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Adamant

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not yielding

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affected

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haughty (self pride and arrogance)

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allocate

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assign or portion (divide work look)

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amicable

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friendly

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apathetic/Apathy

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Lacking interest

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Apt

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appropriate or inclined (find appropriate situations that are fitting)

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aspire

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strive for

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auspicious

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favorable (outcome will come, future likeliness of success)

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autocrat or autocratic

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dictator or dictatorial

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bombastic

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pompous (irritating person)

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callous

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insensitive

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concur

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agree

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contempt(uous)

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disdainful (lack of respect)

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cosmopolitan

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sophisticated or urbane

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debacle

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failure

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debunk

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prove wrong

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degradation

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humiliation

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demonstrative

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openly emotional

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deprecate

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disapprove or belittle

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diffuse

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spread out

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dire

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urgent or dreadful

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dispassionate

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unemotional

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dormant

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inactive

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duplicitous or duplicity

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deliberately deceptive

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elude

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evade

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elusive

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difficulty to catch or define

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empathetic or empathy

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compassionate

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encompass

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include or surround

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epiphany

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sudden realization

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eulogy or eulogize

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praising speech

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evoke

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bring about or stir up

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exposé

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a report designed to reveal the truth to the public

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fallacy

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false belief

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fathom (web)

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understand

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folly

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foolishness

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futile or futility

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hopeless

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glutton(ous)

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someone who eats and drinks too much

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hardy

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robust or sturdy

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hasten

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speed up the progress of

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illicit

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ilegal

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inane

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senseless or stupid

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induce

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Cause

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indulgent

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lenient

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inert or inertia

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not moving or inactive

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invoke

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call forth or appeal to

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irony or ironic

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incongruity between what is expected and what actually results

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jovial

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cheerful

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lucid

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clear and easily understood

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lull

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short period of calm

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malleable

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capable of being shaped or pliable

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nuance

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subtle difference

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opportunist or opportunistic

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a person who takes advantage of opportunities , often unethically

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oracle

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prophet

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orthodox

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conservative or traditional

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painstaking

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careful

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parody

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intentional mockery

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placid

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calm

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precipitate

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outcome

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prolific

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fertile or fruitful or plentiful

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prospective

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likely or expected to become

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rapport

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relationship

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recessive

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tending to go backwards

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regressive

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tending to return or revert

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reproach

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scold

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sage

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wise

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scope

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opportunity or range

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scrutinize or scrutiny

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examine carefully

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self-righteous

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smug or holier-than-thou

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self-serving

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selfish

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serendipity

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luck

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simlie

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comparsion

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slight (verb)

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insult or snub

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stock (adjective)

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standard or hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal )

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succulent

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delicious

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susceptible

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easily influenced or affected

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teem or teeming

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abundant

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tout

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praise

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transient

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lasting for only a short time

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uncanny

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extraordinary or weird

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vanquish

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conquer or defeat

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viscous

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thick or sticky

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vocation

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career

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wrath

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anger

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wry

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clever or grim sense of humour

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adverse

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In an opposing direction

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advocate

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A person who pleads for a person, cause or idea

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alias

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a name that has been assumed temporarily

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antiseptic

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thoroughly clean and free of disease causing organisms

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bashful

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self-consciously timid

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cobbler

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a person who makes or repairs shoes

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abyss

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enormous chasm or vast bottomless pit any deep immeasurable space, hell

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acclaim

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applaud, announce with great approval

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altar

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modify or cause to change or make different ; convert

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affix

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fasten or append or add on secure to something

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atone

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make amends as for sin or fault

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animate(d)

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endowed with life or alive or living

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audible

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heard or perceptible by the ear

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baton

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staff or truncheon for various purposes as one of a conductor in musical performances, one transferred by runners in a relay race

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bawl

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cry out with a loud full sound

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bask

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luxuriate or take pleasure in warmth

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bestial

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beastlike or brutal

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bureaucracy

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over regulated administrative system

