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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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Impose

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To force on others

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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

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Incompetence

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Inability to function properly

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Incriminate

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To show proof of involvement in crime

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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 create; 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

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Integral

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Important

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Intervention

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Interference

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Intuition

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A hunch of 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

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Kernel

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The central or important part

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Labored

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Done with great effort

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Lavish

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  1. Extravagant

2. To give away in large amounts

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Lethargic

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Tired; lazy

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Lofty

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  1. Very tall or high in the air
  2. Noble in thoughts or Aims
  3. Acting with a superior attitude.
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Lull

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  1. A quiet pause
  2. To soothe
  3. To gain someone’s trust
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Luxuriant

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  1. Richly decorated

2. Growing abundantly

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Malice

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Hatred

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Matriculate

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To enter or to enroll

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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; deserving praise

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Microbe

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Tiny; microscopic organism

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Mine

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  1. Place where metal is found

2. To dig for metal

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Miser

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A person who hates to spend money

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Monarchy

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A state ruled 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. Goal

2. Neutral; impartial; without feelings

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Obstinate

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Stubborn

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Optician

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Eye doctor

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Oscillate

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To move back and forth

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Painstaking

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Very careful

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Partisan

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Supporter of an idea or a cause

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Pedestrian

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  1. One who travels by foot

2. Commonplace; ordinary; banal; Unimaginative

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Perpetual

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Everlasting; continuing forever

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Petty

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Of little importance; trivial

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Pitiable

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Worthy of sympathy

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Poised

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  1. Ready

2. In control of one’a emotions and behavior

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Portfolio

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a set of pictures of documents

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Preconceived

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Planned 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 forward

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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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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 put back into former position

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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 thought of; respectability

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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 formal 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

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Scrutinize

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To examine carefully

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Sentiment

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Feeling or 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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Spontaneity

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Suddenness; impulsiveness

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Stained

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  1. Discolored

2. Dis honored

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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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Suppress

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To keep down by force; to keep secret

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Sustain

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To maintain; to keep up

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Synthesis

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Combination of parts to create a whole

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Tact

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

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Tangent

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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

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Troupe

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A group of performers

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Ultimate

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Final

Best

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Unbounded

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Without limits

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Unethical

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Universal

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Wide spread

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Uphold

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To enforce; to support

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Utterance

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Something spoken

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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 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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Witticism

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Clever remark: witty comment

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