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Accolade

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An expression of praise

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Abate

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To lessen in intensity or degree

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Adulation

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Excessive praise; intense adoration

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Aesthetic

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Dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art of the beauty

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Ameliorate

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To make better or more tolerable

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Ascetic

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One who practices rigid self denial, esp to religious devotion

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Avarice

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Greed

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Axiom

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A universally recognized principle

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly or flourish

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Bucolic

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Rustic and pastoral

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Cacophony

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Harsh, discordant

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Canon

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An established set of principles or code of laws often religious in nature

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Castigation

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Severe criticism or Punishment

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Catalyst

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Reaction without itself changing

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Caustic

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Burning, corrosive

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Chary

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Wary, cautious

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Cogent

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Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason convincing

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Complaisance

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The willingness to comply with the wishes of others

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Contentious

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Argumentative, Causing controversy or disagreement

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Contrite

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Regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Dearth

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Smallness in quantity

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Demur

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To question or oppose

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Didactic

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Intended to teach or instruct

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Discretion

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Cautious reserve in speech

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Disinterested

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Free of bias, impartial

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Dogmatic

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Expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improbable principles

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Ebullience

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The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

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Eclectic

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Composed of elements drawn from various sources

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Elegy

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A mournful poem

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Emollient

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Soothing

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Empirical

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Based on observation or experiment

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious, obscure

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Ephemeral

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Brief

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Esoteric

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Intended for or understood by a small specific group

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Eulogy

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Speech honoring the dead

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Exonerate

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To remove blame

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Facetious

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Playful , humorous

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Fallacy

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An invalid or incorrect notation

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Furtive

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Stealthy, covert, surreptitious

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Gregarious

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Sociable

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Harangue

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To deliver a pompous speech or tirade

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Heretical

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Violating accepted dogma or convention

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statement

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Imprecunious

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Lacking money

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Incipient

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To become apparent

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Inert

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Unmoving, lethargic

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

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Inveigle

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To obtain by deception or flattery

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Morose

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Sad, sullen, melancholy

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Odious

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Evoking intense aversion or dislike

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Opaque

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Not reflecting light

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Oscillation

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To swing back and forth steadily

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Penurious

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Penny pinching, thrifty, not generous

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Pernicious

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Extremely harmful , could cause death

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Peruse

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To examine thoroughly

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Pious

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Reverent or devout

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Precursor

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One that precedes or announces another

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Preen

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To groom oneself

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Prodigious

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Abundant in size force or extraordinary

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Prolific

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Producing large armounts, productive

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Putrefy

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To rot

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Quaff

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To drink deeply

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Quiescence

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Stillness

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Redoubtable

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Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor

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Sanction

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Tended to enforce compliance

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Satire

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Literary work that ridicules a person through humor

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Squalid

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Sordid, wretched and dirty from neglect

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Stoic

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Indifferent, unaffected by pain or pleasure, steadfast

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Supplant

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To take place of, supercede

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Torpid

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Lethargic, dormant

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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere at the same time, widespread

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Urbane

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Sophisticated

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Vilify

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To defame or characterize harshly

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Viscous

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Thick, sticky

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