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Pellucid

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Easy to understand

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Derivative

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Unoriginal

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Corroborate

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Confirm

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Perennial

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Everlasting

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Spartan

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Unconcerned with comfort

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Recapitulation

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Summary

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Capitulate

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Surrender

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Implausible

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Unlikely, unreasonable

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Whimsical

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Driven by impulse

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Precedent

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Earlier example

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Equivocate

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Speak vaguely

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Pith

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Most essential part

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Pithy

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Concise and forcefully expressive

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Panacea

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Cure-all

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Demonstrative

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Showing emotion

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Primacy

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Of greatest importance

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Dispassionate

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Objective

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Arduous

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Requiring great effort

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Illicit

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Illegal

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Artless

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Naive

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Compound

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Make more intense

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Discrete

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Separate

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Credulity

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Tendency to believe

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Elicit

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Call into being

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Unequivocal

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Having clear meaning

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Improvident

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Not careful

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Fickle

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Changing unpredictably

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Preempt

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Take the place of

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Elusive

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Hard to pin down

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Constituent

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Part of a whole

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Apogee

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Highest point

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Tyro

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Beginner

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Incontrovertible

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Indisputable

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Complaisant

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Cheerfully obedient

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Corollary

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Consequence

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Admonish

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Warn

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Histrionic

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Overly theatrical

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Gambit

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Scheme

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Antic

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Grotesque

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Inchoate

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Not fully formed

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Endemic

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Native

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Disinterested

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Unbiased

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Flag

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Tire

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Artless

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Without deception

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Malinger

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Avoid work

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Celerity

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Quickness

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Precipitate

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Hasty

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Lacerated

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Deeply distress

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Machinate

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Scheme (v.)

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Catholic

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Universal

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Halcyon

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Peaceful

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Inure

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Harden

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Spendthrift

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Wasteful with money

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Chimera

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Illusion

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Nadir

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Lowest point

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Noisome

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Foul smelling

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Unpropitious

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Unlikely to be successful

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Solicitude

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Feeling of concern

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Puissant

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Powerful

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Apothegm

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Short saying

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Bastardization

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Corruption

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Pariah

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Outcast

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Corollary

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Consequence

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Grandiloquent

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Pompous

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Disinterested

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Unbiased

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Endemic

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Native

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Celerity

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Quickness

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Artless

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Without deception

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Halcyon

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Peaceful

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Machinate

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Scheme

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Puissant

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Powerful

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Underscore

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Emphasize

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Unpropitious

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Unlikely to be successful

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Solicitude

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Feeling of concern

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Apothegm

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Short saying

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Aspersion

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Criticism, attack on reputation

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Calumny

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Criticize or slander

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Castigate

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Reprimand or criticize

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Excoriate

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Criticize severely

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Gainsay

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Speak against or oppose

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Impugn

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Question validities

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Inveigh

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Speak or write with hostility; criticize

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Objurgate

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Criticize

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Obloquy

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Criticize

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Opprobrium

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Harsh criticism

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Pillory

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Criticism; the wooden thing that chained people’s hands and feet

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Vituperate

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Criticize

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Apocryphal

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Doubtful

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Canard

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An unfounded rumor

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Chicanery

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The use of trickery for politics, finances or law

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Dissemble

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Conceal true motives

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Equivocate

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Use ambiguous language to conceal the truth

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Ersatz

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Not genuine

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Mendacious /mendacity

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Not telling the truth

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Perfidy

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Deceitfulness

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Prevaricate

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Speak or act evasively

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specious

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Misleading attractive

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Spurious

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False or fake

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Spendthrift

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Wasteful with money

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Retiring

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Shy

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Reprisal

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Retaliatory action

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Baleful

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Threatening

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Impecunious

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Having little money

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Assuage

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Make less severe

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Malfeasance

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Wrongdoing

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Hauteur

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Disdainful pride

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Eminent

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Highly respected

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Pundit

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Expert

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Firebrand

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Troublemaker

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Moribund

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About to die

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Proscribe

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Ban

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Exonerate

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Free from blame

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Eclectic

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Having variety

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Percipient

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Perceptive

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Punctilious

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Overly precise

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Asperity

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Harshness of manner

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Ameliorate

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Improve

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Boorish

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Ill-mannered

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Anomaly*

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Deviates from the norm

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Equivocal

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Open to more than one interpretation

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Lucid

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Expressed clearly

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Precipitate

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V. To cause something to happen
Adj. something that happened unexpectedly
N. A substance that came from a solution

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Assuage

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Make less intense

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Erudite

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Having great learning

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Opaque

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Not clear

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Prodigal

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Reckless, specifically with money

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Enigma

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A person or thing that is puzzling

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Fervid

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Intensely enthusiastic

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Placate

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Make someone less angry

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Zeal

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Great enthusiasm

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Abstain

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Stay away from

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Audacious

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Risk taker

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Desiccate

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Lacking passion

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Gullible

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Easily persuaded

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Laudable

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Deserving praise

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Pedant

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Overly concerned with details

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Vacillate

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Waver between opinions

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Calumny

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Slander

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Adulterate

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Make something poorer in quality by adding something else

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Capricious

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Given to mood swings

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Engender

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To cause or give rise to

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Homogenous

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Of the same kind

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Pragmatic

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Dealing with things sensibly

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Volatile

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Liable to change rapidly

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Apathy

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Lack of interest

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Corroborate

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Confirm or give support to

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Ephemeral

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Short lasting

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Laconic

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Using very few words

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Mitigate

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Make less severe

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Proprietary

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Relating to ownership

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Magisterial

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Domineering

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Cosseted

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Overly pampered

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Martinet

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Disciplinarian

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Taciturn

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Quiet

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Vituperate

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Scold severely

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Fecund

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Mentally productive

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Approbatory

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Showing approval

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Surfeit

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Excessive amount

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Bromide

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Unoriginal remark

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Mettlesome

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Courageous

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Complicit

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Taking part in

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Tout

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Advertise or sell strongly

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Urbane

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Sophisticated

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Effrontery

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Insolent behavior

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Magisterial

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Domineering

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Philistine

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Hater of culture

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Ameliorate

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Improve

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Boorish

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Ill-mannered

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Lampoon

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Poke fun at

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Fell

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Evil

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Sanctimonious

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Showy and morally superior (think Mormon church)

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Cupidity

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Greed for money

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Rapprochement

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Reconciliation

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Tawdry

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Cheap and showy

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Callow

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Inexperienced

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Hedge

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Limit

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Protean

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Versatile

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Rarefied

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Refined

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Wax

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Increase gradually

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Brook

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