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Lackadaisical

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Lazy

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Jaunty

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Playful

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Latent

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Hidden but capable of being developed

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Listless

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Slow

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Luminary

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Famous person

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Magnate

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A powerful person

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Marred

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Spoiled

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Malignancy

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Harmfulness

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Maudlin

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Overly sentimental

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Monolithic

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Huge

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Nefarious

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Wicked

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Obfuscating

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Confusing

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Odious

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Disgusting

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Oratory

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Effective public speaking

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Ornithologist

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One who studies birds

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Palisade

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Line of cliffs

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Panache

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Style

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Pare

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To remove by cutting

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Parry

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To deflect

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Patter

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Meaningless speech

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Pejorative

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Insulting

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Penury

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Poverty

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Perfidy

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Disloyalty

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Pestilence

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Disease

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Pinion

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Wing

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Placard

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Poster

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Plaudit

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Praise

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Plunder

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To rob

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Pontificate

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To speak in a know it all way

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Potable

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Drinkable

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Precarious

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Dangerous

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Precocious

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Froward

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Prevaricate

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To lie

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Profligate

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Extravagant

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Propensity

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Preference

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Proselytizer

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One who attempts to convert others to their religion

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Protrusion

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Something that sticks out

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Prune

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A dried plum

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Purgation

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Purification

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Putrid

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Spoiled

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Quagmire

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A problem that is difficult to escape

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Quell

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To quiet

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Quip

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Witty remark

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Raconteur

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Storyteller

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Rancor

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Hatred

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Raze

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To destroy completely

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Recant

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To take back statement

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Remiss

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Careless

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Repertoire

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Group of skills that can be preformed

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Reprove

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To criticize

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Respite

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A rest period

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Retinue

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Team of attendants

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Revere

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Respect greatly

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Rhapsodize

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To express with great delight

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Rigor

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Severity

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Rotund

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Fat

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Rudimentary

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Basic

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Salutary

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Healthful

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Sanguine

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Cheerful

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Savant

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Someone who knows a lot

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Scorn

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To show dislike and disrespect

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Scuttle

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To sink a ship by poking holes in it

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Secrets

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To give off liquid

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Seismologist

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One who studies earthquakes

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Sentinel

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A guard

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Shard

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Piece

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Sieve

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A mesh used for straining

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Slacken

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To become slower

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Slough

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A swamp

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Snuff

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To extinguish

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Somnambulist

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Sleepwalker

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Sorcerer

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One who practices witchcraft

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Sparse

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Thinly spread

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Spurn

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To reject openly

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Staid

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Serious

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Stupor

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State of shock

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Strife

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Discord

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Subsist

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To barely survive

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Supplicant

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Beggar

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Taciturn

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Silent

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Tantamount

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Equivalent

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Teeming

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Overflowing

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Tiding

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Need

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Tenuous

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Weak

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Tome

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Long book

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Tractable

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Obedient

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Transposition

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Act or changing the position of something

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Trite

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Cliche

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Unaffected

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Sincere

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Undertaking

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Job

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Unheralded

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Unannounced

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Unpalatable

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Distasteful

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Unwary

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Not alert

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Urbane

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Polite

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Vagabond

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Wanderer

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Variegated

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Diverse

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Venerate

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To revere

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Versatile

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Multi purpose

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Viable

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Alive

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Vilify

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To criticize harshly

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Viscous

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Sticky

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Vogue

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Fashion

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Vouchsafed

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To reply

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Wayward

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Going against society expectations

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Whet

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To sharpen

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Wither

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To dry up and die

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