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Adulation

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Admiration

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Abate

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Reduce, lessen the severity

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Aesthetic

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Concerned with the appreciation of beauty

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Avarice

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Greed for wealth

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly or flourish

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Canon

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Established set of principles, code of laws

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Castigation

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Punish severely or criticism

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Caustic

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Burning or stinging, causing corrosion

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Chary

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Wary, cautious

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Cogent

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Well reasoned

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Complaisance

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The willingness to comply with others

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Contrite

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Regretful, seeking forgiveness

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Dearth

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Smallness of quantity or number, scarcity

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Demur

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To question or oppose

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Didactic

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Intended to teach or instruct

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Discretion

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Cautious reserve in speech, ability to make responsible decisions

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Disinterested

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Indifferent

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Dogmatic

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Stubbornly opinionated

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Ebullient

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Highly enthusiastic

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Elegy

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A mournful poem

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Emollient

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Soothing, esp to the skim

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Enigmatic

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Puzzling, mysterious

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Esoteric

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Understood by small group, specific group

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Fallacy

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Mistaken belief, invalid or incorrect motion

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Furtive
Marked by stealth, covert
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Harangue
To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
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Heretical
Violating accepted dogma or convention
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Impecunious
Lacking funds, without money
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Incipient
Beginning to come into being or to become apparent
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Inert
Lethargic , sluggish
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Intransigent
Refusing to compromise
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Inveigled
To obtain by depletion or trickery
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Morose
Sad, sullen, melancholy
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Odious
Invoking intense aversion or dislike
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Peruse
To examine with great care
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Preen
To dress up, to primp
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Prodigious
Abundant in size, extent force extraordinary
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Putrefying
To rot, to decay
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Quaff
To drink deeply
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Sanction
Authoritative approval or permission
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Urbane
Sophisticated, refine , elegant
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Viscous
Thick