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Notoriety

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Being known for something bad quality

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Tumultuous

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Loud noise, tempestuous

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Providential

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Occurring at a good time

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Dispassionate

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Emotionless

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Relentlessly

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Unending constant goes on forever or hard hearted cruel harsh

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Formidable

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Causing fear to something because of huge power or being big

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Repudiate

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Refuse or reject

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Recapitulate

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Summarize and state again the main points of

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Improbable

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Not likely to be true

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Pervasive

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Prevalent ubiquitous spreading widely throuout to the ppl

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Facetious

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Treating serious issues in a playful manner

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Construe

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Interpret in a particular way

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Painstaking

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Careful and attentive

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Craft

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Skill

Used to deceive someone

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Solicitous

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Concerned / eager to do something

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Munificent

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Generous

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Multifaceted

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Many facts

Having many phases

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Extraneous

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Unrelated and irrelevant

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Paucity

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Poverty or lacking something

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Fastidious

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Very attentive to details

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Makeshift

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Temporary substitute

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Impediment

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Hinderence or obstruction

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Proxy

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Substitute

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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand or interpret

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Unpropitious

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Unfavorable

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Mendacity

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Untruthfullness

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Patent

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Obvious

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Arcane

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Secret

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Erstwhile

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Former

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Ballooned

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Swell out

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Collude

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Come to a secret understanding for a harmful purpose

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Exigency

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Pressing or demanding

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Outstrip

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Move faster or exceed

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Affectation

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Behavior to impress

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Relinquish

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Voluntarily give up

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Prudent

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Acting or showing care about the future or well advised

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Contend

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Cope with

Argue or claim

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Pivotal

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Crucial or fixed

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Recondite

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Little known

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Precocious

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Mature

An early development

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Extant

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Surviving, still in existence

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Fleet

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Move quickly

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Coalesce

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Come together

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Prolix

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Verbose or lengthy

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Omnipresence

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Ubiquitous

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Erratic

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Unpredictable

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Diffident

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Shy because of lack of self confidence

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Spurious

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Fake

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Boon

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Aid, of assist

Favor

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Revered

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Deep respect

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Devolve

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Tanager or work or degenerate or split

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Predicament

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Difficult and an embrasaing situation

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Trifling

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Unimportant, trivial, of little value

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Recondite

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Abstruse or little known, complex

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Prescient

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Having knowledge about something before they take place

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Lucrative

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Producing a lot of profit

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Obsolete

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No longer being used

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Panacea

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Solution got remedy for all difficulties

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Futile

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Worthless

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Sycophant

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Someone who will kiss ass to gain an advantage

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Blithe

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Untroubled or uncaring

Happy or joyful

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Empathy

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Ability to understand and share feelings

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Intrigued

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Arouse the curiosity or interest of

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Hedonism

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Pleasure seeking

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Prudent

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Showing care

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Hortatory

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Encouraging behavior

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Malign

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Speak bad about someone or evil

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Scanty

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Small or insufficient

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Canonize

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Declare to be a saint

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Conspire

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Make secret plans and commit to an unlawful act

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Tepid

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Lukewarm

Little enthusiasm

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Juxtaposition

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Act of keeping things together side by side

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Mortified

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Cause someone to feel embarrassed or humiliated

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Iconoclast

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A critic

Someone who attacks beliefs or religious institutions

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Imperative

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Command

Of vital importance

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Meager

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Lacking quality

Thin

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Outmoded

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Out of fashion

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Quotidian

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Occurring everyday

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Harbinger

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A person or a thing that announces of something approaching

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Shrewd

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Having or showing sharp judgements

Cold

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Sanguine

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Positive in a bad situation

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Eclectic

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Deriving ideas from a broad range

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Irresolute

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Showing hesitancy or uncertainty

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Foresight

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Ability to predict what will happen in the future

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Fortuitous

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Happening by accident or chanc

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Scintillating

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Emitting light or sparkle

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Clangorous

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Noise

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Veracious

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Speaking the truth

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Provocative

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Stimulating or provoking

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Insipid

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Lacking flavor or interest

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Marginalized

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Treat and insignificant or peripheral

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Relish

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Enjoyment

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Murky

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Dark and gloomy

Not fully understood

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Scornful

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Haughty, arrogant not respectful

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Scuffle

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Short confused fight

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Sullen

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Bad tempered

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Sinister

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Giving the impression that something harmful of evil will happen

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Acerbic

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Sharp and cruel commenting style

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Fickleness

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Changability or instability

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Debacle

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Sudden fiasco

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Cow

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Frighten someone with threats

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Temperate

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Moderation

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Noxious

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Harmful and poisonous

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Prescience

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Fact of knowing something before it takes place

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Cursory

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Hasty(done in hurt) so not thorough or detailed

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Clearheaded

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Awareness

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Braggart

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A person who boasts about achievements

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Aghast

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Filled with horror or shock

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Bemused

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Confused or puzzled

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Archaic

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Belonging to An early period

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Somber

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Sober

Dull and gloomy

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Adulatory

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Show excessive admiration to

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Feebleness

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Lacking energy, sick

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Adroit

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Ingenious smart

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Penchant

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Strong liking for something

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Surly

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Churlish

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Long winded

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Talking or writing At tedious length

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Provincial

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Having manners

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Exuberance

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Abundance

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Indolence

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Laziness, avoidance of activities

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Imperious

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Arrogant and domineering because of power

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Brawl

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Noisy fight

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