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Celeritous

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Swift

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Punctilious

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Overly concerned with proper behavior and etiquette

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Remiss

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Negligent

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Perfunctory

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Careless

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Myopic

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Short sighted

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Subterfuge

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Deceit used in order to achieve one’s goals

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Maladroit

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Clumsy

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Tempestuous ness

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Characterized by strong and turbulent conflicting emotion - very stormy

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forthright

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Directly forward

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Kowtow

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To act in an excessively servile manner

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Fawning

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Subservient

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Subversive

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Going against authority

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Obsequious

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Fawning

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Pandemonium

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Wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar

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Halcyon

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Denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful

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Straitened

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Characterized by poverty

Restricted in range or scope

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Crony

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A close friend or companion

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Chin

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A close friend

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Intransigent

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Unyielding

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Debonair

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Confident, charming

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Implacable

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Unpleasable, unforgiving

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Stolid

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Calm, showing little emotion

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Austere

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Lacking decoration, comforts, luxuries

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Spartan

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Lacking decoration, comforts, luxuries

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Deified

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Worshiped

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Aver

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To assert

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Unavailed

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Futile - achieving no result

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Ruminate

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Contemplate

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Probity

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Having strong moral principles; honesty and decency

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Swindle

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To cheat - To use deception to deprive someone of money

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Deluge

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To overwhelm, flood

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Pithy

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Terse, succinct

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Acerbic

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Sharp, sarcastic

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Akimbo

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Hands on hips

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Abreast

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Side by side

To remain current

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Obtuse

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Slow to understand

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Askance

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Suspicious, disapproving

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Vicissitude

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A change, alteration

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Mercenary

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Money oriented

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Lackey

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A servent

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Apologist

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Defender, supporter in defense of something controversial

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Demarcate

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Set the boundaries of

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Whitewash

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To paint or defeat

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Improvident

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Not having foresight, wasteful

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Dissolute

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Lax in morals

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Licentious

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Promiscuous, immoral

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Dissipated

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A person overindulging in sensual pleasures

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Enervated

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To cause someone to feel drained of energy

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Addlepated

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Confused

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Turgid

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Swollen and distended or congested

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Mellifluous

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Sweet or musical, pleasant to hear, dulcet

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Posits

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Assumes as fact

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Cajole

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Persuade

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Mendacious

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Lying

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Panned

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Criticized

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Brusque

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Abrupt, blunt in speech, curt

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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand

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Vanquish

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Defeat

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Inundate

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Overwhelm, flood

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Berate

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Coda

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Coda

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The concluding piece

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Shrewd

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Astute, sharp witted

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Providential

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Opportune, involving divine intervention

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Inured

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Accustomed to, hardened

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Effusive

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Expressing feelings of gratitude, gushy

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Maudlin

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Sentimental

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Amortized

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To reduce or extinguish a debt by money

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Neologism

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Newly coined word

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Quagmire

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Hazardous or awkward situation

A swamp

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Depredate

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To lay waste, ravage

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Recidivist

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Reoffending criminal

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Presage

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A warning sign that something bad will happen, an omen

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Deft

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Characterized by skill and cleverness

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

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Consanguineous

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People descended from the same ancestor

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Notoriety

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The state of being famous or well known for a bad reason

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