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Amiability

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Friendliness

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Absconding

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Departing secretly

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Attenuates

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Weakness

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Anthropological

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Scientific study of origin, culture, development of man

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Bestial

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marked by inhuman instincts, desires

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Blithely

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Happily

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Coquettishly

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Flirtatiously

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Contrapuntally

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Using contrast, interplay of elements

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Demureness

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Modesty

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Cosmopolitan

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Composed of persons or elements from many parts of the world

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Gravely

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Seriously

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Emphatically

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Forcefully

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Feigned

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Not genuine, real

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Gaudy

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Tastelessly ornamented

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Elysian Fields

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Paradise, place for blessed in myths

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Perplexity

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State of being puzzled, bewilderment

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Contemptuously

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Showing dislike, scorn

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Pinions

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Restrain by binding the arms

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Neurasthenic

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marked by fatigue, loss of energy, memory, feelings of inadequacy

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Indolently

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Lazily

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Sotto voce

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Under the breath, in an undertone

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Ghoul

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Legendary evil being that robs graves, feed on corpses

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Incredulously

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Skeptically

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Improvident

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Not seeing, providing for the future

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Voluptuously

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Acting in a manner full of delight to the senses

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Spectral

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Causing revulsion

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Heterogeneous

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Mixed

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Uncouth

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Lacking polish, grace

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Sullen

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Gloomily, resentfully silent

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Kibitiz

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Offer unwanted advice, comment (at a card game)

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Incredible

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Hard to believe

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Peruse

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Study, examine

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Overwrought

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Extremely excited

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Ominously

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Foreboding evil

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Sonnet

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14 line fixed verse poem

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Reproach

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Blame

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Redolences

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Scents, aromas

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Raffish

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Marked by careless unconventionality

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Spasmodic

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excited, emotional outbursts

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