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Abound

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Large numbers or amounts

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Amorphous

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Without a clearly defined shape or form

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Austere

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Strict in manner, having no comforts or luxuries

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Belie

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Fail to give true impression of something, contradict, fail to justify

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Capricious

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Sudden change of mood, unpredictable, fickle

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Cerebral

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of the cerebrum of the brain, intellectual rather than physical

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Congenial

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Pleasant or agreeable because suited to one’s taste

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Conspicuous

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Clearly visible, attracting notice or attention

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Cursory

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Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed

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Daunting

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Difficult to deal with, discourage through fear

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Deify

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Worship or regard as a god

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Didactic

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instructive, particularly so as to appear patronizing

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Disseminate

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Spread widely

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Feasible

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Possible to do easily or conveniently

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Flout

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Openly disregard, mock, scoff

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Homogeneous

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of the same kind

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Humdrum

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lacking excitement or variety; boringly monotonous

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Insipid

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Tasteless, lacking interest

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Misanthropic

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Having or showing dislike of other people

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Misnomer

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A wrong or inaccurate name or designation

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Negligent

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Failing to take proper care over something

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Obsequious

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Obedient to an excessive or servile degree

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Placate

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Make less angry

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Proclivity

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A tendency to choose or do something regularly

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Puerile

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Childishly silly

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Quixotic

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Extremely idealistic, unrealistic, impractical

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Spendthrift

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A person who spends money in an irresponsible way

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Taciturn

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Saying little

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Wary

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Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers

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Adulterate

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Render poorer in quality by adding another substance

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Advocate

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Publicly recommend or support

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Aggrandize

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Increase power, status, reputation of someone

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Alacrity

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Brisk and cheerful readiness, eagerness

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas

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Ameliorate

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Make something bad better

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Amenable

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Susceptible, open to suggestions, easily persuaded

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Anachronistic

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Belonging to a period other than that being portrayed conspicuously old-fashioned

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Audacious

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Willingness to take surprisingly bold risks, showing impudent lack of respect

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Avaricious

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Showing extreme greed for wealth or material gain

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Banal

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Lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring

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Benign

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Gentle and kind, not harmful to the environment

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Brazen

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Bold and without shame

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Calumny

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False and slanderous statement about someone

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Candid

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Truthful and straightforward

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Castigate

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Reprimand Severely

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Construe

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Interpret in a particular way

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Caustic

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Sarcastic in a bitter way, chemical

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Contrite

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Feeling or expressing remorse that one has done wrong

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Convoluted

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Extremely complex and difficult to follow and twisted

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Covet

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Yearn to possess something that belongs to another

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Craven

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Lacking in courage, cowardly

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Decorum

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Behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety

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Deft

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Demonstrating skill and cleverness

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Demur

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Raise objections or show reluctance

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Derivative

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Imitative of the work of another

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Dessicate

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Cause to become completely dry

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Diatribe

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A forceful and bitter verbal attack

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Incredulous

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Unwilling or unable to believe something

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Ingenuous

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Innocent, naive or unsuspecting

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Abate

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Become less intense or widespread, remove or reduce law

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Abjure

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Solemnly renounce(a belief, cause or claim)

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Anomalous

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Deviating from what is standard

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Antipathy

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A deep-seated feeling of aversion

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Arcane

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Understood by few, mysterious or secret

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Arduous

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Involving or requiring strenuous effort, tiring

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Artless

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Without deception, effort or, pretentiousness, natural

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Ascetic

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Severe self-discipline, austere

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Assuage

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Satisfy, make an unpleasant feeling less intense

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Betray

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Gravely disloyal, unintentionally reveal, be evidence of

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Bucolic

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Relating to pleasant aspects of countryside

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Burgeon

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Begin to grow or increase rapidly, flourish

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Cacophonous

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Involving or producing harsh sounds

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Canonize

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Treat of great significance, place in or regard as belonging to a canon of literacy or artistic works

75
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Cḥicanery

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Use of deception or subterfuge

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Coalesce

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Come together to form one mass or whole

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Cogent

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Clear, logical and convincing

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Compelling

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Evoking interest in a powerful irresistible way

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Contend

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Struggle to surmount a difficulty, assert something as a position in an argument

80
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Copious

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Abundant in supply

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Cosmopolitan

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Mixture of cultures

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Deference

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Polite submission and respect

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Desultory

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aimless, haphazard, not having any plan, purpose, occurring randomly

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Diffident

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opposite of confidence, modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence

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Dilatory

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Slow to act, intended to cause delay

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Equivocate

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Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

87
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Polarize

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Cause to divide into two sharply contrasting groups

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Prodigal

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Spending money recklessly

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Verbose

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Using or expressed in more words that are needed

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Abstain

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Restrain oneself from doing

91
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Approbation

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Approval or praise

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Cherish

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Protect and care for lovingly

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Corroborate

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Confirm or give support to a statement, theory or finding

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Disparate

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Essentially different in kind, notable to compared, containing elements very different from one another

