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Temerarious

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Reckless

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Dialectic

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Logical argument

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Sophist

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A specious reasoner

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Erudite

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Scholarly

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Denouement

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Unraveling of plot

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Concupiscence

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Intense desire or lust

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Esculent

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Edible

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Pertinacious

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Holding stubbornly

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Interlocutor

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Person in conversation.

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Aphorism

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Concise wisdom

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Autodidact

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Self taught person

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Reify

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Treat as real

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In medias res

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In the middle things.

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Circumvent

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Get around

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Exculpate

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Free from blame.

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