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Folly

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Lack of good sense.

Foolishness.

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Artistry

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Creativity.

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Milieu

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Social environment.

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Decorous

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Proper and decent.

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Visceral

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Related to deep inward feelings rather than intellect.

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Instinctive

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Relating to instincts.

Unconscious and automatic.

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Ossify

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To cease developing.

Be stagnant or rigid.

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Streamline

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To make more efficient and effective by employing faster or simpler method.

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Infighting

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Hidden politics and competitiveness within an organization.

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Endure

Endurance

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Endure: To experience.
Endurance: Suffering. Tolerance. Acceptance.

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Descendant

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Successor

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Ingenuous

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Naive. Childlike.

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Ingenuity

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Creativity. Inventiveness.

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Unwitting

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Unconscious.
Unintentional.
Unaware.

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Fray

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To wear out.

To show symbols of strain.

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Embrace

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Accept.
Support.
Hold in one’s arms.

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Veiled

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Masked.
Cloaked.
Covered.

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Jostle

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To bump against one another through elbow or something else in a crowd.

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Diverge

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To set on a different route.

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Imponderable

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Difficult to assess, estimate or answer.

Very light.

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Palpable

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Tangible.

Noticeable.

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Demise

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Death.

Cease to exist.

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Elicit

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Obtain.

Extract.

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Dictum

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Pronouncements from a authoritative source.

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Respite

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A short period of rest or relief.

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Aspersion

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An attack on someone’s respectability.

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Nascent

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Just coming into play and showing potential.

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Pugnacious

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Eager to fight or quarrel.

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Impugn

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Dispute the truth of validity of.

Call into question.

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Poignant

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Touching.

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Repugnant

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Extremely distasteful.

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Jubilant

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Overjoyed. 
Elated.
Euphoric. 
Exuberant. 
Ecstatic.
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Provision

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Supply.

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Forage

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To widely search for food or provision.

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Blemish

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A small mark or flaw that destroys the appearance of something.

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Despair

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Te complete loss or absence of hope.

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Elliptical

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Difficult to understand.

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Obtrusive

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Conspicuous.

Noticeable in an unwelcome or intrusive ways.

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Deficient

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Not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient

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Resurgence

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Re-surging.

The revival after a period of little activity.

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Hollow

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Empty.

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Sparse

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Thinly dispersed or scattered.

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Rousing

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Exciting.

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Disrepute

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The state of being held in low esteem in public.

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45
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Purveyor

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A seller who sells a particular stuff.

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Dowager

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A widow with a title or property from her late husband.

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Conscientious

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Wishing to do what is right/ convention, especially being diligent in fulfilling a responsibility well and thoroughly.

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Impracticable

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Impossible in practice to do or carry out.

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Stringent

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Strict.

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Console

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Comfort (someone) at a time of grief or disappointment.

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Bleak

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Lacking vegetation. Unhealthy.

Not holding any substance.

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Condemnation

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The expression of very strong disapproval.

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53
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Befell

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(Something really bad) to happen to someone.

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Boomerang

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Backfire.

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Perish

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To die.

To suffer complete ruin.

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56
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Delusion

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Delusional.

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Impugn

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To dispute the truth, validity or honesty of someone.

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58
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Reconnaissance

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Military observation over a terrain to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic feat.

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59
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Decimate

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To destroy a great number or proportion of.

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Sustenance

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Nourishment.

The maintaining of something in life.

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Stature

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Reputation.

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Corrosive

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Caustic.

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Emphatic

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Showing or giving emphasis.

Expressing something forcibly or clearly.

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Dismay

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To cause to feel consternation or distress.

Appall.
Shock.

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Hook

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To attach to fasten with a hook.

66
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Languid

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Slow and relaxed.

67
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Droop

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Bend or hand downward limply.

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Remiss

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Lacking care or admiration of duty.

69
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Impetuous

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Acting or done quickly and without thought.

Moving forcefully and rapidly.

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Scenic

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Providing or relating to views of impressive quality.

71
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Disgrace

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Loss of reputation or respect, especially as a result of a dishonorable action.

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Anthology

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A published collection of poetries, songs etc.

73
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Eliminate

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Completely remove or get rid off.

74
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Preeminence

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The act of surpassing all others.

Superiority.

75
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Retrenchment

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The act of cutting down.

76
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Aggregation

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Collection.

77
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Prognosis

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Forecast.

Prediction.

78
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Tenuous

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Very weak or insubstantial.

