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choleric

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easily angered

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celerity

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speed

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animosity

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hatred; antagonism

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censorious

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critical

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censure

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to blame

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extrinsic

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irrelevant; on the outside

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prevaricate

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speak misleadingly

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unfrock

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to remove priest from his position

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charlatan

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someone who boasts knowledge he doesn’t have

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dike

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dam

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sentinel

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guard

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unwitting

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unconscious; not deliberate

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chary

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wary of; cautious about

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dilatory

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slow; falling behind on work

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prodigal

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wasteful; extravagent

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sequester

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to isolate

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upbraid

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to scold; to reprimand

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fatuous

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silly; foolish

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anthropocentric

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putting man at the center of one’s philosophy

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chimerical

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changeable; unstable

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pariah

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outcast

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urbane

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sophisticated, suave

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fecund

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fertile

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inebriation

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to be drunk; intoxicated

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parity

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equality

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usurp

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to take someone’s position

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dirge

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mournful song

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parochial

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narrow-minded

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martinet

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person who believes in strict discipline

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apocryphal

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a doubtful origin

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circumlocution

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overly wordy

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masochist

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someone who intentionally inflicts pain on oneself

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parry

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to avoid; to dodge; to ward off

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vacillate

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to waver; to hesitate

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parsimonious

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economical; frugal; thrifty

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vacuous

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empty; silly; meaningless

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circumspect

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cautious; considering all sides

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inexorable

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relentless

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arable

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can be cultivated to grow crops

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proscribe

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to forbid

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vapid

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dull; uninspiring

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discursiveness

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long winded; indirect

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prostration

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lying face down; extreme weakness

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menagerie

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collection of animals

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flout

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to defy; to reject

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venal

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corrupt; can be bribed

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dotard

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foolish old man

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percipient

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perceptive; insightful

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quaff

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drink down quickly

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staunch

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loyal; faithful

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vilification

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blackening someone’s name

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drawl

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speak slowly with words running

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misogynist

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hater of women

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perdition

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damnation

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attenuate

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weaken

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drivel

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nonsense

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futile

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useless; hopeless

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peremptory

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in a commanding manner

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stevedore

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dockworker

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complacent

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self-satisfied; smug

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droll

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dryly amusing

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perfidy

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treachery

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virulent

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dangerous; harmful

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auspicious

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favorable; promising to turn out well

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gambol

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to frolic; to leap

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intransigence

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stubbornness

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concatenate

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link together

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garble

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to distort; to confuse

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peripatetic

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nomadic

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quarry

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to prey; to mine for stone

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stoke

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to add fuel; to strengthen

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vitriolic

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corrosive; strongly attacking

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intrepid

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brave

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peripheral

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on the edge; not important

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querulous

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always complaining

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inveterate

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habitual; chronic

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moratorium

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temporary prohibiting

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