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Aberration

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Abnormality

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Proficient

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Skilled, capable

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Precocious

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Maturing early (especially mentally)

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Ambulatory

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Capable of walking

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Pique

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To arouse; to irritate

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Proliferate

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To grow, increase

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Upbraid

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To scold

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Camaraderie

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Goodwill among friends, amity

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Diminish

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To make or become smaller

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Suppress

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To hold back, subdue

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Inscrutable

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Not able to be understood, mysterious. Obscure, esoteric, enigmatic, cryptic, abstruse

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Effervescent

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Enthusiastic, lively, cheerful. Buoyant

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Hamper

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To prevent the movement or action of. Impede, inhibit.

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Verify

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To check the truth of

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Explicit

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Outright, clear, specific

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Renounce

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To give up (a claim, right, or opinion)

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Lavish

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Abundant, free with money. Prodigal, extravagant

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Qualified

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Limited, restricted

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Despondent

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Depressed, disheartened.

Morose, melancholy

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Bustle

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To be noisily busy and in a hurry.

Antonym: dawdle

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Beleaguered

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Evanescence

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Lasting for a very short time, fleeting

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Exhume

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To dig up (a dead body)

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Date

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To satisfy (an appetite or desire) fully. Gratify

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Diligent
Working devotedly and carefully. Assiduous, meticulous, painstaking.
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Convoluted
Complex
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Superfluous
Extra; beyond what is required. Extraneous, extrinsic
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Aesthetic
Having to do with the sense of beauty
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Embrace
To accept
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Contend
To claim, argue. Related to contentious
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Amity
Peaceful relations, friendship. Like (amici!)
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Decry
To criticize openly
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Plethora
Overabundance, excess. Copiousness
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Spartan
Sternly disciplined and severely simple
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Disdain
Scorn. Contempt.
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Moderate
To make less intense or severe
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Despair
Hopelessness. Pessimism, comes from the same root as desperate
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Abstruse
Difficult to understand. Obscure, esoteric, abstract, enigmatic, cryptic, inscrutable
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Deference
Giving in to another's wishes or opinion
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Incorrigible
Incapable of being corrected or reformed. Incorrigible comes from the same root as correct. Think of it as in-correct-able.
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Perfunctory
Done with little interest or care
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Solemn
Serious. Antonym: jocular
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Inhibit
To restrain, prevent
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Abstain
To quit; to refrain from something
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Gratify
To please, satisfy. Indulge, sate.
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Reprehensible
Blameworthy, deserving of criticism. Culpable.
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Radical
Extreme
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Painstaking
Careful, taking great pains. Meticulous, assiduous, diligent
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Optimistic
Hopeful, tending to expect the best.
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Fastidious
Fussy, finicky. | That fastidious feline, Morris, rejects all but the finest that cat cuisine has to offer.