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Assiduous

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Working devotedly and carefully

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Refined

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Polite, well bred

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Amass

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To pile up, collect

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Pulverize

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To demolish

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Fervor

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Intense emotion

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Recluse

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One who lives alone; hermit

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Retain

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To keep

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Diffident

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Timid, lacking self confidence

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Reserve

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A tendency to hold oneself back

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Extrinsic

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Not essential, from the outside

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Arid

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Dry

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Exonerate

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To free from blame

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Abet

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To encourage, urge on

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Adulterated

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To add impurities to

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Prodigious

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Immense; astonishing

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Rescind

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To repeal, cancel

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Derivative

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Copied or adapted from others

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Insipid

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Dull, uninteresting

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Engender

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To produce; to bring into existence

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Conservative

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Traditional; opposed to change

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Impede

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To black; obstruct

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Impose

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To establish by authority

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Melancholy

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Sad; depressed

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Turbulent

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Violently agitated, disturbed

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Obstructive

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Obvious, highly noticeable

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Dispatch

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Promptness

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Understate

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To express less strongly than appropriate

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Indefatigable

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Untiring, tireless

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Ungainly

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Clumsy, awkward

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Culpable

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Guilty; blameworthy

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Jocular

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Joking, jolly

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Mercurial

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Given to quick changes of mood

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Nefarious

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Evil

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Neologism

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A newly invented word

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Florid

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Elaborately decorated; flowery

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Incorporate

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To include

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Cantankerous

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Quarrelsome, Ill-tempered

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Perceptive

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Having keen understanding

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Contract

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To make or become smaller

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Meek

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Spineless, giving in easily

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Buttress

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To support, reinforce

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Conciliate

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To calm, comfort

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Hedonism

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Single minded, pursuit of pleasure

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Illicit

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Illegal

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Fertile

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Able to produce or sustain growth

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Barren

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Unable to produce or sustain life

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Trepidation

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Fear, anxiety

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Preeminent

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Superior to all others