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Dissolute

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Lacking moral restraint; indulging in sensual pleasures or vices

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Disparate

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Being unequal in age rank or degree

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Divisive

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Creating dissension or discord

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Doctor

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To falsify or change to make favorable

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Doleful

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Filled with grief

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Domineering

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To rule over arrogantly; tyrannize

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Dour

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Unyielding or stubborn

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Droll

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Amusingly odd or whimsically comical

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Dubious

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Of questionable character

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Duplicity

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Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech

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Effete

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Depleted of vitality, force, or effectiveness

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Efficacious

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Capable of producing a desirable effect

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Effrontery

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Brazen boldness

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Effusive

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Expressive in emotional expression

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Elicit

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To bring or draw out

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Elitist

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Belief that certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by the virtue if their status

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Elucidate

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To make clear by explanation

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Eminent

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Towering over others of high rank

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction resulting from the lack of interest; boredom

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Epiphany

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Comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization

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Epitome

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Example of a class or type

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Equanimity

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Calm and even tempered, composure

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Erroneous

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Containing error; mistaken

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Ethereal

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Characterized by lightness; intangibility

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Euphoric

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Great happiness or well being

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Evade

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To escape to avoid by cleverness or deceit

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Evocation

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Creation anew through the power of memory or imagination

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Evocative

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Having the power to draw forth or bring out something latent or hidden

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Exacerbate

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To increase the severity or violence of

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Exacting

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Precise; not allowing deviation

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Exasperate

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To annoy greatly

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Exhaustive

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Thorough and treating all parts without omission

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Exorbitant

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Exceeding all bounds; excessive

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Expeditious

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Actin or done with speed and efficiency

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Extol

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To praise highly

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Exuberant

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Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy

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Fabrication

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A lie

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Facile

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Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty

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Facsimiles

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Exact copy or reproduction

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Fanaticism

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Irrational zeal or enthusiasm

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Fanfare

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A spectacular public display

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Fastidious

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Displaying careful or meticulous attention to detail

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Fathom

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To comprehend the nature or meaning of

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Fawn

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To seek or favor attention by flattery or obsequious behavior

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Feckless

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Lacking purpose or vitality

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Feign

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To fake or give a false impression of

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Felicity

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Great happiness; bliss

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Fervor

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Great warmth and intensity of emotion

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Fidelity

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Great happiness; bliss

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Finite

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Limited or having bounds

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Fledgling

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Young or inexperienced person

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Flippant

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Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness

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Florid

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Very ornate or flowery

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Foreshorten

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To reduce in length; to curtail of abridge

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Fortify

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To strengthen or invigorate

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Fortitude

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Strength of the mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage

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Fortuitous

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Happening by accident or chance

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Fractious

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Inclined to make trouble

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Frugal

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Sparingly using money for material resources

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Fruitless

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Unproductive

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Furnish

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To equip with what is needed

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Furtive

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Characterized by stealth; surreptitious

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Galling

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To irk or exasperate; vex

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Galvanize

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To arouse to awareness or action; spur

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Glut

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An excess or too much of something

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Grim

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Uninviting or unnerving in aspect; forbidding

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Grumbler

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To complain in a surely matter; mutter discontently

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