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1
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Sanguinity

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Cheerful optimism

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Temerity

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Excessive confidence or boldness

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Ingenue

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Girl who is artless, innocent, naive

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Trite

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Made boring by overuse, hackneyed, unoriginal

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Artless

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Free from deceit, cunning or craftiness, sincerely simple

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Pulchritude

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Physical beauty or loveliness

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Astute

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Shrewdness or keen perception, accurately assessing situations

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Solecism

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Ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence
OR something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order
OR a breach of etiquette or decorum

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Licentious

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Pernicious and unprincipled in sexual matters

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Portentous

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Serious or significant OR eliciting awe, amazing

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Festoon

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And ornamental chain of flowers or ribbons

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Imprudent

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Lacking good sense

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Staid

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Sedate, self-restraining, proper (even boring)

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Purple

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Extravagant, or flowery writing; break flow because of extravagance

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Repine

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Feel or express discont; fret; low in spirits

Syn:complain, grumble, murmur

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Impudent

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Characterized by offensive boldness, rude, uncivil OR impertinent

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Impuissant

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Powerless, weak or feeble

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Bathetic

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Characterized by a sudden switch often ludicrous from elevated to everyday or banal

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Rebuff

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Reject or criticize bluntly, in and ungracious manner

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Circumscribe

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To define or mark off carefully, bounded

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Sedulous

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Taking great care and diligence

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Manifestations

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Happenings, occurrences

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Constituent

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Part (ie part of everyday experience)

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Sordid

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Behavior that is disgraceful and scandalous

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Cede

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Relinquish, give back

27
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Annex

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Gaining (land)

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Etiology

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Describe or assign a cause

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Finesse

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Extreme delicacy, subtlety, or diplomacy in handling sensitive situations or in a performance or skill
OR a deceptive strategy

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Eclectic

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Selecting the best of everything or from many sources

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Eclipse

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Th obscuring of one thing by another

Billy R Cyrus by Miley

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Efficacious

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Quality of being able to produce the intended effect

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Flag

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Get tired, lose enthusiasm; hang limply or droop

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Gauche

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Tactless, lacking social grace, awkward

Eating with mouth open…

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Exculpate

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Clear from guilt or blame

36
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Fallacious

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Containing a fallacy, or mistake in logic; logically unsound

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Exponent

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Champion, advocate, or representative

An exponent of clean fuel.

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Fidelity

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Faithfulness, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound

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Egalitarian

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Related to the belief in equality of all people

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Egregious

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Extraordinarily or conspicuously bad

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Enigma

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Puzzle, mystery, riddle; mysterious or contradictory person

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Figurative

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Metaphorical, based on figures of speech; portraying human or animal figures

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Gainsay

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Declare false, deny, oppose

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Fringe

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The people in a group who hold the most extreme views

45
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Futile

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Producing no useful result; ineffective,trivial

46
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Eschew

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Shun, avoid, abstain from

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Glib

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Fluent and easy in way that suggests insincerity

48
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Foment

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Instigate, stir up, incite; apply medicated liquid to a body part

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Fanatical

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Excessively devoted, devoted, zealous in an uncritical way

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Estimable

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Worthy of esteem, admirable, able to be estimated

51
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Extrapolate

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A conjecture about the unknown by projecting info about the known

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Fanciful

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Whimsical, imaginary

53
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Gradation

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A progression, a process taking place gradually

54
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Ephemeral

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Lasting only a short time, fleeting

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Eloquent

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Marked by forceful, fluid, apt speech; expressive, moving

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Fortify

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Strengthen, invigorate, encourage

57
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Hearken

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Listen, pay attention

58
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Hedonist

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Person devoted to pleasure

59
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Erroneous

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Mistaken, in error; improper, morally incorrect

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