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politesse

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politeness

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politic

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shrewd; wise

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slovenly

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untidy; sloppy

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abeyance

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temporary inactivity

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abnegate

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to deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce

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aboriginal

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existing since the beginning

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abrogate

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to get rid of; to abolish

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absolve

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to forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from an obligation

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acquisitive

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eager to acquire and possess; greedy

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adulation

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wild or excessive admiration; flattery

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aegis

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protection

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amortize

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to gradually pay off or reduce

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antediluvian

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ancient; primitive

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antipode

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the exact opposite

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apace

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quickly

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apocryphal

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of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious

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apothegm

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a short, wise remark

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apotheosis

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elevation to divine status, the perfect example of something

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apposite

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appropriate

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asperity

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bad temper

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avarice

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greed; excessive love of riches

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beautify

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to bless; to make happy

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bespoke

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custom made

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bloviated

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was wordy/windy when speaking

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bootless

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useless

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bowdlerize

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to cut out all the offensive parts of a book

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bucolic

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charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike

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byzantine

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devious; complicated

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chicanery

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trickery; deceitfulness; artifice, especially legal or political

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compunction

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regret, remorse

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concupiscence

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strong desire, esp. sexual desire

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condign

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deserved; appropriate

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contumacious

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disobedient; rebellious

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coruscate

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sparkle

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crepuscular

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related to twilight

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defenestrate

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to quickly throw out

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denude

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strip bare

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depredate

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to take by force; to ravage; to ruin

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diaphanous

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so flimsy as to be see-through

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disport

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to amuse oneself

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draconian

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cruelly strict

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duplicitous

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deceptive

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dyspeptic

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grumpy

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Effete

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without strength or vitality; weak; soft

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eldritch

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weird; eerie

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encomium

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praise

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etiolated

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made pale; weakened

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exponent

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a supporter of something

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extirpate

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to get rid of completely

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foreground

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to highlight

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fractious

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cranky

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froward

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stubbornly disobedient

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fuliginous

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obscure; murky; dark

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gambol

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to happily dance around; to frolic

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Grandiloquent

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pompous; using a lot of big, fancy words to sound impressive

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harbinger

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a forerunner of; a signal of.

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hidebound

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inflexible; ultra-conservative

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husbandry

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thrifty management of resources; livestock farming

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ignominy

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a deep disgrace

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imbroglio

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complicated situation

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importune

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to nag; to persistently insist

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imprimatur

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official approval

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inchoate

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incomplete; formless

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ineluctable

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inevitable, bound to happen, certain

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inimical

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unfriendly; hostile

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invidious

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unpleasantly envious or causing envy

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irascible

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easily angered or provoked; irritable

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jejune

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dull; juvenile

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jingoism

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extreme nationalism; belligerant foreign policy

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lachrymose

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tearful; mournful

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legerdemain

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slight of hand; a display of skill

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logorrhea

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excessive wordiness

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macabre

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gruesome; horrible

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machination

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scheming activity for an evil purpose

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maelstrom

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violently powerful whirlpool

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malinger

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to pretend to be sick to avoid doing work

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mendicant

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a beggar

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meretricious

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falsely attractive

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milquetoast

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a timid person

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minatory

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threatening

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moribund

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dying (usually used in a figurative sense)

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nonpareil

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having no equal

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nonplussed

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bewildered or confused

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nostrum

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a questionable medicine or remedy

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nugatory

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unimportant

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obdurate

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stubborn and insensitive

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obeisance

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a gesture to show respect

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obstreperous

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uncontrollably noisy

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opprobrium

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public discrace

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paroxysm

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an attack, spasm, or outburst

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pastiche

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an imitation; something made of many things

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patois

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the speech / slang used by a certain group

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penurious

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stingy

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penury

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severe poverty

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peremptory

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final; categorical; dictatorial; bossy; prone to cutting others off

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perfidy

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treachery

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peripatetic

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wandering; traveling continually; itenerant

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pernicious

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deadly; extremely evil

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perquisite

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a priviledge that goes along with a job; a “perk”

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perspicacious

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sharp; clever

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pertinacious

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stubbornly persistent

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phlegmatic

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sluggish; unresponsive

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picaresque

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about someone’s adventures

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picayune

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unimportant; small-minded

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piebald

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many-colored; varied

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plenipotentiary

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fully empowered

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predilection

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a natural preference for something

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prevaricate

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to lie

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primordial

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original; existing since the beginning

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profligate

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extravagantly wasteful and, usually wildly immoral

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progenitors

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direct ancestors

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prognosticate

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to predict

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prolix

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too long / wordy

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promulgate

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to proclaim; to publicly or formally declare something

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propitious

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marked by favorable signs or conditions

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protean

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varied; versatile

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pulchritude

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beauty

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pusillanimous

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cowardly

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querelous

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complaining; grumbling; whining

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quiescent

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at rest

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quintessential

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the most typical; the purest

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quixotic

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romantic or idealistic to a foolish or impractical degree

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quotidian

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daily

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rancor

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bitter, long-lasting ill will or resentment

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rancorous

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hateful

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rarefied

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lofty; reserved only for a select few

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recalcitrant

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stubbornly defiant of authority or control; disobedient

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recapitulated

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summarized

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recidivist

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someone who relapsed into crime

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recondite

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hard to understand; over one’s head

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recrudescent

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reactivating

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refractory

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stubborn; unmanageable

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refulgent

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brightly shining

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reprobate

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evil

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restive

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restless; fidgety

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retrenchment

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a reduction

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riposte

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a comeback

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sangfroid

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coolness and composure

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scofflaw

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a contemptous law-breaker

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scotch

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to put a sudden end to; to injure

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scurrilous

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obscenely abusive

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sedulous

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careful; hardworking; diligent

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sententious

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using quotable or preachy sayings

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sequacious

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something that imitates another’s idea

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simulacrum

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an image or representation of something

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skulduggery

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tricky or sneaky behavior

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sojourn

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a temporary stay

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solecism

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a blunder

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solipsistic

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being extremely self-centered

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somnelent

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sleepy

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sophistry

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deceptive reasoning

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soporific

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sleep inducing; extremely boring; very sleepy

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soupcon

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a little bit

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spendthrift

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someone who spends wastefully

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splenetic

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bad-tempered

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statuesque

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attractively tall

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stentorian

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loud

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stultify

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to make ineffictive

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subversive

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corrupting; overthrowing; undermining; insurgent

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surreptitious

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sneaky; secret

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sybarite

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one devoted to pleasure

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sycophant

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a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people

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synoptic

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giving a summary

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temerity

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boldness; recklessness; audacity

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tendentious

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biased

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torpid

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sluggish; inactive; apathetic

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treacly

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overly sweet or sentimental

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tremulous

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fearful

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trepidation

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fear; apprehension; nervous trembling

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truculent

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ready to fight

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truncated

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shortened

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tumid

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swollen

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turbid

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stirred up and made unclear or muddy

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turgid

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swollen

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turpitude

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shameful wickedness; depravity

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unctuous

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oily, both literally and figuratively; insincere

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upbraided

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criticize severely

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vainglorious

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boastful

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variegated

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varied

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verboten

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forbidden

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verisimilitude

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similarity to reality; the appearance of truth; looking like the real thing

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vertiginous

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dizzy or producing dizziness

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vitiate

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to make impure; to pollute; to impair or degrade

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vituperative

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criticized harshly

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welter

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to be in turmoil; to get tossed around

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zephyr

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a gentle breeze

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