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Cited

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  1. Call upon.

2. Quote someone or something

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Importuned

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To beg

Syn : beseech, implore

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Finagled

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To obtain by deceive/ trickery

Syn: finesse

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Glean

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Obtain information from various sources

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Purge

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Remove something forcely

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Prescient

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Having/ showing knowledge of events before they take place

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Clairvoyant

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Person who claim to have supernatural abilities to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.

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Palatable

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Pleasant to taste

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Provisional

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Temporary, serving for the time being.

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Vociferous

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Loud and forceful

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Virulent

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  1. Poisonous

2. Bitterly hostile

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Malign

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  1. Evil in nature or effect

2. Speak about someone in a spiteful critical manner

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Reversion

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Return to previous state

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Vanquished

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Defeat thoroughly.

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Lionized

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To treat as a celebrity, give too much public attention and approval to someone.

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Ostracize

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Exclude from a social group