ETS Words 2 Flashcards

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Arrogated

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Take claim without justification

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Averred

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Assert to a case

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Burnished

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Polish something by rubbing

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Cretaceous

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Era of time between Jurassic and Tertiary

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Cabal

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Secret political clique

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Cossested

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Pampered

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Conflagration

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Fire that destroys (NOT conflation)

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Contumacious

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Disobedient to authority

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Concilliatory

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Intend to please

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Despondent

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Very sad

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Dilapidation

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Destructive to building

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Daedalean

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Intricate, ingenious

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Effigy

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Model of person

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Ebbing

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Lessen, tide moving out

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Irradiation

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Edges that contrast

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Ingenuous

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Innocent

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Insoluble

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Not able to solve

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Irresolute

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Vacillate, change mind

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Insolvent

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Unable to pay debt

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Insoluble

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Unable to solve

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Imprecation

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Spoken curse

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Jaunty

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Lively, cheerful, self-confident

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Gordian

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Extremely difficult

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Obloquy

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Public criticism

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Plucky

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Showing determined courage

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Picayune

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Petty

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Paltry

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Meager

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Pithy

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Concise language, style

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Proscribe

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Condemn, forbid

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Quintessential

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Exemplar

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Quaint

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Picturesque

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Sequestration

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To take by force, isolate

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Surmount

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Overcome

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Seditious

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Inciting people to rebel

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Squall

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Gust of wind

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Recompense

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Compensation

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Ribald

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Referring to sexual matters in a rude way

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Voluble

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Speaking forever

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Actuate

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Put into action

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Amoritizing

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Reduce debt

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Allay

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To fill a need

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Camarderie

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Fellowship

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Complacency

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Self-restraint (NOT to be confused with compliant)

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Desultory

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Without a purpose

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Descry

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Catch sight of

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Effluvium

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Bad odor

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Extemporaneous

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Acting without thinking

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Frangible

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Easy to break (fragile)

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Gratuitious

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Unjustifiable, lacking good reason

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Inculcate

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Instill (establish)

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Levied

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Seized property, taxed

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Hapless

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Unlucky (mishap)

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Inveighed

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Protest strongly

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Malignant

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Very infectious disease

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Macerating

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Soften by soaking (like masicating juicer)

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Philistine

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Lowbrow (not intelligent)

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Peripatetic

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Wander from place to place

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Refractory

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Rebellious

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Recant

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Retract a statement or opinion

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Redress

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Panacea

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Slake

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Quench thirst

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Tensile

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Tension (tensile strength)

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Toadies

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Sycophant

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Vagaries

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Whim

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Wayward

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Capricious, disobedient

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Quintessence

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Perfect embodiment of

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Amend

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To alter

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Antediluvian

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Antiquated, outdated

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Annexed to

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Added to

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Artifice

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Clever trick

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Billowed

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Bulged

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Bravado

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Fake courage

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Bravura

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Performance piece of exceptional talent

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Commodious

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Expansive (like accommodate)

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Curio

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Unusual object

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Compendious

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Laconic

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Compuction

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Guilt

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Carnal

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Sexual Nature

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Despondency

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Despair

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Deprecating

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Disapproval

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Garish

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Tasteless

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Fetid

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Bad odor

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Fitfully

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Intermittent

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Fawn

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Yellowish color OR to display flattery (to gain advantage)

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Fugacious

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Fleeting

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Homeliness

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Common, rustic

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Inculcated

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Indoctrinate

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Incumbent

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Necessary of people

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Insolence

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Rude

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Jounced

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Bounced up and down

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Monolith

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Uniform structure

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Occult

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Hidden

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Platatonic

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Without sexual desire

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Protean

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Changing (mercurial)

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Procured

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Obtained for

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Pulchritude

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Beautiful (comeliness)

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Rubicund

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Ruby, flushed, healthy manner

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Ratification

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Approval

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Pathos

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Feeling of guilt

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Recalcitrant

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Disobedient

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Regnant

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Ubiquitous, dominant

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Sallow

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Yellow, sickly manner

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Jaundiced

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Yellow, sickly manner

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Sedulity

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Dilligence

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Tetchy

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Touchy (petulant)

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Regale

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Delight

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Sententious

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Concise, terse

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Sacrosanct

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Inviolable

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Spate

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Array

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Sagacity

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Wisdom

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Suffuse

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Spread throughout

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Uncanny

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Eerie, unnatural

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Canny

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Shrewd

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Untoward

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Improper

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Ululate

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Howl

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Unheralded

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Not widely known (obscure)

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Verdigris

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Bluish-green (vert)

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Sagacity

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Wisdom

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Circumspection

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Wisdom

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Judiciousness

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Wisdom