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Abasement

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Humiliation

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Manifest

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Apparently, Obviously

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Imbued

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Permeated deeply

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Ineffectual

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Powerless

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Odious

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Hateful

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Presentiments

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Sense of something about to occur

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Machination

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Plottings

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Abstruse

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Differcult to understand

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Ethereal

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Delicate, heavenly

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Devoid

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Lacking completely

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Remorseful

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Regretful

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Diabolic

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Devilish

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Impalpable

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Intangible, not perceivable by the senses

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Forborne

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Refrained

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Somnambulism

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Sleep walking

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Zenith

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High point

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Expiation

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Atonement, compensation for a wrong

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Grisly

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Horrifying

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Decorous

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Conformity to social customs: calm, polite, respectful

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Impute

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To lay the blame or responsibility on

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Malevolence

Malignity

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ill will

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Benevolence

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Good will

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Erudite

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Learned

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Pauper

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Poor person

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Despotic

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Like a tyrant

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Effluence

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Flowing out

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Obviate

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Dispose of effectively

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Rankle

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Irritate

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Misanthropy

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Hatred of man, life

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Awry

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Wrong

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Deleterious

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Harmful

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Unbraid

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Scold

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Incongruity

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Inappropriateness

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Aspect

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Not habitual or usual

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Talisman

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Object marked with magical signs

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Imparting

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Transmitting

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Loquacity

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Talkativeness

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Woefully

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Pitifully

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Gait

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Particular way of walking

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Listlessness

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Lack of energy

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Spectre

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Ghost

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Atheist

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Denies existence of God

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Contiguity

Propinquity

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Nearness (in time or space)

Nearness (so close to be touching)

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Abyss

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Hell, bottomless pit

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Dolefully

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Sadly

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Estrange

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Separate

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Colloquy

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Formal conversation

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Irrevocably

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Without possibility of change

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Vicissitude

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Quality of being changeable

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Citadel

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Fortress, stronghold

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Deportment

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Behavior

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Denizens

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Inhabitants

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Choleric

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Bad tempered

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Dryad

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Wood nymph

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Comport

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Agree, harmonize

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Solace

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Comfort in distress

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Trammel

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Hinder, restrain

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Dissolute

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Lacking in moral restraint

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Potentate

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One who has lower over others

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Gratuitous

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Unnecessary, unwanted

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Betimes

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Early

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Preternatural

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Exceptional

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Effervescence

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The process of bubbling a gas escapes

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Flit

Galliard

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Liveliness

Lively

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Galliard

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Lively

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Imperious

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Domineering, overbearing

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Ponderous

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Having great weight

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Languidly

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Without energy

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Transitory

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Short lived

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Apotheosized

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Glorified

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Repose

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Rest

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Acutest

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Sharpest

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Suffice

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Meet present needs

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Potent

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Effective, powerful

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Necromancy

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Witchcraft

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Semblance

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Appearance, copy

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Escutcheon

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Shield bearing a coat of arms

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Sable

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Black

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Gule

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Red

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Surmount

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Place above

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