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Malaise

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Feeling of discomfort

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Egalitarian

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Based on belief that all people are equal and deserve equal rights

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Proffered

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Hold out or put forward to someone for acceptance

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Purporting

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Appear to be or do something falsely

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Fecund

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Producing many new ideas

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Pithy

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Having substance and a point

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Temerity

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Self confidence

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Vicissitudes

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Change in circumstance or fortune

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Apotheosis

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Idealization of something, Highest point

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Despondent

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Without hope

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Ebullient

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Chatting lively, talkative

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Dysphoric

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Very unhappy, uneasy or dissatisfied

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Superfluity

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An extreme excess

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Pellucid

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Clear, easily understood

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Agog

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Very eager or curious to hear or see something

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Debonair

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Stylish, Confident and Charming

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

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Munificient

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Extreme generosity

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Stonewall

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Resist intentionally

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Vanguard

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A group of people leading the way

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Assiduity

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Constant attention to what one is doing

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Caprice

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Sudden unknown change in mood

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Loath

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reluctant

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Loathe

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Disgust

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Contrivance

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Scheme. The use of skill to create something, expecially with the consequent effect of artificiality

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Unassailable

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Unable to be questioned or defeated

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Pervasiveness

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Spreading widely throughout a group of people

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Maladroit

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Clumsy

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Disabuse

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Correct a persons false notion

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Debase

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lower ones dignity

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Notwithstanding

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In spite of, despite

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Thoroughgoing

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Pay attention to every detail

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Legion

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A vast number of people or things

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Denouement

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The final part of a play or film, in which the plot is drawn out

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Interminable

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Unable to stop, never ending

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Belie

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to disguise, misleading

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Adroitly

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In a very skillful way, Opposite of maladroit

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Canards

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Unfounded rumour or story

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Dispatch

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Send away with speed and swiftness

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Percolating

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Filter gradually through a porous surface or substance

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Contrapuntal

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In counterpoint

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Impute

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Attribute, Represent something undesirable, as being possessed by someone

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Sobriquet

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A persons nickname

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Bristle

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Stand upright away from the skin, in anger or fear

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Prolixity

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Using too many word, boring

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Vituperative

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Bitterness & anger

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Screed

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A long speech or writing, typically tedious

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Primacy

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The fact of being pre-eminent or most important

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Adjudicate

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Make a formal judgement on a disputed matter

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Couched

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Express in a language of a specified style, lay down