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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction due to boredom

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Equivocate

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Deceptive with ambiguous language

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Provident

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Making timely perpetration

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Exculpatory

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Free from blame

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Fulminate

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To protest

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Ingenuous

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Frank, lack sophistication

ingenious

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Magnanimity

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Generous

animosity

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Obtuse

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Lack sharp intellect

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Obviate

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To anticipate, make unnecessary

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Pean

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Hymn of praise

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Perfidy

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Treachery ( betrayal)

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Idle

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Without purpose

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Perspicacious

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Acutely perceptive

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Prattle

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Babble meaninglessly

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Prescience

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Foreknowledge

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Prevaricate

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To mislead, evasive

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Recant

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Retract

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Relegate

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Forcibly assign a lower place

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Squander

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To waste in spending irresponsibly

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Stupefying

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Amazed

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Virulent

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Hostile

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Voracious

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Insatiable appetite

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Waver

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Unsettle in opinion

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Asset

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Approve or agree

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Tumultuous

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Loud , noisy

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Dissension

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Disagreement

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Accolade

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Praise

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Ameliorate

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Make better

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Avarice

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Greed for wealth

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Complaisance

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Willing to comply

complacent

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome (= contemptuous )

#content or contented = happy

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Contrite

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Regretful, penitent

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Forgo

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To omit

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Demur

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To oppose
(# demure = shy)
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Discretion

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Cautious & inconspicuous

Discreet # discrete

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Fallacy

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Mistaken belief

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Furtive

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Covert, surreptitious

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Sly

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Cunning and deceitful

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Marshal

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Arrange / assemble

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Incipient

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Becoming apparent

insipid

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Inveigle

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Obtain though deception or flattery

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Odious

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Evoke aversion

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Penurious

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Poor

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Peruse

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Examine carefully

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Pious

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Reverent or devoted

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Primp

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Tidy groom

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Prolific

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Productive

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Quiescence

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Motionless

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Iniquity

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Immoral

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Venality

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Can be bribed

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Supplant

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Supersede

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Torpid

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Dormant
(# turbid = murky)
(# turpitude= wickedness)

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Ubiquitous

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Everywhere

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Derision

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Contemptuous

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Sordid

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Squalid

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Deprecate

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Express disapprovale

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Acumen

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Accurate judgment

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Archaic

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Outdated

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Denounce

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Publicly declare wrong

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Evanescence

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Vanish

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Grandiloquence

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Pompous expression

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Vapid

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Dull

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Halcyon

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Peaceful

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Hedonism

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Pleasurable pursuit

altruism

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Hegemony

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Dominance

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Idolatrous

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Devote excessively

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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand

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Impassive

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No emotion
(# impassioned = great emotion)
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Trite

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Overuse, lack originality

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Impunity

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Immune FROM punishment

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Infelicitous

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Inappropriate

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Singularly

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Remarkable / noticeable

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Mendacity

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Dishonest

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Destitution

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Poor

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Ulterior

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Beyond obvious

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Concede

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To admit

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Concession

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A thing yield/ granted

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Cession

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Give up rights

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Pine

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Yearn for / grow weak

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Languish

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Grow weak

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Pith

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Central part

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Prodigal

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Wasteful , lavish

prodigious

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Profuse

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Abundant

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Rancorous

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Resentment

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Querulous

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Grumbling, peevish

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Repudiate

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Deny the truth

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Spurious

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Fake

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Counterfeit

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Fake

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Subpoena

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Testimony required by court order

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Superfluous

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Exceed necessary

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Surfeit

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Excessive

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Tenacity

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Determination

= pertinacious = tenacious

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Transient

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Brief

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Amenable

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Agreeable

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Anachronism

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Out of place

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Astringent

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Harsh

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Credulous

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Gullible

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Desiccate

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Dehydrate

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Disparage

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Belittle ( # disparate= different)

