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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

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Morally or sexually unrestrained person; freethinker (regarding religion)

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Plummet

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Plunge, fall straight down

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Novel

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New, fresh, original

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Egregious

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Extraordinarily or conspicuously bad; glaring

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Nuance

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A subtle difference in tone, meaning, expression, etc.

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Landmark

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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

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Completely and shamelessly immoral, or extremely wasteful

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Spate

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Sudden outpouring or rush; flood

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e.g. (“exempli gratia”)

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For example, such as

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Abridge

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Condense or curtail; shorten by omitting parts throughout while retaining the main idea

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Constrict

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Squeeze, compress; restrict the freedom of

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Stark

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Complete, total, utter; harsh or grim; extremely simple, severe, blunt, or plain

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Condone

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Overlook, tolerate, regard as harmless

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Occult

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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

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Seemingly true but actually false; deceptively attractive

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Deride

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Mock, scoff at, laugh at contemptuously

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Phony

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Fake, counterfeit; insincere, not genuine

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Chronological

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Arranged in or relating to time order

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Tractable

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Easily controlled or managed, docile, easily shaped or molded

44
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Discredit

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Injure the reputation of, destroy credibility of or confidence in

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Frugal

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Economical, thrifty, not wasteful with money; inexpensive

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Disjointed

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Disconnected, not coherent, jerky

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Finesse

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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

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Open, sincere, honest

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Din

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Loud, confused noise, esp. for a long period of time

50
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Rife

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Happening frequently, abundant, currently being reported

51
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Refute

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Prove to be false

52
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Illiberality

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Narrow-mindedness, bigotry; strictness or lack of generosity

53
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Retrospective

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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

54
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Polarized

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Divided into sharply opposed groups

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Unseemly

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Improper, inappropriate, against the rules of taste or politeness

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Abjure

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Give up renounce; repudiate, recant, or shun (especially formally or under oath)

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Elicit

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Call forth, bring out, evoke

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Incongruous

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Out of place, inappropriate, not harmonious

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Alleviate

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Lessen, make easier to endure

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Lucid

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Clear, easy to understand; rational, sane, clear-headed

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Oscillate

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Swing back and forth; waiver, change one’s mind

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Whereas

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While on the contrary, considering that

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Tangential

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Only slightly relevant, going off topic

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Meticulous

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Taking extreme care in regards to details; precise, fussy

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Disposition

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A person’s general or natural mood; tendency

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Log

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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

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Surrender or lose as a result of an error, crime, or failure to fulfill an obligation

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Conundrum

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A riddle; any mystery

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Corroborate

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Support, add evidence to

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Officious

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Excessively eager in giving unwanted advice or intruding where one is not wanted; meddlesome, pushy

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Daunt

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Discourage, dishearten, lessen the courage of

72
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Affectation

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Fake behavior (such as in speech or dress) adopted to give a certain impression

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Archaic

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Characteristic of an earlier period, ancient, primitive

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Intrinsic

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Belonging to the essential nature of a thing

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Levy

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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

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Disturbing, causing anxiety

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Erratic

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Inconsistent, wandering, having no fixed course

78
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Efficacy

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The quality of being able to produce the intended effect

79
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Distill

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Purify; extract the essential elements of

80
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Malleable

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Able to be bent, shaped, or adapted

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Germane

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Relevant and appropriate, ontopic

82
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Complacent

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Self-satisfied, smug; overly content (and therefore lazy, neglectful, or some other bad quality)

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Ingrained

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Deep-rooted, forming part of the very essence; worked into the fiber

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Mendacious

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Lying, habitually dishonest

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Likewise

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Also, in addition to; similarly, in the same way

86
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Loquacious

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Talkative, wordy

87
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Decorous

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Behaving with propriety and good taste; polite

88
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Inasmuch

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In like manner, considering that (contraction of “in as much,” generally followed by “as”)

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Trite

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Lacking freshness and originality, lacking effectiveness due to overuse, cliche

90
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Glib

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Fluent and easy in a way that suggests superficiality or insincerity

91
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Recluse

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Person who lives in seclusion

92
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Conversely

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In an opposite way; on the other hand

93
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Pronounced

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Distinct, strong, clearly indicated

94
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Credibility

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Believability, trustworthiness

95
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Pristine

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In an original, pure state; uncorrupted

96
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Enhance

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Raise to a higher value, desirability, etc

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Prologue

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Introductory part to a book, play, etc.

98
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Counterintuitive

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Against what one would intuitively expect

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Slew

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A large number or quantity

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Hodgepodge

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Mixture of different kinds of things, jumble

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