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Scrupulous

A

conscientious and exact; extremely thorough; principled; painstaking

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Exacerbate

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worsen; embitter, aggrevate

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Preclude

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make impossible; prevent; keep from happening; exclude the possibility

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Debilitate

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make weak; enfeeble; sap the strength of; enervate

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Surreptitious

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secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden

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Frivelous

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lacking in seriousness; self-indulgently carefree; relatively unimportant; silly; trivial

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Specious

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seemingly reasonable but incorrect; superficially plausible; misleading (often intentionally)

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Extol

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praise highly; glorify; laud; exalt; eulogize

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Rebuttal

A

response with contrary evidence; reply pointing out flaws in opponent’s argument

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Disparge

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belittle; run down; sneer at

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Mollify

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soothe; moderate in intensity; soften

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Capricious

A

impulsive and unpredictable; erratic; fickle; changeable

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Furtive

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sneaky; secret; surreptitious

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Taciturn

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habitually silent; disinclined to talk

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Disparity

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condition of inequality; difference; dissimilarity

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Recluse

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hermit; loner; someone who withdraws from society

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Criterion

A

standard used in judging; basis for comparison

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Arbitrary

A

determined by impulse or whim; capricious; unrestricted by law

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Equicovial

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ambiguous; intentionally misleading; open to more than one interpretation

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Reticent

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uncommunicative; reserved; inclined to be silent; taciturn

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Nonchalance

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composure; lack of concern; indifference

22
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Coercion

A

use of force to compel someone to obey; threat of violence or reprisal

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Zealot

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fanatic; person who shows excessive religious or political fervor

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Immutable

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unchangeable; changeless; static

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