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Abate

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To reduce in intensity or amount.

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Abridge

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To shorten; diminish

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Adulterate

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To make impure by adding lesser substances

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Apprehend

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To seize, arrest or take into custody

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Bestial

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Brutality lacking reason; savagery

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Brazen

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Shameless, insolent, disrespectful

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Boisterous

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Rowdy, rough, stormy

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Bulwark

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A strong defense or something that defends

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Carnal

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Marked by crude and frank sexuality

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Celestial

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Pertaining to the sky or heavens

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Chide

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To voice disapproval or scold

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13
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Circumscribed

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Restricted or limited

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Circumvent

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To get around something; outwit

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15
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Clemency

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Leniency

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Communal

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Pertaining to a group or community

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Conjecture

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An inference or conclusion drawn or deduced by guesswork

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Dexterous

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Skillful and active with the hands; manually adroit and skillful

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Diligent

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Characterized by steady, earnest, and attentive effort in a pursuit or study

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Discord

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Lack of agreement; tension or strife

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Discretion

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Ability to act on one’s own power of individual decision

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Emulate

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To try to equal or be like; to copy someone

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Enmity

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Hatred or intense dislike

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Entreaty

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A plea or earnest request

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25
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Extant

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Still in existence

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Extol

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To praise or glorify

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Felicitous

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Happy or delighted

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Fetter

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To restrict by shackling or chaining

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Forestalled

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Prevented or delayed beforehand

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Galling

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Very irritating

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Gambol

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To playfully leap or skip

32
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Germane

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Important to the issue at hand, pertinent

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Gratis

34
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Homage

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A reverential regard; respect shown by external action

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Impetuous

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Violent, hasty, rash, or impulsive

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Infallible

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Incapable of error

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Ingenuity

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Cleverness, inventiveness, resourcefulness

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Insolence

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Insulting or contemptuous behavior

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Inter

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To deposit a dead body into a grave

40
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Jaded

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Weary from overuse

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Lament

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To mourn or express sorrow in a demonstrative manner

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Loathe

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To detest or abhor

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Oblivion

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A state of being forgotten

44
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Obsequious

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Overly attentive or servile

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Obstinate

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Unyielding regardless of reason or logic

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Ostentatious

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Showy or pretentious

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Paragon

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A model of excellence or perfection

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Partisan

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One who exhibits extreme and possibly blind allegiance to a group or cause

49
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Peevish

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Fretful or obstinate

50
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Perdition

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Eternal damnation; under ruin

51
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Pernicious

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Very destructive; harmful; deadly

52
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Peruse

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To read or examine

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Pithy

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Concise and meaningful

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Portent

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A sign of forewarning

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Precept

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A rule guiding conduct or imposing a standard

56
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Prescursor

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Something that come before; a forerunner

57
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Prodigal

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Wasteful; a person given to extravagance

58
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Promontory

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Land or rock projecting into a body of water

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Profane

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Showing contempt toward sacred things or ideas

60
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Reconcile

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To reestablish friendship; to resolve a dispute

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Resolute

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Characterized by a decided purpose

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Replicate

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To repeat, copy, or duplicate

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Requite

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To make repayment or return

64
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Sanctify

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To set apart for sacred use, to make holy; to purify

65
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Shrill

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A high pitched or shrieking sound

66
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Spurn

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To reject or reuse with hostility

67
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Superfluous

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Beyond what is needed or required; an overflow

68
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Traducer

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One who slanders or speaks falsely about someone

69
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Turbulence

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Wild or disrupting activity

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Valid

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Well-grounded or justifiable

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Vulnerable

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Susceptible to injury or attack

72
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Wan

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Very pale or sickly

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Wanton

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Immoral or lewd

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Warranted

75
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Whets

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Stimulates; sharpens

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