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To increase or improve in value, quality, desirability, or attractiveness

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Enhance; verb

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Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy

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Provocative; adjective

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A feeling of profound respect for someone or something

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Reverence; noun

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Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

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Substantiate; verb

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Show to be right by providing justification or proof

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Vindicate; verb

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Marked by blithe unconcern

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Nonchalant; adjective

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Rich and superior in quality

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Opulent; adjective

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The reestablishing of cordial relations

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Reconciliation; noun

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Capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rapture; tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change

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Resilient; adjective

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Worthy of imitation

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Exemplary; adjective

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Partially excusing or justifying

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Extenuating; adjective

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Understanding and entering into another’s feelings

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Empathy; noun

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