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Acquiesce

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Submit or comply silently or without protest

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Abstain

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To hold oneself back voluntarily

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Altruistic

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Selfless Behavior

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Apathy

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Lack of interest or emotion

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Aptitude

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Natural to you

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Aspire

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To long, aim, or seek ambitiously

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Benevolent

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To enjoy helping others / friendly

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Boisterous

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Something or someone noisy, loud, or rowdy

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Benign

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Something good or not dangerous

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Blasé

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Bored; unimpressed

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Bombard

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To attack continuously

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Boycott

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To abstain from buying or using as a form of protest

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Brusque

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Abrupt manners

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Charlatan

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Someone who pretends to have more knowledge than they possess; fraud

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Clandestine

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Done in secrecy

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Complacent

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Pleased with oneself’s faulty

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Copious

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An abundance or fullness

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Covenant

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Agreement between two or more people

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Cumulative

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Increasing or growing

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Cynical

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Distrusting the motives of others

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Deduce

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Solve; come to a logical conclusion

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Diligent

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Hardworking; effort

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Discombobulate

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Confused, WACKED OUT

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Discreet

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Very careful with others secrets

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Dotard

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A weak minded or foolish individual

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Dubious

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Doubtful

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Eccentric

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Weird

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Elude

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To avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade

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Enigma

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Puzzling

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Epiphany

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A sudden insight or realization

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Erudite

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Characterized by great knowledge; well read

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Exacerbate

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To make a situation worse

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Extemporaneous

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Done, spoken, performed ect. without special advance preparation

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Fastidious

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Attention to detail

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Foible

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A minor weakness of character; slight flaw or defect

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Fortuitous

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Happening or produced by chance; accidental

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Fervent

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Having or showing great passionate intensity

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Frivolous

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Little value; importance

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Frugal

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Not wasteful of resources

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Futile

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Pointless; unimportant

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Gamut

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The entire scale or range

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Gaunt

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Extremely thin and bony; sickly

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Genial

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Warmly and presently cheerful, Cordial

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Gist

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The main or essential part of a matter

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Gratuitous

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Given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntarily

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Gregarious

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Fond of the company of others

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Grimace

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A facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.

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Grotesque

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Fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre

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Haphazard

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No order; disorganized

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Harbinger

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Harold the coming of

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Heed

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Give careful attention to

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Heirloom

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Precious hand-me-down family value

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Hone

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Sharpen

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Hypocrite

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Someone says not to do something, does that thing in private

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Integrity

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High moral values; does the right thing when no one is looking

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Insolent

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Boldly rude or insulting

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Insidious

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Intended to entrap stealthily

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Impetuous

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Doing without thinking

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Juxtaposition

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2 things being placed close together

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Jovial

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Cheerful or friendly

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Jeopardize

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Put something in a situation in which there is danger

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Jettison

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Throw or drop something

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Jargon

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Words or expressions that are difficult for there to understand

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Kinesthetic

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Sensation of movement

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Judicious

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Having or showing good judgement

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Juggernaut

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A huge, powerful, or overwhelming force

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Laborious

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Requiring considerable effort or time

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Lavish

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Rich, elaborate, or luxurious

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Magnanimous

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very generous or forgiving

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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad

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Lethargy

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Lack of energy

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Malady

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a disease or ailment

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Loquacious

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Lax

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Not strict

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Malevolent

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having or showing a wish to do evil to others

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Mellifluous

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sweet or musical; pleasant to hear

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Libel

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A published fake statement that damages a reputation

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Ludicrous

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Longevity

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Morose

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sullen and ill-tempered

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Mundane

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lacking interest or excitement

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Myriad

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a countless or extremely great number

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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked or villainous

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Noxious

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Harmful or injurious to health or physical well being

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Nemesis

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An opponent or rival person

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Nihilism

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Anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity

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Nostalgia

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A sentimental longing or wish

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Novice

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A person that is new to something

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Oaf

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A stupid, uncultured, or clumsy person

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Ominous

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Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen

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Obdurate

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Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action

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Ostracize

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To exclude someone from a society or group

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Omnipotent

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Having unlimited power; able to do anything

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Ostentatious

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Designed to impress or attract notice

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Plethora

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Large or excessive amount of something

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Philanthropic

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Seeking to promote, especially by donating money to a good cause

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Prudent

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Acting with or showing care and thought for the future

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Platitude

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A remark or statement that has been used to often to be considered interesting or thoughtful

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Plausible

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Seeming reasonable

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Pugnacious

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Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight

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Quintessential

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Representing the most perfect or typical example of quality or class

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Qualm

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OK and uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear, especially about ones own conduct

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Quandary

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A state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation

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Queue

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A line of people/vehicles awaiting their turn to proceed

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Quip

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A witty remark

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Rapscallion

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A mischievous person in a good way

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Recluse

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Someone who tends to avoid people

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Refine

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To bring to a fine or pure state

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Residual

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Part aiming to a residue or left over

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Reticent

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Disposed to be silent or not to speak freely

Reluctant to speak

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Savory

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Pleasant in scent or taste

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Revere

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To regard with respect tinged with awe

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Sedentary

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Characterized by or require sitting posture

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Serene

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Calm, peaceful, or tranquil

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Subservient

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Prepared to obey others unquestionably

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Succinct

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Expressed in few words

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Superfluous

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Talisman

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Object that brings good luck

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Tangible

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Something you can touch

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Tirade

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A long, bitter speech

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Trite

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Lacking originality or freshness

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Synergy

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Interaction of two or more

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Travesty

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An absurd or false misrepresentation

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Tyranny

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A cruel rule

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Tome

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An especially large, heavy, and scholarly book

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Tangent

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To go off of the main course

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Ubiquitous

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Found everywhere

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Upbraid

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Severely scolded

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Urbane

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Having a polished look

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Urchin

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A mischievous boy

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Usurp

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To hold by force

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Utopia

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An ideal/perfect place

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Valor

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Great courage in the face of danger

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Verbatim

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The same words that were originally used

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Verbose

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Expressed in more words than needed

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Vigilant

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Keeping careful watch for danger

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Vocation

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A strong feeling of suitability for a career

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Vociferous

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Expressing feelings loudly

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Volatile

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Change rapidly for the worse

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Volition

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The power of using one’s will

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Waive

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Forfeit of someone’s own free will

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Wary

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Marked by caution

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Witless

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Without a sense of humor

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Writhing

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In a great deal of pain

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Yuppie

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A young, ambitious, and well-education person with a professional career

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Zeal

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Great interest

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Zealot

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A fanatical person

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