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Antediluvian

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Ancient or extremely old-fashioned

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Dissemble

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Conceal true motives, feelings, or beliefs

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Puckish

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playful, especially in a mischievous way

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Triage

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Assign degrees of urgency to

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Chary

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Cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something

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Metastasize

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Spread

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Sangfroid

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Composure or coolness

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Vainglorious

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Excessively proud, overly vain

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Expatiate

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Explain or speak about at length or in detail

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Martial

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Warlike

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arcadian

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Rustic, peaceful, and simple, pastoral

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Hinterland

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Backwater or rural place

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Tony

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Fashionable among the wealthy or stylish

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Spartan

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Indifferent to comfort or luxury

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Licentious

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Sexually Unrestrained

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Effete

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No longer fertile, lacking in vitality or strength, effeminate, marked by weakness

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Immigrate

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Emphasize someone going to a new country

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Emigrate

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Emphasize someone leaving a country

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Decamp

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Leave hurriedly

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Sartorial

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Related to clothes

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Plum

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Good

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Theatrical

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Overly dramatic, or relating to theater

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Pique

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Resentment due to an insult

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Equity

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The quality of Being fair and impartial

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Tortuous

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Full of twists and turns

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Blandish

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To flatter someone into doing something; cajole

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Tarry

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Loiter, delay leaving a place

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Sobriquet

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Nickname

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Appellation

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Name or title

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Subsidy

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Money from the government

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Depose

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1) Remove from office suddenly or forcefully

2) Testify

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Fulminate

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Express vehement protest

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Manumission, v. Manumit

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Release from slavery

V. To release from slavery; set free

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Inter

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Place in a grave Or tomb

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Demagoguery

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political activity or practices that seek support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument, intended to rouse strong negative emotion.

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Anemic

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Lacking in vitality

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Hirsute

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Hairy

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Belletristic

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Beautiful or fine writing

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Pith

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The essence of something

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Lissome

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Thin, supple, or graceful (of body)

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Melange

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Medley

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Priggish

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Self Righteously moralistic and superior

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Philanderer

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Womanizer

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Putative

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Generally considered or reputed to be

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Coda

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Ending, summary

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Akimbo

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Hands on hips

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Hector

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Bully, torment

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Inveigle

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Persuade by means of flattery

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Presage

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Be a sign or warning that something bad will happen

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters

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Artifice

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Trickery or deception

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Pulchritude

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Beauty

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Parsimony

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Miserliness

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For all

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Despite

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Semiotic

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Relating to symbols and signs

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Parlous

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Full of danger, precarious

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Bucolic

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Relating to the Pleasant aspects of rural life

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Cosmopolitan

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free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.

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Wag

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A person who makes jokes, a joker

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Bombastic

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Pompous and Pretentious of writing or speaking

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Jettison

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To throw off or discard

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Modish

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In the current fashion, stylish

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Littoral

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Relating to or situated on the shore of a sea or lake

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Senescence

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Deterioration with age

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Crepuscular

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Of, resembling, or relating to twilight

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Nettle

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Irritate or annoy

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Apposite

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Appropriate

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Au courant

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Up to date

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Stultification

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To cause to become stupid

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Terminus

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Final point in space or time, station, terminal

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Recondite

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Little known, abstruse

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Munificent

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Giving or generous

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Ponderous

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Slow and weighty

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Largess

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Generosity or giving

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Obviate

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Make unnecessary or unimportant

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Efface

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Erase from a service

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Beguiled

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Charmed, lured

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Obeisance

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Deferential respect

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Peregrination

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Journey or pilgrimage

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Beatitude

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Supreme blessedness

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Officious

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assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters.

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Defoliate

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Remove leaves from

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Puissant

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Powerful or very influential

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Appraise

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Assess the value or quality of

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Byline

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The line indicating the author of the article

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Liniment

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Soothing lotion or cream

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Exceptionable

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Offensive or objectionable

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Celerity

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Swiftness of movement

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Exegesis

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Lengthy explanation or interpretation

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Whet

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Thing that stimulates appetite or desire

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Superlative

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Of the highest quality or degree

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Cachet

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The state of being respected or admired; prestige

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Realpolitik

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politics or diplomacy based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than explicit ideological notions or moral and ethical premises.

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Raillery

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Good-humored teasing

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Wily

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Skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully

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Upshot

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the final or eventual outcome or conclusion of a discussion, action, or series of events.

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Potable

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Safe to drink

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Mercenary

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(of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.

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Rococo

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(of furniture or architecture) of or characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century Continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork.

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Baroque

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relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail.

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Blithe

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showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper.

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Picayune

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Petty, worthless

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Noisome

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Having an extremely offensive smell

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Meretricious

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apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity

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Entropy

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lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.
“a marketplace where entropy reigns supreme”

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Attenuate

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Reduce the force, value or effect of

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Nugatory

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Of no value or importance

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Niggle

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cause slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety

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Engender

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To cause or bring into being

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Glib

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(of words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow.

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Sidereal

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Relating to distant stars

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Spendthrift

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Someone who spends a lot

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Fell

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Able to inflict pain or suffering

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Meretricious

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apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity.

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Extant

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Still around, surviving

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Sedulous

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Showing dedication and diligence

118
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Prosody

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The study of poetry

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Absquatulate

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To run off with something

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