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Chary

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Very cautious, wary

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Chagrin

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Mental unease

To bother or vex; mortifying

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Chide

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To scold mildly

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Choleric

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Easily angered

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Claptrap

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Insincere, pretentious or empty language

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Coltish

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Lively and playful; frisky

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Confabulation

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A casual conversation

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Consanguineous

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Of the same lineage or origin

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Contraband

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Goods prohibited by law

Smuggled goods

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Contrapuntal

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Counterpoint in music

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Contretemps

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An unforeseen event that disrupts the normal course of things; an unfortunate occurrence

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Contrite

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Feeling regret and sorrow; penitent

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Contrived

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Obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous or natural

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Costive

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Slow; sluggish

Constipation

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Dally

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To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle

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Dearth

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A scarce supply; a lack

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Defame

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To try to diminish the reputation of

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Defeasible

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Capable of being annulled or invalidated

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Deify

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To make a god of

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Delimit

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To establish the limits of

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Deluge

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A great flood

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Demarcate

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To set the limits of

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Derogate

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To take away; detract

Disparage, belittle

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Dicey

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Fraught with danger

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Dionysian

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Wild, irrational and undisciplined

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Dispensation

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The act of dealing out

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Dissolute

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Lacking moral restraint, indulging in sexual pleasures or vices

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Divagate

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To wander or drift about

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Dotage

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A deterioration of mental faculties

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Dramaturgy

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The art of theatre, especially the writing of plays

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Dross

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Waste or impure matter

Worthless, or trivial matter

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Dyed in the wool

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Very strong opinions

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Ecumenical

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Of worldwide scope or applicability

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Edifice

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A building, especially one of imposing appearance or size

Abstract structure, a school of thought

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Effusive

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Unrestrained or excessive in emotional expression

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Egoist

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One devoured to one own interests and advancement; an egocentric person

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Emblematic

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Symbolic

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Evanescence

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Vanishing, disappearing

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Excogitate

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To think over thoroughly

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Exegesis

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Critical explanation or analysis

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Explicate

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To explain in great detail

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Excoriate

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To tear the skin off

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Factotum

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n. An employee or assistant who serves in a wide range of capacities.

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Faux-naif

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artificially or affectedly simple or naive.

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Fealty

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n. The fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord.
n. The oath of such fidelity.
n. Faithfulness; allegiance

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Feckless

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adj. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

adj. Careless and irresponsible.

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Fettle

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n. Proper or sound condition.

n. Mental or emotional state; spirits: was in fine fettle.

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Fictive

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adj. fictional, fanciful or invented

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Fissile

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adj. Possible to split.

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Flagitious

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adj. Extremely brutal or cruel

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Floe

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n. A low, flat mass of floating ice.

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