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Resilient

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Withstanding pressure or disease

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Resilience

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Ability to withstand pressure or disease and bounce back

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Resonant

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Full and deep in sound

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Resplendent

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Full of splendor

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Restitution

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Payment made for damage or loss

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Restive

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Unwilling to be controlled

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Resurgence

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Rebirth

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Resuscitate

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Bring back to life

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Retain

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Keep in place

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Retaliatory

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Vengeful, harming someone who has harmed you

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Retention

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Keeping of something

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Reticence

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Unwilling to speak about ones thoughts or feelings

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Retrenchment

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Spending less money

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Retroactive

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Intended to take effect from a date in the past

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Retrograde

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Returning to older and worse conditions

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Revelation

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Act of making something known

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Revelry

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Noisy merrymaking

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Revile

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Criticize in an abusive or scornful way

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Revoke

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Cancel, annul

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Rhapsodize

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Express great enthusiasm for something

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Rhetoric

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Use of inflated or pretentious language

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Roving

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Wandering

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Rousing

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Making people feel excited and proud

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Rustic

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Living in a rural area

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Ruthless

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Without mercy

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Saccharine

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Too sweet or too polite

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Sacrosanct

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Sacred

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Sagacious

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Characterized by good judgement and common sense

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Salient

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Extremely noticeable

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Salubrious

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Favorable to good health

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Salutary

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Intended to have a beneficial effect

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Sanctity

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Quality of being holy

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Sartorial

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Pertaining to tailors or tailored clothing

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Satiate

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Completely satisfy

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Scathing

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Harshly condemning

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Schism

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Division into two groups caused by a disagreement

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Scoff

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Mock, sneer

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Scurrilous

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Using vulgar, abusive language

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Sedentary

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Sitting down a lot and not getting much exercise

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Sedulous

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Painstakingly carried out

Steadily hardworking

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Seedy

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Looking dirty and untidy

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Seep

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Spread slowly through something

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Self-effacing

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Not trying to impress people

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Sequester

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Keep a jury together in a place so that they can’t discuss the case with other people or read or hear news reports about it

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Serendipity

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Chance

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Sermonize

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Give moral advice in a pompous way

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Setback

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Obstacle

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Shallow

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Superficial

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Shattering

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Shocking and upsetting someone very much

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Shoddy

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Badly and carelessly made

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Sinecure

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Position that requires no work or responsibility

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Slight

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Treat without proper respect or courtesy

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Slipshod

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Careless

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Solace

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Comfort or relief

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Solicitous

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Showing care and helpful attention to someone

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Solicitude

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Anxious concern for someone

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Sonorous

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Having a full deep sound

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Sophistry

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Use of clever but false arguments

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Soporific

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Causing sleep

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Sovereignty

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Power of a country to control it’s own government

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Spate

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Large number of unpleasant things that happen during a short period of time

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Specter

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Idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future

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Sporadic

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Occasional, irregular

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Spurious

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Not genuine

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Squalor

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Very dirty and unpleasant conditions

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Squander

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Waste time, money, etc.

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Squelch

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Silence someone by making a critical remark

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Stagnation

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Condition of becoming dull or unsuccessful because of lack of activity

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Stagnate

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Stay the same and not grow or develop

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Staid

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Serious, boring, and old fashioned

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Stalwart

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Loyal

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Standoffish

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Cold and distant in behavior

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Stasis

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State which does not change

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Stature

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Good reputation a person or organization has, based on their behavior and ability

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Stentorian

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Very loud (voice)

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Stifle

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Prevent

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Stoic

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Person who endures pain without complaining

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Stolid

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Not really excited

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Stout

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Strong and determined

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Stratify

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Arrange in grades

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Strident

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Loud and brash

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Stringent

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Difficult because there is not enough money

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Studied

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Very carefully and intentionally done

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Stymie

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Awkward or difficult situation

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Suave

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Charming polite and elegant

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Subjective

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Based on personal opinions

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Subdued

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Not very loud

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Subdue

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Overcome

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Sublime

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Of the greatest, most admirable kind

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Subsequent

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Following, succeeding

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Subterfuge

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Trickery

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Subvert

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Try to destroy or weaken something

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Succumb

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Accept defeat

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Suggestive

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Putting particular ideas into ones mind

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Sullen

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Gloomy

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Sumptuous

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Grand and obviously very expensive

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Supercilious

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Arrogant and disdainful

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Superficial

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Shallow

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Superfluous

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More than is needed or wanted

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Suppress

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Stifle

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Surfeit

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Amount which is too large

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Surmise

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Guess something without having much or any proof

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Surreptitious

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Acting secretly or stealthily

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Sweeping

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Having an extremely wide effect

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Tacit

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Understood without being put into words

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Taciturn

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Saying very little

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Tandem

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Relationship of two people or things that depends on cooperation

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Tantalizing

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Tempting

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Tantamount

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Equal to or the same

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