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Imperious

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Arrogantly domineering or overbearing

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Exigent

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Requiring immediate attention or remedy

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Injunction

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A command, directive, or order

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Mendicant

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A beggar

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Query

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A question, inquiry

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Beseech

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To address an earnest or urgent request to

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Blandishment

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The act of coaxing by flattery

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Cajole

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To coax gently and persistently

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Elicit

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To bring out, evoke

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Enjoin

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To direct with authority and emphasis

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Facile

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Done with little effort

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Incompetent

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Not capable

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Inept

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Awkward

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Proficient

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Performing a skill with facility

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Propensity

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An innate inclination

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Acuity

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Acuteness of perception

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Consummate

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Supremely accomplished or skilled

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Cunning

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Skill or adeptness to performance

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Deft

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Skillful

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Endowment

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A natural gift or quality

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Rebuke

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To criticize sharply

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Scurrilous

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Using vulgar language

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Spurn

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To reject disdainfully

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Vitriolic

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Severe, harsh

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Vituperation

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Sustained attack

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Aspersion

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A false statement

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Deprecate

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To express disapproval

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Deride

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To laugh at in scorn

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Execrable

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Very bad

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Ostracize

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To exclude from a group