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Temerity

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Excessive confidence or boldness (noun).

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Rigmarole

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A lengthy and complicated procedure (noun).

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Prognosticate

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foretell or prophesy (verb).

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Sirenic

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Melodious, tempting (adjective).

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Plexus

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A complex structure with an intricate network of parts (noun).

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Nonchalantly

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In a casually calm and relaxed manner.

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Aberration

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A state or condition markedly different from the norm.

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Abhor

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Find repugnant.

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Labyrinthine

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Irregular and twisting.

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Acquiesce

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Agree or express agreement.

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Alacrity

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Liveliness and eagerness.

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Amiable

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Diffusing warmth and friendliness.

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Appease

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Make peace with.

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Arcane

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Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.

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Avarice

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Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth.

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Brazen

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Unrestrained by convention or propriety.

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Brusque

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Rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner.

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Cajole

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Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.

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Chide

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Scold or reprimand severely or angrily.

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Timorous

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Showing or suffering from nervousness or a lack of confidence.

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Postern

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A back or side entrance.

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Chide

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Scold or reprimand severely or angrily

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Circumspect

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Careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk.

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Clandestine

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Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.

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Coerce

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Cause to do through pressure or necessity.

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Coherent

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Marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts.

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Complacency

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The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself.

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Confidant

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Someone to whom private matters are told.

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Connive

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Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner.

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Cumulative

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Increasing by successive addition.

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Cynical

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Believing the worst of human nature and motives.

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Debase

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Make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance.

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Decry

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Express strong disapproval of.

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Deferential

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Showing courteous regard for people’s feelings.

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Demure

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Shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way.

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Debride

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Treat or speak of with contempt.

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Despot

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A cruel and oppressive dictator.

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Diligent

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Quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness.

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Elated

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Exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits.

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Eloquent

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Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively.

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Embezzle

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Appropriate fraudulently to one’s own use.

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Empathy

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Understanding and entering into another’s feelings.

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Emnity

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A state of deep-seated ill-will.

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Erudite

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Having or showing profound knowledge.

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Extol

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Praise, glorify, or honor.

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Fabricate

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Put together out of artificial or natural components.

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Feral

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Wild and menacing.

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Forsake

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Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.

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Fractious

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Easily irritated or annoyed.

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Furtive

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Secret and sly.

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Gluttony

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Habitual eating to excess.

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Gratuitous

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Unnecessary and unwarranted.

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Haughty

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Having or showing arrogant superiority.

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Hypocrisy

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Pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not have

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Impeccable

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Without fault or error.

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Impertinent

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Improperly forward or bold.

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Implacable

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Incapable of being appeased or pacified.

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Implicit

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Suggested though not directly expressed.

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Impudent

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Improperly forward or bold.

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Incisive

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Demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.

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Indolent

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Disinclined to work or exertion.

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Inept

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Generally incompetent and ineffectual.

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Infamy

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A state of extreme dishonour.

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Inhibit

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Limit the range or extent of.

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Innate

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Present at birth but not necessarily hereditary.

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Insatiable

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Impossible to fulfill, appease, or gratify.

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Insular

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Relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island.

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Intrepid

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Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.

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Inveterate

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Habitual.

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Jubilant

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Full of high-spirited delight.

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Lithe

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Moving and bending with ease.

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Lurid

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Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism.

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Maverick

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Someone who exhibits independence in thought and action.

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Maxim

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A saying that is widely accepted on its own merits.

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Meticulous

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Marked by precise accordance with details.

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Modicum

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A small or moderate or token amount.

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Morose

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Showing a brooding ill humour.

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Myriad

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a large indefinite number

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Nadir

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The lowest point of anything.

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Nominal

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Relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name.

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Novice

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Someone new to a field or activity.

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Nuance

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A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude.

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Oblivious

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Lacking conscious awareness of.

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Obsequious

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Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

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Obtuse

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Slow on uptake

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Panacea

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Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.

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Parody

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A composition that imitates or misrepresents a style

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Penchant

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A strong liking.

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Perusal

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The act of examining or reading carefully.

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Predilection

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A predisposition in favor of something.

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Quaint

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Attractively old-fashioned.

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Rash

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Imprudently incurring risk.

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Repudiate

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Refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid.

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Rife

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Excessively abundant.

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Salient

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Conspicuous, prominent, or important.

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Serendipity

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Good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries.

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Staid

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Characterised by dignity and propriety.

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Superfluous

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More than is needed, desired, or required.

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Sycophant

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A person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage.

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Taciturn

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Habitually reserved and uncommunicative.

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Truculent

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Defiantly aggressive.

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Umbrage

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A feeling of anger caused by being offended.

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Venerable

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Profoundly honoured.

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Vociferous

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Conspicuously and offensively loud.

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Tranquil

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Calm and relaxing.

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Incandescent

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Bright, glowing.

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Harmonious

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Pleasant, agreeable.

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Majestic

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Royal, regal, splendid.

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Pellucid

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Clear, transparent.

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Aciculate

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Needle-like, pointy

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Arenaceous

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Chalky, powdery.

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Frenetic

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Hectic, energetic

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Teeming

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Crowded, busy

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Tumultuous

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Loud, confused noise.

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Myriad

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Countless, unlimited

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Desolate

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Empty, uninhabited

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Blistering

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Intense/strong heat.

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Sequestered

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Hidden away, concealed.

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Parched

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Dry, lacking moisture.

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Decrepit

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Worn out, ruined

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Fragmented

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Broken into pieces.

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Dilapidated

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Run down, decaying.

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Barbaric

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Brutal, vicious, fierce.

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Enraged

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Very angry, furious.

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Raptorial

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Predatory, carnivorous.

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