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Etiolated

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Appear pale or sickly

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Inured

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Toughened to point if nonresponse

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Sidereal

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If or with respect to distant stars

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Invidious

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Causing envy

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Plangent

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Full of lamentation

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Ineluctable

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Inescapable, unavoidable

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Antediluvian

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Before the biblical flood, outdated

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Pusillanimous

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Showing lack of courage or determination

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Jejune

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Naive, simplistic; dry and uninteresting

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Antedate

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Come before

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Herpetologist

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Studies reptiles

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Ichthyologist

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Studies fish

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Superannuation

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Payment made by an employee to a future pension

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Senescence

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Deterioration with age

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Supercilious

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Seeming or behaving superior

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Aureole

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Circle of light or brightness surrounding something

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Lachrymose

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Sad

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Augury

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Omen

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Concomitant

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Naturally accompanying or associating

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Laudatory

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Excessive praise