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Abashed

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Ashamed or sorry

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Allusion

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Indirect reference

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Annihilated

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Wiped out

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Anomalies

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Oddities; things that don’t fit the pattern

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Antipodes

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Places on opposite sides of the globe

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Apprehension

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Worry; nervousness

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Arduous

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Hard and difficult

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Articulate

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Express well with words

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Assuage

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Make less

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Auspicious

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Fortunate; indicative of a successful outcome

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Avuncular

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Acting like an uncle; kindly

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Axiom

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Something that is taken to be true; basic idea that can’t be questioned

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Banal

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Dull; unoriginal

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Bellicose

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Agressive

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Benign

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Kindly

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Bereft of

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Without; deprived of

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Bifurcation

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Division into two

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Blatantly

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Obviously

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Cacophonous

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Very noisy; unpleasant sounding

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Cantakerous

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Irritable and difficult to please

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Captivating

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Fascinating

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Chided

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Scolded

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Clairvoyant

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Able to see into the future/another dimension

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Coddled

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Over-protective; kept warm

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Comely

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Attractive

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Complacent

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Smug; over-confident

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Conducive to

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Suitable for; leading to

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Convival

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Sociable and friendly

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Cornucopia

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Literally a horn filled with fruits, etc; symbol of plenty

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Cosmopolitan

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Composed of varied nationalities

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Decipher

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Decode; work out meaning

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Deferential

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Showing respect

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Deterrent

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Something that puts one off; a preventive

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Dichotomies

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Divisions into two parts

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Diffident

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Shy; hesitent

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Digression

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Getting off point

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Discriminating

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  1. Able to make fine distinctions between; having good taste

2. Favoring one side/group over another

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Docile

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Placid; easily lead

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Elite

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The upper levels in a society; privileged

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Equitable

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Fair and equal

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous; can be interpreted in more than one way

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Exhilarating

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Exciting

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Fathom

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  1. Work out; understand

2. Measure of depth

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Fervent

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Passionate

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Filial

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Concerned with the relationship between child and parent

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Foreboding

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Sense of doom

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Funerary

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Concerned with funerals

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Galvanized

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  1. Stirred into action; stimulated

2. Coated with zinc

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Grandiose

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Exaggerated; too great; on a grand scale

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Haughty

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Arrogant

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Hilarious

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Very funny

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Hyperbole

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Over-exaggeration

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Impetuous

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Impulsive

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Indecipherable

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Cannot be decoded; cannot be worked out

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Irresolute

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Lacking firmness; inability to decide or commit

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Levity

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Lack of seriousness; humor

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Mediocre

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Average

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Mellifiluous

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Pleasant sounding

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Miscreants

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Wrong-doers

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Mitigated

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Made less severe

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Naïve

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Unsophisticated; simple and inexperienced

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Nonchalant

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Assuming an appearance of not-caring; indifferent

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Obliterated

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Wiped out

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Ousted

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Pushed out of a position

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Pacifists

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People who avoid war

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Panacea

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Remedy for all ills

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Paradoxically

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To counter what one might think; contradictory

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Perusal

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Careful reading

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Placid

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Calm and peaceful

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Presumptuous

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Assuming too much; arrogant

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Profiteer

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Someone who seeks to make unjustified points

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Propagandist

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Someone who spreads ideas

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Proximity

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Closeness

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Qualification

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Something added to modify an opinion

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Reconcile

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To bring disputing sides back together; overcome bad feeling

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Reticent

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Shy; unwilling to share information

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Reverential

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Showing respect

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Revisionists

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People who revise; anti-revolutionaries

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Sanctimonious

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Hypocritically holy; making a pretense of religious feeling

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Stoic

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Brave; able to tolerate whatever life throws at you

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Symbiotic

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Mutually advantageous; close relationship

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Syncopated

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With strongly accented rhythm

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Tacit

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Unspoken; Understood not even thought expressed in words

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Taunted

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Teased; mocked

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Temperate

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Mild; moderate

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Understatement

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Making something seem less important than it is

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Unqualified

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Without hesitation; complete and total

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Unrelenting

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Never giving up; non-stop

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Unwarrented

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Unjustified

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Watershed

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  1. Area between two water basins

2. Turning point

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