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Ardently

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Very enthusiastic and showing strong feelings about something/someone

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Ascertaining

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Finding out the true or correct information about something

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Benevolently

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Doing something/acting in a kind or helpful way

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Conciliating

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Friendly and kind in manner or way of being

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Commencement

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Beginning

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Countenance

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A person’s face or expression

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Dauntless

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Not easily frightened or stopped from doing something

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Desolation

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A place empty and without people

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Diffusing

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Something being spread out or spread in many directions

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Enticements

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Something that you offer to somebody in order to persuade them to go somewhere or do something

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Entreated/Intreated

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To ask somebody to do something in a serious and often emotional way

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Forebodings

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Strong feelings that something unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen

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Inexorable

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Something/someone that cannot be stopped or changed

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Inuring

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To make somebody/yourself get used to something unpleasant so that they/you are no longer strongly affected by it

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Niche

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A comfortable or suitable job, role, way of life, etc.

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Perpetual

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Continuing for a long period of time without stopping or being interrupted

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Trifling

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Small and not important

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Asylum

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A shelter from danger or hardship

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Avidity

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A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

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Benevolence

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Being kind, helpful, and generous

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Cordial

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Polite, warm, and friendly

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Dogmatism

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Stating opinions in a strong way and not accepting anyone else’s opinions

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Filial

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Meaning the generation following the parent’s generation

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Inclemency

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Unpleasant weather, especially cold and rainy

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Lineaments

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Any of the features of the body, usually of the face (especially with regard to its outline)

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Mien

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A person’s appearance, manner, or demeanor

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Pedantry

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Paying too much attention to small details or rules

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Pertinacity

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Determined to achieve a particular aim despite difficulties or opposition

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Preposess

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To influence in advance for or against a person

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Recompensing

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To do something for somebody to give them a payment for something that they have suffered

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Repugnance

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A very strong feeling of dislike for something

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Unremitting

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Never stopping

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Adduced

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To give reasons why you think something is true

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Dilatoriness

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Lateness or delay in coming

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Docile

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Quiet, not aggressive, and easily controlled

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Exculpated

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To remove blame for someone

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Ingonimious

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Deserving blame or shame, bringing blame or shame

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Perambulations

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Slow walks or journeys around a place (especially those for fun)

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Prognosticate

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Make a prediction about, tell in advance

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Salubrious

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Clean and healthy

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Ascend

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To rise, to go up, to climb

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Barbarous

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Inflicting pain or suffering

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Disoluble

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Dissolved or disintegrated

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious or difficult to understand

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Impervious

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Not affected or influenced by something

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Incommoded

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Caused difficulties or problems for someone

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Luxuriant

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Produced or growing thickly and strongly

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Multiplicity

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A great number and variety of something

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Opaque

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Not clear enough to see through or allow light through

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Pensive

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Thinking deeply about something, especially because you are sad or worried

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Perpendicularity

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Uprightness

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Plaited

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To twist three or more long pieces of hair, rope, etc. together to make one long piece

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Precipitous

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Very steep, high and often dangerous

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Purloined

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To steal something or use it without permission

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Scion

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A descendant or heir; younger member of family

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Tenets

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Basic principles or beliefs that are accepted as true

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Uncouth

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Rude or socially unacceptable

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Venerable

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A person or thing deserving of respect because they are old, important, wise, etc.

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Zeal

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Having great energy or enthusiasm connected with something that you feel strongly about

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