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Engender

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Cause or give rise to

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Repudiate

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Refuse to accept

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Assuage

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Make a Unpleasant feeling less intense

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Precedent

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standard or guide

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Preclude

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prevent from happening

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Ubiquitous

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present, Found everywhere

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Detractor

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A person who disparages someone or something. Critic

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Vindicate

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Clear someone of blame

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Buttress

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Source of defense or support. Strengthen

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Absolved

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Free from guilt

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Paucity

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The presence of something only in a small or insufficient amount

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innocuous

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Not harmful or offence

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Conjecture

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Hypothesis, speculation

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Capricious

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given to sudden and unaccountable changes in mood or behavior.

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Alacrity

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Brisk and cheerful readiness

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Nebulous

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Vague or ill-defined, ambiguous

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Evince

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Show, Indicate

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Unprecedented

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Never known or done before

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Unequivocal

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Leaving no doubt

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Spurious

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False or Fake

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Ineluctable

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Unable to be resisted or avoided

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Copious

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Abundant in supply

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Irreprochable

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Faultless

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Amorphous

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Without a clearly designed shape or form

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Supplant

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Supersede and replace

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Placate

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Make someone less angry

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Coalesce

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Combine

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Ameliorate

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Make better

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary

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Austere

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severe or strict in manner

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Appraise

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Evaluate

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Idiosyncratic

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Peculiar or individualistic

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Equitable

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Fair

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Apprise

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Inform or tell

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Permeate

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spread throughout

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Misconstructed

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Interpret wrongly

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Juxtapose

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Place them closely together for a contrasting effect

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Interspersed

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Scatter among or between other things

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Augment

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make greater

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Substantiate

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Validate

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Vacuity

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Lack of thought or intelligence

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Untenable

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Implausible, indefensible

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Scrupulous

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attentive to details

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Incongruous

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Incompatible

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Myriad

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Multitude

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Insuperable

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impossible to overcome

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Discern

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Recognize or find out

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Proliferate

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Increase in numbers

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Sporadic

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Occasional

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Exactitude

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Very accurate or careful

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Hew out

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carve out or cut out

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Extrapolate

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Extend the application of

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Tenuous

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weak or slight

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Jostle

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shove

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Dogmatic

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Opinionated

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Reverence

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Deep respect or admiration

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Banal

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Lacking in originality

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Prudence

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quality of being cautious

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Vacillating

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Fluctuate

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Stalwart

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Loyal

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Pretentious

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showy

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Subversive

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Disruptive

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Inextricable

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Impossible to distinguish

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Inducement

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Incentive

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Presage

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Foreshadow

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant

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Pernicious

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Deadly or harmful

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Insular

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Limited or restricted

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Defunct

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No longer in effect or in use

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Ingenious

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Clever

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Pristine

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perfect

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stymied

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to prevent

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Noxious

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Toxic, harmful

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Unpalatability

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Distasteful

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monetize

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to earn revenue

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Corroborate

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confrim

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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precipitating

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cause

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Disparage

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being of little worth

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outstrip

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exceed

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Circumvent

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avoid

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Obviate

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Remove

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Putative

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Accepted

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Elide

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delete, omit when speaking

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Sequester

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Isolate

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Ephemeral

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momentary

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Verdant

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grassy

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Thwarted

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foil, derail

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Percolate

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Drain

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Festoons

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Wreath

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Virtuosity

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Mastery

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Gratification

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Satisfaction

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Dissimilitude

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diversity, not similar

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Concomitant

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Accompanying

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Agglomeration

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cluster, clump, collection of things

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Convoluted

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Complicated

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Arbitrary

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Based on random choice

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Efficacy

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effectiveness

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Indoctrinate

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Brainwash

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Autonomy

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Liberty, Freedom

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Conspicuous

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clearly visible

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Corpus

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Collection

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Throng

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mass, multitude

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Dissipate

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disapear

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Venearate

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respect

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Precarious

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Uncertain

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Satiate

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satisfied to the full

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Gamut

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Spectrum

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mutability

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changeable

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Proclivity

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Inclination to choose or do something

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Perpetuate

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Continue

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Temporal

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Relating to time

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Innate

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inbred, inborn

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Proponent

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Advocate

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Unbridled

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Uncontrolled

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