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Admonish

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to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty

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Brigand

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Robber, Criminal

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Predispose

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Make someone liable or inclined to a specified attitude, action, or condition; influence.

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Opinionated

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Stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one’s own ideas, having a closed mind.

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Comandeer

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to seize for military or official use

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Relinquish

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To let go, give up

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Perennial

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Lasting for a long time

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Circumspect

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Careful, cautious

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Breach

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an act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

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Dilema

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a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more choices

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Unbridled

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uncontrolled; unconstrained

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Spasmodic

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Sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent

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Debris

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scattered pieces of waste or remains

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Deadlock

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A situation, usually one involving opposing parties, in which no progress can be made.

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Cumbersome

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clumsy, hard to handle ; slow- moving

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Spurious

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Not what it seems to be; false

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Salvage

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To save or rescue objects from a disaster (fire, shipwreck), property that is saved

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Diffuse

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Spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people

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Efface

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to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed

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Muddle

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bring into a disordered or confusing state, mess up.

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Comely

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having a pleasure appearance

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Alien

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a citizen of another country; foreign, strange

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Erratic

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not regular or consistent different from what is ordinarily expected, undependable

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Fodder

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food for horses or cattle raw material for a designated purpose

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Fortify
to strengthen to build up
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Jeer
to make fun of rudely or unkindly a rude remark or derision
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Mediocre
average, ordinary, undistinguished
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Subjugate
to conquer by force, bring under complete control
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Tantalize
to tease, torment by teasing
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Terse
brief and to the point
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Adjourn
to stop proceedings temporarily, to move to another place
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Compensate
to make up for, to repay for services
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Dissolute
loose in one's morals or behavior
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Expulsion
the process of driving or forcing out
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Feint
a deliberately deceptive movement, a pretense
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Illegible
difficult or impossible to read
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Lucrative
bringing in money, profitable
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Proliferate
to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly
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Solely
to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch
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Unflinching
firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back
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Adherent
a follower, supporter
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Abridge
to make shorter
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Altercation
an angry argument
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Chuberic
resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent
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Condone
to pardon or overlook
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Emiment
famous, outstanding, distinguished
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Exorcise
to drive out by magic, to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive
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Dissent
to disagree
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Fabricate
to make, manufacture, invent
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Gluttony
engaging in extreme eating or drinking, greedy overindulgence
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Irate
angry
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Marauder
a raider, pirate
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Pauper
an extremely poor person
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Pilfer
To steal in small quantities
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Rift
a split, break, breach
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Semblance
air, and outward appearance, aura
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Terminate
to bring to an end
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Surmount
to overcome, rise above
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Trite
commonplace, overused, stale
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Usurp
to seize and hold a position by force or without right
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Anarchy
a lack of government and law, confusion
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Auspicious
favorable, fortunate
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Daunt
to overcome with fear, intimidate, to dishearten or discourage
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Hoodwink
to mislead by A trick, swindle
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Inanimate
not having life, without energy or spirit
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Incinerate
to burn to ashes
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Larceny
theft
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Pliant
bending readily, easily influenced
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Prototype
an original model on which later versions are patterned
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Rectify
to make right, correct
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Abscond
to run off and hide
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Access
approach her admittance to places, persons, things
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Arduous
hard to do, requiring much effort
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Disentangle
to free from tangles or complications
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Faded
determined in advance by destiny or fortune
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Intrepid
very brave, fearless, unshakable
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Precipise
a very steep cliff, the brink or edge of disaster
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Pompous
overly self-important in speech and manner, excessively stately or ceremonious
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Reprieve
a temporary relief or delay, postponement
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Revile
to attack with words, call bad names
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Arbitrary
unreasonable, based on one's wishes or wins without regard for reasons or fairness
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Catalyst
a substance that causes or Hastings a chemical reaction any agent that causes change
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Facilitate
to make easier, to assist
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Incorrigible
not able to be corrected, beyond control
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Paramount
chief and importance, above others
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Militant
give in to fighting, active and aggressive in support of cause; an activist
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Rebute
to offer arguments or evidence that contradict and assertion, to refute
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Reprimand
to scold, find fault
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Servitude
slavery, forced labor
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Slapdash
careless and hasty
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Accomplice
a person who takes part in a crime
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Annihilates
to destroy completely
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Brazen
shameless, impudent; made of brass
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Exodus
the large scale departure or flight
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Latent
hidden, present but not realized
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Morose
have a gloomy or sullen manner, not friendly or sociable
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Opaque
not letting light through, clear or lucid; dense, stupid
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Prattle
to talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple way; babble or baby talk
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Stagnant
not running or flowing, foul from standing still; inactive
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Succumb
to give way to superior force, yield
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Credible
believable
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Atone
to make up for
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Doleful
sad, dreary
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Hamper
to hold back
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Impoverished
poor, in a state of poverty, depleted
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Posthumous
occurring or published after death
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Lucid
easy to understand, clear; rational, sane
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Sardonic
grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic
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Supplant
to take the place of, supersede
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Tenacious
holding fast; holding together firmly; persistent
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Bondage
slavery; any state of being bound or held down
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Defray
to pay for
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Diligent
hard-working, industrious, not lazy
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Ghastly
frightful, horrible; deathly pale
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Hew
to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to
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Incessant
never stopping, going on all the time
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Intricate
complicated, difficult to understand
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Superfluous
exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess
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Prim
overly needs, proper, or formal; prudish
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Taunt
to jeer at, mock

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