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Sagacity

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Having good judgement, Wise

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Grandiloquent

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Pompous, Extravagant

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Commodius

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Roomy and comfortable

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Profligate

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Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in use of resources

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Wastrel

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Good-for-nothing person, Profligate

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Churl

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Rude in a mean spirited way

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Decorous

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In keeping with good taste

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Cicatrix

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Scar of a healed wound

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Wanton

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Deliberate and unprovoked

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Approbatory

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Expressing praise or approval

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Blandishing

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Coaxing someone with kind words

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Ponderous

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Unpleasantly boring

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Affable

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Friendly

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Analeptic

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Stimulant drug

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Parochial

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Relating to a church parish / limited in scope

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Vapid

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Uninteresting

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Tumid

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Swollen / Pompous, Bombastic

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Trenchant

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Incisive, Sharply focused, Cutting

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Soporific

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Tending to cause sleep

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Importuned

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Harassed persistently to do something

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Salient

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Most noticeable or important

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Plangent

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Loud, Reverberating, often melancholy

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Pastiche

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Artistic work in the style of another

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Encomium

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Speech or writing that praises

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Magnanimity

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Generosity, Forgiveness

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Scatalogical

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Characterized by an interest in excretion

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Diminutive

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Unusually small

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Ascetic

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Simple, Unadorned

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Furtive

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Sneaky, Suspicious

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Risible

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Provoking Laughter

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Elucidate

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Make something clear, explain

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Recalcitrant

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Having an uncooperating attitude

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Augur

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To be a sign or omen of something

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Undemonstrative

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Quiet

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Poltroon

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Cowardly

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Pusillanimous

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Lacking courage

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Anodyne

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Alleviating pain, inoffensive

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Parlous

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Perilous

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Pertinacious

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Resolute, Stubborn

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Intractable

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Obstinate

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Unctuous

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Insincere, groveling, excessively flattering

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Doughty

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Valiant, Fearless

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Contrite

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Feeling or expressing remorse at the recognition that one has done wrong.

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Insolent

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showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect

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Nonplussed

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so surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react

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Consternation

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amazement that throws something into confusion

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Calumny

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Slander

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Impertinance

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Lack of respect, Rudeness

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Indolence

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Laziness

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Appellation

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Name, Title

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Dolorous

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Miserable, Anguished

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Sojourn

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Temporary stay or rest

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Copse

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Group of trees

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Perquisites

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A benefit which one enjoys or is entitled to on account of one’s job or position, Perks

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Fortuitous

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Showing good luck

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Explicate

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Analyse and develop (an idea or principle) in detail

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Protean

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Tending or able to change frequently or easily

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Sectarian

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Narrow-minded

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Prurient

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Lewd

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Providential

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Very lucky

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Rectitude

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Righteousness