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Insufferable

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Intolerable, difficult to endure

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Beg

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Assume something is true

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Catholic

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Of broad scope; universal

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Defray

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To help pay the cost of; either in part or full

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Contentious

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Likely to argue

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Ponderous

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Weighed-down; moving slowly

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Choleric

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Prone to outbursts of temper; easily angered

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Conciliate

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To make peace with

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Jingoist

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A person who thinks their country is always right and who is in favor of aggressive acts against other countries

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Arrant

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Complete and wholly (usu. modifying a noun with a negative connotation)

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Zeitgeist

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Spirit of the times

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Imbide

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To drink or absorb as if drinking

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Lascivious

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Lecherous; sexually perverted

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Saturnine

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Morose or gloomy

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Sedulous

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Done diligently and carefully

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Truculent

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Having a fierce, savage nature

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Hector

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To bully or intimidate

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Penurious

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Lacking money; poor

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Byzantine

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Intricate and complex

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Cow

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To intimidate

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Feckless

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Lazy and irresponsible

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Perfunctory

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Done routinely and with little interest or care

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Expansive

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Communicative, and prone to talking in a sociable manner

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Precipitate

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Adj. Hasty or rash

V. To cause to happen

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Anathema

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A detested person; the source of somebody’s hate

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Equivocate

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To speak vaguely, usually with intention to mislead or deceive

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Expunge

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To eliminate completely

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Exegesis

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Critical explanation or analysis, esp of a text

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Fractious

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Irritable and is likely to cause disruption

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Kowtow

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To bow or act in a subservient manner

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Factious

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Produced by, or characterized by internal dissension

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Artless

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Without cunning or deceit