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ETS Words 3 Flashcards

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Antonym

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Opposite Word

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Arresting

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Attracting Attention

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Analeptic

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Drug that increases energy

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Acris

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Acerbic

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Bastion

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Place of protection

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Blandishing

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Cajoling: Persuade someone to do something

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Bellicose

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Truculent

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Cloying

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Sickly sweet

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Collusion

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Conspiracy

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Cant

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Insincere

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Codign

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Fitting (meet)

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Churl

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Clod, boor, impolite person

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Cicatrix

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Type of scar

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Doughty

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Courageous

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Emendation

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Improvement

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Engrossing

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Absorbing one’s attention

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Fitting

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Meet

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Homonym

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Word that sounds the same as another

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Homage

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Reverence

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Husbanded

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Conserved, tended to

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In lieu of

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Instead of

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Indefatigable

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Tireless

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Jocund

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Jolly

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Luxuriant

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Abundant

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Laceration

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Slash, tear

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Moot

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No longer relevant

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Metonym

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Word used as another term

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Meek

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Gentle, submissive

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Opprobrious

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Offensive

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Pugnacious

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Easily provoked

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Plaintive

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Sad

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Ploddingly

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Moving slowly

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Quiescent

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Inactive

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Stalwart

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Courageous (doughty)

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Syllogism

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Logic

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36
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Sanctioned

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Approved

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Somniferous

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Soporific

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Schism

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Rift, split

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Snippet

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Tidbit

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Staid

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Primly composed

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Strident

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Shirll

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Temperate

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MIld

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43
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Tumid

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Bloated

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Wastrel

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Profligate

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Wanton

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Sexually unrestrained

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Vapid

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Bland or dull

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Appellation

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Name

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Abrogated

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Appeal a claim (reject)

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Arrogate

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Take a claim

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50
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Augur

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Predict

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Avowal

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Confirmation

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Consort

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To associate with

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Covalescence

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Recover from illness

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Conversant

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Familiar with something

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Defile

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Encomium

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Fatuous

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Silly, poitnless

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Gesticulation

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Sudden movement

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Garish

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Excessive ornamentation (tasteless)

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Mutiny

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Open rebellion

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Nefarious

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Pejorative

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Belittling term

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Perpicacity

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Astuteness, clever

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Pastiche

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Art borrowed from others

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Panegryic

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Public speech of prise

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Robustious

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Boisterous

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Resplendent

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Respite

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Risible

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Recitude

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Righteousness

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Sojourn

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Relief (respite)

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Zephyrs

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Wind,breeze

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Aficionados

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Discerning enthusiast

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Aegis

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Guidance and protection (of Zeus)

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Aggrieved

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Assiduous

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Diligent, hardworking

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Adage

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Anathematizing

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Denoucning

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Axiom

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Self-evident truth

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Accusatory

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Alacrity

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Speediness

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Aggregates

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Compile together

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Allegorical

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Literary language

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Byzantine

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Complicated

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Bourgeois

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Commonplace

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Chary

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Coruscate

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Catechize

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Teach by questioning

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Congenially

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Depose

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Remove from office

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Droll

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Gourment

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Connoissuers

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Enjoin

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Direct, order

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Elegiac

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Extricating

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Pulling out

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Elocutions

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Art of public speaking

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Explicates

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Expenditures

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Flouted

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Fastidious

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Meticulous

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Inclement

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Stormy weather

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Insuperable

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Impossible

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Inveterate

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Establish by habit

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Inimical

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Lecherous

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Lassitude

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Sleepiness

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Minatory

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Nebulous/nondescript

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Pasties

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Victim of scame

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Perilous

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Palliative

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Plebian

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Working class

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Palliation

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Quixotyic

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Impractically idealistically

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Redaction

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Revisions, edits

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Ruddy

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Red complexion

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Resolute

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Determined

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Sully

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Sollipsistic

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Self-invovled

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Sleuthing

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Secular

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Temporal, materialistic

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Superlative

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Highest quality

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Supplications

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Humble request

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Salacious

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Somnolence

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Sleepiness

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Surmises

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Speculations

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Subservient

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Sententious

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Turmultuous

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Disorderly

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Tenuous

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Vague, flimsy

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Tact

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Good manners

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Vassal

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Vacuous

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Inane, empty

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Victuals

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Food, provisions

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