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Languid

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Drooping, weak or sluggish

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Glib

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Speaking in a smooth, easy manner

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Peculate

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To steal or misuse fund

To embezzle

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Cached

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Hidden or stores

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Rancor

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Continuing and bitter hate

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Trite

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Stale, overused

No longer fresh and original

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Hiatus

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A break or gap

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Attenuated

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Slender, thin

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Vilify

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To use abusive language about

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Malleable

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Capable of being changed or trained

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Pusillanimous

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Timid, cowardly or faint hearted

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Xenophobia

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Fear of outsiders

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Bequeath

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To leave by last will or testament

To hand down to another

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, doleful, dismal

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Perspicacious

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Having keen judgment or understanding, acutely perceptive

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Bilk

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To cheat or defraud

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Purloin

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To steal

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Voluble

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Talkative

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Audacious

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Bold, daring or fearless

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Quotidian

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Daily, either in the sense of recurring every day or something every day and common