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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

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Turbulent

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Very excited or upset

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Nascent

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In the act of being born; growing

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Engender

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To bring about; to produce

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Emblematic

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Standing for another thing

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Episodic

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Happening in parts or segments

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Aggregate

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Gathered into a whole; total

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Egregious

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Standing out sharply as wrong or bad

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Overt

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Public; unhidden; open

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Cryptic

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Hard to understand; having a secret meaning

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Demure

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Modest and shy

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Anachronism

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Something that seems to be out of its proper time

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Psychosomatic

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Having an effect on the body, but mental or emotional in origin

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Transpire

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To take place; to happen

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Obsequious

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Too willing to serve it obey

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Incessant

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Going on without stopping; seemingly unending

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Consecrate

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To set apart as holy; to give to a purpose

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Morose

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Gloomy; bad tempered

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Purveyor

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One who supplies or sells

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Iconoclast

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A person who attacks or mocks things most people believe in

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Procure

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To get with some effort

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Innocuous

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Not causing harm or injury

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Subjugate

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To bring under control; to conquer or subdue

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Defray

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To pay or supply money for