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effusive

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showing excessive emotion; overflowing

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euphemism

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a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term

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acumen

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quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgement or insight

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disseminate

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to scatter widely, as in sowing seed

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perspicacious

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shrewd; clear-sighted

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precocious

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exhibiting unusually early intellectual aptitude or maturity

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prospectus

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formal proposal

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disaffected

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having lost faith or loyalty; discontent

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staid

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unemotional; serious

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assimilate

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to absorb or become absorbed; to make or become similar

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cosmopolitan

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worldly; widely sophisticated

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gaffe

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a clumsy social error; a faux pass

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potentate

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one who has the power and position to rule over others; monarch

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castigate

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to scold, rebuke, or harshly criticize

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censure

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to issue official blame

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vituperative

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marked by harshly abusive condemnation

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conciliatory

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appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile

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litigious

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prone to engage in lawsuits

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rectitude

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moral uprightness; righteousness

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remiss

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lax in attending to duty; negligent

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sanctimonious

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feigning piety or righteousness

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cajole

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to urge with repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery

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squelch

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to crush as if by trampling; squash

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abase

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to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem

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effrontery

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brazen boldness; presumptuous

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impugn

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to attack as false or questionable

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pejorative

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disparaging; belittling; insulting

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ebullience

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intense enthusiasm

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exuberant

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full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy

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supercilious

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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous; arrogant

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multifarious

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diverse; various

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multiplicity

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state of being various or manifold; a great number

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cathartic

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relaxing after an emotional outburst

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curative

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able to heal or cure

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palliative

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relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure

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fallacy

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a false notion

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mendacious

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lying; untruthful

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specious

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having the ring of truth of plausibility but actually false

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whimsical

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characterized by whim; unpredicatable

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flag

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to decline in vigor or strength; to tire; to droop

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modicum

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a small, moderate, or token amount

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extraneous

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irrelevant; inessential

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juxtapose

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to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast

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novel

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fresh; original; new

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tangential

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merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant

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aural

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of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing

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strident

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loud, harsh, grating, or shrill

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temporal

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of, relating to, or limited by time

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portent

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indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; omen

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transient

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passing quickly in time or space

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distend

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to swell out or expand from internal pressure, as when overly full

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profundity

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great depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning

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demure

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modest and reserved

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quiescent

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quiet, still, or at rest; inactive

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fastidious

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carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please

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alacrity

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promptness in response; cheerful readiness; eagerness

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flippant

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disrespectfully humorous or casual

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insolent

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insulting in manner or speech

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arboreal

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relating to or resembling a tree or trees

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invocation

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a call (usually upon a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration

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stratify

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to layer or separate into layers

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variegated

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having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored

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