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Hubris

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Excessive pride or confidence

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Enmity

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A feeling or condition of hostility

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Hackneyed

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Made commonplace or trite. Stale. Banal.

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Craven

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Cowardly. Contempidly. Timid. Pusillanimous.

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Disseminate

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Scatter or spread widely. Disperse. Broadcast

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Asinine

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Foolish. Unintelligent.

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Baleful

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Full of menacing influences

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Espouse

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To make ones own, adopt. Embrace.

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Endemic

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Natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place

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Infallible

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Absolutely trustworthy

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Genial

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Warmly and pleasantly cheerful. Cordial.

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Harlot

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Prostitute.

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Innocuous

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Not harmful

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Contentious

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Tending to argument or strife

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Expostulate

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To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done

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Enjoin

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To prescribe with authority or emphasis. The doctor enjoined a strict diet.

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Affected

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Influenced in a harmful way

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Aberrant

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Departing from the right, normal or usual course. Exceptional. Abnormal

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Abortive

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Failing to succeed, unsuccessful. A abortive scheme.

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Analgesic

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A remedy that relieves pain

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Decamp

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Depart from a camp

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Cognate

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Related by birth

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Blight

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Any cause of impairment ruin or frustration. To cause to wither or decay

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Abeyance

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Temporary inactivity or suspension

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Insouciance

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Lack of care or concern. Indifference.

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Manifest

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Readily perceived by the eye (adj.)

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Incertitude

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Uncertainty or doubtful ness

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Rakish

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Jaunty, dashing, smart

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Conviviality

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Friendly, agreeable

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Temerity

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Reckless, boldness

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Ineluctable

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Incapable of being evaded (inescapable)

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Incommensurate

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Inadequate, disproportionate

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Ennui

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Weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful

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Japery

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Good natured mockery

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Languished

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To become weak or feable

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Plunder

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To rob of goods or valuables

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Castigate

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To punish, reprimand severely

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Relinquish

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To renounce or surrender

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Acquiesce

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Comply silently without protest

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Promulgated

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Publish proclaim formally in support

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Callow

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Immature or inexperienced

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Ominous

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Threatening, portending evil or harm

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Ebullient

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Overflowing with fervor enthusiasm or excitement

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Propitiate

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To conciliate. To appease.

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Perfunctory

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Done in a routine way

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Obstinate

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Stubborn. Unyielding.

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Foment

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To arouse or incite

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Expurgate

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To censor. To amend by removing words.

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Redolent

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Having a pleasant odor, fragrant

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Panegyric

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A lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing. Eulogy.

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Guile

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Deceit or tickery

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Exigent

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Urgent. Requiring immediate action.

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Exculpate. Exonerate.

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To clear from blame

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Alacrity

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Cheerful readiness, promptness or willingness.

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Sagacious

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Having or showing acute mental discernment. Sage = wise

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Salubrious

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Favorable to or promoting health

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Misanthrope

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Person who dislikes others

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Obviate

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To prevent. To make unnecessary.

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Prevaricate

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To lie or deviate from the truth

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Precipitate

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To throw violently or bring about abruptly.

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Proliferate

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To increase in number quickly

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive. Seemingly plausible but fallacious

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Ingenuous

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Innocence or childlike simplicity

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Onerous

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Burdensome oppressive or troublesome

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Scintilla

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trace amount

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Molt

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To shred hair or skin

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Tacit

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Done with using words. Taciturn = quiet

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Lassitude

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Weariness of body or mind from strain

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Coalesce

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To grow together or into one body

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Recondite

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Dealing with very profound difficult or abstruse subject matter

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Truculent

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Fierce. Cruel. Savagely.

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Torpor

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Extreme mental and physical sluggishness.

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Pedant

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Someone who shows off learning

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Quiescent

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Motionless.

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Propriety

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Correct behavior

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Laud

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To give praise

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Venerate

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To respect deeply. “Respect the Venn diagram”

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Impetuous

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Quick to act without thinking

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Garrulous

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Tending to talk a lot. Loquacious.

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Apocryphal

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Of questionable authority or authenticity.

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Plucky

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Courageous. Spunky.

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Pallid

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Lacking color or liveliness

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Prattle

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Meaningless foolish talk

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Abase

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To reduce or lower. Humble. Degrade.

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Inchoate

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Not fully formed. Disorganized.

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Imprecation

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A curse. “Shouting imprecations”

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Yoke

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To join together

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Approbation

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Approval and praise. Extol, exalt, hail, acclaim.

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Curmudgeon

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Cranky person. Usually old

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Plebeian

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Crude or coarse. Characteristic of commoners. “ Obama is trying to be plebeian by wearing jeans”

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Contumacious

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Rebellious

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Coterie

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An intimate group of persons with a similar purpose “British red coats”

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Wily

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Clever. Deceptive. Wily coyote

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Abjure

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To renounce, repudiate or retract. “The jury abjured their verdict when they relaized they were wrong”

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Collusion

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A secret agreement. Conspiracy.

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Demur

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To make objection. “He demurred when they said they didn’t want to go to the concert”

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Eminent

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High in station, rank or repute. Prominent. Distinguished.

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Inimical

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Hostile. Unfriendly.

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Requite

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To make repayment or return for. Unrequited love.

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Obdurate

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Hardened in feeling. Resistant to persuasion. Obese people are often obdurate to new diets.

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising. Refusing to be reconciled. The president was intransigent about creating transgender bathrooms.

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Perfidious

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Willing to betray ones trust

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Insolence

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Contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech

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Calumny

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A false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something

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Effrontery

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Shameless or impudent boldness. Barefaced audacity.

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Abnegate

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To refuse or deny oneself. Reject. Renounce.

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Deportment

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Conduct. Behavior.

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Exalt

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To raise in rank. To praise.

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous or unclear expressions usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead. The politician equivocated in an attempt to get equal votes.

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Indolent

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Having or showing a dispositions to avoid exertion. Slothful.

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Abhor

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To regard with aversion. Detest utterly. Loath.

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Abrogate

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To abolish by formal or official means

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Flout

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To treat with disdain, scourn or contempt. To flout the rules.

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