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1
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Sanguinity

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Cheerful optimism

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Timidity

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Lacking self confidence, shy; fearful and hesitant

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Credulity

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A tendency to be ready to believe something is true

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Temerity

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Excessive confidence or boldness
No one had the temerity to question his conclusions.
Daring, rashness, audacity

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Ingenue

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A 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, free from artificiality, made without skill (an artless attempt to wine votes)

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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

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Licentious

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Permiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters

Dissolute, wanton, profligate, rakish, dissipated

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Profligate

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A licentious and dissolute person

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Dissolute

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Lax in morals, licentious

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Portentous

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Serious or significant, or eliciting awe, amazing

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Imprudent

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Lacking good sense, not showing care for the consequences of an action, rash
SYN: indiscreet

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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, breaks flow by of extravagance

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Repine

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Feel or express discontent; fret
OR low in spirits
Syn: complain, grumble, murmur

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Impudent

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Characterized by offensive boldness OR impertinent (brash, rude, uncivil)

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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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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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Happening or occurrences

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24
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Sordid

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Behavior that is disgraceful and scandalous

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25
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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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26
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Cede

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Relinquish, give back

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27
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Annex

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Gaining (land)

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28
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Etiology

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Describe or assign a cause

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29
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Supplanted

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Replace and supersede, take the place of

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Supercede

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Take the place of

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31
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Temper

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To dilute or soften, moderate

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Damp

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Lowness for spirits, depression, to restrain or check, discourage

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Benefactor

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One that gives aid especially financially

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Benign

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Of a kid and gentle disposition, exerting beneficial influence
A policy with benign consequences for the economy.

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Beneficiant

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Generous or doing good, resulting in good

Syn: charitable, beneficial, benevolent, salutatory

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Portentous

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Marvelous, amazing, prodigious
Done in a pompous or overly solemn manner
Ominously significant or indicative 
Syn: ominous, sinister, in auspicious 
The dark signs were a portentous sign
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Chary

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Cautious, wary

Syn: prudent, guarded

38
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Pretentious

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Falsely or excessively arrogant or proud

39
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Opprobrious

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Disgraceful, shameful

Syn:Ignominy (disgrace)

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Unflappable

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Having or showing calmness in crisis

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Intrepid

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Fearless, adventurous

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Ignominy

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Extole

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Praise enthusiastically

Syn: exalt, praise, eulogize, laud

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Lionize

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Treat as a celebrity, give a lot of public attention to and approval

45
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Historionics

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Theatrical

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Animus

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Hostility or ill feelings

Syn: enmity, animosity, hostility

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Windfall

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Unexpected good fortune, typically involving $

48
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Perquisite

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Special right or privilege

49
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Juvenescence

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Restoration of youth, rejuvenation, childhood youth

50
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Prosaic

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Matter of fact, straightforward

OR lacking in imagination and spirit, dull

51
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Extraneous

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Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with

52
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Chirpy

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Cheerful and lively

Syn: jocund, like skittish

53
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Peruse

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Read thoroughly or carefully, examine at length

54
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Restive

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Unable to keep still or silent, becoming difficult to control

55
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Skittish

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Lively and unpredictably playful

56
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Vociferous

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Vehement or clamorous

Syn: noisy, uproarious, obstreperous (noisy, difficult to control)

57
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Circumscribe

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Restrict something within limits

Their movements were strictly circumscribed

58
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Retrospective

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Looking back on or dealing with special events

59
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Fatuous

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Dense, dull, dim-witted, foolish especially in an unconscious manner

60
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Halcyon

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Calm, peaceful, tranquil or carefree

OR prosperous, rich, wealthy

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Scotched

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Germane

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Relevant, pertinent

63
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Salubrious

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Favorable to or promoting health, healthful

64
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Fragile

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Fragile, easily broken, breakable

65
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Bane

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Causes problems or misery

66
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Eschew

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Avoid, keep clear of, abstain

67
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Misanthropic

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Showing hatred towards humankind

68
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Hedonist

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Devoted to the pursuit of human pleasure and self gratification

69
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Nefarious

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Wicked or villainous

Syn: heinous, vile, atrocious

70
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Fecklass

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Ineffective, incompetent, futile
OR
indifferent, lazy, no sense of responsibility

71
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Nugatory

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Of no real value, worthless, ineffective/of no force or effect

72
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Squalid

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Foul or dirty

73
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Foil

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To prevent the success of

74
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Mephitic

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Foul or offensive smelling

75
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Noisome

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Disgusting, offensive, often in odor

76
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Feign

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Invented or made up

77
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Vituperation

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Verbal abuse

78
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Specious

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Superficially pleasing but lacking real merit, pleasing to the eye but deceptive; misleading

79
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Decimate

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To destroy a great number of

80
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Transient

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Staying a short time, not lasting/enduring, existing briefly

81
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Exacting

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Demanding, rigid in requirements, requiring close application

82
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Revel (in)

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Take great pleasure or delight in

83
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Vernacular

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The plain native speech of a place

84
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Abstruse

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Hard to understand, esoteric, arcane

85
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Argot

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A specialized set of vocabulary used by a group

86
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Nascent

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Beginning to exist, beginning to display signs of potential

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