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Divulge

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Telling a secret

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Flout

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Contempt for rules

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Glib

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Superficial

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Immutable

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Not change

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Impetuous

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Hasty and rash

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Indifference

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No bias
(= disinterested)
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Inimical

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Harmful

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Maverick

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Not good with group

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Profligate

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Wasteful

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Quixotic

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Impracticle

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Lofty

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Impressive

Ex. Lofty romantic ideas

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Quotidian

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Commonplace, recurring

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Recondite

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Obscure

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Refulgent

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Shiny

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Renege

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Commitment failed

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Sedulous

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Diligent

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Soporific

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Induce sleep

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Elusive

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Difficult to achieve

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Trenchant

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Sharp perceptive

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Untenable

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Not viable or feasible

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Vacillate

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Indecisive

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Vigilant

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Alert

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Vituperate

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Rebuke

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Berate

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Scold

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Volatile

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Changeable

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Abash

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Embarrass

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Abject

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Defeated

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Abstemious

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Sparring

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Accede

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To yield / agree

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Accrete

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Increase by growth

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Anathema

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Sth or someone loathed / a curse

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Ancillary

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Subordinate

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Impudent

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Not showing respect

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Impertinent

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Not showing respect

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Brazen

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Bold without shame

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Apostasy

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Rejection of faith or loyalty

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Astute

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Keen

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Belabor

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Go over repeatedly

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Callow

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Immature

#callous=cruel attitude

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Chagrin

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Humiliation

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Consummate

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Perfect

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Contumely

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Arrogance & rudeness
(#contumacious= disobedient)
(# tumult/ tumultuous= loud)

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Covet

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Wish for

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Debacle

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Collapse/ rout

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Debauchery

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Intemperance

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Decorous

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Good taste

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Deluge

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A flood

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Deprecate

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To express disapproval

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Doggerel

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Comic

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Egregious

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extremely bad

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Flagrant

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Conspicuous or obviously offensive

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Epicure

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Person with refine taste

sinecure = position requiring no work

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Eschew

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Avoid

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Shun

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Avoid, or reject

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Exhort

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To urge strongly

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Flag

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Restrain

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Hamper

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Hinder or impede

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Flippant

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Disrespectful

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Foment

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To stir up

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Instigate

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Bring about

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Forebear

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Refrain from / tolerance

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Fulsome

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Insincere / offensively flattering

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Genial

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Friendly

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Gratis

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Free of charge

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Gratuitous

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Given freely, unjustified

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Abstain

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Restrain from

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Guile

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Cunning

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Duplicity

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Dishonest

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Hermetic

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Airtight

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Idyllic

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Happy/ picturesque

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Impugn

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Call into question

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Ineluctable

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Inescapable

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Inept

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Incompetent

#inapt= not suitable to circumstance

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Inexorable

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Unavoidable

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Lament

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To mourn

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Largess

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Generosity

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Levity

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Unseriousness

flout= defy

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Frivolity

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Offensive in sexual matter

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Licentious

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Lascivious

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Magnate

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Successful businessman

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Maxim

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Old principle

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Noisome

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Offensive / disgusting

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Noxious

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Very unpleasant

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Nominal

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Insignificant

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Concoction

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Mixture of ingredients

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Patina

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Surface discolouration

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Tart

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Sharp in taste

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Presage

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To portend

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Putative

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Commonly accepted
(= repute # repudiate = reject)
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Quay

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Pier

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Quintessential

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Perfect example

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Redolent

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Reminiscent

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Remonstrate

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To protest

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Recompense

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Compensate

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Replete

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Fill

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Abounding

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Exist in large numbers

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Reproach

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To scold

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Reprobate

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Sinful

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Depraved

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Make someone immoral

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Respite

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Period of rest

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

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Temerity

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Recklessness

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Turpitude

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Wickedness

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Depravity

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Mortally curupt

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Verdant

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Cover in green plants/ inexperienced

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Vestige

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A last trace

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Vitiate

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Impair/ corrupt morally

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Wizened

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Shrivelled

= withered

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