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Halcyon

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Idyllically calm and peaceful; happy and prosperous tranquility

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Fecund

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Intellectually productive

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Complaisant

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Showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

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Solicitude

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Feeling of excessive concern

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Bristle

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To react in a offended or angry manner

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Coterminous

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Being of equal extent or scope or duration

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Internecine

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Within a group or organization

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Graft

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Corruption, usually through bribery

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Countermand

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A contrary command to a previous command

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Concomitant

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Describing an event that happens at the same time or in connection with another

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Panegyric

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A formal expression of praise

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Appropriate

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To take something by force; to allocate / give

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Inchoate

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Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

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Surfeit

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An excessive amount of something

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Impugn

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To attack as false or wrong

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Demonstrative

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Marked by open expression of emotion

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Proscribe

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To command against

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Raillery

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Light teasing

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Eponym

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The name derived from a person; the person for whom something is named

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Facile

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Lacking depth; arrived at without due care or effort

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Evanescent

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Tending to vanish like vapor

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Stultify

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To cause one to lose energy and enthusiasm; enervate

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Squelch

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To suppress or crush completely

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Discursive

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Tending to depart from the main point in speech or writing

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Desiccated
Uninteresting; lacking vitality
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Splenetic
Very irritable; peevish
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Vitriol
Abusive or venomous language
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Ineluctable
Impossible to avoid or evade
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Oblique
Not straightforward; indirect
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Deign
To do something one considers below one's dignity
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Enormity
An act of extreme wickedness
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Pontificate
Talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
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Bereft
Unhappy (regarding love); sorrowful through loss
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Flag
To droop, sink, or settle; to become less intense
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Dolorous
Showing sorrow
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Exiguity
The quality of being meager; condition of lack
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Promulgate
To state or announce
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Proselytize
To convert someone to another religion / set of beliefs
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Dissemble
To conceal one's true motives, usually through deceit
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Nettlesome
Causing irritation or annoyance
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Noisome
Having an extremely bad smell
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Turgid
Pompous and tedious
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Dissolution
An existence full of debauchery and indulgence in sensual pleasure
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Canard
A deliberately misleading fabrication
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Solicitous
Showing attentiveness
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Sardonic
Mocking; cynical
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Epigram
A witty saying
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Ebullient
Joyously unrestrained
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Trenchant
Characterized by force and vigor; possessing keenness in thought, expression, or intellect
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Pillory
To ridicule or expose to public scorn
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Bromide
A trite or obvious remark; platitude
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Bridle
To restrain; to react with anger
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Gumption
Resourcefulness; determination
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Abjure
To formally reject or give up
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Cataclysm
An event resulting in great loss and misfortune
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Aplomb
Great coolness and composure under strain
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Exorbitant
Exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
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Palaver
To speak incessantly and rapidly
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Atavism
A reappearance; throwback
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Loath to
Unwilling to do something contrary to one's custom
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Conflagration
A very intense and uncontrolled fire
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Languish
To become feeble
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Ethereal
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
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Panacea
A hypothetical remedy for all ills and diseases
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Hauteur
Overbearing pride
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Hoodwink
To deceive or trick someone; dupe
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Inanity
Total lack of meaning or ideas
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Infelicitous
Inappropriate
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Abrogate
To revoke or relinquish formally
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Bastardization
An act that debases or corrupts
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Elegiac
Expressing sorrow
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Malingerer
Someone abandoning their duty by pretending to be sick or incapacitated
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Obtuse
Lacking insight or discernment; lack intellectual acuity; slow to learn
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Self-effacing
Reluctant to draw attention to oneself
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Conflate
To mix together different elements or concepts
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Callow
Young and unexperienced; fledgling
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Doughty
Brave; bold; courageous
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Phlegmatic
Showing little emotion; disinterested
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Estimable
Deserving of esteem and respect
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Appurtenant
Supplying added support
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Desideratum
Something desired as a necessity
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Browbeat
To be bossy towards; to discourage or frighten
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Percipient
Highly perceptive
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Pellucid
Transparently clear; easily understandable
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Besotted
Strongly affectionate towards
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Dissipate
To disperse; to squander money frivolously
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Philistine
Ignorance toward artistic and cultural values
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Officious
Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
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Arrogate
To seize and control without authority
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Mendicant
A pauper who lives by begging
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Diminutive
Very small; indicating smallness
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Broadside
A strong verbal attack
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Recrudesce
To break out or happen again
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Vaunted
Highly or widely praised
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Obtain
Being valid, applicable, or true
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Assiduously
With great care and perseverance
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Tyro
Someone new to a field or activity; dilettante
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Lachrymose
Showing sorrow
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Verisimilitude
The appearance of truth
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Capitulate
To surrender

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