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Illustrious

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Famous

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Ideology

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Set of ideas typical of a social or political group

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Impair

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To make worse

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Imperceptible

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Not able to be seen or heard

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Impulse

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Sudden urge

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Incapacitated

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Lacking physical or legal power

In capable of physical or legal power

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Incompetence

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Inability to function properly

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Indifferent

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Lack of interest or feeling( apathetic

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Indistinguishable

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Identical; hard to tell apart

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Inert

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Lacking the power to move; inactive

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Infinite

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Unlimited

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Innovate

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To be creative; to do something new

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Innovate

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To be creative; to do something new

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Insight

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A sudden understanding

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instantaneous

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Immediate - INSTANT

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Integral

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Important

It’s integral to integrate

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Intervention

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Interference

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Intuition

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A hunch or feeling about something

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Irreparable

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Unfixable

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Jack

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Device for lifting something heavy

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Judicious

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Wise

Judges must me judicious

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Kernel

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The central or important part

The kernel of popcorn is the kernel

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Labored

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Done with great effort

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Lavish

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  1. Adj - extravagant

2. Verb- to give away in large amounts

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Lethargic

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Tired; lazy

Lethargic people would rather say tired or lazy

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Lofty

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  1. Very tall or high in air
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Luxuriant

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  1. Richly decorated
  2. Growing abundantly

The lexinberg family have a luxuriant house and bank account

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Malice

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Hatred

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Matriculated

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To enter or to enroll

People named Marty are obsessed with matriculating

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Medley

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Group of songs strung together

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Meritorious

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Having value;

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Mcrobe

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Tiny, microscopic organism

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Mine

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  1. Noun- place where metal is found

2. Verb- to dig for metal

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Miser

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A person who hates spending money

Misters are misers

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Monarchy

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A state red by a king or queen

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Multiplicity

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Involving more than one

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Negligence

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Carelessness; oversight

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Notorious

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Famous for being bad

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Objective

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  1. Noun- goal

2. Adj- neutral; impartial ; without feelings

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Obstinate

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Stubborn

People who abstinent are obstinate about not having sex

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Optician

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Eye doctor

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Painstaking

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Very careful

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Partisan

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Supporters of an idea or a cause

Part of the cause

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Pedestrian

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  1. Noun- one who travels by foot

2. Adj/ on place; ordinary; banal; unimaginative

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Perpetual

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Everlasting; continue forever

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Petty

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If little importance; trivial

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Pitiable

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Worth of sympathy

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Poised

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  1. Ready

2. In control if ones emotion and behavior

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Portfolio

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A set of pictures or documents

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Preconceived

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Panned in advance

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Predicament

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Problem situation

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Prescience

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Foresight; ability to predict the future

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Presume

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To take for granted; to believe without reason

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Principled

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Moral; ethical

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Progressive

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Moving toward

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Prophet

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  1. One who predicts future events

2. Messenger from god

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Prudent

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Careful

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Quake

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To shake or tremble

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Radiate

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To give off

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Rash

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Hurried; without thinking

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Recipient

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One who receives

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Reclusive

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Living alone; secluded

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Recurrent

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Repetitive; happening again

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Refuge

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A shelter from danger

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Regional

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Of a particular geographic area

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Reinstate

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To restore; to out back into a former position

There was too much rain in the state and they needed to reinstate the house

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Remission

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Temporary weakening of force

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Renovate

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To repair; to restore

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Reputability

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Being well though of; respectable

Having a good reputation

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Resist

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To fight against

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Restore

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To bring back to a former or normal condition

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Revive

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To bring back to life

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Ripple

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Small wave on the surface

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Rural

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From the country

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Saccharine

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Overly sweet; falsely kind

Sacch of bullshit

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Scrutinize

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To examine carefully

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Sentiment

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Feeling of emotion

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Sever

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To separate; to cut

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Shrug

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To raise one’s shoulder

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Sluggish

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Slow moving

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Solidarity

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Togetherness

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Spacious

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Roomy

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Spontaneity

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Suddenness, impulse

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Stained

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  1. Discolored

2. Dishonored

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Static

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Not moving, not changing

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Stroke

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A single deliberate movement or action

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Subtle

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Not easily seen; difficult to understand

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Synthesis

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Combination of party’s to create a whole

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Tact

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Ability go do or say the right thing at the right time

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Suppress

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To keep down by force

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Sustain

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To maintain; to keep up

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Tangent

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A sudden change of topic

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Temperament

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Mood, character

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Terrestrial

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Of the earth

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Touchdown

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Score in football

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Trawler

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Fishing boat

Go on the trawler to catch the exotic trawl

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Troupe

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A groups of performers

Of the 7 groups at the meeting today, 2 were troupes

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Ultimate

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  1. Final

2. Best

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Unbounded

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Without limits

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Unethical

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Immoral

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Universal

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Widespread

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Uphold

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To enforce; to support

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Utterance

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Something spoken

To utter

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Vacant

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  1. Empty

2. Without expression

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Vandal

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One who damages property

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Verbose

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Using more words than are necessary

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Veto

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To forbid, to prevent by vote

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Vulgar

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Crude; lacking culture

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Weary

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Tired

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Witticism

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Witty comment

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Zany

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Crazy

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