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Accolade

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Praise, an award

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Ascetic

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One who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation, absent of luxury

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Bequeath

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To hand down, to give or to leave in a will

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Charlatan

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One who claims to know something that he does not, a quack

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Conflagration

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A large fire

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Dearth

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A lack, scarcity

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Diffidence

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Shyness, reserved, unassertive

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Effervescent

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Showing high spirits

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Ethereal

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Heavenly, unusually delicate, lights

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Expunge

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To remove, to erase

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Guile

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Deceitfulness, duplicity

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Implausible

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Not believable

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Incongruity

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Nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility

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Insularity

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Qualities of an island, narrow-mindedness of opinions

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Morose

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Being sullen or gloomy

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Placate

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To appease or to pacify by making concessions

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Poignant

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Piercing, incisive, and keen

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Provincial

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Lacking sophistication, narrow minded

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Reiterate

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To repeat

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Spontaneous

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Having no external cause, acting on impulse

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Synthesis

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Combining parts into a whole

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Toxic

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Poisonous

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Vigilant

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Very alert, watchful

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Voluble

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Ability to use words easily, fluent and glib

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Acquiesce

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To give in, to comply

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Affinity

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A likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship

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Blasphemous

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Irreverent, profane

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Buttress

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A support or prop

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Circumspect

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Careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent

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Corroboration

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Confirmation

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Deplete

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To use up gradually, to lessen in amount or value

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Despotic

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Ruling oppressively and absolutely, tyrannical

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Emaciated

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Very thin, wasting away

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Empirical

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Based on observation or experiment and not on theory

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Extraneous

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Not essential or vital

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Fallow

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Inactive, plowed but not sowed

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Homogenous

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Of the same kind

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Hyperbole

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Obvious exaggeration

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Incontrovertible

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Indisputable

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Irascible

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Irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross

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Laconic

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Using a minimum of words, concise to the point of seeming rude

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Magnanimity

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Having a lofty, generous, and courageous spirit

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Obsequious

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Overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile

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Proliferation

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An increase in number, multiplication

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Scrupulous

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Very principled, very careful and conscientious

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Sublime

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Exalted, Noble, uplifting

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Surreptitious

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Secret, clandestine, stealthy

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Veracity

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Devotion to the truth

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Zeal

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Enthusiasm, fervor

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Abhor

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To regard with extreme repugnance, to detest utterly, to loathe

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