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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

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To adjust or regulate

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Megalomania

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A condition marked by delusional fantasies of power or wealth

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Ingenious

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Inventive, cunning

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Grudge

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To be reluctant to give or admit

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Concurrent

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Happening at the same time

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Mesmerize

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To hypnotize

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Convalesce

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To recover from illness

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Implore

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To ask for urgently; to beg

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Incandescent

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Shining; glowing from within

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Rhapsody

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A state of great happiness

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Penitent

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Feeling regret

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Polymath

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One who knows a great deal about several different fields

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Incense

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To make angry

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Mortal

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Subject to death

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Eloquent

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Articulate, convincing and effective in speech

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Predilection

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A special liking for something

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Macabre

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Suggesting the horror of death

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Tourniquet

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A device, usually encircling bandage

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Itinerary

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A route or proposed route for a journey

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Brawn

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Muscles; strength

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Idiom

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A style/ expression

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Averse

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Opposed, reluctant

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Hodgepodge

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Mixture; combination

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Anterior

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Placed before or in front

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Sedentary

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Sitting down most of the time

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Mammoth

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Very large

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Evanescent

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Fading from sight

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Postulate

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To assume as true

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Pariah

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Social outcast

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Shoddy

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Inferior or cheap

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Pernicious

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Very harmful

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Revel

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To delight

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Exhaustive

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Thorough

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Predatory

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Characterized by robbing or exploiting others

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Hogwash

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Worthless or false speech / writing

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Virulent

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Extremely infectious or harmful

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Extraneous

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Not an essential part of

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Advent

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A coming or an arrival

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Concot

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To invent or to create

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Accost

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To approach and speak to

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Liminescent

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Emitting light not derived from heat

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Circuitous

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Being or taking a roundabout

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Kudos

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Glory; fame

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Litany

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A long and repetitive recitation

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Grime

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Dirt and mud.

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Coalesce

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To grow together

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Effusive

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Overflowing

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Impetuous

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Characterized by sudden emotion

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Expanse

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A large amount of something

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Displace

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To take the place of

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Heady

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Intoxicating; exhilarating

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Mishap

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Unlucky or unfortunate

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Mendacious

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Lying, false

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Prodigal

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Exceedingly or recklessly wasteful

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Proscribe

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To prohibit or forbid

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Foreboding

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A sense of impending evil

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Curator

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A person in charge of a museum

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Spontaneous

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Occurring naturally or without forethought

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Propagate

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To multiply or reproduce

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Infer

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To reason or conclude from evidence

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Bolster

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To support or strengthen

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Vacuous

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Lacking substance

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Visceral

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Instinctive

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Mutilate

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To disfigure by damaging irreparably

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Subservient

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Subordinate in function

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Insouciant

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Calm and untroubled

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Precursor

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Someone or something that comes before another and announces or suggests what is to come

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Ruminate

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To ponder at length

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Obscene

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Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty

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Accolade

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An award or honor

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Manifold

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Of many kinds; numerous and varied

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Acclimate

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To make comfortable in a new environment

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Impostor

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A person using a false identity

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Echelon

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A level within an organization

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Quiescent

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Inactive, often suggesting a temporary state

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Marquee

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A sign over the entrance to a public building

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Affront

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An open insult, usually intentional

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Bestow

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To present or give

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Deign

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To stoop to a level considered beneath ones dignity

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Leviathan

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Enormous and powerful

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Gaudy

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Characterized by tasteless or showy colors

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Obsolescence

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Becoming out of date

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Feisty

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Irritable

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Onerous

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Burdensome

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Threadbare

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Old and worn out

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Metamorphosis

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A transformation, as my magic

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Renege

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To fail to carry out a promise

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Humbug

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Something done to trick or deceive

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Counsel

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Advice or guidance

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Adhere

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To stick to

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Iniquity

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Extreme immorality or injustice

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Obituary

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A newspaper account of a persons death

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Sleuth

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A detective

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Fecund

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Producing offspring; fruitful

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Progeny

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Children or descendants

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Proficient

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Very skillful

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Lurid

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Causing shock or horror

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Grueling

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Exhausting

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Farce

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A comedy based on crudely humorous

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Prognosis

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The anticipated progress of recovery

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