79
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Faction

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Conflict.

Dissension.

80
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Constituent

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Component.

81
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Torrid

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Very hot and dry.

82
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Scorch

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Burning hot.

83
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Probe

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To physically examine or explore something.

84
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Romanticize

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Deal with or describe in an unrealistic manner.

85
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Appraise

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To assess.

86
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Customary

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According to the customs or usual practices associated with a society or group.

87
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Recurring

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Occurring again, periodically.

88
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Oppressive

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Unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint on a group, specially minority.

89
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Menace

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Suggesting the presence of danger.

Threatening.

90
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Drab

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Lacking brightness or interest.

Dull.

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Multifaceted

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Having many facets or surfaces.

92
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Sullen

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Bad tempered and sulky.

93
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Defiance

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Open resistance.

Bold disobedience.

94
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Sprawling

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Spread out over a terrain in an untidy or irregular way.

95
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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal.

96
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Sundry

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Of various kinds.

97
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Remonstrance

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A forcefully reproachful protest.

98
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Deify

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To treat as God or deity.

99
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Basest

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Lacking moral principles.

Sordid.

100
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Impair

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To weaken or damage something.

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Garish

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Intrusively bright and lurid.

102
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Pander

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To gratify or indulge, especially in something distasteful.

103
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Shortchange

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Cheat.

104
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Repress

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Restrained.
Inhibited.
Oppressed.

105
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Stunt

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Prevent from growing or developing properly.

106
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Prod

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To poke.

107
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Coddle

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Treat in an overprotective way.

108
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Frisky

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Playful and full of energy.

109
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Propagandist

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Someone who disseminates biased and misleading information in order to gain political or opinionated favor.

110
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Relent

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To cause to abandon or mitigate severe emotional intensity.

111
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Sensational

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Causing great public interest and excitement.
Shocking.
Scandalous.

112
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Conformity

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Compliance with rules and standards.

113
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Propulsion

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The action of driving or pushing forward.

114
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Obliterate

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Destroy completely.

115
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Peruse

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Examine critically at a length.

116
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Replicate

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Copy and reproduce.

117
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Pacifist

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A person who believes that war and violence at unjustifiable.

118
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Revisionist

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An advocate of revision, especially of a political or religious doctrine.

119
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Grim

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Forbidding and uninviting.

120
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Procession

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Parade.

121
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Cornucopia

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Plenty

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Muck

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Dirt.

Rubbish.

123
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Stray

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Move away aimlessly from a group/the right place/right course.

124
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Mastodon

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Mammoth.

125
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Landlubber

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Someone unfamiliar with sea or sailing.

126
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Forage

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To search.

127
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Regal

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Royal

128
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Imperial

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Regal.

129
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Plague

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To cause continuous trouble or distress to.

130
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Levity

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Treating a important matter with humor and carelessness.

131
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Dichotomy

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Opposite.

132
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Bifurcation

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The act of dividing stuff into two branches.

133
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Filial

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Related to the duties of son and daughters.

134
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Funerary

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Relating to funerals or commemoration of the dead.

135
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Avuncular

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Of or relating to an uncle.

136
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Upheaval

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A violent or sudden change in something, probably like a disruption.

137
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Conviction

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A firmly held belief or opinion.

138
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Aspire

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To direct one’s hope or dream toward achieving something.

139
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Comely

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Pleasant to look at.

Attractive.

140
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Regressive

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Becoming less advanced.

Returning to a former less-developed state.

141
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Sneer

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Smirk.

Smile or speak in a contemptuous manner.

142
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Scoff

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Speak to someone in a scornful or derisive or mocking way.

143
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Temporize

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Procrastinate.
Avoid making a decision in order to gain time.
Temporarily adopt a situation in order to conform to the circumstances.

144
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Dispense

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To distribute.

145
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Deflect

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Cause something to change direction.

146
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Treacly

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Sentimental.

147
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Cursory

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Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed.

Perfunctory.

148
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Lackluster

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Lacking in vitality, force or conviction.
Uninspired.
Uninspiring.

149
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Stricture

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Social constraint.

150
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Fetter

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To chain.

151
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Emancipation

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The process of being set free from legal, social or political confinement.

152
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Remiss

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Lacking care or ambition.

153
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Rivet

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Completely engrossing or compelling.

154
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Engross

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Absorb all attention or interest of.

155
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Fortify

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Strengthen or invigorate mentally or physically.

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