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Insipid

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Lacking vitality

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Banal

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Dull because of overstate of use ; hackneyed; trite

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Lackluster

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Lacking vitality

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Platitude

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Quality of being dull

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Trite

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Unoriginal and stale

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Mediate

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Act as a go between settling disputes

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Mitigate

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To make or become less severe

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Placate

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To make calm; to soothe

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Captious

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Made for the sake of quarrelling

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome; belligerent

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Prodigal

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Wasteful and lavish

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Profligate

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Wasteful and reckless w/spending money

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Parsimonious

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Overly frugal or miserly

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Penurious

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Stingy

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Precarious

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Dangerous or risky

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Quandary

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A dilemma

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Baneful

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Causing ruin

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Iniquitous

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Showing a lack of fairness

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Pernicious

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Very destructive

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Carp

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To find fault

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Upbraid

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To chide

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Nonchalant

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Casual and indifferent

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Phlegmatic

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Hard to get excited or emotional

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Soporific

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Sleepy

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Torpid

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Lacking energy

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Hidebound

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Strongly opinionated

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Recalcitrant

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Stubborn

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Vociferous

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Loud and noisy regarding one’s own voice

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Panegyrise

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To praise someone or event in a formal speech or in writing

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Revere

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To regard highly with love and respect

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Venerate

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To feel or show deep respect for, especially due to age or tradition: to honor

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Profuse

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Abundant; more than enough

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Exacting

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Requiring a great deal of care or effort

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Nomadic

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Wandering

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Antediluvian

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Very, very old

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Ascetic

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A person who refrains from indulging in earthly pleasures

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Charlatari

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A fraud

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Pariah

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A social outcast

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Extraneous

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Not essential

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Incidental

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Less important

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Coalesce

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To have different opinions join together

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Convalesce

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To recover from an illness

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Impudent

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Rude

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Indigent

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Poor

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Ponderous

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Very heavy or bulky

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Fastidious

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Meticulous

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Querulous

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Whining

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Vilify

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To slander or defame someone’s reputation

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Lithe

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Nimble and flexible

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Pitfall

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An unseen danger

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Raze

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To tear down

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Replete

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Filled-up

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Respite

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Period of inactivity

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Spurious

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False

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Aplomb

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Social poise

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Axiom

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A true or wise saying

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Compunction

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Feeling of remorse for doing something wrong

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Diffident

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Lacking confidence in oneself

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Dilettante

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One who dabbles in the arts and sciences but is an expert in neither

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Insurgent

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A rebel

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Mimetic

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Pertaining to imitation or mimicry

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Palpable

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Able to be touched or felt

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Portentous

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Very meaning with regard to events to come

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Vignette

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A brief descriptive passage in writing

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Anthology

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A collection of short stories and/or poems