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Anachronism

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Something out of place in time

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Amalgamate

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To combine

To mix together

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Ardor

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Intense and passionate feeling

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Banal

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Predictable

Cliched

Boring

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Bombastic

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Pompous in speech and manner

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Capricious

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Changing one’s mind quickly and often

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Castigate

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To punish or criticize harshly

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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile

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Cogent

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Convincing

Well reasoned

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Convoluted

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Intricate

Complicated

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Desultory

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Jumping from one thing to another

Disconnected

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Diatribe

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An abusive, condemnatory speech

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Diffident

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Lacking self-confidence

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Dilatory

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Intended to delay

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Dilettante

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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

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Dissemble

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To present a false appearance

To disguise one’s real intentions or character

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Enervate

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To reduce in strength

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Engender

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Produce

Cause

Bring about

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Enumerate

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Count

List

Itemize

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Equivocate

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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

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Erudite

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Learned

Scholarly

Bookish

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Exculpate

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Clear from blame

Prove innocent

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Foment

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Arouse

Incite

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Guile

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Deceit

Trickery

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Iconoclast

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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions

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Impetuous

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Quick to act without thinking

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Inchoate

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Not fully formed

Disorganized

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Inimical

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Hostile

Unfriendly

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Insipid

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Lacking interest or flavor

Blah

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising

Refusing to be reconciled

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Inundate

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Overwhelm

Cover with water

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Irascible

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Made angry easily

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Malinger

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To skip out on responsibility by pretending to be ill

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Misanthrope

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A person who dislikes others

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Obsequious

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Overly submissive

Eager to please

(Uriah Heep)

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Obviate

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Prevent

Make unnecessary

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Onerous

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Troublesome

Oppressive

Burdensome

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Ostentation

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Excessive showiness

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Pedant

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Someone who shows off learning

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Perfidious

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Willing to betray one’s trust

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Perfunctory

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Done in a routine way

Indifferent

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Prodigal

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Lavish

Wasteful

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Proliferate

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Increase in number quickly

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Propitiate

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Conciliate

Appease

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Quiescent

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Motionless

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Repudiate

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Reject the validity of

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Reticent

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Silent

Reserveed

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive

Seemingly plausible but fallacious

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Stolid

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Unemotional

Lacking sensitivity

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Sublime

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Lofty

Grand

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Tacit

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Done without using words

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Taciturn

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Silent

Not talkative

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