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Reprieve

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An official order that stops or delays the punishment

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Rescind

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Take back or make invalid

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Reprimand

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Formal expression of disapproval

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Reprobate

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Person of bad character and habits

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Repudiate

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Refuse to accept anything

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Reputable

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Having a good reputation

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Requisition

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Officially request or take

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Reparation

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Compensation

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Repine

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Express or feel unhappiness

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Repose

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State in which someone is resting and feeling calm

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Remonstrate

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Protest

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Remote

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Slight

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Remunerative

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Providing or likely to provide payment or reward

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Renounce

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Give up

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Renunciation

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Act of not allowing oneself certain pleasures

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Remiss

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Showing neglect

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Remissive

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Forgiving

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Relegate

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Put someone or something into a lower or less important rank or position

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Redoubtable

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Producing respect and a little fear in others

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Refutable

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Deniable

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Rehash

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Rework, restate

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Reiterate

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Say again

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Reclamation

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Treatment of waste materials to obtain useful materials from them

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Reconcile

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Become friends again after a disagreement

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Redolent

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Strong, usually pleasant odor

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Redouble

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Become greater or more intense

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Rebuff

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Give the cold shoulder

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Rebuttal

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Statement which says a claim or criticism is not true

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly disobedient

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Recant

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Say you no longer hold a set of beliefs you had in the past

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Reciprocity

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Give and take

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Raucous

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Loud and disorderly

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Ravage

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Cause great damage to something

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Reactionary

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Preventing progress toward greater efficiency

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Rapport

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Good understanding of someone and an ability to communicate well with them

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Rapt

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Completely engrossed

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Ratify

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Make an agreement official

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Quotidian

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Ordinary, everyday

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Raiment

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Clothes

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Ramification

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Consequence

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Rancorous

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Feeling or showing bitter resentment

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Rank

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Complete or extreme

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Querulous

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Often complaining

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Query

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Question

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Quiescence

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Quiet

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Quixotic

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Unrealistic

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Pusillanimous

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Shamefully timid

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Putative

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Widely thought to be such

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Putrid

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Decayed and having an unpleasant smell

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Quagmire

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Unpleasant situation that is difficult to escape

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Qualitative

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Concerning the nature or attributes of something

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Qualm

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Feeling of uneasiness about whether a decision is really for the best

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Quandary

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Situation of uncertainty, puzzlement, or hesitation

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Pundit

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Expert

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Pungen

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Biting or caustic

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Punitive

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Intended as punishment

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Purport

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General meaning of someone’s words or actions

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Pusillanimity

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Timidity

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Puerile

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Behaving in a silly way

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Pugnacious

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Ready or eager to fight

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Provocation

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Something that causes anger or irritation

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Prudence

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Wisdom and caution

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Prudent

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Sensible and careful

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Pry

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Try to obtain private facts about a person

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Prosaic

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Lacking interest, imagination and variety

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Prospectus

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Document giving details about a college, school or business

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Prostrate

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Distressed by a very bad experience

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Protean

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Easily changing form

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Provenance

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Source of something

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Prolix

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Boring or difficult to read or listen to

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Promulgate

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Spread beliefs among people

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Pronouncement

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Formal or official declaration

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Propensity

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Tendency toward a particular way of behaving

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Proprietor

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Person who owns a particular type of business

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Progenitor

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Person who first thinks of something

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Progeny

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Offspring

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Prognosis

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Forecast of anything

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Prohibitive

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Too expensive

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Profligate

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Wasteful

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Profundity

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Great intellectual depth and understanding

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Profusion

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Extremely large amount of something

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Privation

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Lack of necessities or common comforts of life

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Probity

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Complete honesty

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Proclivity

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Natural tendency or inclination

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Procure

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Obtain

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Pretentious

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Making a show or claim of unwarranted importance

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Pretentiousnss

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Showing off

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Prevaricate

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Conceal the truth deliberately

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Prim

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Very formal and correct in behavior

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Primacy

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State or being the most important thing

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Principle

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Personal code of behavior or morality

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Prepossessing

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Attractive

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Presage

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Intuition or sense of a future occurrence

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Prescience

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Knowledge of future occurrences

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Prescriptive

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Setting down rules

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Presumptuous

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Showing a lack of respect

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Predilection

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Strong liking for something

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Predispose

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Prepare someone beforehand to be inclined toward a certain attitude or action

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Predominant

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More noticeable

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Premonition

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Advance sign or warning

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Precipitate

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Cause something to occur suddenly or sooner than normal

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Preclude

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Prevent an event or action from happening

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Precocious

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Having skills/mental capacity of a much older person

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Pontificate

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Speak or behave with exaggerated authority

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Portend

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Indicate something is likely to happen in the future

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Postulate

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Suggest something as the basis for a theory, argument, calculation

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Potentate

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Person of great power

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Precarious

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Dependent on chance

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Practitioner

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Person practicing a trade, occupation, profession

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Plodding

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Working slowly and continuously

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Plow

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Proceed with determination

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Polarize

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Become concentrated around opposite points

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Polemic

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Involving dispute or controversy

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Plasticity

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Flexibility

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Platitude

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Overused, dull or trivial remark

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Plaudit

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Enthusiastic show of approval

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Pliant

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Easily flexed

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Pinnacle

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High point

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Piquant

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Having pleasant sharp or spicy taste

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Piqué

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Make someone interested

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Pithy

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Short direct and full of meaning

SAT (10 decks)

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