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1
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Soporific

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Causing sleep or drowsiness

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Sophistic

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Seemingly valid but actually invalid

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Staid

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Serious and sedate, esp. in a boring and old-fashioned way. Sedate, respectable, and unadventurous.

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Stalwart

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Loyal and dependable; strong and sturdy

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Surfeit

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An excessive amount

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Tawdry

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Showy but low quality

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Tendentious

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Favoring a particular point of view, esp. a controversial one; biased

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Timorous

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Fearful

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Titular

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Having a title but no real power or responsibilities

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Torpor

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A state of mental and physical inactivity

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Tractable

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Easy to manage, control, or deal with

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Trappings

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The visible signs of something

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Truculent

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Quickly angered and eager to argue

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Umbrage

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Offense, a feeling of annoyance

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Upbraid

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Criticize severely, to scold

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Vapid

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Boring because showing no intelligence or imagination

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Venal

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Willing to behave dishonestly for money, corrupt

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Verve

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Energy and enthusiasm

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Vitiate

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To make defective and ineffective

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Vituperation

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Angry and abusive criticism

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Yoke

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Joining together

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Reductive

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Overly simplofied

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Discerning

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Showing good judgement

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Bemused

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Confused

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Deft

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Neatly skillful and quick in one’s movements.

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Hidebound

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narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible

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Equanimity

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mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation.

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Puerile

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childishly silly and trivial

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Unseemly

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Not proper or appropriate

30
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Underhanded

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Secretive

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Feebly

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Lack strength

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Notwithstanding

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Despite, in spite of

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Surreptitious

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Secret

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Outmoded

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No longer in use (synonym: obsolete)

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Buck

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Oppose or resist

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Punctuated

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Scatter among things (interspersed)

37
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Frivolous

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Not serious (unimportant)

38
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Attentuation

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Reduction of force

39
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Profusion

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Abundance

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Partial

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Prefer

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Ornate

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Elaborate or decorated or adorned

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Consequential

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Important (e,g, significant)

43
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Bridle

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Restraint

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