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prodigal

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wastefully extravagant

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ubiquitous

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ever-present or pervasive

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fervid

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enthusiastic and passionate

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laudable

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deserving praise and commendation

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vacillate

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to switch between different opinions or actions

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enervate

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to feel weak

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ingenious

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innocent

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misanthrope

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a person who dislikes humankind

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venerate

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regard with great respect

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WAVER

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to go back and forth between choices or opinions

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dissonance

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a lack of harmony or agreement

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garrulous

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excessively talkative

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ostentation

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excessive display of wealth

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prevaricate

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avoid telling the truth by not directly answering the question

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summit

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the peak or highest point or a meeting of high-level leaders

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slapdash

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carelessly and hastily put together

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zenith

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the highest point or culmination

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telltale

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revealing

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erratic

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unpredictable or strange and unconventional

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insolvent

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unable to pay ones bills

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underwrite

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to support financially

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pine

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to yearn for

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peruse

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to read very carefully

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remiss

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to be negligent in one’s duty

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incendiary

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that causes a fire

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hound

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to pursue relentlessly

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voracious

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very hungry or approaching an activity with gusto

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spendthrift

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one who spends money extravagantly

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thrifty

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spending money wisely

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bleak

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having a depressing or gloomy outlook

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unnerve

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to make nervous or upset

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acme

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the highest point of achievement

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screed

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an abusive rant

often tedious

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vindictive

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to have very strong desire for revenge

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macabre

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suggesting the horror of death and decay or gruesome

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affable

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likeable or easy to talk to

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diabolical

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to be extremely wicked like the devil

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inundate

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Overwhelm

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profuse

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given or produced in great quantity

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errant

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to be wandering and not sticking to a cirumscribed path

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imponderable

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impossible to estimate or figure out

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immaterial

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not relevant

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amok

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in a frenzied or uncontrolled state

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ferret

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to search for something persistently

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sanctimonious

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making a show of being pious (devotely religious) or holier than thou

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balicose

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warlike or inclined to quarrel

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avarice

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greed

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cardinal

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fundamental

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raft

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a large number of something

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cadaverous

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emaciated and gaunt

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contrite

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to be remorseful

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hodgepodge

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a confusing mixture or jumble

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extenuating

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making less guilty or more forgiveable

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animosity

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intense hostility

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replete

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completely stocked or furnished with somethign

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preemptive

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done before someone else can do it

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sanguine

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cheerful or optimistic

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paucity

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a lack of something

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desecrate

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to willfully violate or destroy a scared place

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melee

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a wild, confusing fight or struggle

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cogent

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clear and persusaive

164
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checkered

A

marked by disreputable or unfortunate happenings

165
Q

beatific

A

blissfully happy

166
Q

aboveboard

A

open and honest

167
Q

exhort

A

encourage

168
Q

unconscionable

A

Unreasonable

169
Q

badger

A

to pester

170
Q

disparate

A

two things are fundamentally different

171
Q

pittance

A

small amount of money

172
Q

fleece

A

To deceive

173
Q

junta

A

an aggressive takeover by a group (military), the group that executes such an takeover

