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Execration

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The act of cursing or denouncing

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Fain

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Pleased or Willing

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Prerogative

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A right of privilege

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peremptory

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putting an end to something

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Edification

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Instruction or imporvement of someone intellectually or morally

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Imputation

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A change or claim that someone has done something wrong

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Antipathy

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Deep feelings of dislike

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Impalpable

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Unable to be felt by touch, or not easily comprehended

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Ignominy

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Public shame or disgrace

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Perfidious

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Deceitful

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Ameliorate

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Make something better

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance

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Palliate

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To make a disease or its symptoms less severe without removing the cause

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Paroxysm

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Sudden attack or violent expression of an emotion

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Sardonic

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Grimly mocking or cynical

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Acrimony

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Bitterness or ill feeling

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Affable

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Friendly,Good natured

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Contumacy

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Stubborn refusal to comply with law

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Repletion

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The act of eating to excess

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Caprice

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A sudden,impulsive, and unmotivated action

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Confabulation

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To talk informally

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raiment

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Clothing of the victorian era

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Eyrie

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Large nest of a bird of prey

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Presentiment

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Intuitive feeling about the future

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Allege

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Claim or assert someone has done something

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Indolent

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Wanting to avoid an activity or to be lazy and slow

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Abhor

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Regard with disgust and hatred

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Ascetic

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Person who practices severe discipline typically for a religious purpose

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Efface

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Erase from a surface

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Purloin

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To steal something

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Malignant

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Malevolent, very virulent infection

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Salubrious

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Healthy producing/ healthy. Vegetables are salubrious

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Despotism

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To excercise power in a cruel and opressive manner

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Dreary

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Gloomy or Depressing

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Efficacious

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Effective in producing a result

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Malefactor

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Criminal who commits wrong

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Malingerer

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To pretend to be sick to skip work

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Nestled

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To like comfortably

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Pernicious

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Harmful in a subtle way

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regenerate

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To regrow

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Succumb

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To surrender to

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Vignettes

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An eye catching sketch

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Cacophonous

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Harsh sounding

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Complacent

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Smug satisfaction with ones achievements

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Disreputable

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Scandalous

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Dissonant

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Lacking harmony

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Exemplary

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Ideal or perfect

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Galvanizing

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Shock someone into taking action

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grating

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Irritating

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ignoble

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dishonorable

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Mellifluous

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Pleasant to hear

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Melodious

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pleasant tone

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Preposterous

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Absurd

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Preternatural

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extraordinary or not normal

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Quintessential

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Typical

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Repugnant

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revolting/distasteful/ unacceptable

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Soporific

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Sleepy or boring

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Valiant

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Fearless/ Heroic

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