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Acme

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Summit, peak, highest point

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aggregate

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Gather together, amount to (v); constituting a whole made up of constituent parts (adj)

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Apathy

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Not caring; absence of feeling; lack of interest or concern

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Assuage

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Make milder, relieve; soothe, pacify, or calm

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Benign

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Harmless; favorable; kindle, gentle, or beneficial; not cancerous

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Candid

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Open, sincere, honest

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Clamor

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Noisy uproar or protest, as from a crowd; a loud, continuous noise

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Concur

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Approve, agree

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Conundrum

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Riddle, the answer to which involves a play on words; a mystery

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Counterpoint

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Contrasting item, opposite; a complement; the use of contrast or interplay in a work of art

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Daunt

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Discourage, dishearten, lessen the courage of

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Delineate

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Mark the outline of; sketch; describe in detail

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Digress

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Go off-topic when speaking or writing

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Dismiss

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Allow to disperse or leave; fire from a job; put aside or reject, especially after only a brief consideration

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Diverge

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Differ, deviate; branch off or turn aside, as from a path

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Eclipse

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The obscuring of one thing by another, such as the sun by the moon or a person by a more famous or talented person (n); to obscure, darken, make less important (v)

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Empirical

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Coming from, based on, or able to be verified by experience or experimentation; not purely based on theory

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Erroneous

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Mistaken, in horror; improper, morally incorrect

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Explicit

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Direct, clear, fully revealed; clearly depicting sex or nudity

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Fidelity

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Faithfulness, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound or image

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Frugal

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Economical, thrifty, not wasteful with money; inexpensive

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Gradation

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A progression, a process taking place gradually, in stages; one of these stages

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Hodgepodge

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Mixture of different kinds of things, jumble

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Implicit

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implied, not stated directly; involbed in the very essence of something, unquestionable

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Incorporate

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Combine, unite; form a legal corporation; embody, give physical form to

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Intrepid

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Fearless, brave, enduring in the face of adversity

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Lament

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Mourn; express grief, sorrow, or regret (v); an expression of grief esp. as a song or poem (n)

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Liberal

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Favorable to progress or reform; believing in maximum possible individual freedom; tolerant, open-minded; generous(adj.); a person with such beliefs or practices (n)

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Mendacious

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Lying, habitually dishonest

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Mundane

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Common, ordinary, everyday

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Obsequious

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Servile, very compliant, fawning

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Optimal or Optimum

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Best, most desirable or favorable

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Patent

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Obvious, apparent, plain to see (adj.); a letter from a govt. guaranteeing an inventor the rights to his or her invention (n)

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Pervasive

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Tending to spread throughout

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Polarized

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Divided into sharply opposed groups

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presumptive

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Based on inference or assumption; providing reasonable grounds for belied

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Profuse

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Abundant, extravagant, giving or given freely

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Pugnacious

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Inclined to fight, combative

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Remedial

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Providing a remedy, curative; correcting a deficient skill

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Restive

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Impatient or uneasy under the control of another; resisting being controlled

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Salubrious

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Healthful, promoting health

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Sedulous

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Preserving, persistent, diligent in one’s efforts

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Sound

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Measure the depth of (usually of water) as with a sounding line; penetrate and discover the meaning of, understand (usually as sound the depths )

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Stark

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Complete, total, utter; harsh or grim; extremely simple, severe, blunt, or pain

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Succeeding

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Coming after or following

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Tangential

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Only slightly relevant, going off topic

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Trifling

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Trivial, not very important; so small as to be unimportant; frivolous, shallow

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Venerate

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Revere, regard with deep respect and awe

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