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Loquacity

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Talkativeness

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Incorrigible

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Beyond correction or reform

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Ocular

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Visual

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Demagogue

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Rabble-rouser

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Connoisseur

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A person who knows a lot about art, good food, etc

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Gourmet

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Connoisseur of good food

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Magnanimous

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Generous

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Clandestine

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Secret and often not legal

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Placate

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To change feeling of hostility to one of friendliness

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Vacillate

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To swing back and forth in indecision

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Intrepid

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Fearless

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Diaphanous

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Sheer and gauzy/ light and thin

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Malign

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Slander/ The action or crime of false spoken statement to damage the reputation

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Unequivocal

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Leaving no doubt/ clear and forthright

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Vicarious enjoyment

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obtained by watching or reading about someone rather than oneself

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Iconoclastic

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Sneering at tradition/ criticising cherished beliefs

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Anachronous

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Something is chronologically out of place, or misplaced in time

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Laconic

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Terse and meaningful
atisankshipt

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Cavalier

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Haughty and highhanded
Disdainful
Indifferent
Considering oneself to be superior

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Semantic

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The study of meaning in language, including how words and expressions got their meanings, etc

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Enervated

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completely exhausted

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Perspicacity

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The quality of having a ready insight into things;
Shrewdness (good powers of judgement)

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Martinet

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Strict disciplinarian

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Gregarious

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Very sociable
Liking to be with other people

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Phlegmatic

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Emotionally unresponsive
Shantchit

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Inveterate

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Habitual

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Egregious

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Outstandingly bad
Shocking

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Prurient

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Showing great interest in sex
Sexually longing

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Uxorious

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Showing a great or excessive fondness of one’s wife
Foolishly Doting on his wife

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