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Askance

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With a look of suspicion or disapproval

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Impertinent

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Disrespectful; improperly bold

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Intrepid

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Fearless

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Precipitous

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Done with great haste without due deliberation

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Eschew

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To avoid or stay away from

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Magnanimous

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Noble and generous

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Polemic

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Extreme verbal attack

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Perfidy

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Act of deliberate betrayal

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Heretic

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One who holds unorthodox opinions

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Fallacious

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Of a belief based on faulty reasoning

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Acrimony

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Bitterness; ill-will

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Tractable

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Easily influenced; amenable

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Veracious

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Truthful

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Pernicious

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Exceedingly harmful

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Diffident

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Lacking self-confidence; modest

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Gall

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Impertinence; feeling of deep anger and ill-will

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Craven

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Pathetically cowardly

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Travesty

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An absurd presentation; mockery

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Inscrutable

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Not easily understood; unfathomable

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Languid

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Slow and relaxed

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Intransigent

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Unwilling to change one’s beliefs; stubborn

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Propitious

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Presenting favorable circumstances

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Dilatory

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Wasting time

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Inveterate

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Habitual

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Profligate

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Spending resources wastefully

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Impudent

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Improperly forward or bold; impertinent

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Involved

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Complicated; difficult to understand

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Refractory

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Stubbornly resistant to authority

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Capricious

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Determined by chance or impulse

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Largess

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Extreme generosity

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Culpability

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State of guilt

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Burgeon

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To grow and flourish

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Delineate

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To describe in detail

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Munificent

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Very generous

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Fastidious

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Overly concerned with details

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Germane

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Relevant and appropriate

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Egregious

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Shockingly bad

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Truncate

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To reduce the length of something

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Ambivalent

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Mixed or conflicting emotions

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Garrulous

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Full of trivial conversation

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Confound

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To cause confusion; mistake one for another

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Admonitory

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Serving to warn; expressing reproach for correction

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Pejorative

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Expressing disapproval

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Petulant

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Easily irritated or annoyed

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Obsequious

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Attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner

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Ignominious

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Deserving disgrace and shame

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Pedantic

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Marked by narrow focus on triviality

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Prevaricate

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To speak evasively

49
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Belie

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To give false representation to

50
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Predilection

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Strong liking of

51
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Itinerant

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Traveling from place to place

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Acerbic

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Harsh in tone

53
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Espouse

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To adopt or support an idea

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Panache

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Distinctive and showy elegance

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Hackneyed

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Trite

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Contrive

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To pull off a plan or scheme, usually through skill or trickery

57
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Mawkish

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Overly sentimental

58
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Vindicate

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To clear of accusation / blame with argument or proof

59
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Parsimonious

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Extremely frugal; miserly

60
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Upbraid

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To reproach; scold

61
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Deleterious

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Harmful to living things

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Iconoclast

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One who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions

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Winsome

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Charming in a childlike way

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Taciturn

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Habitually reserved and uncommunicative

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Gregarious

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Likely to socialize with others

66
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Demur

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To object or show reluctance

67
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Volubility

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Quality of writing or talking easily

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Sycophant

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A person who tries to please someone to gain favor

69
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Foment

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To try to stir up public opinion

70
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Prodigal

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Rashly or wastefully extravagant

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Ravenous

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Extremely hungry

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Enervate

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To sap energy from

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Recondite

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Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible

74
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Intimate

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To suggest subtly

75
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Mendacity

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Tendency to be untruthful

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Forthcoming

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At ease talking to others

77
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Gauche

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Lacking social polish

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Vociferous

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Conspicuously and offensively loud

79
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Gainsay

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To deny or contradict; speak against

80
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Insolent

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Rude and arrogant

81
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Dogmatic

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Highly opinionated

82
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Soporific

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Inducing mental lethargy; sleep-inducing

83
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Nonplussed

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Unsure of how to act or respond

84
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Efficacious

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Producing the intended result; effective

85
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Edifying

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Enlightening toward intellectual or moral improvement

86
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Unscrupulous

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Without principles

87
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Dilettante

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An amateur without serious intentions or knowledge

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Torpor

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Inactivity resulting from lethargy

89
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Apocryphal

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Of questionable authority

90
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Venality

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Susceptibility to bribes or corruption

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Subsume

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To contain or include

92
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Arcane

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Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge

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Ingenuous

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Naïve; innocent

94
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Contrition

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Feeling of remorse or guilt

95
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Scrupulous

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Extremely careful with great effort; principled

96
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Calumny

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False statement intended to injure one’s reputation

97
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Equivocal

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Confusing; ambiguous

98
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Austere

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Practicing self-denial; unadorned; harsh in manner

99
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Spurious

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Plausible but false

100
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Harange

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A long, pompous speech; tirade

101
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Ignoble

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Dishonorable

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Maladroit

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Bumbling; clumsy

103
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Harried

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Troubled persistently by petty annoyances

104
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Gossamer

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Unusually light and delicate

105
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Platitude

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A trite or obvious remark

106
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Inexorable

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Impossible to stop or prevent

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Disaffected

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Discontent toward authority

108
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Expound

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To add details or explanation; clarify

109
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Querulous

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Habitually complaining

110
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Decorous

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Good taste in manners and conduct

111
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Specious

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Deceptively false; spurious

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Forlorn

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Showing hopelessness

113
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Tortuous

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Marked by repeated turns and bends

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Prolific

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Intellectually productive

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