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1
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Hasty and therefore not detailed

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Cursory

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Collection of concise but detailed info about something like in a book/publication usually

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Compendium

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Sparing in the use of words

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Terse

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Act quickly but also without thought or care

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Impetuous

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Act quickly or suddenly or unexpectedly

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Precipitate

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Very giving or generous or liberal

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Munificent

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Encourage someone to do something wrong

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Abet

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Adopt or support

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Espouse

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Advocates for something

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Proponent

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Maintaining of someone or something

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Sustenance

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Loyal, reliable ,and hardworking

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Stalwart

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Face or facial expression or Admit as acceptable or possible

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Countenance

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Spiteful or bad tempered (irritable, irascible, tetchy)

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Bilious

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Childishly bad tempered and petulant

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Pettish

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Feeling of offense or deep resentment

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Dudgeon

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Someone or something that is inexperienced, immature, or underdeveloped

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Fledgling

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Person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another

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Proselyte

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Easily angered

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Irascible

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14
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Complaining in a petulant or whining manner

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Querulous

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Insolent (rude and arrogant lack of respect), rude, unreasonable angry and upset in a childish way

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Petulant

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Feeling of pique resentment usually from an insult or like slight

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Umbrage

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Beginning to grow or increase rapidly, flourishing

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Burgeoning

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Feeling of irritation or resentment from a slight especially to ones pride (irritation, annoyance, resentment, anger)

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Pique

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15
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Readily expressing anger or irritation

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Waspish

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Cause or give rise to or reproduce offspring

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Engender

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Sharp and frank
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Or can be something that taste sour or bitter

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Acerbic

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Sharp remark or tone

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Acidulous

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Victorious or incisive (direct) in expression or style

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Trenchant

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17
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Overused, unoriginal, boring

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Hackneyed

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17
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Harshly critical

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Caustic

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17
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Angry and bitter language or manner or feeling

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Acrimonious

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Dull, tasteless, lacking things that are interesting

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Insipid

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Sharp or critical quality

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Mordant

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Biting sarcasm, invective (insulting/abusive)

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Mordacious

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Harshness of tone or manner

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Asperity

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17
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Lack inspiration or excitement, dull

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Pedestrian

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18
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Occurs every day so its like mundane

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Quotidian

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18
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Lacking originality and obvious and boring

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Banal

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Commonplace, unromantic, ordinary
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Unimaginative, uninspired, dull

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Prosaic

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18
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Remark or statement that is overused so it’s not interesting or thoughtful anymore

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Platitude (cliche, truism)

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Dull or unoriginal cause its overused

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Trite

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18
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Bold or can be imprudent lack of respect

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Audacious

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19
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Morally corrupt, wicked

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Depraved

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19
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Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

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Debauchery

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19
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Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters

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Licentious

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19
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Drunken partying (revelry)

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Bacchanalian

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19
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Overindulging in sensual pleasures

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Dissipated

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20
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Person usually a man who behaves without moral principles or sense of responsibility especially in sexual matters (playboy)

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Libertine

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20
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Immoral or grossly unfair behaviour

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Iniquity

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20
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Unprincipled person usually humorously or affectionately
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Can be verb for expressing or feeling disapproval for something (criticize)

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Reprobate

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Arousing moral distant (sleezy, sunsavory)

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Sordid (squalid)

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20
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Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person

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Vicarious

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20
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Excessive sexual drive, lust, lecherous, lascivious

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Libidinous

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Arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination, lustful

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Salacious

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21
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Typical example or pattern of something

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Paradigm

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21
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Referring to sexual matters in a irreverent (disrespectful) way (risque or racy)

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Ribald

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Vile, like moral turpitude in law for behaviour that is against social standards

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Turpitude

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False or misleading charge meant to harm someone’s reputation, Attack on reputation or integrity of someone or something

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Aspersion

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23
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Scold or criticise angrily

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Berate

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23
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Reprimand someone severely

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Castigate

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23
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Deny or contradict

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Gainsay

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24
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Make a forcefully reproachful (disapproving) protest

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Remonstrate

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24
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Express contempt for, ridicule

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Deride/Derisive

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24
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Damage good reputation of someone or something

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Defame

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24
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Regard or represent as being of little worth, belittle

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Disparage

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24
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Publicly denounce

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Decry

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24
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Dispute the truth, challenge

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Impugn

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24
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Criticize something harshly

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Lambaste

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24
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Strong public criticism or verbal abuse

