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Abysmal

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Really horrible

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Adamant

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Unyielding

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Acrimony

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Bitterness

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Accolades

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High praise

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Allegedly

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Apparently

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Allude

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Suggest

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Aphorism

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Short saying

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Apprehension

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Anxiety

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Abashed

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Embarrassed

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Appreciable

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Noticeable

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Appease

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Satisfy (assuage)

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Amorphous

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Without shape

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Ambivalence

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No opinion

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Animosity

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Hostile

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Arcane

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Understood by few

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Archaic

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Old

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Audacity

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Bold

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Arduous

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Requiring effort

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Assiduously

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With great care

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August

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Magnificent

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Avery

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Prevent

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Avail

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Take advantage of, help, benefit

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Banality

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Cliche

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Belies

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Fail to give true notion

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Bemuse

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Puzzle

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Berate

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Critics

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Boisterous

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Bold and energetic

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Champion

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To speak for

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Candor

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Openness

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Capitulate

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Surrender

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Catanoia

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Unresponsive

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Cathartic

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Psychologicl relief

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Calumny

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Making false accusations to damage reputation (slander)

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Castigate

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Criticize

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Cavort

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Jump/dance around excitedly

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Censor

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Remove objectionable material

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Chauvism

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Feeling of superiority

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Collateral

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Secondary

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Corpulent

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Fat

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Connotation

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Feeling a word evokes

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Contempt

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Regard someone as worthless

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Contemptuous

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Scornful

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Contentious

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Causing arguments

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Contraindicate

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To give or suggest aginast

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Contrition

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Remorseful

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Coincide

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Same time

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Constitute

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Be part of

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Crestfallen

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Dissappointed

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Decorum

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Formal

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Deprecating

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Expressing disapproval

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Debilitating

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Making something weak

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Desiccated

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Dehydrated

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Desecrate

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Treat with violent, disrespect (esp. something/someplace holy)
“More than 300 graves were desecrated”

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Deign

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Do something below one’s dignity

“She deigned an apology”

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Dearth

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Lack of

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Derision

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Ridicule

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Dissipate

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Squander

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Dilapidated

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Despair and neglect

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Diligent

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Showing care in one’s work

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Didactic

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Teach with moral reasoning

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Disparage

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Represents with little worth

“He always wanted to disparage his competitors”

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Dolorous

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Great sorrow

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Durress

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Threat against own will

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Dupe

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Scam (swindle)

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Ebullience

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Full of energy

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Effervescent

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Bubbly

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Elucidation

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Making something clear

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Elude

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Fail to grasp

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Elusive

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Hard to catch

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Emaciated

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Thin or weak (esp. with food)

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Emulate

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Imitate

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Enumerate

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Determines, show number

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Erroneous

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Wrong

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Epistemology

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Distinguished justified belief from opinion

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Equivocate

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Speak vaguely

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Equitable

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Fair

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Estimable

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Deserving respect

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Eulogy

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Speak of praise

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Evasive

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Avoiding commitment

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Evaescent

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Short lived

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Exorbitant

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Excessive

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Extol

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Praise

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Extrapolate

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Estimate

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Exemplifies

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Perfect example of

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Expunge

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Erase

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Facetious

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Inappropriate humor (flippant)

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Finesse

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Delicacy

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Florid

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Having flushed complexion, complicated

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Flippant

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Lacking appropriate seriousness

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Floundering

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Struggling

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Frenetic

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Fast and energetic

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Furtively

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Secretly

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Gainsaid

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Contradicted

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Hamartia

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Fatal flaw leading to death

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Haphazard

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Unorganized/random

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Herein

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In this document

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Hoodwink

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Iatrogenic

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Consequences of medical treatment

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Idiom

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Language specific to group of people

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Idiosyncratic

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Peculiar to an individual

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Imbibe

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Absorb ideas

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Impugn

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Dispute the truth

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Improvident

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Not careful

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Impasse

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No progress possible

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Imperturbation

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Inability to be disturbed

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Imperative

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Impervious

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Unaffected by

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Impotent

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Not taking effective action

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Improvident

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Not careful

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Imbroglio

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Confused, complicated, embarrassing situation

