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1
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Chastise

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To reprimand harshly

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Prevaricate

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speaking in an evasive (indirectly) way

Pre(before) + Var(truth) + icate(gate)

Equivocate, evasive hedge

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Evasive

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Responding indirectly

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Demur

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To show reluctance

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Veracious

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Truthful (verdad)

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Erudite

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Having or showing great knowledge

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Desultory

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Lacking a plan, or constantly going from one conversation to the other, unfocused

desultory (desert+salty)the thirsty man in salty desert walking aimlessly for water.

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Histrionic

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Overly theatrical or melodramatic in character or style.

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Ponderous

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Slow and clumsy because of a great weight

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Ponder

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To think more carefully (pondersome)

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Prodigal

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Wastefully extravagant

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Prodigious

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Immense, large

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Magnanimous

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Generous and forgiving

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Punctilious

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Showing great detail or correct behavior

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Celeritous

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Swift

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Remise

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To give, to release a claim to

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Perfunctory

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Carried out with a minimum of effort

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Myopic

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Shortsighted; lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.

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Heralded

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To be a sign that something is about to happen

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Empiricism

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That knowledge or justification comes from the senses

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Funereal

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Depressing, grave

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Loath

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Relunctant

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Loathe

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Hate

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Verisimilitude

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the appearance of being true or real (e.g., authentic)

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Extant

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Still in existence

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Lambaste

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Criticize harshly

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Doleful

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Sad

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Cupidity

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Excessive Greed

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Insipid

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Dull and Disinteresting

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Gaudy

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Extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless.

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Diminutive

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Extremely small

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Fastidious

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Giving careful attention to detail

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Trenchant

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Piercing, Penetrating, Forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect

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Poignant

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Emotional

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Inculpatory

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Implying or imputing guilt

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Bullish

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Optimistic

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Solvency

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Pay Ones Debt

38
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Repute

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Reputation

39
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Dispatch

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Noun- being prompt and efficient

40
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Hardiness

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The ability to endure difficult conditions

41
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Haughty

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arrogantly superior and disdainful

Hotties are so superior

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Insolence

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Rude and Disrespectful Behavior

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Jingoism

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Fanatical Patriotism

44
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Precludes

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prevent from happening

45
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Auguries

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The art or practice of foretelling events by signs or omens.

46
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Tropes

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a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

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Anodyne

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Having power to relieve pain; hence, soothing to the feelings.

Am not dying- doctor gave me anodyne to relieve pain

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Misgivings

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Doubts, qualms

49
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Topical

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Relevant

50
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Moot

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  1. Debatable
  2. Having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision.
51
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Free

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Celebrated

52
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Demarcate

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Set the boundaries or limits of (Divide)

The mark locate- the boundaries

53
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Enterprise

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Undertaking, one that is difficult or requires effort

54
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Racket

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An illegal or dishonest activity that makes money

55
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Spurious

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Fake

56
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Stultify

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Cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a a tedious or restrictive routing (e.g., Thwart)

57
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Veneer

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Fake

58
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Acerbic

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Sharp and forthright

59
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Munificent

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Extremely Generous

60
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Treacly

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Excessive Sentimental

61
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Trite

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A remark overuse and lacking orginality

62
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Hackneyed

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Phrase or idea that lacks significance because its overused

63
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Vapid

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nothing that is stimulating or challenging (e.g., insipid)

Vapid is not rapid- not challenging

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Stonewall

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Delay or block by refusing to answer questions

65
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Machinating

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Engage in plots and schemes

Machine ate- he plotted to have the machine eat him

66
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Hobnobbing

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Mix socially, especially with those of higher social status (e.g., fraternize)

67
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Muckraking

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Expose corruption or scandals

68
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Paradigms

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A typical example or pattern

69
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Posits

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Assume as a fact, put forward as a basis of argument

short for postulate

70
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Eschewing

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Abstain from

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Adept

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Highly skilled

72
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Intrepid

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Bold and Brave

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Avuncular

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Kind and generous like an uncle

74
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Superannuated

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Obsolete through age (Old, Old Fashioned)

75
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Curmudgeonly

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Bad tempered and negative (especially old person)

76
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Omniscience

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Knowing everything

77
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Precedence

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To treat someone as more important

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