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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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To harass

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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

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Working devotedly and carefully. Assiduous, meticulous, painstaking.

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Convoluted

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Complex

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Superfluous

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Extra; beyond what is required. Extraneous, extrinsic

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Aesthetic

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Having to do with the sense of beauty

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Embrace

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To accept

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Contend

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To claim, argue. Related to contentious

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Amity

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Peaceful relations, friendship. Like (amici!)

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Decry

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To criticize openly

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Plethora

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Overabundance, excess. Copiousness

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Spartan

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Sternly disciplined and severely simple

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Disdain

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Scorn. Contempt.

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Moderate

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To make less intense or severe

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Despair

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Hopelessness. Pessimism, comes from the same root as desperate

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand. Obscure, esoteric, abstract, enigmatic, cryptic, inscrutable

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Deference

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Giving in to another’s wishes or opinion

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Incorrigible

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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

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Done with little interest or care

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Solemn

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Serious. Antonym: jocular

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Inhibit

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To restrain, prevent

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Abstain

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To quit; to refrain from something

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Gratify

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To please, satisfy. Indulge, sate.

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Reprehensible

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Blameworthy, deserving of criticism. Culpable.

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Radical

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Extreme

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Painstaking

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Careful, taking great pains. Meticulous, assiduous, diligent

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Optimistic

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Hopeful, tending to expect the best.

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Fastidious

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Fussy, finicky.

That fastidious feline, Morris, rejects all but the finest that cat cuisine has to offer.

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