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Edification

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Improvement or enlightenment

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Malfeasance

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Misconduct or wrongdoing by public official

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Feasible

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Capable of being accomplished

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Opulent

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Possessing great wealth; affluent

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Lethargy

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State of inactivity or apathy

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Laborious

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Requiring physical or mental effort

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Belabor

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To discuss in too much detail; to attack

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Abate

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To make less active or intense

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Anachronistic

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Chronologically misplaced

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Benevolent

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Intending or showing kindness

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Deleterious

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Harmful to living thing in an unexpected way

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Emulate

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Strive to be equal or similar to, especially by intimidating

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Impetuous

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Lack of thought; haste

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Prosaic

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Not imaginative; ordinary

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Spurious

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Outwardly similar but without the same genuine qualities

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Foliage

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Plant leaves

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Writhe

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To twist into coils or folds to distort

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Desolation

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State of complete emptiness or destruction

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Hallowed

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Regarded as sacred or holy

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Saturnine

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Gloomy