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Continual happening again and again

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Perennial

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Final, categorical, dictatorial

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Peremptory

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Treachery

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Perfidy

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Unenthusiastic, careless

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Perfunctory

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Unnecessarily repetitive, excessive

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Redundant

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To prove to be false, to disprove

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Refute

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To say again, to repeat

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Reiterate

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Able to perceive by senses, conscious

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Sentient

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To set or keep apart

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Sequester

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Accidental good fortune, discovering good things without looking for them

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Serendipity

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Submissive and subservient, like a servant

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Servile

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Defensible, capable of being argued successfully, valid

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Tenable

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Persistent, stubborn, not letting go

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Tenacious

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Happiness, skillful, especially at expressing thing, adeptness

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Felicity

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Great warmth or earnestness, zeal

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Fervor

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Surplus, an overabundance

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Glut

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Any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs

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Heresy

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A chant, the repetition of statements or phrases in a way reminiscent of a chant

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Incantation

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Make very angry

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Incense

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Unceasing

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Incessant

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Beginning, emerging

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Generous giving of gifts

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Silly and overly sentimental

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Nonconformist, a rebel

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A fundamental principle, old saying
Maxim
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Belief that there are no values or morals in the universe
Nihilism
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Unceasing, unabated, relentless
Unremitted
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Everyday speech, slang, idiom
Vernacular
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A remaining bit of something a last trace
Vestige
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Rich, prosperous
Affluent
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Program, the things to be done
Agenda
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Sum total, a collection of separate things mixed together
Aggregate
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One who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven
Agnostic
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Relating to land, relating to the management or farming of land
Agrarian
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Cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond
Alacrity
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To assert without proof
Allege
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One who provides help, especially in the form of a gift or donation
Benefactor
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Generous
Benevolent
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Draw a line around
Circumscribe
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Cautious
Circumspect
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To frustrate as though by surrounding
Circumvent
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Polite, civilized, courteous
Civil
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Mercy, forgiveness, mildness
Clemency
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An overused saying, idea
Clich
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To deceive
Delude
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Flood, an inundation
Deluge
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Leader of the people, but more a rabble rouser
Demagogue
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To strive to equal or excel, usually through imitation
Emulate
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To make gradual or stealthy inroads into, to trespass
Encroach
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Native, indigenous
Endemic