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Harsh or bitter in disposition, speech, or manner

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Acrimonious

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Different from the usual or standard; hard to identify or classify because of abnormality

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Anomalous

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Involving hard labor; to test one’s endurance

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Arduous

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Irrelevant to the present topic; a nonessential part

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Extraneous

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Unauthentic or fabricated

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Factitious

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Involving untrue information that harms someone’s reputation

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Libelous

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Physically or morally harmful

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Noxious

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Occurring or appearing after one’s death (as a child born after the death of its father, or a writing published after the death of the author)

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Posthumous

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Lacking in courage; characterized by weakness of spirit

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Pusillanimous

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Given to complaining; full of complaints

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Querulous

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Harsh-sounding or loud; rambunctious and rowdy

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Raucous

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Taken or done stealthily or secretly, unauthorized

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Surreptitious

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En-

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In, into, causative

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Sub-

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Under

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CERN, CRET

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To separate, to distinguish

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CORD

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Heart

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FORT

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Strong

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PHON

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Sound, voice

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-ory, -orium

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Place where, thing which

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-ous, -ose

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Having the quality of