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Accolade

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Award of merit

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Abate

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Subside, recede, diminish, decrease, lessen

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Acquiesce

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Assent, agree

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Acrid

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Sharp, bitterly pungent, caustic, and bitting

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Acrimonious

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Bitter in words or manner

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Aggregate

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Gather, accumulate, garner

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Amorphous

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Formless, lacking shape or definition

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Anachronistic

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Having an error involving time in a story

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Anomaly

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Irregularity, deviation

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Antediluvian

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Old, ancient, archaic, dilapidated

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Antipathy

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Dislike, hatred, loathe, detest

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Apocryphal

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Untrue, made up

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Arable

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Fit for growing crops

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Ardent

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Intense, passionate, and zealous

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Assiduous

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Diligent, hard working, and industrious

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Assuage

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Ease or lessen (pain, satisfy (hunger), soothe (anger)

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Atrophy

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Waste away

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Audacious

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Daring, bold, fearless, and intrepid

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Avarice

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Greediness for wealth

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Avert

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Turn away

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Aviary

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Enclosure for birds

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Abstinence

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Restraining oneself, abstemious

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Acclimate

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Adapt

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Admonish

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To advise, urge

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Affluence

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Wealth, prosperity

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Allegory

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Symbolism, representative

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Allusion

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Reference, suggestion

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Analogy

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Comparison of a partial similarity between 2 things

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Arbitrary

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Random, no reason for

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Archetypal

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Typical, standard

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Ardor

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Passion, love

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Arduous

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Difficult, hard

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Aristocracy

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Nobility, wealth

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Astronomical

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Excessive, huge, vast

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Averse

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Opposed to doing something

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Avuncular

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Kind and friendly towards someone younger

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Abridge

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Condense, shorten, lessen

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Abstemious

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To refrain from doing something, temperate, abstinence

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Abstract

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Theoretical, not concrete

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, perplexing, esoteric, discombobulated

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Accessible

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Obtainable, approachable

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Acclaim

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Applaud, announce with greasy approval

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Adulation

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Praise, hero worship, admiration, sycophancy

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Adversary

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Opponent, foe

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Advocate

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To support

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Aesthetic

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Artistic

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Affable

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Sociable, approachable, amiable

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Affirmation

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Confirmation, positive assertion

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Alleviation

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To lessen pain, soothe, relieve

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Aloof

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Separated, coy, shy, introvert, apart

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Altruistic

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Unselfishly generous, charitable

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Ambiguous

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Unclear, hazy, enigmatic, misty

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Ambivalence

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State of contradictory emotional attitudes

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