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Amiable

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Friendly, social, and congenial

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Crass

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Coarse, crude, unrefined

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Discursive

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Rambling, moving to one topic from another randomly

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Docile

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Easily managed, obedient, passive

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Estrange

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To alienate, to separate

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Exonerate

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To free from blame or obligation

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Gratuitous

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Given freely, unwarranted

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Ambiguous

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Having more than one meaning, unclear, uncertain

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Hypothesize

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To reach a conclusion based off of an assumption

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Indignation

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Anger as a result of something unjust

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Induce

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To bring on or to bring about

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Intractable

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Stubborn, difficult to manage

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Introspective

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The quality of examining one’s own mind or thoughts

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Lucid

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Easily understood, mentally sound

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Meticulous

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Taking great care

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Misanthrope

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Hater of mankind

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Munificent

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Very generous

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Plagiarize

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To steal and to use another’s writings for one’s own

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Profuse

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Extravagantly abundant, flowing freely

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Recluse

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A person who lives in solitude, a hermit

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Sated

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Satisfied fully, indulged to excess

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Stupefy

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To dull the senses as to put into a stupor

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Terse

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Concise

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Transient

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Quickly passing, fleeting

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Virtuoso

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One killed in the fine arts as a musician, a savant

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Abstracted

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Removed in thought from the immediate situation, out in one’s own mind

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Adulation

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Extreme praise or admiration

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Adversity

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Misfortune, unfavorable happening

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Burgeon

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To sprout, to newly emerge

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Chimera

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A fantasy, a horrible creature of the imagination

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Culpable

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Deserving blame, guilty

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Decadent

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Decaying

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Entreaty

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A plea, an earnest request

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Fatuous

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Foolish, silly in an obnoxious way, inane

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Humane

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Kind, compassionate, sympathetic and considerate

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Indulgent

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Lenient, especially toward oneself

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Ineptness

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Lack of competence or judgement

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Ingrate

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An ungrateful person

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Inundate

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To flood, to overflow

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Miser

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One who lives in wretched circumstances to save and hoard money

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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked, evil, vicious

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Prattle

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Meaningless sounds, babble

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Predilection

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Preference

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Procrastinate

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TO defer action, to delay

45
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Stoic

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Not showing passion or feeling

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Suffrage

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Right to vote

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Summon

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To call together, to for or request to appear

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Transparent

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Quality of being able to be seen through, clear

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Turbulence

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Wild or disturbing activity

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Viable

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Capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately

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