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Arduous

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Requiring lots of effort
Taxing to the utmost
Difficult

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Avarice

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Greed

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Capricious

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Given to sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior

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Coalesce

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Combine together to form a whole

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Copious

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Plentiful

Abundant

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Cosmopolitan

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Including peoples of different background and countries

Describing someone who is sophistication because of traveling and being exposed to many different cultures

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Aggrandize

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Enlarge or increase

Embellish, adding details

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Adulterate

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To make something impure by adding inferior things

Debase, corrupt

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Acumen

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Keen judgement and perception

Shrewdness

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Abscond

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To leave secretly and often taking something along

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Advocate

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To please for someone or some cause

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Ameliorate

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Improve or make better a situation

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Ambiguous

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Unclear and open for multiple interpretations

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covet

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Longing to possess something

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