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Timorous

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Shy
Lacking Confidence
Faint-hearted

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Carping

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Very hard to please

Critical

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Bigotry

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Bias/fixed on certain prejudices

Stubborn attachment to a certain belief

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Retrospective

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Looking back

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace after false conduct

Harsh criticism

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Consternation

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Feeling filled with anxiety, usually when something unexpected happens
Shock

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Tumult

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Loud noise (usually caused by a crowd of people)
Racket
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Insurrection

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Revolt against authority/gov.

Violent revolution

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Elicit

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evoke something from someone

draw forth something

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Precocious

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When a child develops certain abilities that are expected to arise at an older aged
advanced

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Capricious

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unpredictable

sudden changes of mood/behaviour in a person

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Deceit

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Deceiving someone by concealing/misinterpreting the truth

Making someone believe that something is true when it’s not

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Vengeance

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Revenge

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Conscientiousness

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Striving to do your work well and thoroughly

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Prerogatives

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Certain rights that are only for the middle class
privilege
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Ominous

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being/exhibiting an omen

foreshadowing evil

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Pathos

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attempt to sway audience emotionally

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Ethos

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establishing your authority when speaking on a subject

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Logos

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Logical arguments

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Ardently

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Enthusiastically

Passionately

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Sovereign

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a ruler/possessing supreme power

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Feeble

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weak

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Ostensible

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when something appears to be true but isn’t necessarily

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Soporific

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induces drowsiness/sleep

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Antipathy

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Animosity

Hostility

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Enigma

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puzzle
conundrum
(she was an enigma to him)

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Indifference

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lack of interest/sympathy

mediocrity

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Malevolent

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Evil-minded

Malicious

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