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A waterfall or anything resembling one

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Cascade

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Extremely intricate or complicated

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Byzantine

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A difficult, bad tempered person

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Curmudgeon

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A large imposing building

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Edifice

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To reason with someone or to warn

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Expostulate

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Disrespectful, saucy

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Flippant

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Belligerent, mean spirited

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Jingoism

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To add on to something

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Appendage

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A name

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Appellation

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A small inexpensive ornament

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Bauble

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To make something perpetual

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Perpetuate

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Fake medicine

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Placebo

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A line or file

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Queue

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To take the place of

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Supersade

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An inheritance, especially from the father

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Patrimony

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The one who committed the act

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Perpetrator

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Apparition, ghost

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Phantasm

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Humble player

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Supplication

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Involving one side only

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Unilateral

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Outward appearance

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Venner

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Whim, unpredictable

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Vagary

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Recital or list

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Litany

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Promiscuous

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Licentious

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To work or make

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Ingratiate

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To gather

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Garner

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A mass departure, journey away

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Exodus

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Funeral song

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Dirge

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A puzzle or problem without a solution

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Conundrum

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Super cute, chubby cheek baby

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Cherub

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A group of conspirators

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Cabal

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A hiding place, the hidden things in a secret place

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Cache

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A concentrated out pouring of artillery fire

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Barrage

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The inability to speak or language

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Aphasia

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Extra fall and sharply

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Voluptuous

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A secret meeting of lovers

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Tryst

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Laying on ones back

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Supine

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Juvenile

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Saphverie

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Very strict and serve morals

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Puritanical

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A false name

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Pseudonym

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To se forth or purpose, to offer for consideration

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Propound

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A blissful, painless, worry free condition

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Nirvana

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Free from injury

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Inviolate

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The false front or misleading of appearance

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Facade

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To support with evidence especially written one

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Document

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To make unfriendly or hostile; to cause the feel removed from one side

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Estrange

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Filled with many tiny holes

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Porous

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Unusual manner or gifted

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Precocious

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Not easily roused emotion

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Stolid

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To cause to stand motionless with awe

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Transfix

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Lending money at high rates

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Usury

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Lively, animated, full of pep

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Vivacious

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To provide grounds; to guarantee

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Warrant

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Subordinate; providing assistance

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Ancillary

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Harsh, severe, withering

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Astringent

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Abrupt in manner, blunt

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Brusque

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Concealed or secret, usually for evil

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Clandestine

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A gradual increase in intensity

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Crescendo

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A god or goddess

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Diety

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The art of public speaking

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Elocution

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Implement of war, the process of arming for war

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Armament

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The best or most selected group

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Elite

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To erase; to eliminate any trace of

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Expunge

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A person strong point; special talent or specialty

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Forte

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To repeat tediously; to go on about

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Harp

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Rush; over impulsive

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Impetuous

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Melodic; poetic

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Lyrical

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To ponder; to meditate

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Muse

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Vague or indistinct

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Nebulous

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Beginnger

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Neophyte

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Fake medicine

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Placebo

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To loot; to ransack

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Plunder

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To chatter on and on

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Prattle

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Custody; bliss

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Rapture

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To regulate course

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Regimen

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Penalty; punitive measure

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Sanction

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A large group of islander

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Archipelago

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Undeveloped, tufimontary

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Emboryonic

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To follow immediately afterwards

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Ensue

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To make false representation pf

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Feign

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Related to or used in courts

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Forensic

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Tragic; antagonizing; severe

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Grievous

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A language or dialect used by a group

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Idiom

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A person this manages public entertainment

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Impersanrio

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Relocated to or relocated at the margin or border; at the lower limit of quality

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Marginal

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A figure of speech in which two contradicting words are used together

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Oxymoron

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Having to do with events that aren’t explainable

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Paranormal

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Superiors in weight size, influence, etc

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Preponderance

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Greetings, welcome, opening for greeting

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Salutations

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A distinctive word, pronunciation

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Shibboleth

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Capable of being influenced by something

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Susceptible

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Disorder

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Disarray

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To overshadow

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Eclipse

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To follow immediately

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Ensue

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A party animal

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Bacchanal

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Interfering; having tendency to but in

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Obtrusive

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To seek favor through flattery

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Fawn

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Insincere or hypocritical

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Cant

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