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benighted

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ignorant

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perquisite

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exclusive right

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blinkered

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limited outlook

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languid

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tired

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5
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dissolution

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debauchery

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subversive

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opposing authority

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7
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raft

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large number

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8
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importuned

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ask persistently

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sinecure

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easy job

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rakish

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disreputable

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nonplussed

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unsure how to act

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specious

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misleadingly attractive

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travail

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hard word

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14
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aphoristic

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concise and true

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harried

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troubled persistently

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16
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repudiate

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deny as untrue

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overwheening

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overly proud

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palimpsest

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something reused

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dilatory

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time wasting

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bowdlerize

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censor

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factious

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causing dissension, think factious faction

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hagiographic

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idealizing a subject

23
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carping

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fault finding

24
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foment

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stir up, agitate

25
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prolixity

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verbosity

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spurn

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reject with contempt

27
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arrant

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complete

28
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arch

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teasing

29
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insouciance

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lack of concern

30
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picayune

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trifling, petty

31
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virago

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screaming woman

32
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remiss

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be negligent

33
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propitiate

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appease

34
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enjoin

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prohibit

35
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ferret

A

search for

36
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splenetic

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highly irritable

37
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vicissitude

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change in fortune

Also mutability or changing.

38
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inscrutable

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unfathomable

39
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gauche

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clumsy

40
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forlorn

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hopeless

41
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extenuate

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make less guilty

42
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peremptory

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bossy

43
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venial

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pardonable

44
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contrive

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scheme

45
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indignant

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angry