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Intrepid

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Fearless

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Vassal

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Servant, slave

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Elegiac

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Sorrowful

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Licentious

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Sexually unrestrained or immoral

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Inaugurate

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Begin, commence

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Evanesce

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To disappear like vapor

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Catechize

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To teach by questioning

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Inimitable

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Unique

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Callow

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New and inexperienced

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Exhort

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To strongly encourage or urge someone to do something

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Palliation

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An apology

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Promulgation

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Announcement

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Intimation

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Suggestion

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Judicious

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Cautious, prudent

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Circumspect

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Cautious, prudent

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Zeitgeist

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The defining spirit or mood or a particular point in history

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Propitiate

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To appease

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Synergetic

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Working together

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Solipsistic

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Self-involved

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Bourgeois

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Middle class person, conformity to standards, commonplace

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Profundity

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Depth of intensity

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Mawkish

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Overly sentimental

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Sententious

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Preachy, sanctimonious

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Bromidic

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Ordinary, dull

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Epochal

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Far-reaching, influential

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Flout

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To scorn

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Gilding

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Decoration used to add beauty

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Auspicious

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Something likely to succeed, propitious

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Propitious

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Something likely to succeed, auspicious

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Improvident

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Imprudent, disregarding consequences, rash