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Fissure

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Crevice

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Finesse

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To handle with deceptive/evasive strategy; refinement in performance

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Flag

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To droop, grow weak

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Fledgling

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Beginner, novice

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Flora

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Plants of a region or era

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Factotum

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A person who does all sorts of work, handyman

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Fallacious

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Based on false idea or fact; misleading

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Fatuous

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Foolishly self-satisfied

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Fauna

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Animals of a period or region

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Fawning

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Seeking favour by flattering

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Felicitous

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Suitably expressed, appropriate, well-chosen

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Feral

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Existing in a wild or untamed state

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Fervor

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Warmth or intensity of emotion

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Expiate

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To atone for

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Explicate

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To interpret, explain, clarify

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Expository

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Explanatory

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Extant

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In existence, not lost

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Extemporaneous

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Unrehearsed

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Extirpate

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To root up, destroy

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Extraneous

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Not essential

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Facetious

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Humorous

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Exacerbate

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To aggravate; make worse

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Exact

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Force the payment of; demand or obtain by authority

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Exculpate

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To clear blame; vindicate

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Execrable

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Detestable, abhorrent

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Exhort

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To urge by strong appeals

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Exigency

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Crisis, urgent requirements

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Existential; existentialism

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Having to do with existence; base on experience;
Philosophical movement that stresses individual experience in relation to the world; concerning with the ideas of freedom, responsibility, and the isolation of the individual self

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Exorcise

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To expel evil spirits, free from bad influences

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Expatiate

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To speak or write at length

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Expatriate

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To send into to exile

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Ethnocentric

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Based on the attitude that ones group is superior

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Etiolated

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Causes or origins

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Eugenics

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Study of factors that influence the hereditary qualities if the human race and ways to improve these qualities

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Eulogy

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High pies for someone who recently died

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Euphoria

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Feeling of extreme happiness

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Evince

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To show plainly; be an indication of

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Evocative

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Tending to call to Mindoro produce a reaction

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived, fleeting

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Epistemology

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Branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge

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Equable

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Steady, unvarying, serene

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Equanimity

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Composure, calmness

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Errant

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Mistaken, straying from the proper course

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Essay

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Make an attempt, subject to a test

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Estimable

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Admirable