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Ersatz

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Fake

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Salutary

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Beneficial

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Indignant

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Showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair

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Munificent

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Generous

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Malign

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Evil in nature OR to speak about someone in a spitefully critical way (slander)

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Mendacious

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Not telling the truth, lying

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Nugatory

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Of no value of importance, useless

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Clandestine

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Kept secret or done secretly, covert

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Iteration

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A new version of software or computer

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Obsolete

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Out of date, no longer used

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Solipsistic

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The view that the self is all that can be known to exist

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Quixotic

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Exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic, impractical

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Sophomoric

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Pretentious or juvenile

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Ran the gamut

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To encompass the full range or variety possible

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Ape

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To imitate the behavior of

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Cogent

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Clear, logical, convincing

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Cabal

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A secret political clique

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Literati

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Well educated people interested in literature

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Hoi-polloi

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The masses, the common people

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Incendiary

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  1. Very exciting
  2. A person who starts conflict
  3. A person who starts fires
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Dulcet

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Sweet and soothing

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Facile

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  1. Simplistic

2. Easy, effortless

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Stolid

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Calm, dependable, showing little emotion or animation

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Outstrip

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To move faster than and overtake someone else

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Poultices

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A moist mass applied to the body to relieve soreness and inflammation

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Foibles

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A minor weakness in someone’s character

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Mores

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The essential characteristic customs and conventions of a community

Ex. Social mores

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Peccadilloes

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A small, relatively unimportant offense or sin

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Plaudit

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Praise

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Paean

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A thing that expresses enthusiastic praise

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Indefensible

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Unjustified

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Untenable

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Incapable of being defended or justified

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Unimpeachable

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Can’t be criticized or called into question

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Petulant

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Whining irritably

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Fastidious

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Overly concerned with details

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Genteel

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Of or relating to people who have high social status. Or pretending or trying to have these qualities

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Pugnacity

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Aggressiveness: a natural disposition to be hostile

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Imperiled

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Put at risk of being harmed or destroyed

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Haughtiness

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The appearance or quality of being arrogantly superior and disdainful

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Truculence

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Defiant aggressiveness

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Valor

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Great courage

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Zealot

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A person fanatical in pursuit of their ideals. Fanatic, extremist

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Austerity

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Sternness or severity of manner or attitude.

Extreme plainness and simplicity in style or appearance - lack of worldly pleasures. (Asceticism)

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Censure

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To express severe disapproval of someone or something

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Heretic

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Belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious

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Ascetic

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A person who practices severe self discipline and abstention

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Libertine

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A person who behaves without moral principles, especially in sexual matters

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Beleaguered

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Surrounded with military forces

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Spuriously

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In a way that is not genuine, authentic or true

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Spasmodically

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Irregular

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Insatiable

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An appetite that cannot be satiated

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Derelict

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Neglectful of ones duties

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Inveterate

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Habitual

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Untiring

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Never losing energy or tiring - positive context

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Jingoism

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Excessive patriotism

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Restiveness

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Sense of restlessness/difficulty to control. Likely to rebel and have a revolution

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Cupidity

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Greed

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Insularity

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To be cut off in terms of contact - not cut off in terms of pleasures

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Beatification

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Blessedness

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Conciliate

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To make peace with

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Remediate

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To improve

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Lauds

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To praise

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Execrate

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To express great loathing for

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Stymies

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To prevent

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Plucky

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Corageous

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Intractable

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Difficult to deal with

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Subvert

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To overthrow

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Despondent

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In low spirits from loss of hope or courage

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Gamut

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Full range

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Dithering

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To delay in making a decision

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Obstinacy

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Stubbornness

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Volatile

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Liable to change rapidly and unpredictably for the worst

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Astute

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Having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn to ones advantage

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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand

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Conjecture

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A conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information

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