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Day 5 Flashcards

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Debilitate

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Make someone very weak

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Enhance

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To improve; to instensify

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Suppress

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Forcibly put an end to; prevent the development of an action or expression

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Eliminate

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Completely remove or get rid of something

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Disregard

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Pay no attention to; ignore

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Diminish

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Make or become less

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Comprehensive

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Covering or involving much; inclusive

Understanding with ones mind

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Predictable

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Able to be foretold or declared in advance

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Disparage

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To speak of or to treat slightingly; disparaged; disappearing

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Reinforce

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To strengthen with some added support or material

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Convolute

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To coil up; form into a twisted shape

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Partisan

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An adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or a cause

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Advantageous

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Providing an advantage; profitable; useful; beneficial

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Anticipate

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To expect; look forward to

To realize beforehand

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Exacerbate

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To make worse

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Endorse

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sign (a cheque or bill of exchange) on the back to make it payable to someone other than the stated payee or to accept responsibility for paying it.

To declare ones approval or support of

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Prosperity

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A successful, flourishing, or thriving condition especially in financial respects; good forturne

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Mundane

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Common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative

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Dubious

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Doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt

Of uncertain outcome

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Astute

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Clever, cunning; having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to ones advantage.

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Intricate

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Complex; highly detailed; complicated; hard to understand, work, or make

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Reticent

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Not revealing ones thoughts or feelings readily

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Capricious

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Fickle; unstable; sudden changes of mood or behaviour

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Conciliatory

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Intended or likely to placate ( make someone les angry or hostile); to make compatible

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Supplant

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To replace one thing by something else through force, scheming, strategy

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Distort

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Pull or twist out of shape; give a misleading or false account or impression of

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Condone

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To disregard or overlook (something illegal, objectionable, or the like)

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Deride

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To put down with contemptuous jeering

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Augment

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To make larger; engage in size, number, strength, or extent; increase.

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Censure

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Strong expression of disapproval

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Embellish

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To beautify by ornamentation

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Rouse

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To bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression

To stir or incite (urge/encourage) to strong indignation or anger

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Encompass

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To form a circle about; encircle; surround

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Autonomy

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Independence or freedom

A self governed community

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Dearth

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A scarcity or shortage of something

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Hostility

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A hostile state; unfriendly, cold

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Penchant

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A strong inclination, taste, or liking for something

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Articulate

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Capable of speech; using language easily and fluently

Expressed; made clear of

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Derivative

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Not original; secondary

Imitative of the work of anything writer, artist etc and usually disapproved of for that reason

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Candid

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Frank; outspoken; open and sincere

Straightforward

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Demonstrative

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Serving as conclusive evidence of something

Of a person) unrestrained in showing feelings, especially those of affection (expressive, open, forthcoming

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Prosaic

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To commonplace or dull; unimaginative

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Aesthetic

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Relating to the nature of beauty, art, and taste; having a sense of what is beautiful attractive, or pleasing

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Negligible

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So small or unimportant as to be not worth considering; insignificant

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Superficial

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Shallow; lacking in depth

Concerned with surface appearances

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Benign

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Showing or expressive of gentleness or kindness

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Scruntitize

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(Used with object) to examine in detail with careful or critical attention

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Momentous

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Filled with great importance; very significant

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Beneficial

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Resulting in good; favourable or advantageous

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Ostentatious

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Boastful; pretentious; characterised by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in attempt to impress others

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Sustain

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To support, hold, or beat up from below

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Embrace

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To take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly

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Alleviate

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To make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate

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Englighten

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Give (someone) greater knowledge and understand about a subject or situation

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Threaten

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Menacing; to be a menace or source of danger to

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Establish

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Set up on a firm or permanent basis

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Stimulate

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To rouse to action or effort as by encouragement or pressure

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Display

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To show or exhibit; make visible

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Extol

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To applaud, praise

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Belie

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To prove to be false; fail to give a true impression of something

Contradict

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Endure

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Suffer (something painful or difficult) patiently

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Extend

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To stretch out; to increase the length or duration of

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Mitigate

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To relieve; lessen in force or intensity

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Evade

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To escape from by trickery or cleverness

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Eradicate

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To remove or destroy utterly

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Impugn

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To challenge as false (another’s statements, motives. Etc) cast doubt upon

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Intuition

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The ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning

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Misconception

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An erroneous conception; a view or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding

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Paradox

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A contradicting statement that expresses a truth

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Cosmopolitan

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Worldly; sophisticated

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Deliberation

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Careful consideration before decision; slowness; leisureliness of movement or action

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Profundity

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Great depth of insight or knowledge; wisdom; intelligence

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Modicum

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A moderate or small amount

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Digression

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A temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

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Recrimination

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An accusation in response to one From someone else

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Tenacity

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Great determination

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Bolster

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To support or strengthen

Any pillow, cushion, or pad

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Debacle

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A complete failure

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Ornate

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Elaborately or highly decorated

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Conditional

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Depending on a condition or conditions; made on certain terms

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Pertinent

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Relevant or applicable to a particular matter

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Curative

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Able to cure diseases

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Callous

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Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others

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Docile

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Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive

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Adept

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Very skilled or proficient at something; accomplished

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Pervasive

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Spreading widely throughout an area or group of people ( especially of an unwelcome influence or physical effect)

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Placid

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Pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; undisturbed

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Cerebral

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Intellectual rather than emotional; appealing to or requiring the use of the intellect

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Ambivalent

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Mixed feelings

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Prohibitive

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Forbidding or restricting something ( of a law or rule)

(Of a price or charge) so high as to prevent something being done or bought

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Pragmatic

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Practical; sensible

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Eccentric

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An odd, unconventional person

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Catastrophic

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Involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand; obscure

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Obscure

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Not discovered or known about; uncertain

Not clearly expressed or easily understood

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Tranquil

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Free from disturbance; calm

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Sufficient

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Enough; adequate

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Surreptitious

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Some or acting in a secret, sly manner

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Loquacious

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Tending to talk a great deal; talkative

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Divisive

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Tending to cause a disagreement or hostility between people

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