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Acquiesce or Acquiescence

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To accept, comply, or submit passively or without protest.

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Expunge

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To strike out, erase, or mark for deletion. 
To efface completely; wipe out or destroy. 
To eliminate (as a memory) from one's consciousness.
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Genteel or Gentility

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Affectedly proper or refined; excessively polite. Maintaining the appearance of superior social status.

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Hackneyed

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Lacking in freshness or originality; clichéd; trite; commonplace.

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Impunity

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Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. Immunity from unpleasant consequences (of an action)

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Incipient

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Beginning to come into being or to become apparent; existing in an initial stage.

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Irascible or Irascibly

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Easily provoked to anger; irritable; hot-tempered

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Pecuniary

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Pertaining to, consisting of, or measured, given, or exacted in money.

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Pertinacious or Pertinaciously

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Adhering resolutely to an opinion or purpose; perversely persistent.
Stubbornly unyielding or tenacious.

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Slipshod

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Careless; shabby; sloppy; untidy; slovenly; disheveled.

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