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1
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Castigated

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To reprimand severely

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Antedated

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To proceed in time; come before

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Lascivious

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Producing sexual desire usually in an obscene way. Driven by lust

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Prescient

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Having knowledge of events before they take place

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Preternatural

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Beyond what is normal or natural

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Pithy

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Concise and forcefully expressive

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Castigate

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Reprimand someone severely

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Lionize

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Treat as a celebrity. Public attention

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Indemnify

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Compensate someone for harm or loss

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Quotidian

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Of or occurring everyday: mundane

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Vicissitude

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Change of fate or fortune, typically unwelcome change

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Serendipity

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An unplanned fortune discovery

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Askance

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With an attitude or look of disapproval

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Improvident

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Thoughtless lack of foresight

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Taciturn

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Saying little: reserved in speech

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Acerbic

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Sharp and forthright (style of speaking)

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Quixotic

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Exceedingly optimistic: unrealistic or impractical

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Mendaciously

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Not telling the truth

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Panned

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Criticize something severely

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Incouciance

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Casual lack of concern: indifference

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Listlessly

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Lacking enthusiasm

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Insensibly

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Not aware of something

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Coda

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The final

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Anachronistically

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Belonging or appropriate to a different era. Old fashioned

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Presciently

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To have foresight or foreknowledge

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Inured

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To accustome someone to something unpleasant

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Effusive

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Expressing feelings of gratitude pleasure or approval in a heartfelt manner

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Maudlin

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Self-pitying or tearfully sentimental often through drunkeness

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Agglomerated

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Collect or form into a mass or group

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Amortized

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Reduce or pay off debt with regular payments

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Inveigle

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Persuade someone to do something by flattery or deception

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Hector

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Talk to someone in a bullying way

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Presage

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When an event is a sign or warning that something (bad) with happen

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Consanguineous

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People descendant from the same ancestor

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Tremulous

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Trembling or shaking slightly

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Coltish

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Energetic but awkward in one’s movement or behavior

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Chary

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Cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something

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Sycophants

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Someone who is excessively obedient or attentive to an authority figure to gain an advantage

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Fecund

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Capable of producing an abundance of offspring: fertile

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Imperious

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Assuming power or authority without justification: arrogant and domineering

41
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Progeny

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A descendant of: offspring

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Ephermal

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Lasting for a very short time

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Concomitant

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Naturally accompanying or associated

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Sanguine

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Optomistic or positive, especially in difficult situations

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Vestigal

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Forming a very small remnant of something much larger or more noticeable

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Evanescent

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Quickly fading or disappearing. Passing out of sight or memory quickly

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Peccadilloes

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A small, relatively unimportant sin

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Banal

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Repeated too often: over familiar through overuse

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Sagacious

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Having or showing keen mental judgment or discernment: shrewd

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Dulcet

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Sweet and soothing (especially of sound)

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative especially on trivial matters

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Circumscribing

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Restricting something within limits

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Polemical

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Expressing a strongly critical or controversial opinion about something or someone

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Brusque

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Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner

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Pacific

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Peaceful in character or intent

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Semiotic

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Relating to signs or symbols

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Sangfroid

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Composure and coolness in dangerous situations

58
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Mercurial

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Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes in mood or temperament

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Entreaty

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Earnest and humble request

60
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Brook

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To allow or permit

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Stopgap

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A temporary way of dealing with a problem

62
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Modicum

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A small quantity of something considered valuable

63
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Nadir

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The lowest point in the fortunes of someone or organization

64
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Mores

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The essential or characteristic costumes and conventions of a community

65
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Eschew

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Avoid using or abstain from

66
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Terseness

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The use of few words to be rude

67
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Distention

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Enlarged and bloated from within

68
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Expatiation

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Discussion of topic at length

69
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Tendentious

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Expressing or promoting a particular cause or view especially controversial ones

70
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Protean

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Tending or able to change frequently

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Arcadian

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Ideal rural paradise

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Hinterland

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Backwater undesirable

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Tony

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Fashionable among wealthy people

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Propriety

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Conforming to conventional accepted standards behaviors or morals

75
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Licentious

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Promiscuous and unprinicpled in sexual matters

76
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Perspicacious

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Having a ready insight and understanding of things

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Insipid

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Lacking vigor or taste

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Deft

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Neat and skillful in movement

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Effete

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Overly refined effeminate

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Whet

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Stimulating of an urge

81
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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand obscure

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Halcyon

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Denoting a period in the past that was idealistically peaceful and joyful. Calm and joyful

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Benign

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Gentle and kindly

84
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Myopic

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Nearsighted

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Anemic

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Lacking vitality

86
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Diffident

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Modest and shy due to a lack of self confidence

87
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Illiberal

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Restrictive of freedom or thought

88
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Belies

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Failing to give a true notion of something

89
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Vitreous

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Like glass in appearance or properties

90
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Grizzled

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Having or streaked with grey hair

91
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Rancorous

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Longstanding bitterness and resentment

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Inchoate

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Just begun, rudimentary

93
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Piques

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To stimulate curiosity

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