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Emulate

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Match or surpass a person or achievement, typically by imitation

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Enervate

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Make someone feel drained of energy, lacking in energy

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Ephemeral

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Lasting for a very short time

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Fervid

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Intensely enthusiastic or passionate, especially to an excessive degree

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters

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Incendiary

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Tending to stir up conflict

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Inimical

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Tending to obstruct, unfriendly hostile, enemity

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Intimate

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Closely acquainted, familiar, detailed or thorough

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Invigorate

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Give strength or energy to

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Mitigate

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Make something bad less severe, serious or painful

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Obsolete

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Out of date

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Opaque

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Unclear, not transparent

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Paradigmatic

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Serving as a typical example of something, of or denoting

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Pedantic

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Excessively concerned with minor details, over-scrupulous

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Placid

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Not easily upset or excited, calm and peaceful

110
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Polemical

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of or involving strongly critical writing or speech

111
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Precipitate

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Cause to happen suddenly, unexpectedly or premature

112
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Profundity

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Great depth of insight or knowledge

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Prophetic

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Accurately predicting what will happen in future

114
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Prudent

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Acting with or showing care and thought for future

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Punctilious

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Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

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Recondite

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Little known, abstruse

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Scrupulous

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Careful ,thorough, and extremely attentive to details

118
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Tranquil

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Free form disturbance, calm

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Vacillate

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Waver between different opinions or actions, be indecisive

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Aloof

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Ṇot friendly, distant, detacheed

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Clangor

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A continuously loud banging or ringing sound

122
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Conventional

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Following traditional forms and genres

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Debunk

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Expose the falseness or hollowness of an idea or belief

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Diminutive

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Extremely or unusually small

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Discernible

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Able to be discerned, perceptible, visible, noticeable

126
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Enigmatic

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Difficult to understand, mysterious

127
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Estranged

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No longer close to someone, alienated

128
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Extravagant

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Excessive, elaborate

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Fanciful

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Over-imaginative, unrealistic, highly ornamental

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Frivolous

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Carefree and superficial, not having any serious purpose or value

131
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Heterogeneous

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Diverse in character or content

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Imperious

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Arrogant and domineering

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Impertinent

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Not showing proper respect, irrelevant

134
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Invasive

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Tending to spread very quickly or undesirably, harmfully

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Irresolute

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Showing or feeling hesitancy; uncertain

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Laudable

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Deserving praise and commendation

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Lax

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Not sufficiently strict or careful, negligible/of muscle(relaxed)

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Marginalize

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Treat a person, group as insignificant or peripheral

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Panache

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Flamboyant confidence of style or manner

140
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Plodding

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Slow moving and unexciting

141
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Prosaic

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Lacking originality, commonplace, unromantic

142
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Remedial

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Intended as cure/provided or intended for children with learning difficulties

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Restive

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Sporadic

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infrequent, scattered or isolated, occasional

145
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Stigmatize

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Great disapproval

146
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Undermine

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Erode the base/ lessen the effectiveness

147
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Utterly

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Completely or without qualification, absolutely

148
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Weary

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Tired(extreme)

149
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Zealous

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Showing zeal, fervent, passionate, fervid, ardent

150
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Admonish

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Warn or reprimand someone firmly

151
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Aesthetic

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Concerned with beauty

152
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Affectation

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Pretension; behaviour, speech, or writing that is pretentious and designed to impress., facade

153
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Alleviate

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Make suffering less severe

154
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Analogous

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Comparable in certain respects

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Bolster

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Support or strength

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Chauvinistic

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Displaying aggressive patriotism, displaying excessive support for their own cause, group or sex

157
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Connoisseur

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An expert judge in matters of taste

158
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Dissemble

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Conceal or disguise one’s true feelings or beliefs

159
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Dogged

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Showing tenacity and grim persistence

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Dupe

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Trick, a victim of deception

161
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Empirical

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based on observation rather than theory

162
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Engender

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Cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation or condition)

Her latest book has engendered a lot of controversy

163
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Entitled

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Give someone a legal right

164
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Pertinacious

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Holding firmly to an opinion or course of action

Like most successful politicians, she is pertinacious and single-minded in the pursuit of her goals.

165
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Presumptuous

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(of a person or their behaviour)Failing to observe limits of what is appropriate/brazen

166
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Probity

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Having strong moral principles, honesty and decency

167
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Proliferate

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Increase rapidly in number, multiply

168
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Specious

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Superficially plausible but actually wrong

169
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Spurious

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Not being what is purports to be, false or fake

170
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Subjective

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Influenced by personal feelings, tastes, opinions

171
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Subvert

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Undermine the power and authority of system

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Timorous

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Lack of confidence, easily frightened

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Torturous

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Full of twists and turns excessively complex

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Tractable

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Easy to control or influence, easy to deal with

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Transient

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Lasting for a short time

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Ubiquitous

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Present, appearing or found everywhere, omnipresent

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Underscore

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Venal

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Bribery, corrupt

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Venerate

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Regard with great respect, reverence

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