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perspicuous

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clearly expressed and easily understood

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panegyric

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eulogistic and pompous oration or writing

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vicarious

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experiencing through a substitute

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prevaricate

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evade or pervert the truth

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avant-garde

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favoring new and unusual ideas; trailblazing

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mendacious

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tending to deceive

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wistful

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feeling a timid desire

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invocation

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formula for conjuring

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evocation

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imaginative recollection of part memories

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avocation

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hobby

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redolent

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fragrant; reminiscent

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insolent

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rude and disrespectful behavior

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indolent

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lazy

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precipitous

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steep

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precipitate

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rash

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titular

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holding a formal position only by title; lacking real authority

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polymath

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person of wide-ranging knowledge

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inimitable

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unparalleled; too good to copy

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inimical

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tending to obstruct or harm; hostile

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intimation

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insinuation

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poltroon

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coward

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lampoon

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publicly criticize using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm

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poetic

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lofty

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prosaic

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boring and unimaginative

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importunate

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troublesomely urgent

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importune

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beg persistently

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implicate

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accuse someone of a crime; insinuate

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unpalatable

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not pleasant to taste or tolerate

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implacable

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unable to be placated

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expurgate

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cleanse unwanted passages from writing

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expunge

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wipe out

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ponderous

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weighty

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imponderable

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cannot be thought with exactness

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oxymoron

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self-contradictory concept used only for rhetorical purposes

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paradox

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self-contradictory concept that is used in human condition

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attenuate

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reduce to force, effect, or value of

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extenuate

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make seem less serious or more forgivable

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unnerve

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make someone very nervous

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denude

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to take away the covering of

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provident

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indicative of timely preparation for the future

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prodigal

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reckless with money

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peripatetic

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traveling from place to place for work; nomadic

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expedient

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practical although possibly improper or immoral

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inane

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lacking sense or meaning; silly

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inapt

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absurdly inappropriate or incompetent

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inept

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clumsy; having no skill

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