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Aboveboard

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Honest

Going above what most people is being honest

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Abate

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To decrease in force

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Accolade

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Award

It’s cool to get laid in reward

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Admonish

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To warm

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Affected

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Artificial, as in behavior; theatrical

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Alacrity

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Eagerness; cheerful promptness

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Alleviate

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To lessen

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Amalgam

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Mixture

Amalgam is a mixture of a a and other letters

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Anachronistic

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Out if place in time

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Animosity

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Hatred

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Anomalous

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Unusual

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Anthology

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Collection of stories or poems

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Aphorism

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A short, wise saying

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Apprentice

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  1. Worker who is in training

2. An unskilled worker

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Archaic

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Ancient t

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Arsenal

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Collection of weapons

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Aspirant

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A hopeful person

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Astute

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Smart

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Augment

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To add to

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Autonomy

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Independence

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Awry

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Wrong; out of place

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Banal

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Ordinary

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Baseless

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  1. Inferiority

2. Crudeness

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Befuddle

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To confuse

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Belligerent

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Argumentative; aggressive

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Beret

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Round, flat cap

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Bigot

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Prejudice person

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Blatant

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Obvious; attention grabbing

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Bombastic

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Loud and self involved

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Brevity

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Briefness

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Buffeted

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Hit repeatedly

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Bustle

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To hurry

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Cajole

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To urge through flattery

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Calving

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  1. Giving birth to a calf

2. Losing part of oneself

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Cataclysmic

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Terrible; tragic

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Caucus

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Meeting

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cavort

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To run around in a playful manner

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Certitude

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Sureness; certainty

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Chary

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Careful; wary

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Chide

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To scold; to disapprove of

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Circumlocution

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A roundabout way of speaking

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Citrus

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Type of fruit

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Coagulate

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To clot; to come together

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Coffer

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Box in which valuables are kept

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Cohesive

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  1. Holding together

2. Logical

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Colossal

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Huge

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Commiserate

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To feel or show pity for

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Compost

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Fertilizer

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Condone

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To pardon

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Conflagration

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Large fire

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Congregate

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To come together in a crowd

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Conspicuous

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Obvious

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Contiguous

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Side by side

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Conviction

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Strong belief

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Corroborate

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To provide evidence to support a view or opinion

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Countermand

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Command replacing a pervious one

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Crusader

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One who fights for a cause

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Curator

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Director of an institute

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Daunt

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To threaten

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Debilitate

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To weaken

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Decoy

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Bait

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Deference

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Submissiveness

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Degradation

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Dishonor

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Denounce

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To criticize

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Deride

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To ridicule

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Despondent

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Depressed

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Detest

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To hate

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Dialectic

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Method of finding truth though reasoning

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Aspirant

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A hopeful person

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Diffidence

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Shyness

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Dilation

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Process of becoming wider

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Disapprobation

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Disapproval

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Discern

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  1. to recognize

3. To distinguish between things

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Disinterested

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Neutral

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Disposition

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Mood

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Dissolution

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The breaking into parts or pieces

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Ditty

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Simple song

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Dogged

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Persistent

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Dotard

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Stupid person

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Dulcet

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Pleasant sounding

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Eclectic

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From many sources

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Efface

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To erase

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Effusion

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Act of freely expressing feeling or thought

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Elocution

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Art of speaking well, especially in public

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Emancipated

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Freed

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Embroil

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Go get involved in an argument

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Enamored

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In love with

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Engender

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To produce

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Entomology

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Study of insects

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Envenom

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To make

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Equestrian

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Related to horseback riding

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Esoteric

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Understood only by w few people

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Eulogized

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To say great things about

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Exacting

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Demanding

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Exhort

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To urge strong

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Expedite

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To speed up the process

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Extol

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To praise

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Exude

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To give off

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Facetiousness

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Inappropriate humor

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Fastidious

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Fussy

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Felicity

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Happiness

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Feudal

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relating to a lord and tenting system of land divisions

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Fission

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Act of splitting something into part

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Floe

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Chunk of floating ice

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Foible

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Minor flaw of weakness

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Fortify

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To make stronger

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Frisky

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Playful

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Furtive

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Secretive

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Gale

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A strong animal

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Game

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Wild animal

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Garish

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Gaudy

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Genesis

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Beginning

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Germane

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Relevant

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Gingerly

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Cautiously

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Glib

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Slick

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Grapple

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To struggle with

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Guffaw

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To laugh heartily

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Hackneyed

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Cliched

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Heed

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To follow

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Hidebound

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Very stubborn

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Idiosyncrasy

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Strange habit

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Impecunious

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Having no money

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Implore

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To beg

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Impugn

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To call into question

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Incendiary

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  1. Casing fire

2. Stirring up trouble

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Incite

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To provoke

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Incorrigible

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Unable to be improved

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Indefatigable

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Tireless

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Indoctrination

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The teaching of a certain point of view

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Ineptness

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Clumsiness

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Infirmity

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Weakness

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Ingrained

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Firmly established

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Innate

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Present since birth

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Insinuation

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Subtle, usually negative suggestion

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Intercede

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To break up an argument and settle differences

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Intrepid

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Brave

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Investiture

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Process of investing office or title

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Iridescent

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Colorful and shiny

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