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Playful, humorous

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Fulminate

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To loudly attack or denounce

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Hyperbole

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An exxagerated statement, often used as figure of speech

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Lucidly

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Easily understood

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Paean

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A song or hymn of praise

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Penurious

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Excessively thrifty, ungenerous

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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith, treachery

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Pernicious

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Extremely harmful, potentially causing death

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Perspicacious
Acutely perceptive, having keen discernment
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Pious
Showing strong religious devotion
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Precipitate
Acting with excessive haste or impulse
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Precursor
One that precedes and indicates
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Predilection
Preference , a disposition in favor of something
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Prolific
Producing large number or amounts
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Qualms
Misgiving, causes for hesitancy
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Quiescence
Motionless
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Recant
To retract, esp. Previously held belief
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Redoubtable
Worthy of honor
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Reticent
Silent, quiet, reserved
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Satire
A literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or derision
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Sordid
Characterized by filth, grime, squalor
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Squalid
Sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect
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Squander
To waste by spending, use irresponsibly
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Stoic
Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain
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Stymie
To block, thwart
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Supplant
To take the place of
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Synthesis
To combine parts to make a whole
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Torpid
Lethargic, sluggish
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Ubiquitous
Existing everywhere at the same time, widespread
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Veracity
Truthfulness, honesty
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Vilify
To defame, to characterize harshly
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Virulent
Extremely harmful or poisonous , bitterly hostile