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Abnormal

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Not normal

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Apparition

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Ghost

Seeing something your not sure of

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Aptitude

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Being good at something

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Astral

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Stellar

Star-shaped

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Acidulous

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Sharp, caustic
Sarcastic
Sickly taste, acidic

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Attest

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To bear witness to

Certify

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Administer

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To manage, apply

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Aquiline

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Curved and comes back
Shaped like an eagle’s beak
Hooked

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Advent

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Start

Beginning/arrival of something

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Appalled

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Shocked, disgusted

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Abstinence

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To refrain from doing something

Self-restraint

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Adjunct

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Something added to another thing but not essential

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Anticlimax

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Low point in something

Event less striking than expected

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Bleak

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Bare, desolate

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Baleful

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Deadly
Something that will cause harm
Vindictive

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Benevolent

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Being kind
Charitable
Desire to help others

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Buffoon

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Acting like a moron, idiot

Person who amuses others by tricks, jokes

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Cloister

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Place of religious withdrawal
Courtyard, monastery
Any quiet secluded place

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Counterfeit

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Made in imitation

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Consecutive

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Following one another in uninterrupted order

Successive

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Conversant

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Familiar in use or study

Well versed in something

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Cache

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Hiding place

Supply of something stored away

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Calumny

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Slander

Something said to hurt/ruin someone’s reputation

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Craven

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To act cowardly

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Chicanery

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Fraud, cheating
Trickery, deception
Deceive

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Choleric

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Extremely irritable

Easily angered

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Contagious

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Easy to spread

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Conscientious

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Overly aware
Dedicate to what is right
Good
Meticulous

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Countermand

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To reverse
To go against
to contradict

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Delta

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4th letter in Greek alphabet
Mouth of a river
Anything triangular

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Doughty

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Strong
Strength of character
Bold

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Demise

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Death of something

To pass on something

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Diction

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Style of speaking or writing

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Devious

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Not straight foreword
Deceiving
Crafty, sneaky in a bad way

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Defunct

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No longer in effect or use
Out of circulation
Outdated

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Delude

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To mislead
Deceive
Evade, elude

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Dilate

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To enlarge

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Denizen

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Natural inhabitant

Native

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Efface

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To clean by time
To wipe out
Do away with

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Ennui

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Exhaustion, wearisome, boredom

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Euphoria

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State of intense happiness and self-confidence

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Ellipsis

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Three dots (…) indicating an omission in text

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Ensure

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To secure, gaurentee

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Elocution

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Delivery of speech

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Envoy

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Diplomatic agent
Messenger
Representative

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Ethereal

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Heavenly, awesome

Light, airy

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Exemplify

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Illustrate by example

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Ellipse

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Oval shaped, curved

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Emanate

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To send forth, emit

Poor out of something

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Evince

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To reveal, show, prove

Peal back and expose

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Effusive

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Overly dramatic

Overflowing

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Fluent

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Spoken or written with ease

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Foretell

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Predict

To tell of beforehand

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Futile

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Incapable of producing any result

Ineffective, useless, pointless

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Fallible

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Liable to err

Not accurate

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Furor

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Uproar

Outburst of enthusiasm

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Feasible

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Capable of being done

Able to happen, possible

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Gingerly

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With great care or caution

Carefully

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Gauntlet

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Long leather glove

Organized system of doing something

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Gaudy

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Tacky, trashy

Showy, flashy

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Guile

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Extreme cunning, skill

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Glean

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To gather bit by bit

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Gloss

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Gaze quickly

Superficial luster, glaze

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Heretic

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Someone who goes against established teachings of the Church

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Heterodox

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Somebody who goes against established routine

Go against religion

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Hackneyed

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Something that loses its affect because of overuse

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Humdrum

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Boring, dull

Lacking variety

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Hydraulic

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Operated by pressurized liquids

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Incongruous

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Not going well together

Inconsistent

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Irony

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The use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning

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Idolatry

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Worship of idols or physical objects

Blind adoration, devotion

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Irrelevant

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Not having to do with

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Impel

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To drive, urge forward

Press on, propel

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Impermeable

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Not permeable
Unable to be penetrated
Not porous

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Impervious

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Unaffected by anything

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Impetuous

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Doing something without thinking

Impulsive

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Illiterate

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Unable to read and write

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Implication

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Conclusion drawn by something

Something implied, naturally understood

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Ingenious

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Something that is original, remarkable

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Jaded

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Tired, bored
Lacking enthusiasm after period of time
Dulled by overindulgence

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Lacerate

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To tear open

To cut open

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Licentious

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Acting like a slut
Lascivious
Immoral, lawless

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Latent

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Present but not visible

Existing as potential

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Leach

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To pull out of something

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Lateral

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Of, or pertaining to, the side

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Lissome

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Flexible
Agile
Nimble

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Matyr

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Someone who dies for what they stand for

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Mitigate

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To lessen in severity, force, intensity

To make less severe

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Modicum

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Small amount

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Myriad

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A lot

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Malingerer

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Person who feigns illness to avoid work

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Misanthrope

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Hater of humankind

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Malevolent

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wishing harm on others

Evil, bad

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Meticulous

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Paying attention to details
Methodical
Finicky, fussy

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Miscreant

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Bad person

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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked
Villainous
Evil

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Nominal

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Small amount
In name only
Theoretical

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Noncommittal

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Not fully committed to something

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Neophyte

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Beginner
Novice
Person newly baptized

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Obese

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Overweight

Corpulent

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Osier

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Dried willow sticks used to make furniture

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Omniscient

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Knowing all things

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Ordinance

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Edict issued by town

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Ostentatious

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Of actions intended to attract notice

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Odometer

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An instrument or measuring distance traveled

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Obeisance

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Paying homage to something
Act of respect
Bow

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Oscillate

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To swing back and forth

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Obsequious

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Overly fawning

Kiss up

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Prudent

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Very wise
Careful in decision
Provident

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Pious

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Very religious

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Pall

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A cloth for spreading over a coffin

Anything that covers, especially with darkness or gloom

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Pithy

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Something that is short, but is meaningful

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Prevalent

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Widespread
Having superiority
Predominant

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Porous

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Full of pores

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Prolific

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Highly fruitful
Highly productive
Producing offspring

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Prone

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Natural inclination or tendency to something

Lying flat

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Pacify

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To soothe
To please somebody
Quiet, calm

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Prate

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Talk a lot

Babble

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Papyrus

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Ancient paper

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Profess

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To declare openly

To put forth

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Pretentious

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Overly snobby

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Posterity

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All descendants f one person

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