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Remorse

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Regret, moral anguish arising from repentance for past misdeeds

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Cynicism

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Attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, general distrust of the regrets or professed motives of others

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Elicit

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To call forth, draw out, provoke or evoke

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Temporal

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Relating to the material world, worldly not spiritual

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Platonic

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Transcending physical desire and tending toward the purely spiritual, ideal or intellectual relationship–not sexual

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Cloistered

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Secluded, quiet place, confined

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Nostalgic

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Bittersweet longing for things, persons or situations of the past

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Pragmatic

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Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical

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Requisite

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Required; essential

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Secular

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Worldly rather than spiritual

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Sensual

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Suggesting sexuality; voluptuous

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Maudlin

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Effusively or tearfully sentimental

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Inordinate

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Exceeding reasonable limits; excessive

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Cosmic

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Relating to the universe, universal, vast

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Propensity

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An innate inclination

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Compunction

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Regret; misgiving; unease caused by a sense of guilt

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Syncophant

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A servile self seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people

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Disconsolate

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Cheerleaders gloomy

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Syntax

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Study of the rules of sentence structure