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Ambivalence

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Lack of clarity; wavering; being undecided

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Cantankerous

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Bad-tempered; quarrelsome

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Derogatory

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Uncomplimentary

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Exemplify

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To serve as a good example

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Impecunious

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Having no money

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Lucid

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Clear

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Ornate

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Highly decorated

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Precipice

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Steep Slope

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Salubrious

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Health-giving

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Truant

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Shirker; someone absent without permission

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Ambulatory

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Able to walk around (used of hospital patients)

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Capacious

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Spacious

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Desecrate

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To damage or pollute a holy place

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Exhaustive

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Complete and thorough

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Impious

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Wicked; profane

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Ludicrous

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Ridiculous; silly

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Orthodox

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Conventional

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Precipitous

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Done in a hurry

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Salutary

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Something which teaches you a lesson; beneficial

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20
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Truncate

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Cut short

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21
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Ameliorate

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Make better

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22
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Capitulate

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Surrender; give in to

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Desecration

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Spoiling something holy

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Exonerates

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Acquits; absolves; removes blame

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Impoverished

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Destitute; poor

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Lukewarm

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  1. Unenthusiastic

2. Neither hot nor cold

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Ossify

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  1. Turn to bone

2. Become fixed and rigid

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Preclude

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Prevent or make impossible

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Sanctimonious

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Hypocritically holy

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Tumult

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Uproar; noise

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Amelioration

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Improvement

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32
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Carping

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Constant criticism

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33
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Desist

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Stop; discontinue; cease

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34
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Exorcism

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Getting free/rid of; eliminating (especially demons)

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35
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Impromptu

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Unrehearsed; spontaneous

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36
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Lummox

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Clumsy person

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37
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Ostentatious

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Showy

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38
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Precocious

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Developing early

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39
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Sanction

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Give approval to

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40
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Turpitude

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Depravity

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Amiable

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Cartographer

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Person who makes maps

43
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Despondent

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Having no hope

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Expatriate

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Refugee; emigrant; someone living away from his own country

45
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Inadvertent

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Not intentional

46
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Luscious

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Juicy; moist; succulent

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Oust

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Push out of a position

48
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Predecessor

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One who came before

49
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Sanguinary

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Bloodthirsty; bloody

50
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Tyro

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Novice; beginner

51
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Amity

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Friendship

52
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Castigate

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Scold strongly

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Destitution

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Hardship; poverty; misery

54
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Expedient

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Convenient; practical

55
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Incantation

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Chant; invocation; prayer

56
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Lynch

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Assassinate; kill; illegal hanging

57
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Overt

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Obvious; not hidden

58
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Predicament

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Dilemma; difficult situation

59
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Sanguine

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Optimistic; cheerful

60
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Ubiquitous

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Found everywhere; omnipresent

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Amorphous

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Lacking in shape

62
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Catharsis

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Purging of pent-up emotions

63
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Deter

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Put off; prevent

64
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Expedite

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Make faster

65
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Incarceration

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Putting in prison

66
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Machinations

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Plots and plans

67
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Overwrought

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Worked up; in an emotional state

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Preeminent

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Famous; outstanding

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Sardonic

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Unalloyed

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Undiluted; total

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Analgesic

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Medicine to combat pain

72
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Caucus

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Type of private political meeting

73
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Deteriorate

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Worsen; decline

74
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Exposition

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Clear explanation

75
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Incessant

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Without stoping

76
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Maelstrom

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Whirlpool; storm in the ocean

77
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Palatable

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Good to eat; agreeable

78
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Prerogative

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Right or privilege

79
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Savant

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Person with knowledge

80
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Unctuous

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Oily; using excessive flattery

81
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Analogous

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Comparable

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Caustic

83
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Detrimental

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Extol

85
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Incipient

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Just beginning

86
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Magnanimous

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Generous; big hearted

87
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Palisade

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Fence made of posts

88
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Prescient

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Having fore-knowledge

89
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Scale

90
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Undermined

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Damaged; attacked

91
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Anarchy

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Chaos; lack of government

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Cavalcade

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Procession of vehicles

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Devoured

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Greedily eaten/consumed

94
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Extradite

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Deport from one country back to the home country

95
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Inclination

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Tendency; a leaning toward

96
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Magnate

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Power businessman

97
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Palliative

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A remedy that improves but doesn’t cure

98
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Presentiment

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A feeling that something might happen

99
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Scapegoat

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Person on whom blame is placed for faults of others

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