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Insipid

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Dull, Boring, flavorless

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Revile

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Insult someone with abusive language

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Thumbing

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To turn over pages

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Inquisitor

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one who aggressively asks questions

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Disembody

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Separate from material form

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Sacrosanct

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Regarded as too important to be interefered with

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Recapitulated

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Summarize and state the main point

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Subverted

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Undermine the power and authority of

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Efflorescence

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Developing and unfolding into (like a flower)

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Milieu

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Environment

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Genial

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Friendly

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Solicitude

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Care or concern about someone or something

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Surliness

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Angry

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Divined

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Discover something; have supernatural insight into

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Redress

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To make right

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Detritus

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Waste or debris

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Persnickety

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Fussy about small details in snobbish way

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Perfunctory

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Being Fake, Without feeling or effort

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Cloistered

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Kept away from outside world, enclosed by

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Pejorative

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Expressing contempt or disapproval

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Draconian

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Rigorous and unusually severe

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Luminaries

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A person who inspires others, specially one prominent in a particular sphere.

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Objurgate

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Scold

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Slight

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Insult

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Effect

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to bring about

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Inchoate

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Barely formed, embryonic

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Obeisance

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defferential, respect

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Sacerdotal

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Priestly

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Obsequious

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Obedient to an excessive degree, acting sycophantic

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Insofar

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To the extent that

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Hyperbolically

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deliberately exxagerated

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Tacitly

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Done in an unspoken way, Taciturn

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Anachronism

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Inappropriate in regards to time

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Misnomer

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Inappropriate term

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Truculence

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Belligerent

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Braggadocio

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Boastful and arrogant behavior

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Anecdotal

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Based on a story

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Subverting

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Undermine the power and authority of (established system or institution) , completely overturn

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Slant

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Give ideas own little spin

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Luddites

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People who are opposed to technological change

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Bemoan

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Express discontent or sorrow

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Bungling

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Carrying out a task clumsily

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Declaiming

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Deliver words in an impassioned way

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Torrid

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Extremely hot and dry

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Aplomb

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Self-confidence

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Supercilious

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Haughty confidence, looking down on people

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Pandemonium

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Confusion, chaotic

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Halcyon

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Pleasant period of time

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Averring

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State or assert to be the case

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Impugn

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Call into question