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Succumb

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Cumb-to lie down

  • (v.) to lay down and surrender / fail to resist
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Cubicle

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Cub:to lie down

-(n.) small closed off area of a room

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Incubate

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Cub-to lie down

-(v.) to keep in proper conditions for development

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Incumbent

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Cumb-to lie down

-(adj.) necessary for (someone) to do as a duty or responsibility

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Recumbent

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Cumb-to lie down

-(adj.) lying down, reclining

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Cumbersome

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Cumb-to lie down

-(adj.) large or heavy; difficult to carry or use

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Encumber

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Cumb-to lie down

-(v.) to restrict or burden so that movement is difficult

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Incubus

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Cub-to lie down

-(n) male demon

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Succubus

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Cub-to lie down

-female demon believed to have sex w/ sleeping men

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Culprit

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  • Culp: blame

- (n.) a person guilty for an offense

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Culpable

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Culp: to blame

-deserving blame or or censure

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Inculpate

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Culp: to blame

-(v.) accused or blamed

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Meaculpa

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Culp: to blame

-(n.) my fault

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Doctrine

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Dac/doc: to teach

-(n.) set of beliefs, dogma

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Indoctrinate

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Dac/doc: to teach

-(v.) to imbue with learning, brainwash

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Docile

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Doc/Dac: to teach

-(adj) ready to train, submissive or tractable

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Didactic

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Doc/dac: to teach

-(adj.) instructive, teachable, designed to teach

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Acid

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Sharp tasting; sour

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Ac/acr

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Sharp or bitter

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Acute

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Sharp, pointed

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Acerbic

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Sharp and forthright

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Exacerbate

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To make a situation worse

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Acrid

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Bad smelling

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Acrimonious

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Angry and bitter

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Acumen

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Sharp in intellect

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Acerated

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Needle shaped

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Apology

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Expression of regret

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APO

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Away

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Apostle

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A representative or messenger

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CULP

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Blame

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Inculpate

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Blamed or accused

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ROG

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To ask

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Interrogate

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To ask questions closely and aggressively

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Arrogant

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Having exaggerated ones own ability; conceited

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Abrogate

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To repeal or do away with a law

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Surrogate

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A substitute

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Derogatory

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Disrespectful

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Arrogate

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Take or claim w/out justification

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Prerogative

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A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class

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Rogation

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Prayer

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Supererogatory

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Class of actions that go beyond “call of duty”

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SED/SESS/SID

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Sit/still
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Plan/plot

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Sediment

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Matter that settles; debris

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Cessation

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The process of ending

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Preside

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To sit in a position of authority in a meeting or gathering

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Resident

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A person who lives somewhere permanently

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Dissident

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A person who is a against an official policy; a protester

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Residual

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Remaining after the greater part or quantity has gone

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Subsidiary

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Less important then but related to

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Insidious

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Proceeding in a gradual subtle way but with harmful effects

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance; diligent

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Sentiment

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View/attitude towards event/situation; an opinion, feeling, view, attitude, belief

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Presentiment

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Feeling about future

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Dissent

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To hold use different from previously commonly or officially expressed

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SENS/SENT

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To feel/be aware

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Resent

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Do you feel bitterness or indignation at a circumstance action person; begrudge

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Sentinel

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A soldier whose job it is to stand and keep watch

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Insensate

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Without feeling

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SOL

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To loosen to free

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Dissolve

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To get rid of by adding water; to separate

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Soluble

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Liquefiable

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Resolution

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Formal expression of opinion

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Dissolution

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Act or process of breaking apart; separation

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Dissolute

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Indifferent

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Irresolute

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Uncertain

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TIC/TAC

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To be silent

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Reticent

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Not revealing one’s thoughts; reserved; withdrawn

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Tacit

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Understood without being stated

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Taciturn

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Reserved in speech; saying little; untalkative

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Detain

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To keep in custody

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Pertain

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To be appropriate, related, applicable

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Tenacious

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Tending to keep firm hold (of something)

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Tenure

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The holding or processing of anything

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Tenable

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Capable of being held as against attack; viable

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Sustenance

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Means of sustaining life; nourishment

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Abstention

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Act of holding oneself back voluntarily

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Pertinacious

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Stubborn

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TAIN/TEN/TENT/TIN

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-to hold

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TRACT

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-to drag; to pull; to draw

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Tractor

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-smth for drawing or pulling

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Attract

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To pull towards

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Contract

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  • binding agreement

- to draw/pull together

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Detract

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To take away a part or quality; to diminish

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Abstract

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-apart from concrete realities

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Tractable

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Easily managed/controlled; docile

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Protracted

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Prolonged; smth drawn

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TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU

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To stretch; to thin

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Tendentious

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Having a definite bias/purpose/predisposition

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Distend

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To expand by stretch

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Tension

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The act of stretching or straining

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Contentious

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Tending to argue; quarrelsome

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Tentative

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Unsure, uncertain

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Attenuate

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Two we can reduce in force, effect, or quality

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Extenuating

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Serving to make a fault appear less serious

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Tenuous

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Thin or slender in form

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US/UT

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-to use

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Abuse

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To treat and harmful or offense way

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Usage

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Way of doing smth

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Usurp

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To seize power without legal rights

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Utility

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Usefulness

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Utilitarian

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Practical

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VI

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-life

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Vivid

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-bright or intense

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Vicarious

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Received in place of another

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Viable

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Capable of living

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Vivacity

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Liveliness

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Joie de vivre

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Joy of living

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Convivial

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Friendly; agreeable; amicable

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