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Axiomatic

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Taken as a given; possessing self evident truth

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Chicanery

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Trickery; subterfuge

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Extemporaneous

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improvised; done without preparation

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Deleterious

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Hurtful morally or physically. Harmful

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Fatuous

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Foolish or silly, especially in a smug, self-satisfied way

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Subterfuge

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Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Deliquesce

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To melt away

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Derogate

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To take away; detract; to deviate from a standard

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Scurrilous

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Grossly indecent or vulgar; offensive

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Arduous

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Strenuous, taxing, requiring effort

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Audacious

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Daring and fearless; recklessly bold

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the norm

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Austere

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Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

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Assuage

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To ease or lessen; to pacify

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Abase

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Cause to feel shame; to hurt the pride of

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal order, form or rule

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Ascetic

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Avoiding pleasure and comfort

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Sebaceous

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Pertaining to, appearing like fat

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Antedate

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To be of an earlier date than; precede in time. To affix a date earlier than he actual date

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Injurious

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Causing or tending to cause injury; offensive or insulting

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Deluge

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To overwhelm with a flood of water

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Ataraxia

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Peace of mind. State of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety

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Demulcent

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An application soothing to a surface

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Capricious

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Inclined to change ones mind impulsively; erratic

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Manumit

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To free from bondage or slavery

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Bacarole

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Boat song of a Venetian gondolier

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Convoluted

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Complex or complicated

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Censure

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To criticize severely

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Antedate

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Be earlier I time; go back further. Precede, predate

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Onerous

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troubling; burdensome

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Bestir

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To cause to become active; to rouse

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Scruple

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An uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action; moral compass

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Obtuse

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lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression

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Dendroid

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Like a tree

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Artless

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An inability to mask ones feelings; not devious, simple, showing lack of art

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Aberrant

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markedly different from an accepted norm

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Ennui

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dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Disabuse

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to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking

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Abscond

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To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

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Disparate

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fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind

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Equivocate

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to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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Anomaly

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deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

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Connoisseur

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An informed and astute judge in matters of taste

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Discordant

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conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

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Eloquent

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well-spoken; expressive; articulate

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Demurrage

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The detention of a vessels beyond the time allowed

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Enervate

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to weaken; to reduce in vitality

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Effrontery

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brazen boldness; presumptuousness

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Erudite

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very learned; scholarly

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Exculpate

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to clear from blame; prove innocent

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Ingenuous

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artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication

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Fulminate

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to loudly attack or denounce

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Inured

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accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Exigent

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urgent; requiring immediate action

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Laud

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to praise highly

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Filibuster

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intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action

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Magnanimity

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the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving

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Martial

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associated with war and the armed forces

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Mundane

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of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary

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Paean

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a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

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Parody

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humorous imitation

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Prescience

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foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring

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Nascent

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coming into being; in early development

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Prattle

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to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner

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Lucid

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easily understood; clear

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Nebulous

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hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused

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Noxious

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harmful; injurious

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Torque

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a force that causes rotation

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Perspicacious

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acutely perceptive; having keen discernment

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Neologism

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new word or expression

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Static

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not moving, active, or in motion; at rest

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Obviate

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to anticipate and make unnecessary

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Perennial

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(adj.) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n.) a plant that lives for many years

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Synthesis

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the combination of ideas into a complex whole

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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith; treachery

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Precipitate

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acting with excessive haste or impulse

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Predilection

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a predisposition in favor of something

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Sordid

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characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul

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Prevaricate

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to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead

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Qualms

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misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy

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Voracious

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having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous

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Perfunctory

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cursory; done with minimum effort or reflection

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Recant

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To retract, esp. a previously held belief

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Refute

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to disprove; to successfully argue against

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Relegate

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to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position

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Reticent

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quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings

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Veracity

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truthfulness

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Solicitous

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concerned and attentive; eager; showing interest

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Waver

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to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion

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Sporadic

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occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances

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Tortuous

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winding; twisting; excessively complicated

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Stymie

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to block; thwart

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Truculent

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fierce and cruel; eager to fight

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Squander

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to waste by spending or using irresponsibly

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Virulent

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extremely poisonous; full of malice; spiteful

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Stupefy

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to stun, baffle, or amaze

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