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Abrupt

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Sudden

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Abode

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Home

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Accessory

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Addition; secondary part

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Addictive

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Habit-forming

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Adoration

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Worship

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Affinity

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Attraction

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Aggregate

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To gather

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Ailment

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Sickness

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Alibi

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Excuse

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Aloof

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Distant; unfriendly

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Amenity

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Something that provides pleasure or convenience

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Analogy

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Comparison

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Angular

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Sharp

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Antisocial

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Unfriendly

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Appraisal

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Estimate

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Aquatic

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In water

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Arrogant

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Acting superior; conceited

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Astonishment

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Surprise

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Attend

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  1. To be present

2. To take care of; to pay attention to

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Authoritarian

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Favoring authority; dictatorial

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Balm

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Soothing lotion

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Bedridden

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Unable to move; stuck in bed

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Benign

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Kind; gentle; harmless

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Bleak

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  1. Depressing

2. Desolate

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Blunder

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To make a foolish mistake

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Bounty

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Reward

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Brawl

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Fight

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Bulge

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  1. (N.) something that sticks out

2. (V.) to stick out

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Bypass

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  1. (N.) a detour

2. (V.) to avoid

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Callous

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Unfeeling; hard

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Captivating

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Fascinating

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Cement

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  1. (N.) concrete

2. (V.) to secure; to make solid

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Chaos

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Complete disorder

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Clarify

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To make clear

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Clog

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To block

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Combatant

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Fighter

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Compensate

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To give equal value to (e.g., to pay for)

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Comply

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To follow

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Compound

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To add to

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Conceit

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Thinking you’re great

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Condense

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  1. To concentrate
  2. To make shorter
  3. To change from vapor to liquid
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Conform

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To do as others do; to follow established rules

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Consecutive

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In a row; next in order

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Conserve

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To save; to preserve

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Constrain

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To limit one’s movement

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Contented

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Happy

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Controversial

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Provoking debate; questionable; arguable

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Convey

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  1. To send

2. To carry

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Cosmetic

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Surface appearance; makeup

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Cower

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To shrink back in fear

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Credulous

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Gullible; believing everything

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Cultivate

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  1. To grow (e.g., plants)

2. To develop or improve

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Cyclical

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Moving in cirlces

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Deadpan

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Without emotion; without expression

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Decipher

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To decode; to figure out

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Default

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To fail to do what is required

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Dehydrate

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To lose water

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Delinquent

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  1. (N.) a person with bad behavior

2. (Adj.) overdue

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Derive

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  1. To arrive at by reasoning

2. to deduce

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Despairing

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Hopeless

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Detrimental

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Harmful

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Differentiate

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To distinguish; to separate

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Diminish

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To reduce

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Discharge

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  1. To give out
  2. To send away
  3. To fire
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Discord

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Disagreement

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Discrepancy

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Inconsistency; difference

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Disfigure

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To ruin the appearance of

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Dislodge

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To knock something out of place; to remove

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Dispirited

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Depressed; without enthusiasm

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Dissipate

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  1. To scatter

2. To use up foolishly

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Distinction

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  1. Difference

2. Quality of being unusual

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Diverse

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Various; different [(n.) diversity]

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Drawback

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Disadvantage; problem

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Dune

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Hill of sand

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Dwindle

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To decrease

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Ecstasy

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Great happiness

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Embitter

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To make angry or bitter

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Emergence

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Coming forward

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Endeavor

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  1. (N.) task; project

2. (V.) to try

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Engage

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To involve

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Enroll

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To sign up

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Epidemic

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Disease that spreads quickly

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Erratic

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Unsteady

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Ethnic

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Having to do with a particular race or population

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Exasperate

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To frustrate; to irritate

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Exertion

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A lot of effort

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Exotic

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Unusual in an exciting way

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Extensive

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Far-reaching

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Fallacy

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False idea

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Fickle

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Often changing; not loyal

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Foremost

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First; highest rank

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Formidable

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Strong; intimidating

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Franchise

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  1. Right to vote

2. Right to sell a manufacture’s product

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Friction

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Pressure; conflict

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Gender

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Sex (i.e., male or female)

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Glaucoma

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An eye disease

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Gorge

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  1. (N. A deep canyon

2. (V.) to eat greedily

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Grasp

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  1. To perceive; to understand

2. To hold

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Grisly

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Horrifying

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Gully

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Trench or ditch formed by rain

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Halve

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To divide in halves

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Hasten

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To speed up

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Hedge

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  1. (N.) a row of bushes

2. (V.) to avoid a topic

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Hermit

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Loner; one who lives away from society

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Hinder

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To get in the way of

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Humane

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Kind; good-hearted

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Hydrophobia

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Fear of water

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