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Alacrity

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cheerful readiness, eager.

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Prosaic

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having or using the style or diction of prose as opposed to poetry; lacking imaginativeness or originality

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Veracity

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truthful, precision

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Maintain

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to assert

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Paucity

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lack of something, insufficiency

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Contrite

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to feel remorse

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Laconic

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A person is described as laconic when he/she
says very few words.

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Pugnacious

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a person who is pugnacious likes to
aggressively argue about everything. ,Verbally combative

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Disparate

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If two things are fundamentally different, they are disparate.

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Egregious

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standing out in a bad way

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