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To make easier or milder, relieve

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Assuage

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A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

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Coalition

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Decline, decay, or deterioration

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Decadence

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To draw forth, bring out from some source

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Elicit

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To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning

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Expostulate

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Used so often as to lack freshness or originality

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Hackneyed

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A gap, opening, break

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Hiatus

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A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference

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Innuendo

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To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement

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Intercede

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Wearied, worn-out, dulled

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Jaded

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Causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color

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Lurid

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Worthy, deserving recognition and praise

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Meritorious

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Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset

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Petulant

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A special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence

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Prerogative

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Pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow in mind or outlook

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Provincial

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To make a pretense of, imitate; show outer signs of

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Stimulate

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To rise above or beyond, exceed

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Transcend

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Shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; a vague suspicion

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Umbrage

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Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety

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Unctuous

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The expression of approval or favorable opinion

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Approbation

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Ameliorate

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To improve, make better, correct a flaw or short coming

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Aplomb

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Poise, assurance, great self-confidence, perpendicularly

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Bombastic

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Pompous or overblown in language, full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas

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Callow

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Without experience, immature, not fully developed, lacking sophistication and poise

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Drivel

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Saliva or mucus, flowing from the mouth or nose, foolish, aimless talk or thinking

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Epitome

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A summary, condensed amount, an instance that represents a larger reality

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Exhort

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To urge strongly, advise earnestly

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Ex officio

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By virtue of holding a certain office

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Infringe

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To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds

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Ingratiate

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To make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others

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Interloper

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One who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder

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Intristic

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Belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent

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Inveigh

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To make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval

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Lassitude

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Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy

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Millennium

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A period of one thousand years, a period of great joy

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Occult

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Secret, hidden from view, mysterious, magical, uncanny

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Permeate

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To spread through, penetrate, soak through

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Precipitate

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To fall as moisture, to bring about suddenly, to hurl down from a great height

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Stringent

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Strict, severe, sharp or bitter to the taste

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Surmise

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To think or believe without certain supporting evidence, to conjecture or guess

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Abominate

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To have an intense dislike or hatred for

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Acculturation

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The modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another

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Adventitious

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Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character, accidental

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Ascribe

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To assign or refer to as, attribute

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Circuitous

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Roundabout, no direct

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Commiserate

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To sympathize wi h, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress

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Enjoin

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To direct or order, to prohibit

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Expedite

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To make easy, cause to progress faster

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Expiate

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To make amends, make up for, to avert

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Ferment

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A state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence

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Inadvertent

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Resulting from or marked by lack of attention, unintentional, accidental

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Nominal

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Existing in name only, not real

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Noncommittal

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Not decisive or definite, unwilling to take a clear position

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Peculate

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To steal something that has been given into one’s trust, to take improperly for one’s own use

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Proclivity

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A natural or habitual inclination or tendency

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Sangfroid

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Composure or coolness

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Seditious

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Resistant to lawful authority

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Tenuous

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Thin, slender, not dense, lacking clarity or sharpness, poorly supported

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Vitriolic

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Bitter sarcastic, highly caustic or biting

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Wheedle

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To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end.

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Affable

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Courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to

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Aggrandize

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To increase in greatness, power, or wealth, to make appear greater

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Amorphous

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Shapeless, without definite form

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Archetype

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An original model on which something was patterned or replicated

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Aura

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That which surrounds, a distinctive air or personal quality

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Contraband

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Illegal traffic, smuggled goods

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Erudite

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Scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic

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Gossamer

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Thin, light, delicate, insubstantial

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Inscrutable

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Incapable of being understood, impossible to see through physically

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Insular

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Relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience

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Irrevocable

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Incapable of being changed or called back

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Propensity

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A natural inclination or predilection toward

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Querulous

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Peevish, complaining, fretful

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Remonstrate

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To argue with someone against something, protest against

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Repudiate

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To disown, reject, or deny the validity of

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Resilient

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Able to return to an original shape or form, able to recover quickly

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Reverberate

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To re-echo, resound, to reflect or be reflected repeatedly

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Scurrilous

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Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low, foul-mouthed

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Sedulous

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Persistent, showing industry and determination

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Sleazy

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Thin or flimsy in texture, cheap, shoddy or inferior in quality

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Amnesty

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A general pardon for an offense against a government

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Autonomy

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Self-government, political control

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Axiomatic

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Self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle

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Blazon

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To adorn or embellish, to display conspicuously, to publish or proclaim widely

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Caveat

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A warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior

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Equitable

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Fair, just, embodying principles of justice

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Extricate

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To free from entanglements or difficulties, to remove with effort

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Filch

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To steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts

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Flout

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To mock, treat with contempt

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Fractious

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Tending to be troublesome, unruly, quarrelsome

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Precept

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A rule of conduct or action

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Salutary

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Beneficial, helpful, healthful, wholesome

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Scathing

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Bitterly severe, withering, causing great harm

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Scourge

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To whip, punish severely

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Sepulchral

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Funereal, typical of the tomb, extremely gloomy or dismal

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Soporific

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Tending to cause sleep

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Straightlaced

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Extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct

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Transient

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Lasting only a short time

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Unwieldy

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No easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity

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Vapid

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Dull, uninteresting, tiresome, lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force

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Anomalous

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Abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual

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Aspersion

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A damaging or derogatory statement, the act of slandering or defaming

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Bizarre

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Extremely strange, unusual, atypical

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Brusque

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Abrupt, blunt, with no formalities

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Cajole

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To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice, to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises

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Castigate

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To punish severely, to criticize severely

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Contrive

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To plan with ingenuity, to bring about through a plan

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Demagogue

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A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power

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Disabuse

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To free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking

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Ennui

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Weariness and dissatisfaction from lack or occupation or interest, boredom

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Fetter

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A chain or shackle placed on the feet, anything that confines or restrains

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Heinous

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Very wicked, offensive, hateful

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Immutable

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No subject to change, constant

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Insurgent

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One who rebels or rises against authority

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Megalomania

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A delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc.

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Sinecure

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A position requiring little or no work, an easy job

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Surreptitious

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Stealthily, secret, intended to escape observation

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Transgress

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To go beyond a limit or boundary, to sin, violate a law

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Transmute

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To change from one nature, substance, or form to another

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Vicarious

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Performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another

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