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Mortify

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Annoy

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Intently

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Actively

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Ebullience

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Happiness

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Misunderstood

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Wrongly understood

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Amateur

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Incompetent

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Implication

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Side effect

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Benefactor

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Provider

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Rational

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Use the adjective rational to describe people or ideas that operate according to logic or reason. While your brother has an artistic temperament, you have a rational one.

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Strain

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Exhaust

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Credulity

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Acceptance

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Deprecate

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Find unacceptable

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Recruit

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Enroll

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Ouster

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Removal

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Establishment

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Finding

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Senility

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The condition of being senile

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Affirm

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Declare

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Listless

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Stupid

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Combative

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Belligerent

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Spasmodic

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On again off again

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Imperturbability

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Calmness

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Conviction

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Belief

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Avert

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Avoid

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Invariably

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Always

Permanently

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Dissenting

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Negative

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Dissent

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Disagree

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Disseminate

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Broadcast

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Berate

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A strong verb for harshly cutting someone down with words is berate. “He didn’t just correct the cashier who gave him the wrong change, he started to berate her, calling her names in front of the whole store.”

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Proclaim

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Declare

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Doomed

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Hopeless

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Eviscerate

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To remove the internal organs

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Conjure up

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Remember

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Dire

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Serious

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Incomprehension

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Confusion

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Structural

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Relating to or forming part of the structure of a building or other item

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Preposterous

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Fool

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Plausible

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Credible

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Unravel

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However tempting, don’t pull that straggly thread hanging from your sleeve. You’ll just unravel, or totally undo, your hand-knitted sweater.

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Intrinsic

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Innate

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Embellish

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Adorn

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Abolish

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Cancel

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Obliterate

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Subvert

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Endure

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Learn to live with

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Perplexing

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Complex

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Absentee

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Missing

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Notorious

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Wicked

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Prospect

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Possibility

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Prospective

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Potential

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Prospectus

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Brochure

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Prospector

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A person who explores or prospects an area in search of mineral deposits, such as gold

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Torment

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Pain in the neck

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Insinuation

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Hint

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Insinuate

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To convey an idea indirectly

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Trace

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A mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something

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Inconsolable

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Heartbroken

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Solemn

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Serious or glum

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advertent

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With eyes like a hawk

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Inadvertent

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Accidental

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Replicate

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To make or be an exact copy of

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Adolescence

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The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult

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Strategy

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A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim

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Retain

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Keep

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Amass

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Collect

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Regulate

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Control

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Enterprise

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Big idea

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Federal

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Regional

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Consequential

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Important or significant

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Jeopardy

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Pain in the neck

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Disregard

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The action or state of paying no attention to something

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Remotely

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In any way, any extent or any degree

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Obscure

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Not discovered or known about

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Inconspicuously

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So as not to attract attention or appear unusual or out of the ordinary

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Cajole

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To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises

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Indictment

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An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury

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