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Brink

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Verge

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Diffident

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Shy

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Candour
Her heartfelt candour was palpable

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Frankness

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Impels

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Force

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Dissipate

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Disappear

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Quintessential

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Typical

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Asinine obtuse dense

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Stupid

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Malarkey hokum

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Nonsense

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Connotation

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Hidden meaning

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Intricacies

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Details

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Coddling

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Pampering

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Compunction

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a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad.

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Ulterior

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Secondary

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Exasperated

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Annoyed

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Irrevocably

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In a way that cannot be changed or reversed

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Queasy

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Sick

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Incriminate

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Implicate

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Churlish

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Rude

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Fend

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Take care of oneself

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Substantiate

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Prove

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Gruntled

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Satisfied

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Disgruntled

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Dissatisfied

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Elusive

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Difficult to find

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Pugnacious

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Easy to annoy

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Placate

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Pacify

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Odious

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Extremely unpleasant

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Concoction

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Mixture

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Goading

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Provoke or annoyed to get a reaction
Instigating

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Exonerated

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Absolve

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Hinges

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Depends

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Invariably

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Always

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Repellent

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Revolting

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Gloat

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Take great pleasure in, relish

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Inexplicable

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Can’t be explained

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Excursion

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Trip

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Precipitously

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Hastily and without careful consideration 

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Lecherous

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Lustful

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Stealthily

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In a surreptitious manner so can’t be seen or heard

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Saccharine

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Extremely sweet

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Penance

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Transpired

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Blunder

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Congenial

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Like minded

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Indignant

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Indigent

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Ineffectual

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Ineffective

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Butch

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Innocuously

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Not harmful or offensive

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Gumption

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Initiative

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Utility

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Usefulness

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Nifty

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Concur

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Hiatus

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Integrity

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Encircles

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Debilitating

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Weakening exhausting

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Banal

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Gravitated

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Bonafide

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Backtrack

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Retrace one’s steps

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Inconsolable

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Heartbroken

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Convoluted

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Complicated

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Paramount

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Disreputable

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Doesn’t deserve respect

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Impetuous

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Deride

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Contention

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Discourse

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Discussion

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Delineate

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Palpable

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Prompted

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Posterity

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Future generations

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Erroneous amiss

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Ubiquitous ubiquity

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Rampant

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Uncontrollable

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Egregious
The prices at that restaurant is egregious
The wait time for gta is egregious

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Shockingly bad, mad, crazy

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Abysmal

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Shoddy

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Forbearing

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Reminiscent

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Similar to

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Exhibitionist

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Person who shows off

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Ameliorate

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Transient

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Perpetual perennial

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Ephemeral

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Short lived

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Dauntless

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Lauded

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Impromptu

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Sudden unplanned

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Jarring

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Out of place

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Sagacious

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Sanguine

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Optimistic calm

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Solipsistic

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Self centred

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Phlegmatic

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Self controlled

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Obfuscate
That’s just obfuscating the truth

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Complicates

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Besotted

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Incandescent

incandescent with joy

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Filled with and glowing

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