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Bombastic

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Too elaborate; exaggerated; inflated

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Aspersion

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Negative feeling; damaging remark

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Convoluted

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Complicated

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Cryptic

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Hidden

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Decorous

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Good and correct (use of behavior)

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Derivative

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Unoriginal

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Despot

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Tyrant

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Detritus

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Rubbish

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Diaphanous

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Very thin and transparent

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Dictum

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Often-used saying

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Dilettante

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Person who dabbles in the arts

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Dispassionate

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Unbiased; fair

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Elicit

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Evoke or draw out

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Elliptical

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Indirect

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Iconoclast

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Person who goes against accepted authority

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Idiosyncratic

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Quirky; unique

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Indigence

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Extreme poverty

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Jingoism

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Using words to stir up exaggerated patriotism

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Mendicancy

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Begging

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Milieu

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Environment; surroundings

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Nascent

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Just begun; in an early stage of development

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Ossified

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Become fixed and rigid

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Pastoral

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Concerned with the countryside

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Pedestrian

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Boring

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Perfidy

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Treachery; betrayal

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Profligacy

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Wasteful and immoral behavior

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Prohibitive

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Very expensive

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Purveyor

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One who sells something or causes something to spread

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Visceral

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Concerned with the guts; physical rather than mental; related to deep inner feelings rather than intellect

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