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Obloquy

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24
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Slander

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Calumny

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24
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Attack or publicly ridicule
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Wooden framework

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Pillory

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24
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Forceful bitter verbal attack

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Diatribe

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24
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Publicly declare wrong or evil
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Inform against

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Denounce

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25
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Lengthy and aggressive speech

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Harangue

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25
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Rebuke severely, scold

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Objurgate

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25
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Criticize severely
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Damage or remove part of a surface usually of the skin

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Excoriate

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25
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Harsh criticisms (vilification)

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Opprobrium

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25
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Speak or write with great hostility (fulminate, declaim, protest)

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Inveigh

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25
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Scold or correct

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Reprove

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25
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Criticize in an abusive or angry manner

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Revile

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25
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Felling or expressing sorrow or distress

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Dolorous

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25
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Criticize sharply

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Rebuke

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25
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Funeral or burial

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Obsequies

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25
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A long angry speech (diatribe)

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Tirade

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25
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Sound of a bell usually run for a death or funeral

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Knell

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25
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No longer existing or functioning

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Defunct

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25
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Be deprived of a loved one through a profound absence

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Bereave

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25
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Blame or insult in strong or violent language

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Vituperate

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25
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Disturbing or horrifying usually involvement or depiction of death and injury

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Macabre

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25
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Ghost or ghostlike image of someone usually shortly before or after their death

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Wraith

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Passionate expression of grief or sorrow
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Mourn

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Lament

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Song of mourning

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Elegy

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Person at the point of death
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Something in terminal decline, lacking vitality or vigor

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Moribound

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Renounce or reject something desired or valuable

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Abnegate

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Reating to tomb or interment
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Gloomy, dismal

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Sepulchral

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Understood by few, mysterious

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Arcane

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Showing the indifference to comfort or luxury

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Spartan

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Suggesting practice of severe self discipline

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Ascetic

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Strong and powerful, dominant

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Hegemonic/Hegemony

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Assuming power or authority without justification, arrogant

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Imperious

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Typical of a despot, tyrannical

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Despotic

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Puzzle, confuse, bewilder

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Bemusing

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Insisting on immediate attention or obedience, usually aggressively or hars

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Peremptory

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Difficult to understand, obscure

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Abstruse

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Cloud, opaque
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Confused or obscure in meaning or effect

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Turbid

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Understood by small number of people with specialized knowledge or interest

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Esoteric

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Little known, abstruse

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Recondite

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Impossible to understand or interpret

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Inscrutable

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Decaying or rotting with awful smell

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Putrid

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Spoil
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Desecrate or profane (something sacred)

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Defile

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Having an extremely offensive smell

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Noisome

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Smelling extremely unpleasant

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Fetid

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Arouse or incur resement or anger
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Unjust

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Invidious

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Translucently clear
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Easily understood

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Pellucid

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Extremely unpleasant, repulsive

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Odious

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Thing belonging or appropriate to a period usually that its not in right that usually like old fashion

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Anachronism

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Free of anything that darkens, completely clear

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Limpid

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Unattractive and objectionable

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Rebarbative

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Clear, logical, and convincing

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Cogent

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Making someone feel embarrassed, disconcerted (unsettled or confused)

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Abash

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Person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions

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Iconoclast

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Departing from an accepted standard (deviant)

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Aberrant

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Deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected

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Anomalous

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Distress or embarrassment

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Chagrin

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Feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows doing something bad

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Compunction

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State of feeling remorseful or penitent

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Contrition

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Modesty or shyness resulting in lack of self confidence

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Diffidence

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Atone for guilt or sin

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Expiate

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Minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character

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Foible

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Awkward, embarrassing, or unsophisticated

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Gaucherie

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Bitterly regret

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Rue

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Equivalent in seriousness to, same as

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Tantamount

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Doubt the authenticity, fictitious

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Apocryphal

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Use of trickery to a achieve political, financial, or legal purpose

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Chicanery

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Deceitfulness

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Duplicity

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Wrong, incorrect

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Erroneous

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Sly or cunning intelligence

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Guile

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Untruthfulness, lying

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Mendacity

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Speak or act in an evasive way

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Prevaricate

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False or fake

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Spurious

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An unfounded rumor or story

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Canard

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Conceal one’s true motives, feelings, or beliefs

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Dissemble

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Made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, artificial, imitation, substitute

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Ersatz

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Simulated or pretended, insincere

