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Genial

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Friendly, cheerful

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Congenial

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Pleasant, agreeable to tastes/preferences

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Germane. Apposite

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Relating to a subject under consideration. Relevant

- Tom’s asset pricing question was germane to my asset pricing interests and research with him

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Gregarious

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Sociable

- Josh was very gregarious, always wanting to hang out after work

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Guile

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Deceitful cunning

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Hallmark

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Quality/ability that is typical of a particular person or thing
- Stata is the hallmark of Tom’s research

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Hallow

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To respect a lot. Honor as holy

- I hallow Tom

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Haphazard

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Having no plan/order/direction

- Studying for the GRE on my own felt haphazard

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Helter-skelter

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Haphazard. Marked by lack of order/plan

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Heterodox

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Not agreeing with established beliefs/standards. Think iconoclast.
- Chandler was heterodox with Thanksgiving

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Hew to

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Conform to

- I had to rewrite my Stata code to hew to Tom’s style

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Hidebound

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Not willing to accept new/different ideas. Unwilling to change because of tradition/convention.

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High-minded

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Having strong moral principles

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Hortatory

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Encouraging, reassuring

- BC initially encouraged masks, but now it’s more than hortatory and actually required

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Lugubrious

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Gloomy

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Surfeit

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Think surplus. Plethora, glut

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Callous

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Heartless. Insensitive / cruel disregard for others

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Welter

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Move in turbulent fashion

- The flood weltered

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Pastiche

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  1. An artwork imitating another

2. An artwork mixing/medley of things

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Mendacity

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Untruthfulness

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Quixotic

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Too idealistic, not practical

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Ideologue

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Adhering to an ideology, almost in a dogmatic way. think zealot

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Imbibe

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  1. To drink.

2. Absorb ideas/knowledge

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Immaterial

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Not important. Inconsequential

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Vitiate

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Impair, undermine, hamstring

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Impartial

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Evenhanded, fair

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Impassioned

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Very passionate

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Impassive

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Not showing emotion

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Impecunious

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Having little/no money. Impecunious

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Indigent

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Poor, needy. Impecunious

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Imperil

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To bring into peril

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Impermanent

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Not lasting forever

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Impetuous

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Done quickly without thought or care. Precipitate

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Precipitate

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  1. Done quickly without thought/care. Precipitate

2. Cause to happen sudden/unexpectedly

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Implacable

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  1. Unable to placate (make less angry/hostile). Opposite of mollify, appease, soothe
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Mollify

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  1. to soften temper, appease

2. To mitigate, reduce, soften

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Impolitic

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Unwise

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Impudent

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Failing to show respect/courtesy

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Impugn

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Call into question. Dispute the truth/honesty of a statement or motive

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Inborn

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Existing from birth

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Inexplicable

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Unable to be explained or accounted for. Incomprehensible

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Incommensurable

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Having no common standard of measurement or judgement

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Incongruity

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Discrepancy

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Inconstant

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Not constant. Variable, frequently changing

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Incursion

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A sudden invasion for attack

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Indecorous

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Improper, not keeping with good taste

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Indiscriminate

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  1. Affecting many people in a careless or unfair way

2. Done at random or without careful judgement

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Industrious

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Diligent. Working hard

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Inert

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Lacking the ability or strength to move. Stasis

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Infalliability

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Incapable of error or being wrong

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Ingenuous

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innocent and unsuspecting

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Inimical

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Tending to obstruct or harm. To keep from doing what they want to do. Unfriendly, hostile. Think antagonistic, deleterious

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Deleterious

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Causing harm or damage

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Inscrutable

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Think abstruse, hard to undrstand

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Insipid

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Bland, boring

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Intelligible

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Able to be understood

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Intransigent

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Completely unwilling to change, especially one’s view.s Stubborn, resolute, obdurate

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Obdurate

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Stubborn, intransigent

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Invective

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insulting, abusive, or highly critical language

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Irenic

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Aiming at peace

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Irreparable

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Not able to be repaired

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Irresolution

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Hesitancy, uncertainty

- A moment of irresolution

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Vacillation

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Indecisive

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Itinerant

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Traveling from place to place, peripatetic

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Peripatetic

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Traveling from place, itinerant

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Jejune

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  1. Not interesting
  2. Too simple, simplistic
    Think vapid
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Jettison

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Get rid of, throw or drop

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Vapid

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Not stimulating or challenging. Think jejeune

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Kinfolk

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Relatives

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Laconic

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Using few words. Taciturn, terse, curt

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Taciturn

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Reserved, saying little. Laconic, terse, curt

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Lambaste

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Criticize very harshly. Denounce, deride

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Languish

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  1. Grow weak

2. Suffer from being forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation

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Largesse

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Giving away money

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Laudatory

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Expressing praise. Think applaud

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Somnolent

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Lethargic, slumberous

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Limpid

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  1. A clear liquid
  2. Clear writing
  3. Marked by transparency
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Lionize

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Treat as very important. Eulogize

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Loquacious

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Talkative. Garrulous

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Respite

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A short delay/rest from something unpleasant

- A short respite

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Risible

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Foolish, to provoke laughter

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Luxuriant

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Lush, rich and profuse. Yielding abundantly. Rampant

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Madcap

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  1. Eccentric, unconventional

2. Reckless, rash, not considering the consequences

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Magnanimous

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Generous, forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person

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Malignant

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Malevolent. Virulent, infectious

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Malinger

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Exaggerate or feign illness to avoid work

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Malodorous

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Bad smell

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Manacle

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To restrain from movement, progress, action

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