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Alacrity

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Enthusiasm ex: she accepted the invitation with alacrity

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Aberrant

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Out of the norm ex: aberrant chromosomes

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Anomaly

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Something abnormal

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Approbation

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Praise

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Audacious

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Crazy daring

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Capricious

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Unpredictable: capricious climate

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Censure

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Rebuke verb to censure

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Connoisseur

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Expert especially in taste: connoisseur in music

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Discordant

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Harsh

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Disparate

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1.
essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison.
“they inhabit disparate worlds of thought”
synonyms: contrasting, different, differing, dissimilar, unalike, poles apart; More
antonyms: homogeneous
containing elements very different from one another.
“a culturally disparate country”

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Elequent

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Well spoken

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Enervate

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cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.

synonyms: exhaust, tire, fatigue, weary, wear out, devitalize, drain, sap, weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, incapacitate, prostrate; More
antonyms: invigorate

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Ennui

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a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:
The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.

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Equvicate

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To use ambiguous language

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Exculpate

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Exonerate

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Exigent

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Urgent

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Filibuster

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Obstruction of legislation

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Ingenious

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Opposite of eloquent artless frank

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Inured

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Accepting bad (like injured) children inured to violence southern cities in Israel inured to rockets

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Magnanimity

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Kindness

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Martial

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Associated with war

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Mundane

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Typical everyday

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Nascent

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Coming into being (especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.
“the nascent space industry”
synonyms: just beginning, budding, developing, growing, embryonic, incipient, young, fledgling, evolving, emergent, dawning, burgeoning
“the nascent economic recovery”

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Nebulous

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Vague lacking clear form

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Noxious

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Harmful poisonous

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Obtuse

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Stupid

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Obviate

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To avoid problem

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Onerous

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Burdensome

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Parody

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Numerous imitation

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Perennial

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Recurrent through the years

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Perfunctory

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Done without care

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Prattle

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Talk in idle manner

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Prescience

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Foreknowledge of events

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Prevaricate

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To mislead

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Refute

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Prove wrong

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Relegate

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To assign lower position

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Solicitous

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Concerned attentive

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Static

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Not moving

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Stupefy

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To amaze

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Tortuous

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Winding excessively complicated

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Truculent

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Cruel eager to fight

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Voracious

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Ravenous

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Waver

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Sway opinions