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Loquacious

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Tending to talk a great deal or talkative

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Clandestine

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Secret

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Ocular

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Vision related

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Incorrigible

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Not able to be changed or reformed (liar)

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Retrospect

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Review of past course of events

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Demagogue

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Politicians who appeal to popular prejudice and makes false claims to gain power

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Placate

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To make someone less angry or hostile

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Glib

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Smooth slick fluent but insincere and shallow words/talker

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Vacillate

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Waver between different opinions or indecisive

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Antipathy

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A deeep seated feeling of aversion or hostility

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Intrepid

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Fearless

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Diaphonus

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Light or delicate or sheer

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Tactiturn

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Reserved person or uncommunicative

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Congenital

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Abnormality or disease from birth

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Unequivocal

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Leaving no doubt or unambiguous or straightforward

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Vicarious

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Experienced in the imagination through actions or feelings of another person

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Anachronus

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Chronologically misplaced not in perfect order of time

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Iconoclastic

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Attacking or criticising traditional beliefs

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Tyro

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Beginner novice

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Semantic

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Relating to meaning in language or logic

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Cavalier

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Haughty high headed

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Posthumous

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Appearing after death of originator

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Enervated

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Feel drained of energy

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Perspicacity

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Shrewdness or quality of having ready insight into things

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Gregarious

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Fond of company or sociable

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Phlegmatic

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Unemotional

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Inveterate

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A habit that is long established and hard to change (alcoholic)

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Egregious

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Shockingly or outstandingly bad

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Prurient

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Having excessive interest in sexual matters

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Uxorious

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Showing excessive fondness for one’s wife