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1
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adroit

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countryside-like

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adulate

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to flatter someone

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anodyne

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painkiller; inoffensive

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alacrity

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eagerness

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appellation

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title

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apprehend

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understand

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apprise

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inform

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arrant

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complete

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assiduous

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careful

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attenuate

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weaken

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aureate

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golden

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avarice

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greed

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bane

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cause of distress

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baseness

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without foundation

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bonhomie

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cheerfulness

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calumnious

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slanderous

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canonizing

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to glorify

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castigate

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reprimand

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chary

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cautious

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clangorous

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loud sound

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complaisance

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wanting to please other

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concomitant

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associated

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confound

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surprise

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congenial

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compatible

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contrite

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remorseful

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credence

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acceptance

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dacoit

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a gang member

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debase

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devalue

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discomfit

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embarrass someone

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dissemble

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deceive

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dynamism

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energy

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ecumenical

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universal (all Christian churches)

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efflorescence

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to flower out/bloom

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duplicity

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deceit

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equanimity

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calmness

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evanescent

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fading

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excise

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tax

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execration

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curse

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expurgate

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censor

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extempore

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impromptu

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fatuous

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silly

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feckless

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useless

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flagitious

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villainous

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florid

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red; ostentatious

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foible

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flaw

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grandiloquence

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pompous talk

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hedonism

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indulgence

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herald

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signal

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heterodox

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unorthodox

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hortatory

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exhorting; urging some course of action

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impecunious

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poor

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imperious

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arrogant

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impious

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disrespectful esp towards God

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incendiary

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combustible

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indemnify

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reimburse

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insipid

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bland

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insouciant

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unworried

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inure

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condition

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inveigh

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speak with hostility

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inveigle

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to coax

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inveterate

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habitual

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judicious

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sensible

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malign

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evil

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meretricious

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pretentious

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modish

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stylish

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nescient

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ignorant

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obfuscate

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unclear

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oblique

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slanted

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opprobrium

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criticism

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panacea

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universal cure

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pavid

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afraid

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penchant

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predisposition

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perspicacity

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discernment

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pillory

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criticize

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pleonastic

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redundant

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prattle

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ramble

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prescient

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prophetic

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pretension

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claim

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infallible

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can’t make mistakes

80
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prolix

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lengthy

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promulgate

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promote

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propitious

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favorable

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providential

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favorable

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punctilious

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meticulous

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quiescent

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inactive

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recapitulate

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summarize

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recrudescent

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revival of something bad

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salubrious

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healthy

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sanguine

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optimistic

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sedulous

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meticulous

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stanch

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stop flow of blood

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surfeit

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excess

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surreptitious

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secret

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tremulous

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trembling; timid

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truculent

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defiant; aggressive

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unfeigned

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genuine

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veracity

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truth

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vitiate

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to make defective

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vituperative

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bitter; abusive

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recompense

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compensate

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