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alacrity

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brisk and cheerful; eagerness

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solvency

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ability to meet financial obligations

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emolument

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salary for work done; compensation

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eclat

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great brilliance, as of performance or success

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snootful

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enough alcohol to make one drunk

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forlorn

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sad and lonely

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vissicitude

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change in circumstance or fortune, typically unwelcomed or unpleasant

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antipodean

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opposite

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indubitably

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undoubtedly; unquestionably

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sophomoric

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immature and overconfident

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sardonic

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grimly or scornful; bitterly sarcastic

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provincial

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narrow-minded

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gelid

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extremely cold

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hangdog

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sad, downcast

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mendacious

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lying, false

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droll

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amusing in and odd way

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choleric

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easily made angry, bad tempered

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renascent

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reborn; coming into being again

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incarnadine

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blood red

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concupiscence

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inclination to sin

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languidly

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lacking energy or vitality; weakly

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felicitous

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happy

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excrescence

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abnormal growth; unattractive or superfluous addition

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lubricious

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smooth, slippery; lecherous

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lacuna

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gap; missing part

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adamantine

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rigidly firm; unyielding

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insupportable

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more than can be endured; impossible to justify

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languor

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weak or lifeless feeling

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drubbing

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beating, thrashing

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chimera

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illusion, foolish fantasy

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meltingly

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tender, delicate

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callow

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young and inexperienced

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thronging

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to crowd

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flatulant

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gassy; empty, vain

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diffident

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lacking self-confidence

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solicitous

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showing interest or concern; eager to do something

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orotund

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full, rich and clear (of voice); pompous, pretentious (writing)

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consummately

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completely, utterly

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unctuous

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exaggerated, insincerely polite

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inanition

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exhaustion by lack of food; lack of mental or spiritual vigor and enthusiasm

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tableau

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group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history

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sulky

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morose, bad-tempered; resentful

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ignominious

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shame, disgrace

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augury

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omen, portent;

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baroque

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extravagant, grotesque, flamboyant

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peradventure

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doubt; chance

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propinquity

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kinship; proximity

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halcyon

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happy, great success; calm, peaceful; affluent, prosperous

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scabrous

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difficult, knotty; rough to the touch; salacious

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laconic

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concise

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sultry

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hot, humid; exciting strong sexual desire

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Insipid

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Dull, uninteresting; tasteless (food)

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Adumbrated

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Overshadow, obscure; to intimate

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Vapid

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Lacking flavor, interest; dull, flat

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Indite

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Put down in writing; make up, compose

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Mordant

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Biting and caustic in thought or manner; burning, pungent

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Pellucid

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Easy to understand; admitting light without distortion (clear);

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Doleful

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Grief, cheerless, sad; causing grief

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Lambert

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Softly bright; brilliance (of expression); flickering

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Oleaginous

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Oily; marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality

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Fatuity

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Something foolish or stupid

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Apostrophe

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the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

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Venison

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Blessing, benediction

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desuetude

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disuse

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infrangible

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Not to be broken apart; not to be violated

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Solipsism

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Extreme egocentrism

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Propinquity

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Kinship; proximity

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Preempt

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Take for oneself; take precedence over; preclude

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Vagrant

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Wandering about; having a fleeting, wayward, or inconstant quality

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Hagridden

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Tormented, harassed

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Weak

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a sound, healthy, or prosperous state

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Hidebound

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Inflexible character;

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Aver

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Declare positively

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Sententious

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terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression

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Astigmatic

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showing incapacity for observation or discrimination

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Surfeit

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EXCESS

2 : an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something (such as food or drink)

3 : disgust caused by excess

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