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Apathy

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A lack of emotion or interest

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Animosity

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Strong dislike, bitter hostility

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Apprehensive

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Fearful or anxious, especially about the future

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Commend

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To praise, express approval, worthy of attention

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Compatible

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Get along of work well together

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Condolence

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An expression of sympathy

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Consecrate

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To make sacred, set aside for special purpose

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Decrepit

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Old and feeble, worn out, ruined

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Deride

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To laugh at with contempt, to ridicule

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Ingenuous

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Innocent, simple, sincere

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Multifarious

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Having great variety, numerous and diverse

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Obsolete

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Out of date, no longer in use

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Omnivorous

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Eating all kinds of food, eagerly everything, wide variety of taste

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Parsimonious

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Stingy, miserly, meager, poor, small

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Quandary

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A state of perplexity or doubt

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

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Reprisal

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An injury in return for an injury

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Revel

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To take great pleasure in, a wild celebration

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Stultify

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To make ineffective or useless, cripple, to have a dulling effect on.

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Suave

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Smoothly agreeable or polite, pleasing to the senses