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Apathy

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Lack of energy or interest

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Autonomy

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Self government

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Benevolent

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Kindly

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Blanched

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Turned pale

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Bolster

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Give support to

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Bucolic

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Concerned with the countryside or farming

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Callous

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Cruel or unfeeling

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Cantankerous

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Bad tempered

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Chicanery

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Trickery; attempt to deceive

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Churlish

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Ill-mannered

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Cohesive

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Forming a whole; sticking together

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Concur

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Agree

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Decimation

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Extensive destruction

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Deft

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Skillful

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Deliquency

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Wrong-doing

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Depravity

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Moral corruption

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Desolate

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Devoid of life; lonely; feeling sad or hopeless

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Devoid of

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Empty of

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Didactic

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Intending to teach or give instructions

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Disingenuous

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Crafty

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Dispostion

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Tendency; Personality

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Dissent

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Disagreement

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Effusive

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Overly expressive of emotions

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Endorse

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Support

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Enumerate

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Count out; list

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived

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Erroneous

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Wrong

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Erudition

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Great knowledge or learning

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Esoteric

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Obscure

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Fabrication

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Something made up; untrue

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Facetious

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Cheeky; not to be taken seriously

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Factions

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Sides in dispute; groups with common interests

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Flotsam

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Floating rubbish

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Fostered

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Encourage

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Hackneyed

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Stale and overused

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Harbored

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Held [as in an idea]

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Hodgepodge

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Strange mixture

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Impetuous

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Impulsive

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Implaceable

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Cannot be appeased; relentless

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Impugned

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Challenged; attacked in words

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Incorrigable

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Cannot be corrected (of behavior)

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Indigenous

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Native to a particular place

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Ineffable

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Cannot be expressed in words

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Ironic

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Unexpected

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Languid

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Having no energy or interest

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Lassitude

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Lack of energy

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Lugubrious

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Mournful; very sad

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Mercurial

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Rapidly changing

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Misnomer

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Wrong name for something

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Mollified

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Calmed; Pacified

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Multifaceted

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Having many aspects

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Mundane

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Dull; ordinary

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Omnipotent

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All powerful

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Pedagogy

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Science of teaching

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Phlegmatic

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Calm

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Plausible

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Believable

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Precursor

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Fore-runner; earlier version

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Preeminance

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Fame; top position

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Pretentious

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Putting on an act

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Prognosis

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Outlook

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Polific

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Producing a lot

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Provacative

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Provoking

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Raiment

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Clothes; garments

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Reciprocate

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Pay back

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Reconcile

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Bring disputing side together again

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Remiss

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Wrong

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Remonstrance

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Criticism

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Resilient

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Able to spring back; strong

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Retrenchment

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Reducing staff or forces; conserving resources

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Robust

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Firm and strong

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Skeptical

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Doubtful

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Skewed

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Distorted; bent

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Subtle

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Not obvious

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Succint

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Clear, short, and well expressed

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Sundry

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Miscellaneous

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Sustenane

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Support; food

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Tenable

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Can be held (of an opinion)

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Tenuous

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Shaky; not firm

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Torrid

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Hot and steamy

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Undermine

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Attempt to overthrow; weaken

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Underscore

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Emphasize

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Unequivocal

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Clear; cannot be misunderstood

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Vector

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Carrier (of a disease, for example)

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Whimsical

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Changing; fickle

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Wistful

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Full of sadness and longing

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