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Prolixity

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Boring verbosity

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Fastidiousness

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Critical, demanding

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Moribound

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Near death

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Ascendant

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Ruling, dominant

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Needling

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To prod someone into action

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Vassal

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Servant, a person granted use of land (royal)

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Malinger

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Pretend illness

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Cerebrate

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To think about

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Mien

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Showing character

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Adroit

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Skillful

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Penitent

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Expressing sorrow

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Fretful

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Quick to fret, peevish

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Ecumenical

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General

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Avow

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Acknowledge, to declare

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Recidivist

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Relapse into crime

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Opulence

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Wealth, riches

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Recrimination

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Counter charge

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Apotheosis

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Elevation to the rank of god

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Belligerence

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Act of war

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Aggrandizing

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To make grand

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Bluster

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To roar, show off

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Exalted

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To raise in rank or character

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Delectable

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Delicious

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Intuit

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Receive by intuition

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Tantamount

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Equivalent in value

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Proptiatory

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Intend to appease

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Malfeasance

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Wrongdoing

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Vestige

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Visible evidence of something no longer present

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Habiliments

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Clothing

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Iridescent

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Lustrous colors

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Drab

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Dull

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Macabre

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Gruesome

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Melliflous

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Sweetly

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Cad

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Dishonorable towards woman

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Solecism

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Breach of good manners

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Proscribe

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To denounce or condemn

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Patois

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Regional form of language

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Consternation

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Dismay

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Equanimity

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Calmness, emotional stability

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Diffidence

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Lacking confidence in oneself

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Canard

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A false rumor

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Wheedling

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To influence a person by smooth words

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Freewheeling

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Moving about freely, irresponsibly

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Verdant

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Green with vegetation

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Unremitting

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Not slackening

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Voluble

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Talkative

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Frisson

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Sudden excitement

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Panegyric

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Formal praise

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Marring

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To damage or spoil

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Covetousness

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Greedy

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Maven

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An expert, conoisseur

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Tyro

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Novice

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Credulity

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Gullible

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Fabulists

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A liar (creates fables)

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Sage

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A wise person

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Prevaricator

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A liar

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Raconteur

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Skilled in relating stories

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Genial

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Pleasantly cheerful

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Pedantic

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Show off in learning

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Evinced

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To prove

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Doggerel

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Rude, crude, poor

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Doughty

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Courageous

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Heady

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Intoxicating, clever, impetuous

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Kinship

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Familial relationship

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Largess

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Generous bestowal of gifts

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Legerdemain

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Sleight of hand

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Ingenuousness

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Genuine, artless

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Recalcitrant

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Stubborn, hard to deal

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Abstemious

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Sparing eating or drinking (diet)

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Monolithic

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Consisting of one piece

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Pleonasm

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Redundant word

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Scintilla

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A minute particle, a small amount

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Pallet

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Makeshift bed

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Minatory

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Threatening, menacing

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Insularity

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Detached, isolated (island)

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Countermand

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To revoke or cancel

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Iniquitous

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Wicked, sinful

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Unheralded

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Appearing without warning

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Clangor

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Loud, resonant sound

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Deleterious

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Harmful, injurious

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Auspicious

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Promising success, favorable

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Erstwhile

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Former

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Noisome

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Disgusting odor

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Undulating

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To move with sinuous motion

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Gainsay

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To deny, dispute

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Eschews

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To avoide

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Abnegates

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To refuse or deny oneself

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Impetus

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Impulse, stimulus

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Filched

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To steal

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Elucidate

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To make clear

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Commingling

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To mix together

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Commutation

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Substituting one thing to another

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Plenary

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Full, complete, entire

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Adduce

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To bring forward as evidence

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Colloquium

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A conference to present paper

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Conferment

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To consult together

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Symposium

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Conference to discuss subject

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Cloistered

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Secluded from the world

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Mirth

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Amusement or laughter

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Insouciance

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Lack of care or concern

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Continence

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Self restraint or abstinence

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Fiat

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Sanction, an order

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Calumniating

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To make false statements

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Quagmire

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Situation which extrication is difficult; anything soft

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Morass

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Marshy ground

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Climacteric

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Critical period

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Despondence

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Loss of hope, dejection

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Imputing

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To attribute or ascribe

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Grousing

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To grumble, complain

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Convulsing

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To shake violently

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Imbibing

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To consume liquid

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Fracas

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A noisy fight, uproar

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Colloquy

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Dialogue, a conference

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Callow

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Immature or inexperienced

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Facile

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Moving, acting with ease

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Piquant

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Pungent in taste, stimulating

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Insipid

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Bland

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Zesty

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Piquant, full of zest (enjoyment)

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