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Esoteric

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Understood by a small number of people

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Quintessence

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Most typical

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Impricate

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To envoke evil upon/ curse

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Farrago

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A mix

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Presentiment

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A feeling that something is going to happen

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Demure

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Modest or reserved

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Invigilate

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To supervise or watch over

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Diminution

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Decreasing or taking away

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Laconic

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Doing the bare minimum, to the point of seeming rude

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Sumptuous

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Extremely costly

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Debacle

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A great failure

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Paradigm

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A generally accepted perception of a time

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Conglebate

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To form into a large circlular mass

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Mocabra

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Inspiring horror

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Communal

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For or by a group

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Dally

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Mess around/ waste time

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Consumate

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Complete in every detail, Meticulous

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Fustigate

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To criticize severely

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Circumsribe

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To restrict or confine

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Insouciance

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Nonchalant

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Plaintive

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Expression of suffering/ melancholy

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Zenith

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Highest point

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Bafoonery

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Acting as a clown

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Nadir

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Lowest point

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Excoriate

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To censure soemthing

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Extort

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Manipulate, urge strongly

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Autonomous

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Exist independently

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Disparate

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Distinct in character or quality

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