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Abate

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(v) Reduce, Diminish, become less in amount or intensity;

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Activism

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The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations

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Alacrity

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Cheerful or Speedy willingness

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Apocryphal

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Of questionable authenticity; false

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Audacious

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Very bold or brave, often in a rude or reckless way

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Bogus

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Fake, fraudulent

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Canonical

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Authorized, recognized; pertaining to the canon, or body of accepted rules, standards or artistic works

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Clinch

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Make final or settle conclusively; to fasten or hold together

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Condone

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Overlook, tolerate, regard as harmless

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Converge

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Move towards one another or towards a point; unite

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Counterproductive

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Defeating the purpose; preventing the intended goal

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Debase

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Degrade; lower in quality, value, rank, etc.; lower in moral quality

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Denigrate

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Belittle, attack the reputation of

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Din

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Loud, confused noise, esp. for a long period of time

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Dispassionate

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Unbiased, not having a selfish or personal motivation; calm, lacking emotion

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Divest

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Deprive or strip of a rank, title, etc., or of clothing or gear; to sell off holdings (ant: invest)

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Efficacy

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the quality of being able to produce the intended effect

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Emulate

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Copy in an attempt to equal or be better than

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Erudite

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Scholarly, knowledgeable; possessing deep, often systematic, knowledge

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Exponent

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Person who expounds or explains; champion, advocate, or representative

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Figurative

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Metaphorical, base don figures of speech; containing many figures of speech (as fancy sounding writing); relayed to portraying human or animal figures

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Futile

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Producing no useful result, ineffective, trivial or unimportant

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Gregarious

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Social, pertaining to a flock or crowd

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Homogenous

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Of the same kind; uniform throughout

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Implode

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Burst inward

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Indeterminate

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Not fixed or determined, indefinite; vague

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Intrinsic

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Belonging to the essential nature of a thing

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Lampoon

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A harsh satire (n); ridicule or satirize (v)

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Libertine

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Morally or sexually unrestrained personl freethinker (regarding religion)

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Mercurial

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Quickly and unpredictable changing moods; fickle, flighty

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Naive

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Simple and unsophisticated, unsuspecting, lacking worldly experience and critical judgement

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Obsolete

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Out of date, no longer in use

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Orthodox

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adhering to a traditional, established faith, or to anything customary or commonly accepted

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Pathological

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Relating to or caused be disease; relating to compulsive bad behavior

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Philanthropy

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Efforts to improve the well-being of humankind, generally through giving money

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Ponderous

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Heavy, bulky and unwieldy; dull. labored

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Presumptuous

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Too bold of forward; going beyond that which is proper

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Prohibitive

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Tending to forbid something, or serving to prevent

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Qualified

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Modified, limited, conditional on something else

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Render

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Give, submit, surrender; translate declare

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Reticent

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Not talking much; private (of a person), restrained, reserved

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Sanction

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Permission or approval, something that gives support or authority to something else (n); to allow, confirm, ratify (v); OR a legal action by one or more countries against anther country to get it to comply (n); to place sanctions or penalties on (v)

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Sentient

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Conscious; experiencing sensation or perceiving with the senses

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Spartan

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Very disciplined and stern; frugal, living simply; austere; suggestive or the ancient Spartans

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Static

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Fixed, not moving or changing, lacking vitality

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Supersede

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Replace, take the position of, cause to be disregarded as void or obsolete

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Temparence

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Moderation, self-control, esp. regarding alcohol or other desires or pleasures; total abstinence from alcohol

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Trite

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Lacking freshness and originality, lacking effectiveness due to overuse, cliche

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Veracity

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Truthfulness, accuracy; habitual adherence to the truth

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Whimsical

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Marked or motivated by whims (odd, fanciful ideas); erratic, unpredictable

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