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Mendacity

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Untrustfulness

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Prevarication

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Speak Evasively

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Avarice

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Extreme greed for material gain

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Baseness

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Lack of moral character

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Ebullient

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Cheerful, full of energy

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative

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Solicitous

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Showing interest/concern

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Munificent

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Great generosity

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Irresolute

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Hesitancy/uncertainty

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Laconic

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Uses very few words

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Fastidious

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Attentive to accuracy

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Taciturn

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Reserved in Speech

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Dubious distinction

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Distinction not to be proud of

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Doctrinaire

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Dogmatic/ Lay principles as true

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Electic

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Deriving ideas from wide range of sources

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Judicious

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Done with good judgement

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Indefatiguable

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Persisting tirelessly

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Jettison

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THrow/drop something

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Caricatured

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Exaggerated

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Propagate

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Spread/promote

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Blighted

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Infect, detrimental effect

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Apposite

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Related in circumstance

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Anachronistic

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Belonging to another period

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Germane

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Relevant in subject

Sporadically

Randomly

Irascibly

Easily angered

Persistently

Frequently

Pugnaciously

Eager/quick to argue

Fitfully

Not regularly

Inscrutible

Impossible to understand

Remediate

Provide remedy for

Belie

Fail to justify

Arcane

Understood by few

Ethos

Spirit of a culture/era/community

Temperance

Self restraint/abstinence

Notoriety

Being notorious

Eminence

Position of pominence

Tumultous

loud, excited

Dispassionate

Rational, no strong emotion

Providential

Occurring at a favourable time

Imperceptibly

so slightly