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Ameliorate

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To make something better

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Sycophant

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A kiss up

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Loquacious

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Wordy

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Tomes

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A large book

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Upbraided

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To scold

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Disparage

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To speak ill of

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Cavort

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Focus

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Deft

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Skilled

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Recalcitrant

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Resisting authority

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Cosmopolitan

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Free from national ideas

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Neologism

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To make new words

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Fatuous

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Very exaggerated, big

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Licentious

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Sexually unrestrained

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Impecunious $$$

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Having little or no money

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Algid

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Cold

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Ratiocinate

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To reason

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Hiatus

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An interruption

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Innocuous

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Not harmful

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Cacophony

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Harsh discordance of sound

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Sacrosanct

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Extremely sacred or inviolable

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Defunct

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No longer in effect or use

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Preponderance

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To be superior

Weight, force, influence etc.

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Facile

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Easily done

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Enervated

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To weaken

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Forlorn

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Lonely, hopeless

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Despondent

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Discouraged, hopeless, depressed

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Desolate

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Deserted, lifeless

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Abscond

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To sneak away and hide

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Enervate

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To weaken

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Taciturn

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Not inclined to talk

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Austere

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Very bare, simple

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Formidable

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Arousing fear or alarm

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Recoubtable

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Commanding respect

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Reel

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Feel dizzy, thrown off balance

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Quaint

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Old fashioned

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Ascetic

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To practice self discipline. Usually religious

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Strenuous

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Requiring alot of strength or energy

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Harrowing

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Agonizing

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Agoraphobia (opp. Of claustra)

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An abnormal fear of open or publice places

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Sobriety

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Calm, tranquility

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Sedate

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To calm, sooth

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Anxiety

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Stress, uneasiness

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Assuage

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To ease, pacify

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Allay

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To sooth, assuage

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Pacify

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To sooth, ease

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Exacerbate

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To make more violant or intense

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Dilapidated

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In a state of disrepair

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Reprehensible

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Deserving criticism

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Raze

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To demolish

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Affluent

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Rich, wealthy

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Renovate

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To restore, return to original state

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Requisition

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A demand for goods

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Derelict

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Run down, abandoned

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Domicile

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A home

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Abject (of the)

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Of the most miserable kind

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Destitute

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To have nothing

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Abhor

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To hate

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Harmony

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Good sound

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Impervious (not)

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Not allowing entrance

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Coalesce

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To grow together

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Apocalypse

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The end of the world

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Juxtapose

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To place side by side

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Exerting

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To put forth strength

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Indictments

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Criticism

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Terse

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Using few words

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Scourge

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To look hard

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amalgamation

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Combination

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Cavities

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An unfilled space within a mass

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Diverse

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Differing from one another

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Connotations

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Implying something

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Dissonance

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A lack of agreement

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Mores

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Moral attitude

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Maudlin

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Drunk

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Saccharine (coffee)

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Sweet

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Sanguine

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Happy

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Accentuate (e)

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To emphasize

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Orations

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A speech in a formal manner

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Ameliorate

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To make better

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Differentiate

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To show difference in

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Variegate

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To give interest to

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Copious

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Plentiful

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Discrete

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Suddle

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Confluence

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A flowing together

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Confound

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Destroy

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Concord

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A state of agreement

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Collusion

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Secret agreement

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Retract

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Withdraw

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Feral

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Savage, wild

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Daunting

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Intimidating

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Defame

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Hurt someone

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Chastise

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To criticize severely

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Alleviate

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Relieve

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Choreographed

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Structured dance move

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Fawn

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Make a fuss

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Diaphanous

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See through

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Extol

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Phase

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Lethargic

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Lazy

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Benign

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Kind

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Comatose (coma)

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In a coma

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Impudent (carter)

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Dissrespectful

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Mendacious

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Lying

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Apparitional

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Like a ghost

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Puerile

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Immature

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Juvenile

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Youthful

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Camaraderie

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Good fellowship

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Conciliatory

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To give in, agreeable

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Limpid

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Liquidy, clear

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Munificent (SUPER)

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SUPER generous

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Envious

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Jealous

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Grandiose

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Large, snobby

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Libel

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Written word

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Inclement

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Bad weather

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Linchpin

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Piece of a car that holds axle and wheel together

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Idolatrous

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To worship

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Maligns

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To talk bad about someone

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Guile

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Lyes

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Bilks

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Cheats

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Telepathic

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Mind reader

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Soothsayer

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Fortune teller

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Seer

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Predict the future

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Inveterate

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Veteran, non amateur

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Delude

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To decieve

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Compelled

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To force or drive

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Elucidate

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To talk about or list

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Calumny

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Famous for bad reasons

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Gilded

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Painted with gold

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Inextricable

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Can’t get out of it

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Manifested

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Showed itself

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Weather

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To last through

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Surreptitiously

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Secretly, sneaky

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Spectral

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Ghost like

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Slander

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Spoken word

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Concocting (an story)

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To make up

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Indignation

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Angry, frustrated

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Patently

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Clearly

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Jubilant

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Always having fun

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Discreetly

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Suddle

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Alacrity

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Ease, easy

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Erecting

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To build something

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Meager

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Small

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Magnanimous

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‘Gester’ generous

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Affable, amiable

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Friendly

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Hierarchy

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