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Demerit

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A fault; a bad quality

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Hale

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Hearty and strong

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Contumely

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Contemptuous treatment; harsh language

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Mordant

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Sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; biting

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Demur

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To hesitate; refuse

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Bequest

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Arrangement to give something at death

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Censure

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Blame

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Lope

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To run with long strides

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and boisterous

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Occlude

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To stop up; to cut off the flow

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Nostrum

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A hypocritical cure-all that may have no true efficacy

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Expostulate

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To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate; argue

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Abscission

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A cutting off; a separation

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Pith

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Essential part; the fundamental aspect; the core constituent

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Disavowal

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Denial; disclaiming; refusal

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Sweeping

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  1. Having a broad impact

2. Lacking details, very general

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Snafu

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A badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation

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Doggerel

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Trivial, poorly constructed verse

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Indemnify

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To compensate (someone) for harm or loss

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Effluvium

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A noxious, foul-smelling odor/vapor

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Penumbra

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The partial shadow that is caused by an eclipse

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Ratiocination

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The process of logical reasoning; an act of drawing conscious from premises

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Errant

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Wandering; straying from proper moral standards; moving around aimlessly

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Polemical

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Causing debate or argument

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Surfeit

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An excessive amount of something

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Rebus

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A puzzle in which pictures give clues

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Abstemious

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Self-denying; refraining from indulging

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Pleonastic

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Using of more words than are necessary to convey meaning

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Dudgeon

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A fit of anger

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Perfidious

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Intending to betray

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Transitory

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Lasting only a short time; transient; temporary

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Acrophobia

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Fear of heights

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Peregrinate

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To travel or journey, especially to walk on foot; traverse

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Percipient

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Insightful; perceptive

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Sensuous

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Appealing to the senses

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Solicitous

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Characterized by or showing interest or concern

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Abrogate

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To formerly revoke an agreement or contract

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Ambrosial

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Extremely pleasing to taste

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Motif

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  1. A recurring theme, subject, idea, etc.

2. A distinctive and recurring form, shape, figure, etc.

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Wile

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A trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice

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Wily

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Cunning

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Acrid

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Sharp; pungent

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Stevedore

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A dockworker

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Inexpedient

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Not advisable

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Eidetic

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Having extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall of visual images

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Remission

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A decline; a temporary halt; the cancellation of a debt; a pardon

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Deem

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To regard; to consider

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Reprobation

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Severe disapproval; censure

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Arrogate

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To attribute unjustly; to take without right

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Devolution

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The passing of power from one person to another

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Sequacious

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Following with smooth or logical regularity

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Eclipse

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To surpass; to overcome

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Recourse

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The act of seeking assistance or advice

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Prodigious

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Having great power or size; extreme

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Seemly

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Appropriate (of behavior); decorous

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Palaver

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A conference or discussion; profuse and idle talk

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Shrew

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A woman of violent temper and speech; termagant

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Dilettante

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An amateur; a person who dabbles without serious commitment to a subject

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Augur

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To indicate by signs; to predict from an omen

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Mite

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A very small amount (of money), portion, or particle

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Bicameral

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Two-chambered, most often referring to a legislative body

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Homely

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Not good-looking; unattractive; lacking in physical beauty

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Potpourri

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A mixture composed of several types of items; a heterogeneous mixture

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Petty

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Trivial; not important

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