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1
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Very bare, bleak

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Austere

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Hazy, vague, indistinct or confused

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Nebulous

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Dark, gloomy and serious

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Somber

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Give in

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Capitulate/succumb

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Believe on uncertain or tentative grounds

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Conjecture/surmise

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Destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt

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Destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt

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To reluctantly agree to do something you consider beneath you

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Deign

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To be indecisive

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Dither

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To bring out or develop something

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Educe

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Wipe out, obliterate

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Efface

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To evade, escape

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Elude

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12
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Drag someone into a mess

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Embroil

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Evince

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To bring out or develop

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To obtain something by force, threats or other unfair means

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Extort

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15
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To chain, restrain

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Fetter

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16
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To fill with something, especially a strong feeling or opinion

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Imbue

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17
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To initiate or provoke an action or event

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Instigate

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To seize a position of power or importance) illegally or by force

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Usurp

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19
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A plague, disease; something that destroys hope

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Blight

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An event with disastrous consequences

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Calamity

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A false or baseless rumor or belief, often intended to deceive or mislead

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Canard

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Difference, failure of things to correspond

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Discrepancy

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23
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Crafty dishonesty

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Duplicity

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A person who agitates

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Incendiary

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A wet swampy bog; figuratively, something that traps and confuses

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Morass

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26
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The worst moment; the lowest point

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Nadir

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27
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A grossly inferior imitation

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Travesty

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Flagrantly wicked or impious

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Nefarious

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A superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, façade

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Veneer

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Reeks of humiliation, looks like the lowest of the lows

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Abject

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31
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Without definite shape or type

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Amorphous

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Showing modest reserve; lacking self-confidence

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Diffident

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Hungry, greedy or eager for something

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Esurient

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Brave in the face of danger

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Intrepid

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Practical, or an easy way to achieve a goal that’s not necessarily moral

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Expedient

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Extremely distressing, disturbing or emotionally traumatic

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Harrowing

37
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Cannot be unraveled or disentangled

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Inextricable

38
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Ghastly, sensational

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Lurid

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Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of

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Surreptitious

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Present everywhere, pervasive

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Ubiquitous

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Excessive, uncontrolled and cruel

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Wanton

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Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks

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Audacious

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Clear, sharp, direct

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Incisive

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Fictitious, false, wrong

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Apocryphal

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Cold, harsh, apathetic

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Callous

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Able to perceive things that others cannot

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Clairvoyant

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Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected

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Desultory

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Moving in an uncontrolled, irregular or unpredictable way

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Errant

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Shifting in character, inconstant

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Fickle

50
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Glib

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Fluent and persuasive in speech, often in an insincere or superficial manner

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Harmful, antagonistic or opposing something

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Inimical

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Dishonest or untruthful in speech or conduct

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Mendacious

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Attractive on the surface but having no value or substance in reality

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Meretricious

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Superficially plausible, but actually wrong

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Specious/spurious

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Thin, affording no ease or reassurance

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Tenuous

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Effective, articulate, clear-cut

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Trenchant

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Annoyed, frustrated or worried

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Vexed

58
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Vengeful; unwilling to forgive

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Vindictive

59
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Characterized by bitter, harsh or caustic language, criticism or behavior

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Vitriolic

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Characterized by ready or rapid speech; fluent

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Voluble

61
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Crafty, sly

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Wily

62
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Very clever at assessing situations and turn them to one’s advantage; perceptive and shrewd

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Astute

63
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Simple and natural, without deception

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Artless

64
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Intellectually convincing

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Cogent

65
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Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow; wanting to atone for having done something wrong

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Contrite

66
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Determined by chance or whim rather than by necessity or reason

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Capricious

67
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Dignified, proper and in good taste

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Decorous

68
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Feeling extreme discouragement or dejection

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Despondent

69
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Fleeting, momentary

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Evanescent/ephemeral

70
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Frenzied, hectic, frantic

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Frenetic

71
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Separated and narrow-minded; tight-knit, closed off

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Insular

72
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Easily provoked to anger; irritable

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Irascible

73
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Foul, rundown and repulsive; morally degraded

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Sordid

74
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To desire enviously

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Covet

75
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Unpleasant or dangerous and develops gradually without being noticed

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Insidious

76
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To spread throughout, saturate

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Permeate

77
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Bravery or ability to face tough situations

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Mettle

78
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A person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values

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Philistine

79
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Deep, bitter resentment

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Rancor/acrimony

80
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Praising people in authority in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them

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Sycophantic

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Holding onto a purely formal title without any real authority

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