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Ignominy

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Disgrace

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Idiosyncrasy

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Rather unusual

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Impasse

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A deadlock

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Impermeable

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Not allowing fluid to pass through

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Implausible

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Not seeming reasonable

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Inconclusive

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Not ending doubt

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Innocuous

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Not harmful

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Innovator

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A person who introduces new things

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Inquisition

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Investigation

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Insurmountable

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Too great to be overcome

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Inviolable

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Never to be broken

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Invoke

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Appeal to as an authority

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Lampooned

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Satire

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Languorous

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Gloomy

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Libelous

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.untrue

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Licentious

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Sexually

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Maladroit

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Clumsy

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Meticulous

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Very careful

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Miscellany

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Mixture

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Myopic

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Nearsighted

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Noxious

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Harmful poisonous

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and difficult to control

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Opacity

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Lacking transparency

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Oracular

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Enigmatic

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Palpitation

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Tremble shaking

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Pantheon

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All the gods of the people

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Paradigm

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Model

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Perennial

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Lasting for a long infinite time

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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect