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Epicure

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A person with refined taste in food and wine

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short time

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Equivocate

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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

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Ersatz

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Fake

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Erudite

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Learned; scholarly; bookish

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Eschew

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To shun; to avoid ( as something wrong or distasteful)

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Ethos

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The beliefs or characteristics of a group

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Eulogy

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A speech in praise of someone

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Euphemism

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Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place if a more distasteful one

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Zealot

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Someone passionately devoted to a cause

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Satiate

Say shee ate

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To satisfy fully or overindulge

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Scintilla

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Trace amount

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Sedition

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Behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state

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Sentient

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Aware, conscious, able to perceive

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Seraphic

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Angelic; sweet

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Sinecure

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A well paying job or office that requires little or no work

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Slake

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To calm down or moderate

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Sobriquet

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Nickname

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Solecism

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Grammatical mistake

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy

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Spartan

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Highly self-disciplined; frugal; austere

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

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Sportive

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Frolicsome; playful

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Stasis

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A state if static balance or equilibrium; stagnation

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Stentorian

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Extremely loud

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Stolid

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Unemotional; lacking sensitivity

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Stratagem

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Trick designed to deceive an enemy

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Sully

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To tarnish; to taint

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Supplant

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To replace, (another) by force; to make the place of

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Surfeit

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Excessive amount

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Surly

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Rude and bad tempered

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Sybarite

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A person devoted to pleasure and luxury

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Sycophant

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A self serving flatterer; a yes-man

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Symbiosis

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Cooperation; mutual helpfulness

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Syncopation

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Temporary irregularity in muscle rhythm

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Tacit

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Done without using words

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Taciturn

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Silent; not talkative

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Tangential

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Digressing; diverting

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Tawdry

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Gaudy, cheap, showy

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Toady

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One ago flatters in the hope of gaining favors

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Tome

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A book, usually a large and academic one

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Trenchant

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Acute, sharp, or inclusive; forceful; effective

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Turgid

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Swollen as from a fluid; bloated

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Tyro

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Beginner; novice

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Umbrage

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Offense; resentment

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Unconscionable

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Unscrupulous; shockingly unfair or unjust

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Unequivocal

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Absolute; certain

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Upbraid

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To sold sharply

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Usury

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The practice of lending money at exorbitant rates

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Vacillate

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To physically sway; to be indecisive

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Variegated

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Varied; marked with different colors

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Wizened

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Shriveled; withered; wrinkled

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Venerable

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Respected because of age