174
Q

lassitude

A

extreme tiredness

175
Q

pugnacious

A

eager to fight or argue or verbally combative

176
Q

virago

A

an ill-tempered woman

177
Q

ascendancy

A

the state that exists when one person or group has power over the other

178
Q

disenfranchise

A

deprive of voting rights

179
Q

fete

A

to celebrate a person

180
Q

moot

A

open to argument or debate

181
Q

abreast

A

latest news or info

182
Q

abstain

A

restrain from doing something

183
Q

agog

A

eargerness to do something

184
Q

allure

A

quality of being powerful

185
Q

altruism

A

selfless concern for the wellbeing of others

186
Q

apathy

A

lack of enthusiasm

187
Q

arbiter

A

a person who settles a dispute

188
Q

artless

A

Without deception

189
Q

blight

A

thing that spoils something

190
Q

blowhard

A

a person who bluster

191
Q

boycott

A

rejection

192
Q

burlesque

A

a variety show

193
Q

chronic

A

long lasting

194
Q

coda

A

conclusion event

195
Q

confound

A

contradict

196
Q

deign

A

consider to be beneath one’s dignity

197
Q

docile

A

obedient

198
Q

doff

A

removing something

199
Q

dote

A

adore

200
Q

ethos

A

characteristics of a culture

201
Q

proclivity

A

inclination

202
Q

fallow

A

inactive

203
Q

falter

A

fumble

204
Q

flail

A

struggle uselessly

205
Q

fluke

A

accident

206
Q

forage

A

hunt

207
Q

fringe

A

unorthodox

208
Q

garner

A

gathering something informational

209
Q

gist

A

main idea

210
Q

gossamer

A

Somthing very light

211
Q

harangue

A

aggressive speech

212
Q

impetuous

A

impulsive

213
Q

indictment

A

citation

214
Q

ingrate

A

ungrateful person

215
Q

lax

A

severe

216
Q

listless

A

lacking energy or enthusiasm

217
Q

livid

A

furiously angry

218
Q

mince

A

polite way to indicate disapproval

219
Q

minion

A

a follower

220
Q

mirth

A

high spirits

221
Q

muse

A

inspiration

222
Q

oblique

A

indirect

223
Q

opaque

A

not transparent

224
Q

pine

A

type of tree

225
Q

platitude

A

a commonplace

226
Q

posit

A

postulate

227
Q

prophetic

A

visionary

228
Q

purist

A

perfectionist

229
Q

quack

A

fraud

230
Q

rue

A

bitterly regret

231
Q

ruminate

A

think deeply about something

232
Q

stigma

A

shame

233
Q

strut

A

parade

234
Q

taunt

A

wound

235
Q

tawdry

A

poor quality but flashy

236
Q

temperate

A

pleasant

237
Q

tome

A

scholarly one

238
Q

torrid

A

fully of diffifulty

239
Q

vestige

A

fragment

240
Q

vilify

A

speaking of writing in defame manner

241
Q

volatile

A

Strained

242
Q

waffle

A

lengthy but trivial

243
Q

wanton

A

deliberate and unprovoked

244
Q

whittle

A

wear away

245
Q

wizened

A

wrinkled with age

246
Q

zeal

A

passion

247
Q

fetid

A

stincking

248
Q

flout

A

openly disregard

249
Q

forestall

A

get in before

250
Q

frenetic

A

wild

251
Q

affiliation

A

state of being attach to something

252
Q

unanimous

A

agreed by everyone

253
Q

castastrophe/ic

A

a sudden disaster that causes great suffering or damage

254
Q

agitate

A

to incite the public against someone or something

255
Q

oblivious

A

not noticing or realizing what is happening around you

256
Q

exaggerate

A

to make something seem larger than it is

257
Q

allege

A

to say that somebody has done something wrong

258
Q

retrieve

A

to get something back from the place where it was left or lost

259
Q

ferocious

A

very aggressive and violent

260
Q

acquire

A

to obtain or buy something

261
Q

erstwhile

A

former

262
Q

detract

A

to make something seem less good or important

263
Q

implausible

A

not easy to believe

264
Q

reverberate

A

to be repeated several times as it comes off different surfaces

265
Q

obnoxious

A

extremely unpleasant

266
Q

alleviate

A

to make something less strong or bad

267
Q

effigy

A

a statue of a famous or religous person or god

268
Q

cynic

A

a person who believes that people only do things for themselves rather than to help others

269
Q

acknowledge

A

to accept or admit that something is true or exists

270
Q

antagonize

A

to make somebody angry or to annoy somebody

271
Q

attribute

A

to believe that something was causes or done by somebody or something

272
Q

bewilder

A

to confuse and surprise

273
Q

competent

A

having the ability or skill needed for something

274
Q

condemn

A

to say strongly that you think somebody or something is very bad or wrong

275
Q

largesse

A

to go somewhere very slowly money or gifts given generously

276
Q

deceitful

A

dishonest

277
Q

demeanor

A

the way a person behaves , dresses, speaks, looks etc that shows what their character is like

