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Meritorious
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Deserving reward or praise
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Ingenuous
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Innocent and naive
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Prodigy
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One with exceptional talents
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Fidelity
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Strict faithfulness to vows
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Primeval
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Relating to the beginning of the first world ages
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Verisimilitude
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Resemblance to the truth
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Rout
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An overwhelming defeat, a disorderly retreat
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Presumptuous
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Excessively forward or over confident
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Translucent
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Letting light through, but no visual details
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Defunct
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Having ceased to exist or live
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Jetsam
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Cargo or equipment thrown overboard to lighten a ship in distress, titanic
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Embellish
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To decorate
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Malicious
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Spiteful
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Acquiesce
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To agree without protest
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Gambit
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A calculated risky opening move
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Pretext
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An excuse
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Endorse
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To give approval or support
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Flotsam
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Wreckage of a ship or it’s cargo found floating
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Recalcitrant
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Marked by stubborn defiance
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Gingerly
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Carefully
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Discrete
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Individually distinct or seperate
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Prevaricate
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To speak or write evasively in order to avoid telling the truth
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Prodigious
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Wonderful, amazing
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Impregnable
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Invincible
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Modulate
To adjust or regulate
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Megalomania
A condition marked by delusional fantasies of power or wealth
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Ingenious
Inventive, cunning
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Grudge
To be reluctant to give or admit
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Concurrent
Happening at the same time
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Mesmerize
To hypnotize
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Convalesce
To recover from illness
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Implore
To ask for urgently; to beg
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Incandescent
Shining; glowing from within
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Rhapsody
A state of great happiness
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Penitent
Feeling regret
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Polymath
One who knows a great deal about several different fields
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Incense
To make angry
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Mortal
Subject to death
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Eloquent
Articulate, convincing and effective in speech
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Predilection
A special liking for something
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Macabre
Suggesting the horror of death
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Tourniquet
A device, usually encircling bandage
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Itinerary
A route or proposed route for a journey
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Brawn
Muscles; strength
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Idiom
A style/ expression
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Averse
Opposed, reluctant
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Hodgepodge
Mixture; combination
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Anterior
Placed before or in front
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Sedentary
Sitting down most of the time
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Mammoth
Very large
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Evanescent
Fading from sight
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Postulate
To assume as true
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Pariah
Social outcast
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Shoddy
Inferior or cheap
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Pernicious
Very harmful
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Revel
To delight
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Exhaustive
Thorough
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Predatory
Characterized by robbing or exploiting others
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Hogwash
Worthless or false speech / writing
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Virulent
Extremely infectious or harmful
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Extraneous
Not an essential part of
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Advent
A coming or an arrival
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Concot
To invent or to create
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Accost
To approach and speak to
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Liminescent
Emitting light not derived from heat
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Circuitous
Being or taking a roundabout
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Kudos
Glory; fame
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Litany
A long and repetitive recitation
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Grime
Dirt and mud.
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Coalesce
To grow together
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Effusive
Overflowing
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Impetuous
Characterized by sudden emotion
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Expanse
A large amount of something
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Displace
To take the place of
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Heady
Intoxicating; exhilarating
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Mishap
Unlucky or unfortunate
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Mendacious
Lying, false
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Prodigal
Exceedingly or recklessly wasteful
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Proscribe
To prohibit or forbid
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Foreboding
A sense of impending evil
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Curator
A person in charge of a museum
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Spontaneous
Occurring naturally or without forethought
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Propagate
To multiply or reproduce
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Infer
To reason or conclude from evidence
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Bolster
To support or strengthen
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Vacuous
Lacking substance
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Visceral
Instinctive
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Mutilate
To disfigure by damaging irreparably
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Subservient
Subordinate in function
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Insouciant
Calm and untroubled
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Precursor
Someone or something that comes before another and announces or suggests what is to come
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Ruminate
To ponder at length
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Obscene
Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty
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Accolade
An award or honor
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Suffrage
The right to vote
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Manifold
Of many kinds; numerous and varied
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Acclimate
To make comfortable in a new environment
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Impostor
A person using a false identity
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Echelon
A level within an organization
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Quiescent
Inactive, often suggesting a temporary state
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Marquee
A sign over the entrance to a public building
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Affront
An open insult, usually intentional
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Bestow
To present or give
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Deign
To stoop to a level considered beneath ones dignity
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Leviathan
Enormous and powerful
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Gaudy
Characterized by tasteless or showy colors
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Obsolescence
Becoming out of date
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Feisty
Irritable
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Onerous
Burdensome
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Threadbare
Old and worn out
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Metamorphosis
A transformation, as my magic
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Renege
To fail to carry out a promise
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Humbug
Something done to trick or deceive
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Counsel
Advice or guidance
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Adhere
To stick to
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Iniquity
Extreme immorality or injustice
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Obituary
A newspaper account of a persons death
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Sleuth
A detective
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Fecund
Producing offspring; fruitful
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Progeny
Children or descendants
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Proficient
Very skillful
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Lurid
Causing shock or horror
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Grueling
Exhausting
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Farce
A comedy based on crudely humorous
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Prognosis
The anticipated progress of recovery
