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Aberrant

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deviating from the norm

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Abscond

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to depart clandestinely to steal off and hide

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Alacrity

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eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Anomaly

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deviation from the normal order, form or rule abnormality

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Approbation

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an expression of approval or praise

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Arduous

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strenuous; taxing, requiring significant effort

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Assuage

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to ease or lessen to appease or pacify

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Audacious

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daring and fearless, recklessly bold

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Austere

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without adornment, bar; severely simple

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Axiomatic

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taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth

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Canonical

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following or in agreement with, accepted traditional standards

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Capricious

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inclined to change one’s mind impulsively erratic, unpredictable

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Censure

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to criticize severely; to officially rebuke

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Chicanery

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trickery or subterfuge

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Disabuse

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to undeceive; to set right

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Discordant

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conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

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Disparate

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fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

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extreme boldness; presumptuousness

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Eloquent

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well-spoken, expressive, articulate

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Enervate

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to weaken; to reduce in vitality

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Ennui

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dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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Erudite

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very learned; scholarly

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Exculpate

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to exonerate; to clear of blame

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Exigent
urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
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Extemporaneous
improvised; done without preparation
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Filibuster
intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
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Fulminate
to loudly attack or denounce
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Ingenuous
artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
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Inured
accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Irascible
easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
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Laud
to praise highly
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Lucid
clear; easily understood
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Magnanimity
the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart; especially in forgiving
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Martial
associated with war and the armed forced
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Mundane
of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
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Nascent
coming into being, in early development stages
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Nebulous
vague, cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
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Neologism
a new word, expression or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
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Neologism
a new word, expression or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
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Noxious
harmful, injurious
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Obtuse
lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
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Obviate
to anticipate and make unnecessary
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Onerous
troubling; burdensome
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Paean
a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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Parody
a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, especially in literature and art
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Perennial
recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
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Perfidy
intentional breach of faith, treachery
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Perfunctory
cursory; done without care or interest
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Prattle
to babble meaninglessly, to talk in a empty and idle manner
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Precipitate (adj)
acting with excessive haste or impulse
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Precipitate (verb)
to cause or happen before anticipated or required
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Predilection
a disposition in favor of something; preference
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Prescience
foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
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Prevaricate
to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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Qualms
Misgiving; reservations; causes for hesitancy
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Recant
to retract, especially a previously held belief
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Refute
to disprove; to successfully argue against
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Relegate
to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position
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Reticent
quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
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Solicitous
concerned and attentive; eager
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Sordid
characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul
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Sporadic
occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
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Squander
to waste by spending or using irresponsibility
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Static
not moving, active, or in motion, at rest
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Stupefy
to stun, baffle, amaze
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Stymie
to block; to thwart
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Synthesis
the combination of parts to make a whole
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Torque
a force that causes rotation
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Tortuous
winding, twisting, excessively complicated
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Truculent
fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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Veracity
truthfulness, honesty
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Virulent
extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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Voracious
having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
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Waver
to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion

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