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Knee-jerk reaction

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Very quick, immediate reaction

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Platitudes

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A remark, or statement, that has been overused negatively

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Assuage

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Make an unpleasant feeling less intense

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Reprehensible

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Deserving condemnation

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Vitriol

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Bitter criticism, malice

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Relinquish

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Voluntarily give up

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Insular

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Ignorant of other cultures

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Facile

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Easily achieved

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Poignant

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Keen sense of sadness, regret

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Indelible mark

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cannot be removed/undone

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Mammoth task

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extremely large task

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symptomatic

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showing symptoms of

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egregious

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shocking, horrific

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daunting

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difficult in prospect

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ingratiate

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to gain favor with deliberate effort

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sentinel (metaphoric)

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A soldier that stands and keeps watch

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redactive

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to oversimplify information

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omnipresent

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widespread or encountered commonly

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satiate

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to satisfy fully

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furtive

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secretive, avoiding guilt

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pique

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a slight on ones pride

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blasphemy

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anti-god

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contemporary

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living or occuring at the same time

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vain

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showing a hihh view of oneself

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shepherding

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careful management of resources

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hysteria

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uncontrolled emotion

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coterminous

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same boundaries for space time or mean

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dessiminate

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spread widely

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pedagogy

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method of teaching, practical

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paramount importance

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extremely important

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internecine

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equally destructive to both parties

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mitigate

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make something bad less severe

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vis a vis

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related to

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trajectory

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path followed by an object

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vilify

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speak about in a negative way

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systemic changes

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radical change

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succinct

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briefly expressed

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zenith

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the peak/climax

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Pontificate

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Express opinions in a pompous way

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Procrastinate

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Delay/put off doing something

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Candour

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Being frank, open and honest

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Reciprocate

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respond to an action

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Eulogise

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Praise highly in speech or writing

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Presage

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Sign or warning of a bad event to come

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Trepidation

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Feeling of fear of something that may happen

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Prescient

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Showing knowledge of an event that may happen

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Frenentic

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Fast paced, wild and uncontrolled

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Impervious

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Unaffected by

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Extol

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Praise enthusiastically

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Muster

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Collect, gather up

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Accost

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Approach or address someone aggressively

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Beligerent

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Hostile and aggressive

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Paroxsym

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Sudden attack/outburst of emotion/pain

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Spasmodically

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Subject to outbursts of emotional excitement or spasms

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Ascetic

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Severe self-discipline or abstination

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Ruse

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An action intended to deceive someone

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Forgo

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go without something

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Ostracised

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Exclude someone from a group

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Innate

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Natural (Character Trait)

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Totemic Figure

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Emblem that represents great things, used to positively describe someone

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Shard

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A broken off piece

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Invictus

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Unconquerable, undefeatable

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Egocentric

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Thinking only of oneself

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Proclivity

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Tendency to do something regularly

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Xenial

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Friendly relationship between two people

66
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Xenk currency

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A foreign currency that is traded or exchanged outside of a country

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