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Decorous

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Propriety and dignity and good taste.

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Dissemble

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To behave unnaturally or affectedly.

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Ethereal

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Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.

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Forlorn

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Showing hopelessness.

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Impalpable

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Perceptible to the touch.

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Inimical

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Not friendly.

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Intuitive

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Derived from or promoted by a natural tendency

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Latent

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Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized.

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Mirth

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Great merriment.

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Morbid

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Suggesting the horror of death and decay.

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Ominous

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Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.

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Palliate

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Lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of.

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Penance

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Voluntary self punishment in order to atone for something

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Retribution

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Act of correcting for your wrongdoings.

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Scourge

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Something causing misery or death.

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Somnambulism

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Walking by a person who is asleep.

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Tenacious

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Stubbornly unyielding.

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Torpid

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Condition of biological rest or suspended animation.

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Zenith

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Point above the observer directly opposite of the nadir

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Apostolic

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Relating to or deriving from the apostles or their teachings.