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Inveterate

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Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change

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Libelous

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with the purpose of damaging someone’s reputation

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Opulence

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Great wealth or luxuriousness

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Autonomy

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Synonym of independence

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Recidivism

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The tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend

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Jubilation

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A feeling of great happiness and triumph

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Hedonism

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The pursuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence

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Bombast

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Bragging; High-sounding language with little meaning; used to impress people

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Pretension

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The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

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Instigate

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Initiate

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Codify

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Arrange according to a plan or system

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Tantamount

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Equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same

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Toadies

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Person who behaves obsequiously

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Abberration

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A departure from what is normal, usual or expected, typically an unwelcome one

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Ramification

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A complex or unwelcome consequence to an action or event

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Habiliments

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Clothing

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Transcendent

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Beyond or above the range of normal or physical human experience

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Drab

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drearily dull, dull light brown colour

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Iridescent

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Colorful, lustrous or brilliant

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Culpability

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Responsibility of fraud or wrong

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Ethos

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Culture

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Gingerly

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Carefully and cautiously