278
Q

devastate

A

to destroy something or damage it badly

279
Q

apprehend

A

to catch somebody and arrest him or her

280
Q

unprecedented

A

never having happened or existed before

281
Q

conudrum

A

a confusion and difficult problem or question

282
Q

audacious

A

willing to take risks or do something shocking

283
Q

bizarre

A

very strange or unusual

284
Q

conjecture

A

to guess about something without real proof or evidence

285
Q

elapse

A

to pass

286
Q

despicable

A

very unpleasant or evil

287
Q

gruesome

A

Very unpleasant or shocking

288
Q

sullen

A

showing a brooding ill humor

289
Q

commodify

A

turn into or treat as a commodity

290
Q

tentative

A

uncertain; not deifnite

291
Q

infuriate

A

to make somebody very angry

292
Q

intimidate

A

to frighten or threaten somebody often in order to make him or her do something

293
Q

naive

A

without enough experience of life and too ready to believe or trust other people

294
Q

contrition

A

the feeling of remorse or guilt that comes from doing something bad

295
Q

resilient

A

strong enough to deal with illness

296
Q

jeopardize

A

to do something that may damage something or put it at risk

297
Q

sabotage

A

damage that is done on purpose and secretly

298
Q

maladroit

A

inefficient or clumsy

299
Q

maverick

A

a person who does not behave or think like everyone else, but who has independent unusual opinions

300
Q

hopeless

A

unfortuante

301
Q

abrupt

A

sudden

302
Q

affiliation

A

association

303
Q

imbue

A

wet or stain an object

304
Q

irascible

A

easily provoked

305
Q

aberrant

A

different from the norm

306
Q

affection

A

feeling of love and care

307
Q

anomaly

A

different from the norm

308
Q

brazen

A

extremely strong

309
Q

capacity

A

ability

310
Q

cacophony

A

chaotic sound

311
Q

compelling

A

evoking strong interest

312
Q

chronological

A

in a timely order

313
Q

covet

A

yearns to possess

314
Q

craft

A

activity involving skills

315
Q

craven

A

cowardly

316
Q

demur

A

raise objections

317
Q

detactment

A

the state of being aloof

318
Q

diatribe

A

a forceful and bitter attack by someone or something

319
Q

dirge

A

a lament for the dead

320
Q

discern

A

recognize

321
Q

elegy

A

serious reflection

322
Q

elicit

A

evoke or draw out

323
Q

engender

A

cause or give rise to something

324
Q

equable

A

regular

325
Q

erroneous

A

wrong

326
Q

exposition

A

explanation

327
Q

facilitate

A

ease

328
Q

fluctuate

A

rise and fall irregularly

329
Q

pedestrian

A

commonplace trite unremarkable

330
Q

partial

A

incomplete

331
Q

prevail

A

win

332
Q

probity

A

uprightness incorruptibility principle

333
Q

propitiate

A

appease

334
Q

propriety

A

decorum

335
Q

qualification

A

knowledge

336
Q

adulterate

A

degrade

337
Q

eschew

A

deliberately avoid using

338
Q

exigent

A

pressing or demanding

339
Q

expatiate

A

speak or write in detail about

340
Q

extrapolate

A

gather

341
Q

fellocious

A

based on a mistaken belief

342
Q

gauche

A

unsophisticated and socially awkward

343
Q

exacerbate

A

make a bad situation

344
Q

imperturbable

A

calm

345
Q

instigate

A

bring about or innate

346
Q

respectively

A

in order given

347
Q

raze

A

completely destroy

348
Q

tractable

A

easy to control or influence

349
Q

trepidation

A

a feeling of fear or anxiety

350
Q

waning

A

disappear

351
Q

entitlement

A

the fact of having a right to something

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