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Intrasigence

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Not able to change mind

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Indecorous

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Insolence

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Disrespect

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Insinuated

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Inimitable

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Innocuous

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Not harmful

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Indelible

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Making marks that can’t be removed

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Indisposed

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Slightly unwell

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Irrevocable

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Unable to change

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Inviolable

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Jubliant

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Juggernaut

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Unstoppable force

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Juxtapose

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Place close together for conrast

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Laborious

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Maintain

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Assert opinion

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Malign

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Malproposim

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Mistake of using wrong word that sounds similar

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Maverick

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Radical thinker

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Meander

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Megalomania

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Condition of person filled with fantasies

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Mercurial

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Sudden changes

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Miscreant

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Someone who behaves badly

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Miser

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Cheap person

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Monotonous

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Morose

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Ill-tempered

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Modicum

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Small amount

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Mundane

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Lacing interest

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Myriad

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Necessitate

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Make necessary

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Negligible

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Insiginificant

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Nonplussed

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Shocked, not sure how to act

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Nuance

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Subtle difference

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Obfuscation

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Obscure, unclear

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Oblique

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Obstinate

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Obtuse

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Slow to learn

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Omnibus

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Volume containing other items

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Ostentatious

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Showing off worth

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Ostracisim

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Platable

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Acceptable

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Paragon

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Best of its kind

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Parsing

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Analyzing syntactic parts of language

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Parsimonious

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Frugal, unwilling to use resources

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Petulant

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Pernicious

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Harmful effect

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Peruse

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Examine carefully

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Penchant

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Tendency to

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Pinnacle

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Highest point

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Placid

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Not easily excited, peaceful, calm

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Pilant

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Poignant

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Presumptuous

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Overly forward

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Precarious

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Not secure, dependent on chance “she made a precarious living by painting”

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Preempt

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Take place of

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Prodigious

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Great extent

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Prosaic

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Propensities

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Natural inclincation

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Propogate

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Spread and promote

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Provisional

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Primeval

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Primite age

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Preponderance

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Great in number

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Pseudonym

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Name assumed for another reason

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Puerile

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Repentance

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Reproved

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Criticize, reprimand

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Resurgence

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Increase of rival after little activity

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Scrupulous

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Using extreme care

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Salubrious

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Sinecure

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Position requiring no word

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Spartan

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Unconcerned with comfort

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Squander

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Squelch

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Stipulate

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Subjugation

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Take over control

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Succinctly

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Resolved

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Tirade

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Angry speech

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Tenacious

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keeping firm hold of something

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Tentative

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Tepid

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Not enthusiatic

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Transgression

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Act against a code

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Transitory

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Short lasting

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Trivial

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Little value

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Truncate

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Tyranny

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Absolute ruler

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Tyro

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Vehement

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Strong feeling

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Verbatim

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General idea

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Vernacular

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Language of people in area

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Visceral

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Relating to inner meaning vs. intelligence

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Vicisstidues

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Change of circumstances

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Vigilant

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Keeping careful watch

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Vindiction

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Prove to be right

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Virtuoso

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Virtue, excellence

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Vitriol

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Abusive language

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Vociferous

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Intense, passionate (fervid, ardent, zealous)

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Unviable

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Not workable

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Unprecedented

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Like nothing seen before

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Zealous

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Fervent, fervid, ardent

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Zenith

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Highest point, pinnacle, summit

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Apothegem

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Short Saying

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Bifurcate

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Divide into 2 branches

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Covet

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Yearn to possess

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Preclude

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Prevent from happening

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Rebuke

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Sharp disapproval

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Tout

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Attempt to sell

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Veracious

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Speaking the truth

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Intemperance

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Lack of moderation

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Omnious

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Impression that something bad will happen

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Decry

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Public denouncing (declared to be evil) “we have been decrying Rob Ford’s addiction to crack”

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Denounce

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Declare to be evil

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Pith

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Most Important

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Swindle

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Row

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Angry dispute

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Intimation

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Indirect suggestion

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Albeit

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Although

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

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Eponym

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Name derived from person “Alexandria is an eponym”

228
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Infelicitous

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Inappropriate “he continued to make infectious comments about the ceo’s gambling habit”

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Surfeit

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Excessive amount

230
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Bereft

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Unhappy in love “after 64 years of marriage he was bereft after his wife’s death”

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