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Aberrant

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Abnormal or deviant

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Abeyance

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Suspend action

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Abscond

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Depart secretly and hide

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Abstemious

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Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate

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Admonish

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Warn or reprove

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Adulterate

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Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances

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Aesthetic

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Artistic; dealing with are capable of appreciating the beautiful

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Aggregate

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Gather; accumulate

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Alacrity

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Cheerful promptness; eagerness

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Alleviate

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Relieve

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Amalgamate

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Combine or unite in one body

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Abate

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Subside or moderate

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Ambiguous

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Unclear or doubtful in meaning

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Ambivalence

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The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes

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Ameliorate

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improve

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Anachronism

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Something or someone misplaced in time

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Analogous

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Comparable

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Anarchy

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Absence of governing body; state of disorder

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Anomalous

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Abnormal; Ireegular

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Antipathy

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Aversion; dilike

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Apathy

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Lack of caring; indifference

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Appease

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Pacify or soothe; relieve

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Apprise

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Inform

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Approbation

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Approval

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Appropriate (verb)

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Acquire; take possession of for one’s own use

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Arduous

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Hard; strenuous

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Artless

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without guile; open and honest

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Ascetic

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Practicing self-denial; austere

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Assiduous

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Diligent

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Assuage (verb)

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Ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)

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Attenuate

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Make thinner

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Audacious

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Daring or bold

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Austere

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forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented

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Autonomous

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Self-governing; independent

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Aver

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Assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as fact

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Banal

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hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality; over-familiar from overuse

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Belie

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contradict; give a false impression; misrepresent

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Beneficent

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Kindly; doing good

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Bolster

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Support; reinforce

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Bombastic

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Pompous; using inflated language

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Boorish

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Rude; intensive

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Burgeon

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Grow forth; send out buds

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Burnish

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Make shiny by rubbing; polish

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Buttress (verb)

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support or prop up

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Capricious

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Unpredictable; fickle

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Castigation

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Punishment; severe reprimand or criticism

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Catalyst

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Agent that increases the pace of a chemical reaction

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Caustic

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Burning; sarcastically biting

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Chicanery

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trickery or deception

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Coagulate

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thicken; congeal; clot

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Coda

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Concluding section of a musical or literary composition; Summarizes or concludes

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Cogent

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Convincing or pursuasive

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Commensurate (adj.)

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Corresponding in extent, degree, etc.; proportionate

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Compendium

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Brief, comprehensive summary

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Complaisant

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Trying to please; overly polite;obliging

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Compliant

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Yielding; conforming to requirements

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Conciliatory

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Reconciling; soothing

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Condone

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Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse

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Confound

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Confuse; puzzle

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Connoisseur

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Person competent to act as a judge of art; a lover of art

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Contention

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Claim; thesis

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome

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Contrite

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Penitent

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Conundrum

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Riddle; difficult problem

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Converge

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Approach; tend to meet; come together

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Convoluted

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Coiled around; involved; intricate; confusing

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Craven

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Cowardly

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Daunt

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Intimidate; Frighten

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Decorum

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Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners

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Default

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Failure to act

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Deference

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showing respect and humility towards

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Delineate

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portray; depict; sketch

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Denigrate

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Blacken; disparage; or speak damagingly of

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Deride

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Ridicule; make fun of

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Derivative

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Unoriginal; obtained from another source

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Desiccate

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dry up

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Desultory

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aimless; haphazard; digressing at random

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Deterrent

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Something that discourages; hindrance

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Diatribe (noun)

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Bitter scolding; invective

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Dichotomy

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Split; Branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)

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Diffidence

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Shyness

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Diffuse (adj.)

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Wordy, rambling, spread out

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Digression

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Wandering away from the subject

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Dirge

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Lament with music

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Disabuse

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Correct a false impression; undeceive; make correct

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Discerning

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Mentally quick and observant; having insight

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Discordant

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Not harmonious; conflicting

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Discredit

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Defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve

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Discrepancy

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Lack of consistency; difference

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Discrete (adj.)

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Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts

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Disingenuous

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lacking genuine candor; insincere

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Disinterested

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unprejudiced; unbiased; neutral

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Disjointed

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Lacking coherence; separated at the joints

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Dismiss

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Eliminate from consideration; reject

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Disparage

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Belittle

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Disparate (adj.)

