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Burnish

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Polish (not the country)

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Hauteur

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Arrogance

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Dissolute

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Overindulging in sensual pleasures

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Officious

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Domineering interfering

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Insatiable

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Impossible to satisfy

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Panache

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Flamboyant confidence

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Ingratiate

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Flattery to better yourself

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Quasi

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Appearing to be so (seemingly)

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Vagaries

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An unexpected and inexplicable change

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Incessant

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Continuing without pause or interruption

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Modus operandi

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A particular way of doing something

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Propensity

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An inclination to behave in a certain way

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Opulence

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Great wealth or luxuriousness

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Fecundity

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Fruitfulness and fertility

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Guise

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A new form (used to describe a change)

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Benign

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Gentle and kind

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Decree

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An official order

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Expedite

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To make an action happen quicker

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Facetious/levity

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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour

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Brevity

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Saying a lot with few words

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Satyriasis

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Uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire in a man

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Prudent

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Acting with care and thought for the future

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Sagacious

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Having good judgement (wise)

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Insouciant

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Showing a casual lack of concern

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Esoteric

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Specific conversation only interested/educated people would understand

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Efficacy

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The ability to produce a desired or intended result (successfulness)

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Engender

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Cause or give rise to

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Fealty

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Formal acknowledgement of loyalty to a lord

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Enmity

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A state or feeling of active opposition or hostility

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Profligacy

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Reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources

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Nomenclature

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The devising or choosing of names for things, especially in a science or other discipline

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Debride

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To remove dead, contaminated material

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Unguent

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A soft greasy or viscous substance used as ointment for lubrication

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Receptacle

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A hollow object used to contain something

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Enshroud

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Envelop and completely hide from view

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36
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Thespian

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An actor or actress

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Infallible

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Incapable of being wrong

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Holistic

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Dealing with or treating the whole of something and not just a part.

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39
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Systemic

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Relating to a system rather than localised

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Posterity

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All future generations of people

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41
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Gambrelled

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That has been strung up on a gambrel (the top of a house which is distinct via having a roof consisting of two slopes with the second slope nearer the edge being steeper)

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Languor

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Tiredness of inactivity. Especially when pleasurable

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Midmost

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The very middle

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Discalced

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Not wearing shoes

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Immolate

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Kill or offer via sacrifice (usually burning)

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Escarpment

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A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.

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Laved

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Providential

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Occurring at a favourable time, opportune.

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Earnestness

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Sincere and intense conviction

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Advent

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The arrival of a notable person or thing.

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Lank

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Long, limp, and straight.

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Meconium

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A mammalian infant’s first stool

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Macadam

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The road surface (tarmac) broken stone of even size, bound with tar or bitumen.

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Stropped

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To sharpen with a strop, a device often wore on the belt

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Rachitic

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Feeble and weak pertaining to rickets

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Parsable

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Denoting to the analysis of speech in grammatical constituents.

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Devils advocate

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A person who expresses a contentious opinion in order to provoke debate or test the strength of the opposing arguments

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Eclectic

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Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.

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Polymath

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Someone with extensive knowledge about different things.

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Illustrious

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Well known and respected

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Mendicant

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Given to begging

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Secular

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Not connected with religious or spiritual matters.

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Midden

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A dung hill or refuse heap

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Mattock

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The opposing end to a pickaxe characterised by a wider blade

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Capricious

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Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour

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Gaud

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A showy and purely ornamental thing

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Stakebed

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A truck with stakes as body

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Conflagration

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An extensive fire

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Ensconce

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Establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe place.

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Catatonic

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Immobile or unresponsive stupor

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Insidiously

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Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects

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Incredulously

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In a manner indicating disbelief

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Venerable

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Accorded a great deal of respect

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Innocuous

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Not harmful or offensive

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Contralto

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The lowest female signing voice

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Punitive

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Inflicting or intended as punishment

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Cache

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A collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place.

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Hygroscopic

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Tending to absorb moisture from the air

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Assiduously

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With great care and persistence

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Polymath

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Someone with a vast array of knowledge

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Righteous

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Morally right or justifiable

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Carrion

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The decaying flesh of dead animals

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Plinth

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A heavy base supporting a statue or vase

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Aperture

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A hole or gap

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Cad

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A man who behaves dishonourably especially towards a woman

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Gaunt

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Lean and haggard because of disease/age

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Sustenance

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Nourishment

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Estranged

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No longer close or affectionate to someone

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Fastidious

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Very attentive and corned with detail and accuracy

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Saleable

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Able to be sold

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Sanguine

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Optimistic, especially in a bad situation

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Loquacious

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Habiliment

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Gamut

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The complete range of something

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Coterie

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A small group of people with shared interests

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Litigious

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Ready to take legal action to settle disputes

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Usurp

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To take illegally or by force

98
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Cordite

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A particular type of explosive

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Invalid

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A person made weak or disabled by injury

100
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Obstinate

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