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Comity

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Courtesy; civility

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Luculent

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  1. Clear or lucid

2. Convincing; cogent

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Mussitate

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To talk indistinctly; to mutter

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Adumbrate

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To report or represent in outline; to foreshadow or symbolize

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Quibble

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To try to avoid by sophistication

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Tortuous

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Winding; highly intricate

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Maverick

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Rebel; nonconformist

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Deportment

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Demeanor, behavior, conduct

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Attune

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To bring into accord or harmony; to adjust

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Canny

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Having or showing shrewdness and good judgment

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Ribald

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Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way

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Bungle

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To mismanage; to misappropriate

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Comely

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Attractive; agreeable

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Lave

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To wash; to flow along or against

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Proboscis

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The trunk of an elephant

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Celerity

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Speed

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Pertinacious

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Holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action; stubborn

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Jaunty

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Cheerful and pleasant; lively; bold

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Peekish

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Ill-tempered or irritable; easily angered

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Inclement

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Stormy, severe, unkind, rough

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Besot

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To infatuate; to obsess

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Disinter

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To dig up

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Venial

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Minor, unimportant

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Orison

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A prayer

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Sordid

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  1. Involving ignoble actions and motives

2. Dirty or squalid

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Charlatan

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An imposter (one who feigns knowledge or ability)

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Abysmal

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Bottomless extreme

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Preclude

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To prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; to make impossible; to obviate

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Bellicose

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War-like; aggressive

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Mannered

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Stylized; pretentious

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Opprobrium

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A state of shame or disgrace; scorn; contempt

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Brummagem

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Showy but inferior and worthless

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Stigma

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A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person

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Somnambulist

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A sleepwalker

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Expedient

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Convenient; practical; simple, quick, easy

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Bombast

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Arrogant, pompous language

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Ruddy

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Having a healthy red color

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Amortize

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To pay off a debt in installments

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Empirical

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Relying on experiment

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Propitiate

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To appease; to try to gain favor

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Absquatulate

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To run away quickly; to leave in a hurry; to abscond

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Fuddle

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To confuse or befuddle

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Strepitous

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Boisterous; noisy

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Impinge

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To collide with or strike; to encourage or infringe

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Supple

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Flexible, movable, limber

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Jaded

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Bruised; worn out; tarnished; fatigued

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Poultice

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A soothing ointment

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Hortatory

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Giving strong encouragement; encouraging

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Paradox

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Something apparently contradictory in nature; a statement that looks false but is actually correct

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Lavish

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On a grand scale; wasteful

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Repudiate

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  1. To reject as having no authority or binding force

2. To cast off or disown

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Accrete

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To grow together

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Pretense

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  1. Pretending or feigning; make-believing

2. A false show of something

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Vicissitude

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A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant

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Concord

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An agreement

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Rancor

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Bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing

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Rakish

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Stylish, especially in a sporting, hip way; dashing

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Panjandrum

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A person who believes that he is important; a pretentious official

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Condole

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To express condolences; to express sympathy for

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Novelty

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The quality of being new and out of the ordinary

60
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Disaffected

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Rebellious; resentful of authority or laws

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