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Abnegation

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Feeling of rejecting something

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Prefaced

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Being a speech “But prefaced that you are very busy”

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Truculen

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Eager to start fight

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Phlegmatic

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Unemotional

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Panegyrical

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Public speech of praise

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Emphatic

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Showing emphasis

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Fission

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Splitting into 2 (noun) - “Dissolved into fission” or (verb) - “nuclear product can fission”

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Looming

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Shadowing threat

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Burgeoning

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Flourishing

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Unconscionable

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Not right

“Adultery marks an unconscionable conduct of marriage”

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Diction

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Choice of words

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Egregious

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Shocked, outstandingly bad

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Albeit

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Although

“This study, albeit the small sample size, demonstrates that”

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15
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Truculence

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Eager to start fight

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16
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Becoming

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Suitable

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17
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Jingoist

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Overly patriotic

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18
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Flag

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Tire “his team began to flag”

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19
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Opulence

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Wealth

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20
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Vindictive

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Seeking revenge

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21
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Solictous

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Anxious to please “my mom is solicitous about my health”

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22
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Reproach

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Criticize

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Ingenuity

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Cleverness

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24
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Relegate

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Lower in position

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25
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Destitute

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Poor

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26
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Charlatan

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Con artist

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Enmity

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Hate

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Illustrious

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Famous “an illustrious painter”

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Endemic

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Native

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30
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Hubris

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Excessive pride

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Clemency

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Mercy

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32
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Chimera

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Illusion

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33
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Belligerent

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Eager to fight

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34
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Trite

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Lacking originality

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35
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Lacerate

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Distress deeply

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36
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Underscore

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Emphasize

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37
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Tempestuous

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Intensely emotional

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Noisome

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Noxious fumes

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Affable

40
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Puissant

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Power (puissant = power in French)

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Curtailed

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Reduce in quantity

42
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Refuse

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Discarded material (noun)

43
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Sardonic

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Offensive humour

44
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Exiguity

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Scarce “the Exiguity of the ship’s supplies forced them to search for food”

45
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Verisimilitude

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Appearance of reality

46
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Promulgate

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State/announce

47
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Palaver

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To talk quickly (unimportant matters)

“During the rain delay, many of the fans palavered to make the time go faster”

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Lachrymose

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Showing sorrow

49
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Concomitant

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Describing event that happens at same time “concomitant with his desire for nature, was his desire for the culture of a city”

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Canard

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Misleading “the public will always be fooled by the media’s canards”

51
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Ineluctable

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Impossible to avoid

52
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Graft

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Corruption via bribery

53
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Dissolution

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Indulge in sensual pleasures, debauchery “many emperors were known for their dissolutions”

54
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Trenchant

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Full of force “her trenchant analysis of the market”

55
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Obtain

56
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Pillory

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Public scorning (verb)

57
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Bastardization

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Corrupt act “the movie was a bastardization of the book”

58
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Raillery

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Light teasing “I’m not usually bothered by raillery”

59
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Simulacrum

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Bad imitation “ old graphics made ppl into a simulacrum”

60
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Halcyon

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Peaceful “the decade after ww2 was a halcyon period”

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Abrogate

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To relinquish formally

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Intimate

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Auspicious

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Favourable

64
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Galvanize

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To excite or inspire someone

65
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Splenetic

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Easily irritable

66
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Surfeit

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An excessive amount

67
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Piddling

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Pathetically trifling, trivial

68
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Encroachment

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Intrusion on person’s territory

69
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Ebb

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Movement of ride back to sea

70
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Plight

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Dangerous situation, predicament

71
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Subdue

72
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Trepidation

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Feeling of fear that something might happen

73
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Revel

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Enjoy one self in a lively way

“She revelled in travel”

74
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Alchemy

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Influential tradition

75
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Toiling

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Work hard, move slowly

“She began toiling as much as possible by memo and phone”

76
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Privation

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Lack of basic thing, deprivation

77
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Denigrates

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Disparage, criticize

78
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Sedentary

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Spending a lot of time sitting

79
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Proclivity

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Penchant, propensity, precocious (child)

80
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Prudent

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Acting with care, prudence

81
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Ostensibly

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Supposedly

82
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Indoctrination

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To accept a set of beliefs uncritically, indoctrinating (v)

83
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Dubious

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Suspicious

84
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Bellows

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(V) strong gust of air

“It bellows through media”

85
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Imperious

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Overbearing “society imperiously demands”

86
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Imbue

87
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Wager

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Bet, gamble

88
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Labyrinthine

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Convoluted

89
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Stupor

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State of reduced consciousness

90
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Dictum

91
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Lucrative

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(Ash) making alot of money

“A lucrative career”

92
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Bigotry

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Intolerance of Other groups

93
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Incite

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Encourage to violently stir up (v)

94
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Craven

95
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Calamitous

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Catastrophe

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