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Aberrant

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Deviating from standard (normal), weird

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Abscond

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to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

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Alacrity

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eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal order

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Approbation

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an expression of approval

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Arduous

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strenuous, require significant effort

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Assuage

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to ease or lessen, placate

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Audacious

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daring and fearless

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Austere

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severely simple, ascetic

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Axiomatic

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possessing of self-evident truth

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Canonical

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following or in agreement with accepted

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Capricious

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inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable

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Censure

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to criticize severely, rebuke

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Connoisseur

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expert

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Convoluted

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complex or complicated; twisted

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Disabuse

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to undeceive

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Discordant

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Conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound

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Disparate

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dissimilar, unequal

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Effrontery

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extreme boldness

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Eloquent

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well-spoken; expressive

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Enervate

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to weaken, to reduce in vitality

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction and restlessness from boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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Erudite
very learned, scholarly
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Exculpate
exonerate, free from blame
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Exigent
urgent; emergency, required immediate actions
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Extemporaneous
improvised, done with preparation
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Filibuster
intentional obstruction especially using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative
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Fulminate
to loudly attack or denounce
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Ingenuous
artless, honest, frank and candid
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Inured
accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Irascible
easily angered; irritable
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Laud
to praise highly, adulate, Extol
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Lucid
clear, easily understood
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Magnanimity
the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiveness
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Martial
associated with war and armed forces
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Mundane
of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary; Lacking interest or excitement
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Nascent
coming into being; in early developmental stages, incipient
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Nebulous
vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form; hazy
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Neologism
A creation or use of new word or expression
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Noxious
harmful, injurious, pernicious
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Obtuse
lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise
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Obviate
to anticipate and make unnecessary
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Onerous
troubling, burdensome
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Paean
a song or hymn of praise and thanks giving
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Parody
a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect
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Perennial
Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
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Perfidy
Intentional breach of faith; treachery (betrayal of trust)
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Perfunctory
Cursory, done without care or interest
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Perspicacious
acutely perceptive, having keen discernment
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Prattle
to babble meaninglessly, to talk in an empty and idle manner; palaver (foolish or inconsequential talk)
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Precipitate
(adjective) acting with excessive haste or impulse ; (verb) to cause or happen before anticipated or required
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Predilection
a disposition in favor of something; preference; penchant; special liking
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Prescience
foreknowledge of events
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Prevaricate
to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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Qualms
misgivings, reservations, doubts
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Recant
to retract, especially a previously held belief
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Refute
to disprove, to successfully argue against
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Relegate
to forcibly assign, especially to lower place or position
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Reticent
quiet, reserved
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Solicitous
concerned and attentive
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Sordid
Characterized by filth, grime; foul
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Sporadic
occurring only occasionally or in scattered instances
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Squander
to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Static
not moving, stationary
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Stupefy
to stun, baffle
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Stymie
to block; thwart
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Synthesis
the combination of parts to make whole
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Torque
a force that cause rotation
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Tortuous
winding, twisting, excessively complicated
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Truculent
fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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Veracity
truthfulness; honesty
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Virulent
extremely harmful or poisonous
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Voracious
Engaging in an activity with great eagerness or enthusiasm; ravenous
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Waver
to move to and fro; to sway

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