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Recant

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To withdraw

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Frangible

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Breakable

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Gossamer

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A thread/extremely delicate

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Adamantine

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Too hard to break

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Primordial

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New life/beginning

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Philistine

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A person who is lacking in or hostile to cultural values

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Refractory

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Hard to manage; resistant to ordinary methods of treatment

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Panacea

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Remedy

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Ennui

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Boredom

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Extant

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Still in existence

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Recursive

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Pertaining to/returning to

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Defunct

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No longer in effect

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Amorphous

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Formless/lacking shape

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Actuate

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To put into action/motivate

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Inculcate

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To implant by repeated statement

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Capitulations

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A treaty to surrender

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Tenacious

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Holding fast/cohesive/firm hold

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Quintessence

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Pure/perfect example

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Inelectable

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Cannot escape or evade

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Levy

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A tax or conscription of troops

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Pharmacopoeia

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Stock of drugs

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Assiduity

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Constant effort

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Redound

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To make someone look good or give them credit for something they didn’t do

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Impugn

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Cast doubts upon/ criticize

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Amortize

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To write off/to liquidate/to extinguish

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Malign

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To speak harmful truths

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Macerate

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To soften or separate into parts

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Supervene

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To occur as something additional

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Ineffable

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Incapable of being expressed

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Maladroit

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Unskillful

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Equivocal

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Did not take a stand/ falsehood

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Cogitation

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Thoughtful consideration

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Approbation

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Praise

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Reprisal

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Vengeance

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Obfuscate

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To hide/to confuse

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Punctilious

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Finicky/ strict in regards to formalities

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Auguries

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Omens

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Abiding

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Enduring

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Insurgent

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Rebellious

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Duplicity

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Deceit/falsehood

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Liberality

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Generous

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42
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Fracas

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Fight

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Accord

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Harmony

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Aberration

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Something that departs from normal

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Iteration

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Repetition

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Mendacious

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Dishonest

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Peregrination

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Journey

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Cavalcade

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Ceremonial progression

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Incisive

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Clear and direct

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Affable

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Friendly

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Hallowed

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Holy

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Formidable

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Strong

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Indication

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Justification

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Umbrage

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Offense

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55
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Ersatz

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Substitute

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Foible

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Quirk

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Penchant

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Inclination/propensity of

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Abominable

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Detestable

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Prodigious

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Large in size

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Sidereal

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Related to the stars/astronomy

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Etiolated

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Pale and sickly

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Comportment

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The way in which one carries themself

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Recast

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To cast again/ to form, fashion or arrange again

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Acrimonious

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Sharp language

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Parsimony

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Stinginess

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Ensconce

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To establish/settle

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Prerogative

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Luxury or privilege

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Plangent

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Full of lamentation

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Invidious

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Causing envy

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Jejune

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Naive, simplistic, vapid (boring), immature

71
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Ludology

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The study of games

72
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Imbibe

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To drink/to absorb

73
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Belie

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Contradict

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Antedate

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Comes before

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Senescence

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Superannuation

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The process by which something becomes obsolete

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Predilection

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A preference or special liking towards something

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Cowed

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Turgid

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Full/complex

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Inveterate

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Long established and unlikely to change

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Appropriate (verb)

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Repatriate

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To send someone back to their own country

83
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Extradite

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To get up to another state or nation at its request or to obtain the extradition of

84
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Interdict

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Expurgate

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To amend by removing words passages etc. deemed offensive or objectionable/ to courage or cleanse of moral offensiveness

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Repudiate

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Expound

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To explain

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Capitalize

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To take advantage of

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Intrepid

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Perfunctory

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Doing the same routine (mundane)

91
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Remedial

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Scorn

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To disregard

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Spurn

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To disregard/to scorn to receive

94
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Consecrated

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Declared sacred

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Contrived

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To devise / plan

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Concerted

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To devise/ plan

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Flout

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To show contempt for; scorn; to disregard

98
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Pedantic

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Ostentatious in ones learning

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Aggrandize

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To make larger

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Foment

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To instigate or promote the development

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Ardent

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Well intentioned

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Stymied

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Espouse

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To support

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Disavow

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Refuse to acknowledge or accept

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Vilipend

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To dismiss or treat as a little value

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Notwithstanding

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In spite of

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Inveighed

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To criticize

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Demurred

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To express doubt

108
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Declaimed

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Staid

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Fixed/permanent

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Fulsome

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Excessively lavish

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Unctuous

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Falsely earnest / insincere

112
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Dissembling

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To act hypocritically

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Dissemble

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To disguise or mask ones true feelings

114
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Equanimity

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Vagrant

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A person who wanders from place to place

116
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Indigent

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Needy/poor

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Interdiction

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To prohibit

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Behest

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Strong request

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Insouciance

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Unconcerned, nonchalance

120
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Utopian

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Ideal yet impractical ( idealistic fantasy)

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Quixotic

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Idealistic fantasy

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Vitriolic

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Caustic, bitterly scathing

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Galvanizing

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Stimulate or excite

124
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Incertitude

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Uncertainty

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Hubris

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary excess

127
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Nugatory

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Trifling or unimportant

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Temerity

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Reckless/ boldness

129
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Incommensurate

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Not equal or disproportionate

130
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Conviviality

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Friendliness

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Rakish

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Dissolute ( indifferent to moral restraint)

132
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Dissipated

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Indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure

133
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Satiate

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To supply with excess so as to disgust

134
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Cloy

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To weary by excess of goods, sweetness, or pleasure

135
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Derision

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Ridicule/mockery

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Conjecture

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To guess / infer

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Relegate

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Covenant

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Extripate

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To destroy or tear into bits

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Didactic

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Intended to instruct

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Augury

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Use of omens

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Lachrymose

Princeton Review GRE Vocab (6 decks)

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