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Abyss

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Bottomless hole, a vast expanse or depth

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Acrid

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Caustic, bitter, harsh (relates to taste or smell)

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Affable

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Friendly, courteous, amiable

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Allure

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To influence, sway, or entice with some tempting appeal

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Angular

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Lean, sharp cornered; gaunt

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Apathy

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A lack of concern or feeling; indifferent

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Ascend

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To move upward, to rise from a lower location

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Authoritative

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Coming from proper authority; dictatorial; conclusive

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Automaton

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A creature acting in a mechanical way with no indication of intelligence

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Banal

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Common, ordinary, lacking freshness, hackneyed

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Baseness

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The quality of lacking higher values

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Bequeath

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To hand down, to give or to leave in a will

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Blanch

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To take the color out of, to bleach, to make white

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Camouflage

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A concealment by means of disguise

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Claustrophobia

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Fear of enclosed spaces

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Cloister

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To seclude or to confine

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Conceit

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Excessively high opinion of one’s own worth or ability

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Confound

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To cause one to become confused

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Congeal

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To solidify or to coagulate

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Contempt

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Scorn, extreme dislike or disdain

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Debauchary

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Moral corruption

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Decorum

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Appropriate conduct, correct and proper behavior

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Degeneration

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A state of decline

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Demented

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Insane

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Despicable

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Very bad, contemptible

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Destitution

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State of being extremely poor, in extreme want

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Deterrent

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Something that discourages or keeps something from happening

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Dilation

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Expansion

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Disconcerting

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Upsetting, frustrating

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Disentangle

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To unravel, extricate

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