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1
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Adulterate

A

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

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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, easily persuaded, open to suggestions

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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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Caustic

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Sarcastic in a bitter way, chemical

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Construe

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Interpret in a particular way

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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 belonging to another

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Craven

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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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Desiccate

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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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