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Aberrant

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Deviating from the noun

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Abscond

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To depart to steal off and hide

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal order form or rule abnormality

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Sedulous

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Strenuous

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Assuage

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To ease or leasen, pacify

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Audacious

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Daring or fearless recklessly bold

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Austere

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Without adornment, bare, simple, ascetic

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Axiomatic

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Taken as being given

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Canonical

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Following or an agreement with excepted traditional standards

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Capricious

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Inclined to change one’s mind impulsively erratic unpredictable

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Censure

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To criticize severely

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Chicanery

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Trickery or subterfuge

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Connoisseur

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Expert

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Convoluted

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Complex or complicated

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Disabuse

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To undeceive, to set right

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Discordant

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Conflicting or harsh and sound

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Disparate

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness presumptuousness

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Eloquent

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Well spoken and articulate

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Enervate

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To weaken

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language with the deceptive intent

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Erudite

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Very learned scholarly

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Exculpate

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To clear of blame exonerate

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Exigent

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Urgent pressing requiring immediate action or attention

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Extemporaneous

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Improved done without preparation

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Filibuster

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Prolonged speech to display legislative action

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Fulminate

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To loudly attack or denounce

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Ingenious

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Lacking in sophistication artless

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Inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Laud

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To praise highly

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Lucid

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Clear and easily understood

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Magnanimity

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The quality of being generously nobly in mind and heart, forgiving

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Martial

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Associated with war or armed forces

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Mundane

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Of the world, ordinary

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Nascent

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Coming into being

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Nebulous

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Vague

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Neologism

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A new word or creation or use of new words or senses

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Noxious

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Harmful

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Obtuse

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Lacking intelligence or precision in thought

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Obviate

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To anticipate and make unnecessary

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Onerous

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Troubling, burdensome

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Paean

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A song or hymn of praise

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Parody

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Imitation for comic effect

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Perennial

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Reoccurring event over years

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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith, treachery

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Perfunctory

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Cursory, done without care or interest

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Perspicacious

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Acutely perceptive

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Prattle

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To babble meaninglessly

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Precipitate

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Acting on impulse or to cause before anticipated

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Predilection

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Preference

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Prescience

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Knowing of events prior to their occurrence

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Prevaricate

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To mislead

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Qualms

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Misgivings, causes for hesitancy

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Recant

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To retract something

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Refute

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To argue against

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Relegate

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To forcibly assign

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Reticent

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Quiet and reserved

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Solicitous

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Eager, concerned and attentive

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Sordid

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Filth, foul in character

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Sporadic

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Occurring only in scatted instances

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Squander

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To waste by spending or using irresponsibly

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Static

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Inactive or at rest

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Stupefy

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To stun or amaze

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Stymie

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To block or to thwart

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Synthesis

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Combining to make a whole

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Torque

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Force causing rotation

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Tortuous

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Winding, twisting, complicated

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Truculent

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Fierce and cruel, eager to fight

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Veracity

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Honesty

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful or poisonous bitterly hostile or antagonistic

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Voracious

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Having an insatiable appetite for an activity, ravenous

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Waver

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To move to and fro; to be unsettled in opinion

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