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Diminutive

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Very small

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Minutiae

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Trifling; unimportant; insignificant/minor everyday details

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Exhort

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To encourage, to urge, to give a pep talk, to implore

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Antipathy

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Strong dislike, ill will, the state of DETESTING someone, ENMITY, RANCOR

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Digress

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To depart from a subject, to wander, to ramble

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ROOT: Gress
WORDS: Regress, transgress, egress

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To step/
Regress: to step back
Transgress: to step across the line that divides right from wrong
Egress: to step out, to exit

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Tenacious, ten, tenet, tenable

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Characterized by holding fast to something valued, showing great determination/to hold/tenet: an idea held true by someone/tenable: capable of being held or supported

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Indulgent

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Characterized by excessive generosity; overly tolerant

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Polarize

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To be divisive, to crest disunity or dissension

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Nebulous

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Vague, cloudy, misty, lacking a fully developed form

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Ephemeral, evanescent/

Perennial

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Very brief, lasting for a short time, transient/

Returning year after year, enduring

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Penchant, propensity

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A liking or preference for something; a BENT, an INCLINATION, PREDILECTION

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Capricious, mercurial,

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Very changeable; characterized by constantly-shifting moods

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Medieval humours

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Sanguine - cheerful, hopeful, optimistic
Melancholy - gloomy, depressed, DESPONDENT, PENSIVE
Choleric- angry, irritable, IRASCIBLE
Phlegmatic- self-possessed, impertubable, apathetic
Mercurial - volatile, changeable, FICKLE

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Boorish, uncouth

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Vulgar, characterized by crude behavior and deplorable manners; refined

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Indignant

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Characterized by outrage at something that is perceived as unjust

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Innuendo

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A veiled reference, an insinuation

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stymie

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To stop, to frustrate, to prevent; to THWART

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Adroit

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Having or showing great skill; DEXTEROUS, nimble/ MALADROIT - not skillful; DEFT

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Admonish

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To earnestly caution, to warn another to avoid a course of action

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ROOT: Mon

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to warn, remind

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Incontrovertible

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Impossible to deny or disprove, demonstrably true

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Voracious, rapacious

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Ravenous, having a huge appetite that can’t be satisfied; INSATIABLE

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Callous

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Emotionally hardened, insensitive, unfeeling

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Intrepid

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Courageous; RESOLUTE, fearless, UNDAUNTED

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Nonchalant

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Having an air of casual indifference; cooly unconcerned, UNFLAPPABLE

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Convoluted

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Winding, twisting, and therefore difficult to understand; intricate

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Itinerant

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Migrating from place to place; NOT SEDENTARY

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Poignant

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Moving; touching, heartrending

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Impetus

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A stimulus or encouragement that results in an increased activity

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Bucolic

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Rustic, pastoral;

Characteristic of charming, unspoiled countryside and the simple, rural life

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Equanimity

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Calmness, composure, even-temperedness, polite

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Panache, verve, élan,

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Great vigor and energy; dash, esp in artistic performance and composition; flamboyance

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Provocative

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Provoking discussion, stimulating controversy, arousing a reaction

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Placid, serene

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Calm or quiet; undisturbed by tumult or disorder

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Fortuitous

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Of accidental but fortunate occurrence, having unexpected good fortune

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Dispel

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To drive away; scatter, as to DISPEL a misconception

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Amalgram

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A mixture, a blend, a combination of different elements

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Viable, feasible

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Capable of being accomplished; possible

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Anguish

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Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment

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Intemperate/temperate

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Lacking restraint, excessive/exercising moderation and restraint

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Superficial

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Shallow, lacking in depth

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Laud, extol, tout

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Acclaim, to praise, to applaud

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Dismissive

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Showing overt intentional indifference or disregard; rejecting

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Mitt/miss

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To send

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Remit

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To send back

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Omit

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To send by, pass by, neglect, leave out

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Remiss

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Negligent, lax, careless

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Remittance

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A payment sent to pay a bill

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Disparage

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To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; to belittle

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Pompous

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Filled with excessive self-importance; pretentious; ostentatious

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Cryptic

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Having a hidden or ambiguous meaning; mysterious

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Subtle

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Difficult to detect; faint, mysterious, likely to elude perception

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Disparity

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An inequality, a gap, an imbalance

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Curtail

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To cut short or reduce

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Innocuous

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Harmless, unlikely to give offense or to around strong feelings or hostility, NOT INIMICAL

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Diatribe, tirade, harangue

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A bitter abusive denunciation, a thunderous verbal attack, a rant

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