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Expatriate

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Person who removes them self from their country

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Extemporize

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Do something makeshift way

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Fatuity

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Silly and pointless

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Felicity

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Intense happiness

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Flamboyant

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Showy

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Frieze

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Decorative band on a wall

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Frowzy

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Dirty

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Gulch

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A deep narrow rivene, in a stream

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Imperious

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Assuming authority

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Etiquette

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Code of polite behavior

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Impertinent

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Bold ; disrespectful

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Impropriety

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Failure to show proper behavior

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Ineffable

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Incapable of expression in words

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Inscrutable

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Unable to understand

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Intangible

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can’t be touched

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Interminable

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Unending

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Intonation

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Changing of tone in speech

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Jocular

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Characterized by jokes

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Malediction

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Curse

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Malevolent

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Evil