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Melancholy

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  • sad and sorrowful.
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Insufferable

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  • too extreme to bear; intolerable.
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Dissolution

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  • the closing down o dismissal of an assembly or partnership.
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Trifling

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-unimportant or trivial.

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Deficiency

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  • a lack or shortage.

- a failing or shortcoming.

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Collateral

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-something pledged as security for repayment.

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Fissure

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  • split or crack (something) to form a long, marrow, opening.
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Dilapidation

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  • the state or process of falling into decay or being in disrepair.
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Pallor

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  • an unhealthy pale appearance.
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Rend

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  • to tearing something into two or more pieces.
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Uncouth

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  • lacking good manners, refinement, or grace.
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Guttural

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  • ( of a speech of sound) produced in the throat, harsh - sounding.
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Solace

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  • comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness.
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Malady

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  • a disease or ailment.
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Insipid

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  • lacking flavor.

- lacking vigor of interest.

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Tumultuous

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  • excited, confused, or disorderly.
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Abhorrence

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  • a feeling of repulsion; disgusted loathing.
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Stupor

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  • a state of near-unconsciousness of insensibility.
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Antiquity

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  • great age.

- old.

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Annihilate

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  • to completely destroy.