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Nostalgia

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Severe homesickness; a longing for the pleasant past

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Lethargy

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State of apathy or indifference

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Benevolence

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Desire for the welfare of others; charitableness

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Satiated

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Filled beyond natural desire; glutted

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Frustration

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Failure or inability to attain something desired

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Weltschmerz

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Literally, world of pain; sadness from a gloomy world philosophy

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Antipathy

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An instinctive feeling of aversion or dislike

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Compunction

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Self-reproach for wrongdoing; slight regret

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Enervated

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Deprived of physical, nervous, and emotional energy

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Ennui

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A feeling of listless weariness resulting from satiety, boredom, or inactivity

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Misogynist

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A hater if women

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Vindictive

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Disposed to revenge; retaliatory

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Supercilious

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Lofty with prose; haughtily contemptuous

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Anthropology

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Science of mankind’s habits, history, distribution, and culture

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Geology

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Study of earth/rocks

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Archaeology

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Science of antiques

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Embryologist

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Deals with begging a of life

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Entomology

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Study of insects

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Ethnology

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Study of race

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Etymology

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Study of the history and origin of words

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Ornithology

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Study of birds

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Philology

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Entire field of words and launguage

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Phsychology

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Student of the human mind and behavior

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Imbroglio

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A complicated and embarrassing situation

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Peccadillo

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A slight sin

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Braggadocio

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Empty boasting

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Penury

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Abject poverty

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Anamoly

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Something that is irregular or inconsistent

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Panacea

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A cure for all ills

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Fiasco

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A miserable and ridiculous failure

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Rationalize

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To claim a worthy motive for discreditable act

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Idiosyncrasy

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A characteristic peculiarity

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Elite

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The best or most capable part of a group

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Parvenu

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One who flaunts newly attained wealth

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Malinger

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To feign sickness to shirk work or duty

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Intelligentsia

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The intelligent and educated classes

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Chicanery

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Mean, petty trickery

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Banal

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Commonplace; without sparkle or originality

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Adroitly

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Expertly; dexterously; with skillful use of hands or mind

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Concomitantly

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Accompanying; occurring together

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Didactically

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In the fashion of a teacher; as if teaching a lesson

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Glibly

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In a manner of smooth ease and fluency; without hestitation

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Inadvertently

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In a heedless manner; without care; inattentively

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Ominously

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Forebodingly; in a way portending evil

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Sub rosa

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In strict confidence; privately

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Vociferously

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In a loud-voiced manner; noisily

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Plaintively

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Expressing sadness or melancholy

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Irascibly

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Angrily; irritably; in a hot-tempered fashion

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With impunity

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With freedom from punishment or consequences

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Disparagingly

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Speaking slightingly of, in a way to undervalue and discredit

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Cursorily

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Hastily and superficially, without due care and attention

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Circumspectly

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Cautiously with watchfulness in all directions

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Acrimoniously

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With sharpness and bitterness if speech and temper

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Magnify

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To make larger

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Inanimate

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Without life

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Animadvert

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Turn ones mind to

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Unanimous

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Everyone in agreement

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Magniloquent

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Speaker who uses flowery language

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Equanimity

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Level-headed, placid, unruffled temperament

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Magnum opus

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Great artistic or literary work

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Magnum

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Two-quart bottle of booze

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Magnitude

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Largeness; large size

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Magnificence

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Greatness or grandeur

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Magnate

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Important person in industry

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Animalcule

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A very small creature

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Magnanimous

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Large-minded, not petty

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Pusillanimous

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Small-minded; cowardly

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Animosity

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Strong hostility toward something or someone

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Animate

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To bring to life

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Bête noire

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Particular object of hatred or dread

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Cadaverous

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Pale, ghastly, gaunt

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Carte Blanche

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Unconditional permission or authority

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Esoteric

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Confined to a select circle or group

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Forte

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Strengths; strong point

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Impasse

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Insurmountable obstacle, or blind ally

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Incongruous

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Out of place

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Docile

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Tractable, easily manipulated

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Miscegenation

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A marriage between people of different ethnicities

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Moribund

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In a dying state

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Nebulous

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Hazy, indistinct

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Recriminations

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Abusive argument

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Soporific

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Producing sleep

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Scurrilous

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Offensive; vulgar

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Repercussions

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Reverberations, effects of something you’ve done

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