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Farce

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A comic, dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay

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Fortuitous

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Happening by chance rather than intention

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Iconoclast

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A person who attacks or criticizes cherished beliefs

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Qualm

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An uneasy feeling of doubt

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Divulge

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Make known

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Gall

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Make someone annoyed or resentful

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Citadel

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Fortress

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Safeguard

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A measure to protect someone or something or to prevent something undesirable

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Juncture

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A particular point in events or time

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Cessation

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The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end

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Desultory

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Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

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Opalescent

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Showing many small points of shifting colour against pale or dark ground

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Roseate

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Rose coloured

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Drudgery

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Hard or menial work

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Camaraderie

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Mutual trust and friendship

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Foible

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A minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character

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Unfounded

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Having no foundation or basis in fact

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Intimation

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An indication or hint

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Proscribe

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Forbid especially by law

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Wanderlust

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A strong desire to travel

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Pan

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Criticize severely

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Huckster

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A person who sells small items door-to-door

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Upstart

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A person who has rose in rank

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Pine

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Suffer a mental and physical decline

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Precluded

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Prevent from happening

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Martinet

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A person who demands complete obedience

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Renegade

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A person who deserts and betrays an organisation

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Skinflint

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A miser

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Laggard

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A person who makes slow progress

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Resolute

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Admirably purposeful

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Affront

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An action or remark that causes outrage or offence

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Admonition

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A firm warning or reprimand

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Idiomatic

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Using, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker

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Specious

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Superficially plausible

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Tangential

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Relating to or along a tangent

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Ulterior

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Existing beyond what is obvious or admitted; intentionally hidden.

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Matrilineal

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Based on kinship with the mother or the female line

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Corroborate

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Confirm or give support to a statement

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Tenet

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A principle or belief

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Supersede

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Take the place of a person previously in authority

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Camaraderie

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Mutual trust

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Regale

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Entertain or amuse

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