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Epitome

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A person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type; an abstract

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Surmise

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To suppose something is true without having evidence to confirm it

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Endow

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Provide with a quality, ability, or asset

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Reticent

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Not revealing one’s thoughts and feelings readily; reserved

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Premonition

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A strong feeling that something is going to happen

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Symbiotic

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A mutually beneficial relationship between people or groups of people

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Impervious

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Unable to be affected

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Subjective

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Dependent on mind or perspective

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Eloquent

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Fluent, clearly expressing or indicating

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary, especially through being more than enough

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Incontrovertible

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Not able to be denied or disputed

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Infallibility

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The inability to be wrong

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Doggedness

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Tenacity, grim persistence

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Vacillation

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Indecisiveness

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Dogmatic

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Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true

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Invidious

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Likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others, unjust, unfairly discriminating

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Clandestine

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Keep secret, or done secretively, especially because illicit

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Sanguine

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Optimistic or positive especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation

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Liberality

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The quality of giving or spending freely

The quality of being open to new ideas or free from prejudice

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Doctrinaire

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Seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations

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Autonomous

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Acting independently, self-governing

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Intransigence

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Unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or agree about something

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Fundamentalism

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Strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline

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Ambiguous

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Open to more than one interpretation

Unclear or inexact because of range of alternatives

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