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Feigned

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Not telling truth, lying

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Mendacious

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Deceitfulness, untrustworthiness

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Perfidy

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Superficially plausible but not actually wrong

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Specious

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Relating to marriage

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Conjugal

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Related

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Consanguine

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Stick or spindle on wood for spinning
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Female side of family

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Distaff

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Marriage

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Endogamous

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Of or due from son or daughter

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Filial

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Brothers

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Fraternal

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Killing of own brother or sister

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Fratricide

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Person or thing from which it originates or descends from

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Progenitor

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Descendent of notable family

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Scion

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Enthusiasm or passion

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Arden/Ardor

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Intensely enthusiastic or passionate

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Fervid

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Person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their ideals

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Zealot

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Strong supporter of something
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Prejudice in favor of something (biased)

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Partisan

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Expressing or intending to promote particular cause or point of view

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Tendentious

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Set or declare someone free from blame

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Absolve and Exculpate

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Atone for guilt or sin

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Expiate

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Make something less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause

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Palliate

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Rectify something

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Redress

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Clear someone of blame or suspicion

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Vindicate

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Laugh in a breathy gleeful way, chuckle

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Chortle

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Treating serious things with inappropriate humor, flippant

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Facetious

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An insulting or mocking remark, taunt

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Gibe

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Humor or frivolity for serious things with humor lacking respect

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Levity

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Good humored teasing

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Raillery

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Smile in an affectedly coy manner, giggle

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Simper

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Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement

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Droll

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Not showing a serious or respectful attitude

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Flippant

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Fond of or characterized by joking, humorous or playful

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Jocular

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So foolish

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Ludicrous

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Quick clever reply to insult or criticism

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Riposte

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Reduction, decrease

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Abatement

80
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Long opening or break in something

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Fissure

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Pause between things

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Interregnum

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Opening or open space

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Aperature

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An intervening space, usually very small

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Interstice

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Short period of rest or relief from something unpleasant

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Respite

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Inclined to be merciful, lenient

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Clement

84
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Generosity in giving money or gifts

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Largesse

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Gift larger or more generous than needed

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Munificent

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Generous or forgiving especially towards rival or less powerful person

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Magnanimous

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Given or giving without restraint

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Unstinting

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Having or showing extreme greed for wealth or material gain

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Avaricious

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Having or showing great desire for wanting something someone else has

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Covetous

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Primarily concerned with money

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Mercenary

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Extremely poor or mean

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Penurious

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Aggressively greedy or grasping

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Rapacious

92
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Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery

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Venal

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Harshness of tone or manner

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Asperity

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Relentlessly severe stern ro gloomy in manner or appearance

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Dour

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Grimly mocking or cynical

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Sardonic

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Having or showing a wish to do evil to others

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Malevolent

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Eager or quick to argue or fight, aggressively defiant

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Truculent

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Threatening harm, menacing

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Baleful

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Causing harm or damage

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Deleterious

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Terrible evil or ferocity

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Fell

100
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Having or showing sharp or critical quality, biting

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Mordant

100
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Witheringly scornful, severely critical

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Scathing

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Filled with bitter criticism or mallice

A

Vitriolic

100
Q

Threatening harm, menacing

A

Baleful

100
Q

Causing or likely to cause damage or harm

A

Injurious

101
Q

Causing destruction or serious harm

A

Baneful

102
Q

Tending to obstruct or harm
OR
Unfriendly, hostile

A

Inimical

103
Q

Proceeding in a gradual subtle way with harmful effect

A

Insidious

104
Q

Expressive or conveying a threat

A

Minatory

105
Q

Deceitful and untrustworthy

A

Perfidious

106
Q

Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

A

Pernicious

107
Q

Harsh discordant mixture of sounds

A

Cacophony

108
Q

Making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise

A

Raucous

108
Q

Loud unpleasant and prolonged noise
OR
Making someone learn or remember somehting

A

Din

109
Q

Loud and harsh, grating

A

Strident

109
Q

Lacking harmony

A

Dissonant

110
Q

Bitterness or resentfulness

A

Rancor

110
Q

Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
OR
Formal curse by pope or council of church

A

Anathema

110
Q

Feeling of repulsion, disgusted loathing

A

Abhorrence

111
Q

Deep seated feeling of dislike, aversion

A

Antipathy

112
Q

General or widespread hatred or disgust directed towards someone cause of their actions

A

Odium

112
Q

State or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something

A

Enmity

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