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Affable

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Friendly, courteous

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Audacity

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Excessive boldness

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Contrite

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Extremely apologetic, remorseful

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Credulous

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Believing on slight evidence, gullible

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Depravity

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Moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act

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Deprecate

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To disapprove regretfully, to belittle

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Didactic

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Instructive, designed to teach

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Dormant

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Inactive, sleeping

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious, inexplicable

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Erudite

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Scholarly

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Exotic

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Foreign, unfamiliar

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Fuse

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To mix or join

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Immutable

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Unchanging

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Incorrigible

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Incapable of improvement

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Loathe

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To detest

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Mitigate

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To cause or become less hostile or harsh

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Nullify

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To cause not to be in effect, to negate

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Pacisiftic

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Opposed to war or use of force

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Pretentious

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Making an extravagant outward show, self-important

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Prologue

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Introductory remarks in a speech, play, or literary work

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Recant

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To withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief

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Servile

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Overly submissive

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Trepidation

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Fear, trembling, agitation

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Vilify

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Malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against

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Aesthetic

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Relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art

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Aloof

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Apart, indifferent

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Archaic

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Old, antique

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Assuage

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To ease, to mitigate, to calm

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Belie

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To contradict, to give a false impression

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome, stirring controversy

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Daunt

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To intimidate

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Debilitate

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To weaken, to enfeeble

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Discord

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Strife, tension

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Dissemination

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The act of so ready widely, scattering

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Dogmatic

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Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner

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Duplicity

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Double-dealing, hypocrisy

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Egocentric

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Self-centered, selfish

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Euphemism

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Substitution of an offensive term

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Gluttonous

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Greedy for food or drink

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Mundane

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Ordinary, commonplace

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Ominous

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Threatening

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Petulance

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Unreasonable touchiness or irritability

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Pompous

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Exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance

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Precocious

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Exceptionally early in development

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Slothful

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Lazy, indolent

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Trivia

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Insignificant matters

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Verbose

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Wordy, very talkative

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Virulent

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Extremely poisonous, hateful

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Volatile

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Quickly changeable, easily vaporized

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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