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1
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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

A

Intricate, ingenious

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Effigy

A

Model of person

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14
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Ebbing

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Lessen, tide moving out

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15
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Irradiation

A

Edges that contrast

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Ingenuous

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Innocent

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Insoluble

A

Not able to solve

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18
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Irresolute

A

Vacillate, change mind

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19
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Insolvent

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Unable to pay debt

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20
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Insoluble

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Unable to solve

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21
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Imprecation

A

Spoken curse

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22
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Jaunty

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Lively, cheerful, self-confident

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23
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Gordian

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Extremely difficult

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24
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Obloquy

A

Public criticism

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25
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Plucky

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Showing determined courage

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26
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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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29
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Proscribe

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Condemn, forbid

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30
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Quintessential

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Exemplar

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31
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Quaint

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Picturesque

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32
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Sequestration

A

To take by force, isolate

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33
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Surmount

A

Overcome

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34
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Seditious

A

Inciting people to rebel

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35
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Squall

A

Gust of wind

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36
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Recompense

A

Compensation

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37
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Ribald

A

Referring to sexual matters in a rude way

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38
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Voluble

A

Speaking forever

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39
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Actuate

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Put into action

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40
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Amoritizing

A

Reduce debt

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41
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Allay

A

To fill a need

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42
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Camarderie

A

Fellowship

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43
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Complacency

A

Self-restraint (NOT to be confused with compliant)

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44
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Desultory

A

Without a purpose

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45
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Descry

A

Catch sight of

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46
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Effluvium

A

Bad odor

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47
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Extemporaneous

A

Acting without thinking

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48
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Frangible

A

Easy to break (fragile)

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49
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Gratuitious

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Unjustifiable, lacking good reason

50
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Inculcate

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Instill (establish)

51
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Levied

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Seized property, taxed

52
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Hapless

A

Unlucky (mishap)

53
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Inveighed

A

Protest strongly

54
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Malignant

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Very infectious disease

55
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Macerating

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Soften by soaking (like masicating juicer)

56
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Philistine

A

Lowbrow (not intelligent)

57
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Peripatetic

A

Wander from place to place

58
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Refractory

A

Rebellious

59
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Recant

A

Retract a statement or opinion

60
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Redress

61
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Slake

A

Quench thirst

62
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Tensile

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Tension (tensile strength)

63
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Toadies

64
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Vagaries

65
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Wayward

A

Capricious, disobedient

66
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Quintessence

A

Perfect embodiment of

67
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Amend

68
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Antediluvian

A

Antiquated, outdated

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Annexed to

70
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Artifice

A

Clever trick

71
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Billowed

72
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Bravado

A

Fake courage

73
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Bravura

A

Performance piece of exceptional talent

74
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Commodious

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Expansive (like accommodate)

75
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Curio

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Unusual object

76
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Compendious

77
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Compuction

78
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Carnal

A

Sexual Nature

79
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Despondency

80
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Deprecating

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Disapproval

81
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Garish

82
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Fetid

83
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Fitfully

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Intermittent

84
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Fawn

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Yellowish color OR to display flattery (to gain advantage)

85
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Fugacious

86
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Homeliness

A

Common, rustic

87
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Inculcated

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Indoctrinate

88
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Incumbent

A

Necessary of people

89
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Insolence

90
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Jounced

A

Bounced up and down

91
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Monolith

A

Uniform structure

92
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Occult

93
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Platatonic

A

Without sexual desire

94
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Protean

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Changing (mercurial)

95
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Procured

A

Obtained for

96
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Pulchritude

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Beautiful (comeliness)

97
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Rubicund

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Ruby, flushed, healthy manner

98
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Ratification

99
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Pathos

A

Feeling of guilt

100
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Recalcitrant

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Disobedient

101
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Regnant

A

Ubiquitous, dominant

102
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Sallow

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Yellow, sickly manner

103
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Jaundiced

A

Yellow, sickly manner

104
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Sedulity

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Dilligence

105
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Tetchy

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Touchy (petulant)

106
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Regale

107
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Sententious

A

Concise, terse

108
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Sacrosanct

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Inviolable

109
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Spate

110
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Sagacity

111
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Suffuse

A

Spread throughout

112
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Uncanny

A

Eerie, unnatural

113
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Canny

114
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Untoward

115
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Ululate

116
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Unheralded

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Not widely known (obscure)

117
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Verdigris

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Bluish-green (vert)

118
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Sagacity

119
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Circumspection

120
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Judiciousness

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