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Censor

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Authority, for example government, Go through material to review and may decide to block
Check for bad things

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Adhesive

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Adj That Stick to

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Ail

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Trouble in mind or body

Example:
Exercise will help to reduce whatever ails you

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Detrimental

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Tending to cause harm

Ex: release the document would be detrimental

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Distort

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  1. pull or twist out of shape

2. Gives a misleading account or impression

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Egotist

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A person that’s excessively conceived or self

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Eradicate

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Destroy completely, put an end to it: this disease has been eradicate from the world

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Feisty

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(Of a person, especially if he looks small or week) Lively, determined,courageous : a feisty heroine is not a just a pretty face

Aggressive and touchy: he got a little feisty and try to hit me

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Idealism

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The practice of pursuing ideas especially unrealistically

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Hideous

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Ugly or disgust to look at

Extremely unpleasant

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Integrity

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The quality of being honest and having strong principle

The state of being whole : protect territory integrity

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Pact

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A formal agreement between individual and parties

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Paltry

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A small amount

Petty or trivial

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Rendezvous

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A meeting at agree time and place between people
A place that used for rendezvous
A restaurant or bar that’s popular for meeting

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Somber

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Dark or dull in color or tone

Oppressively solemn or sober in mood

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Abhor

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Regards With disgust and hatred

Professional tax preparers abhor flat tax because that dry up their business

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Accord

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V: give or grant someone( power, status)
(Accord with) agree with
N: an official agreement or treaty

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Akin

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Something with similar character: something akin to gratitude overwhelmed her
Related by blood

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Ambiguous

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(Of language) open to more that one interpretation, have double meaning
Unclear because the choice between alternatives has not been made

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed or contradict feeling about someone or something

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Amorphous

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Without a clear defined shape or form

Uncleared, lack or structure etc

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Anguish

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Noun Sever mental pain or suffering

Verb extremely distressed by

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Animosity

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Strong hostility

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Annex

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Append or Add as an extra part or subordinate

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Arbitrary

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Based on random choice or personal realm instead of reasoning or system

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Aspiration

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The hoe or ambition of achieving something

(Medical) the action or process of drawing breath

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Barrage

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A concentrated bombarding of a wide area;
An concentrated outpouring of question or blows
Verb: bombard someone with somthing

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Bastion

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1 : a projecting part of a fortification
2 : a fortified area or position
3 : stronghold

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Benign

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adjective

  1. having a kindly disposition; gracious: a benign king.
  2. showing or expressive of gentleness or kindness: a benign smile.
  3. favorable; propitious: a series of benign omens and configurations in the heavens.
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Biased

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Unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something

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Brash

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brash[ brash ]
adjective
1. impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
2. hasty; rash; impetuous.
3. energetic or highly spirited, especially in an irreverent way; zesty: a brash new musical.

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Brazen

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Boldly or without shame

Chiefly made of brass

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Candid

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Truthful and straightforward or frank

A photograph of a person especially without the subjects knowledge

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Exalt

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Hold in very high regards, speak high of

Make noble character, dignify

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Exemplify

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Be a typical example of

Make attested copy under official seal

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Flaccid

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  1. soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
  2. lacking force; weak: flaccid prose.
  3. plant leave hang loosely because of lack of water
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Foolhardy

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Reckless and rash

Ex it would be foolhardy to go into scheme without support

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Homely

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Unattractive in appearance.

Simple, cozy, unpolished as in home

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Immaculate

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Perfect, free from mistake
Uniformly colored
Free from sin(church)

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Ingenuity

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The quality of being clever, creative, inventive

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Insolent

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Showing a rude and arrogant attitude, lack of respect

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Integrate

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Combine with another to form a whole piece

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Inundate

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Overwhelmed with things or people to deal with

Flood

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Irate

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Feeling or characterized by great anger

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Jeer

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Making rude or mocking remarks

Noun, rude or mocking remarks

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Jest

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Joke, things said and done for amusement.

Make a joke

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Lament

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Mourn

A passionate express of grieve or sorrow

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Lucrative

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Producing a great deal of profit

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Menace

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V: threat or danger
N: threat, a thing or person that easy to cause harm

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Mystify

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Making obscure and mysterious

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Nostalgic

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Those who like to go back to past

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Obstinate

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Hard to be changed, stubburn

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Overt

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Done or show openly

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Pervasive

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(Especially unwelcome effect or influence) spreading out widely in a group or community

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Pessimistic

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Tend to the worst of things or believe the worst will happen

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Petty

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Of little importance trivial

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Pinnacle

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A pointy piece or rock

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Glean

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Extract from various source

Gather (after gain harvest) leftover

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Haphazard

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Lack any kind of principal of organization, messily arranged

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Plausible

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(In an argument) seeming reasonable and probable

A person is good at making persuasive argument

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Porous

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(Of rock or other material) has a minute space or hole

Not secure, easy to lose

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Pristine

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In it’s original condition, unspoiled

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