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Exorbitant

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Unreasonably high

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Usury

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Practice of lending money at exorbitant rates

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Untoward

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Not favourable, troublesome, adverse, unruly

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Unruly

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Disorderly and disruptive

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Untenable

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Indefensible

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Indefensible

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Unjustifiable by argument

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Unfeigned

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Not false, not made up, genuine

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Undulating

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Moving in waves

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Uncanny

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Mysterious, strange

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Tutelary

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Serving as a guardian or protector

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Turgid

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Swollen, bloated, pompous

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Turbid

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Muddy, opaque, in a state of great confusion

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Distended

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Literal meaning: swollen use to pressure on the inside

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Tryst

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Agreement between lovers to meet; rendezvous

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Truculence

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Aggressiveness, ferocity

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Trepidation

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Fear, anxiety

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Tremulous

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Trembling, quivering, frugal, timid

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Treatise

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Article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly

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Travesty

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Parody, caricature, exaggerated imitation

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Travail

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(Arduous) work; tribulation, anguish

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Tribulation

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Grievous trouble, severe trial

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Transgression

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Act of trespassing or violating a law or rule

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Tenuous

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Weak, insubstantial

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Indecorous

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Not keeping with good taste and propriety

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Shore up

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Support by placing against something rigid/solid

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Vociferous

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Vehement ad clamorous (person or speech)

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Skittish

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Playfully frivolous and unpredictable

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Restive

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Increasingly difficult to control use to impatience, dissatisfaction etc.

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