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Mitigate

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Make less severe; lessen or moderate (damage, grief, pain, etc.)

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Paucity

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Scarcity, the state of being small in number

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Languid

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Drooping from exhaustion, sluggish, slow; lacking in spirit

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Prospective

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Potential, in the future

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Negate

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Deny or refute; make void or cause to be ineffective

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Abstain

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Hold back, refrain (especially from something bad or unhealthy); decline to vote

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Mundane

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Common, ordinary, everyday

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Arduous

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Very difficult, strenuous; severe, hard to endure

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Deference

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Respectful submission; yielding to the authority or opinion of another

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Dubious

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Doubtful, questionable, suspect

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Eccentric

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Peculiar, odd, deviating from the norm, esp. in a whimsical way

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Requite

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Reciprocate, repay, or revenge

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Spearhead

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Be the leader of

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Incipient

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Just beginning; in a very early stage

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Profound

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Very insightful, penetrating deeply into a subject; pervasive, intense, “down to the very bottom”; at the very bottom

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Alienate

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Cause to become unfriendly, hostile, or distant

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Elevate

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Raise, lift up; lift the spirits of; move up to a higher rank or status or raise up to a higher spiritual or intellectual plane

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Eschew

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Shun, avoid, abstain from

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Underscore

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Emphasize (or, literally, to underline text)

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Haven

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Harbor or port; refuge, safe place

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Qualified

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Modified, limited, conditional on something else

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Incendiary

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Setting on fire, pertaining to arson; arousing strife, rebellion, etc.; “inflaming” the senses

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Respectively

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In the order given

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Fortify

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Strengthen, invigorate, encourage

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Libertine
Morally or sexually unrestrained person; freethinker (regarding religion)
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Plummet
Plunge, fall straight down
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Novel
New, fresh, original
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Egregious
Extraordinarily or conspicuously bad; glaring
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Nuance
A subtle difference in tone, meaning, expression, etc.
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Landmark
Object (such as a building) that stands out and can be used to navigate by; a very important place, event, etc.
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Profligate
Completely and shamelessly immoral, or extremely wasteful
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Spate
Sudden outpouring or rush; flood
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e.g. ("exempli gratia")
For example, such as
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Abridge
Condense or curtail; shorten by omitting parts throughout while retaining the main idea
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Constrict
Squeeze, compress; restrict the freedom of
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Stark
Complete, total, utter; harsh or grim; extremely simple, severe, blunt, or plain
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Condone
Overlook, tolerate, regard as harmless
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Occult
The supernatural (noun); pertaining to magic, astrology, etc.; mysterious, secret or hidden (adj); to hide, to shut off from view (verb)
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Specious
Seemingly true but actually false; deceptively attractive
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Deride
Mock, scoff at, laugh at contemptuously
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Phony
Fake, counterfeit; insincere, not genuine
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Chronological
Arranged in or relating to time order
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Tractable
Easily controlled or managed, docile, easily shaped or molded
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Discredit
Injure the reputation of, destroy credibility of or confidence in
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Frugal
Economical, thrifty, not wasteful with money; inexpensive
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Disjointed
Disconnected, not coherent, jerky
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Finesse
Extreme delicacy, subtlety, or diplomacy in handling a sensitive situation or in a performance or skill (noun); use tact or diplomacy; employ a deceptive strategy (verb)
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Candid
Open, sincere, honest
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Din
Loud, confused noise, esp. for a long period of time
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Rife
Happening frequently, abundant, currently being reported
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Refute
Prove to be false
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Illiberality
Narrow-mindedness, bigotry; strictness or lack of generosity
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Retrospective
Looking to the past or backward; applying to the past, retroactive (adj); an art exhibit showing the development of an artist's work over a period of time
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Polarized
Divided into sharply opposed groups
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Unseemly
Improper, inappropriate, against the rules of taste or politeness
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Abjure
Give up renounce; repudiate, recant, or shun (especially formally or under oath)
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Elicit
Call forth, bring out, evoke
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Incongruous
Out of place, inappropriate, not harmonious
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Alleviate
Lessen, make easier to endure
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Lucid
Clear, easy to understand; rational, sane, clear-headed
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Oscillate
Swing back and forth; waiver, change one's mind
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Whereas
While on the contrary, considering that
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Tangential
Only slightly relevant, going off topic
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Meticulous
Taking extreme care in regards to details; precise, fussy
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Disposition
A person's general or natural mood; tendency
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Log
Keep a record of, write down; travel for or at a certain distance or speed (verb); a written record (noun)
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Forfeit
Surrender or lose as a result of an error, crime, or failure to fulfill an obligation
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Conundrum
A riddle; any mystery
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Corroborate
Support, add evidence to
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Officious
Excessively eager in giving unwanted advice or intruding where one is not wanted; meddlesome, pushy
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Daunt
Discourage, dishearten, lessen the courage of
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Affectation
Fake behavior (such as in speech or dress) adopted to give a certain impression
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Archaic
Characteristic of an earlier period, ancient, primitive
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Intrinsic
Belonging to the essential nature of a thing
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Levy
Collect tax from, wage war on, or enlist for military service (verb); act of collecting tax or amount owed, or the drafting of troops into military service (noun)
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Disquieting
Disturbing, causing anxiety
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Erratic
Inconsistent, wandering, having no fixed course
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Efficacy
The quality of being able to produce the intended effect
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Distill
Purify; extract the essential elements of
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Malleable
Able to be bent, shaped, or adapted
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Germane
Relevant and appropriate, ontopic
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Complacent
Self-satisfied, smug; overly content (and therefore lazy, neglectful, or some other bad quality)
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Ingrained
Deep-rooted, forming part of the very essence; worked into the fiber
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Mendacious
Lying, habitually dishonest
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Likewise
Also, in addition to; similarly, in the same way
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Loquacious
Talkative, wordy
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Decorous
Behaving with propriety and good taste; polite
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Inasmuch
In like manner, considering that (contraction of "in as much," generally followed by "as")
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Trite
Lacking freshness and originality, lacking effectiveness due to overuse, cliche
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Glib
Fluent and easy in a way that suggests superficiality or insincerity
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Recluse
Person who lives in seclusion
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Conversely
In an opposite way; on the other hand
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Pronounced
Distinct, strong, clearly indicated
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Credibility
Believability, trustworthiness
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Pristine
In an original, pure state; uncorrupted
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Enhance
Raise to a higher value, desirability, etc
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Prologue
Introductory part to a book, play, etc.
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Counterintuitive
Against what one would intuitively expect
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Slew
A large number or quantity
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Hodgepodge
Mixture of different kinds of things, jumble

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