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basically different; unrelated

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Dissemble (verb)

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Disguise; pretend

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Disseminate

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distribute; spread; scatter

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Dissolution

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Disintegration; looseness in morals

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Dissonance

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Discord; opposite of harmony

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Distend

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Expand; swell out

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Distill

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Purify, refine, concentrate

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Diverge

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Vary; go in different directions from the same point

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Divest

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Strip; deprive

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Document

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Provide written evidence

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Dogmatic

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Opinionated, arbitrary, doctrinal

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Dormant

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Sleeping; lethargic; latent

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Dupe

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Someone easily fooled

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Ebullient

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Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm

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Eclectic

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Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources

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Efficacy

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Power to produce desired effect

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Effrontery

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Impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness

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Elegy

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Poem or song expressing lamentation

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Elicit

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Draw out by discussion

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Embellish

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Adorn; ornament; enhance

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Empirical

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Based on experience

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Emulate

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Imitate; rival

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Endemic

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Prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country

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Enervate

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Weaken

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Engender

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Cause; produce

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Enhance

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Increase; improve

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived; fleeting

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Equanimity

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Calmness of temperament; composure

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Equivocate

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Lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth

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Erudite

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Learned; scholarly

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Esoteric

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Hard to understand; known only to a chosen few

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Eulogy

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Expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone’s death.

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Euphemism

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Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one

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Exacerbate

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Worsen; embitter

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Exculpate

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Clear from blame

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Exigency

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Urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention

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Extrapolation

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Projection; conjecture

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Facetious

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Joking (often inappropriately); humorous

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Facilitate

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Help bring about; make less difficult

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Fallacious

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False; misleading

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Fatuous

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Brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug

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Fawning

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Trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering, or cringing

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Felicitous

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Apt; suitably expressed; well chosen

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Fervor

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Glowing ardor; intensity of feeling

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Flag

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Droop; grow feeble

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Fledgling

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Inexperienced

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Flout

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Reject; mock; show contempt for

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Foment

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Stir up; instigate

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Forestall

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Prevent something by taking action in advance

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Frugality

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Thrift; economy

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Futile

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Useless; hopeless; ineffectual

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Gainsay

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Deny

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Garrulous

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Loquacious; talkative; wordy

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Goad

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Urge on

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Gouge

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Overcharge

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Grandiloquent

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Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language

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Gregarious

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Sociable

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Guileless

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Without deceit

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Gullible

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Easily deceived

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Harangue

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Long, passionate, and vehement speech

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Homogenous

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Of the same kind

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration; overstatement

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Iconoclastic

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Attacking cherished traditions

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Idolatry

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Worship of idols; excessive admiration

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Immutable

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Unchangeable

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Impair

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Injure; hurt

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Impassive

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Without feeling; imperturbable; passive

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Impede

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Hinder; block

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Impermeable

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Impervious; not permitting passage through its substance

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Imperturbable

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Calm; placid

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Impervious

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Impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed

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Implacable

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Incapable of being pacified

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Implicit

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Understood but not stated

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Implode

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Burst inward

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Inadvertently

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Unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly

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Inchoate (adj.)

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Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary

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Incongruity

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Lack of harmony; absurdity

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Inconsequential

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Insignificant; unimportant

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Incorporate

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Introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite

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Indeterminate

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Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite

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Indigence

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Poverty

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Indolent

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Lazy

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Inert

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Inactive; lacking power to move

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Ingenuous

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Naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated

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Inherent

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Firmly established by nature or habit

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Insensible

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Unconscious; unresponsive

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Insinuate

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Hint; imply; creep in

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Insipid

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Lacking in flavor; dull

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Insularity

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Narrow-mindedness; isolation

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Intractable

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Unruly; stubborn; unyielding

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Intransigence (noun)

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Refusal of any compromise; stubbornness

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Inundate

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Overwhelm; flood; submerge

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Inured (adj)

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Accustomed; hardened

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Invective (noun)

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Abuse language; vituperate

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Irascible

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Irritable; easily angered

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Irresolute

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Uncertain how to act; weak

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Itinerary

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Plan of a trip

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Laconic

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Brief and to the point

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Lassitude

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Languor; weariness

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Latent

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Potential but undeveloped; hidden; dormant

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Laud

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Praise

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Lethargic

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Drowsy; dull

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Levee

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Stone embankment to prevent flooding

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Levity

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Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity

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Log

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Record of voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Lucid

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Easily understood; clear; intelligible

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Luminous

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Shining; issuing light

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Magnanimity

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Generosity

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Malingerer

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One who feigns illness to escape duty

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable

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Maverick

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Rebel; nonconformist

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Mendacious

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Lying; habitually dishonest

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Metamorphosis

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Change of form

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Meticulous

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Excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous

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Misanthrope

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One who hates mankind

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Mitigate

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Appease; moderate

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Mollify

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Soothe

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Morose

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Sullen; melancholy

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Mundane

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Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday

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