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Accrue

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To gather

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Abstemious

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Avoiding extremes

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Acrophobia

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Fear of heights

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Adulterated

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To ruin

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Affront

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Insult

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Alcove

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Small section of a room

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Almanac

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Annual book of statistic

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Ambulatory

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Able to move

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Analogous

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Similar

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Annotator

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Commentator

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Antagonist

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A rival

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Antipathy

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Dislike

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Appalling

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Horrible

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Appropriation

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Setting something aside for a specific use

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Ardent

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Full of strong feeling

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Articulate

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Well spoken

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Assiduous

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Hard working

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Atrophy

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To waste away

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Aversion

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Hatred

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Baneful

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Harmful

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Bastion

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A fortified place

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Beleaguer

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To burden

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Bemoan

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To regret deeply

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Bequeath

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To hand down

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Betoken

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Foreshadow

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Billowing

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Swelling

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Blithe

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Happy

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Boor

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Rude person

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Brink

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Edge

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Bulwark

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Defensive wall

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Caliper

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Device that measures thickness

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Capricious

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Fickle

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Catcall

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Sound of disapproval

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Caulk

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To seal

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Celestial

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Divine

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Chameleon

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A lizard that can change color

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Chortle

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To laugh

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Circumspect

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Careful

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Clandestine

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Secret

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Coarse

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Rough

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Cognizant

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Aware

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Coined

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Created

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Comely

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Attractive

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Communal

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Shared

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Conciliate

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To reconcile

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Confederate

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Ally

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Confound

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To confuse

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Conjugal

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Having to do with marriage

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Consummate

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To complete

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Contravene

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To go against

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Copious

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Plentiful

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Cosmographer

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One who studies the Oder of the universe

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Creed

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A system of beliefs

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Culinary

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Relating to cooking

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Curtail

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To shorten

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Dearth

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A shortage

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Debunk

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To expose and untruth

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Deed

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Act

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Deftly

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Skillfully

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Deleterious

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Harmful

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Depose

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To remove from office

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Desiccate

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To dry out

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Desultory

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Aimless

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Devoid

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Missing

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Diatribe

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Angry speech attacking someone

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Digress

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To ramble

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Din

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Loud noise

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Disband

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To separate

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Discursive

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Wandering from one topic to another

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Disparate

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Different

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Disseminate

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To spread widely

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Dissuade

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To persuade someone not to do something

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Divest

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To take something away from someone else

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Dolt

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Stupid person

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Dour

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Unfriendly

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drone

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One who talks constantly

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Duplicity

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Hypocrisy

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Edict

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A command by an authority

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Effigy

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A statue or image of a person

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Elegiac

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Sad

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Elucidate

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To make clear

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Embellish

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Exaggerate

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Emphysema

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Lung disease

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Encipher

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To disguise

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Entrenched

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Stuck

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Ephemeral

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Short lived

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Equivocate

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To keep changing ones minds

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Estrange

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To keep a distance

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Euphony

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Harmony

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Excursion

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Trip

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Exorcism

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Removing evil spirits

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Exposition

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Explanation

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Extraneous

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Extra

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Eyesore

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Ugly thing

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Facsimile

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Exact copy

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Fatuous

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Silly

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Fervor

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Enthusiasm

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Fiendish

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Evil

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Flaunt

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To show off

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Flout

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To reject openly

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Forensics

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Study of argumentation

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Fountainhead

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Beginning

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Frugal

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Thrifty

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Fussbudget

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Fussy person

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Galleon

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Large ship

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Gamut

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Entire range of something

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Garrulous

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Overly talkative

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Genre

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Type

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Geyser

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Spring that shoots up hot water

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Girth

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Width

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Glum

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Sad

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Grating

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Irritating

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Hamlet

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Small town

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Helmsman

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One who steers a ship

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Hone

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To sharper

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Ignoramus

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One who knows nothing

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Impetuous

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Impulsive

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Impropriety

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Improper behavior

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Incessant

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Never ending

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Inanimate

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Not alive

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Incontestable

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Unquestionable

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Inculcate

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To teach through repetition

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Indices

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Measures

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Indomitable

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Too powerful to be conquered

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Inextricable

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Impossible to remove

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Iniquity

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Wickedness

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Infraction

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Illegal act

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Inoculation

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Injection to prevent disease

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Insular

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Isolated

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Intersperses

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To place or scatter something throughout something else

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Inundation

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Flood

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Invocation

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Prayer

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Irreverence

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Lack if respect

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