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1
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Intruding / intrude

A

put oneself deliberately into a place or situation where one is uninvited.

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Contemplates

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look thoughtfully for a long time at.

think about.

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exude

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to have a lot of a particular quality or feeling:

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foster

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to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings:

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steward

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a person employed to look after the passengers on a ship, aircraft, or train.
a person responsible for supplies of food to a college, club, or other institution.

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husband

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to use something carefully so that you do not use all of it

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pretentious

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trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are, especially in matters of art and literature

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hale

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(especially of old people) healthy and strong:

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Lissome / lissom

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attractively thin and able to move quickly and smoothly

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Medley / mélange

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a varied mixture of people or things.

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bald

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basic and with no unnecessary words or detail:

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12
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the hoi polloi

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ordinary people:

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13
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abounding

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very plentiful; abundant.

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twofold

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twice as big or as much: / by two times:

having two parts:

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pompous

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too serious and full of importance:

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vapid

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showing no intelligence or imagination:

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concoct

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to invent an excuse, explanation, or story in order to deceive someone:
make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients.

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accrete

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grow by accumulation or coalescence.

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19
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transmogrify

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to transform or be changed completely:

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perambulate

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to walk about for pleasure

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Intriguing / piquant

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very interesting because of being unusual or mysterious:

22
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enormous

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extremely large:

23
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baffle

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totally bewilder or perplex.

24
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slovenly

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messy, dirty, or not careful:

25
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syncopated

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cut short, abbreviated

(of a tune) having a rhythm in which strong notes are not on the beat:

26
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fraternal

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friendly, like brothers:

27
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consonant

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in agreement or harmony with.

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acumen

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the ability to make correct judgments:

29
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Homily / homiletics

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a piece of spoken or written advice about how someone should behave:

30
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basal

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forming the bottom layer of something

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coeval

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having the same age or date of origin; contemporary.

32
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contemporary

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living or occurring at the same time.

33
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arid

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unsuccessful:
not interesting and showing no imagination:
(of land or weather) having little rain; very dry:

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redundant

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not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous.

Not employed

35
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concord

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agreement and peace between countries and people:

36
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toothsome

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(especially of food) attractive or pleasant

37
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agrarian

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relating to farming or farmers:

38
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marginalize

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to treat someone or something as if they are not important:

39
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peripheral

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Something that is peripheral is not as important as something else:

40
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unbeknownst

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without the knowledge of (someone).

41
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abhorrent

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morally very bad:

42
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tremulous

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timid; nervous.

43
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aflutter

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excited and nervous:

44
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coltish

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A coltish person is young and energetic but awkward:

45
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sentry

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a soldier who guards a place, usually by standing at its entrance:

46
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harbingers

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a person or thing that shows that something is going to happen soon, especially something bad:

47
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herald

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a sign that something will happen, change, etc.:

48
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omnipotent

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having unlimited power and able to do anything:

49
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recant

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to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.

50
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civility

A

the quality of being polite:

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