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Embellish

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Adding fanciful or fictitious details

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Petulant

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Angry

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Assuage

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Relax

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Castigate

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Be mean

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Perverse

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Stubborn

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Serpentine

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Snake shape

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Separate

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Keep away

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Grandiose

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Cool

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Unbridled

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No control

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Fortuitous

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Luck

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Enraptured

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Fun

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Guile

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Tricks

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Marshal

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Police

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Photogenic

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Good pictures

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Relinquish

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Give up

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Idiosyncrasy

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Different idea

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Adjunct

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Something added

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Abyss

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Pit

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Emulate

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Copy

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Atypical

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Different

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Cajole

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Make someone

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Bereave

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Have time just him

23
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Loiter

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Stay around

24
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Lieu

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Replace

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Evoke

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Brought forth the memory

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Maim

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Ruin

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Deduce

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Break to come up with

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Lexicon

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Special Dictionary

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Permeate

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Spread

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Amplify

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Stronger

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Certify

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Make sure

32
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Partition

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Divide into parts

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Joust

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Fighting with lances

34
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Infamy

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Evil

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Nepotism

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Relative instead

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Fleece

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Sheep

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Periphery

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Outside

38
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Entomology

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Study of insects

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Ostracize

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Ignore

40
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Fickle

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