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Said, without proof, to have taken place or to have a specified illegal or undesirable quality

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Alleged

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Declared or stated to be described

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Alleged

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Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying a little

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Taciturn

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Reluctant to join in conversation inclined to silence reserved in speech

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Taciturn

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Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging

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Vapid

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Lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor

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Vapid

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A stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or performer knows or is prepared to perform

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Repertoire

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The list of drama, operas, parts, pieces, etc. that a company, actor, singer or the like is prepared to perform

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Repertoire

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Having or showing a wish to do evil to others

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Malevolent

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Wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will

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Malevolent

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Person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed

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culprit

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A person or other agent guilty or responsible for an offense or fault

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culprit

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A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something

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Predilection

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A tendency to think favorably of something in particular

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Predilection

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A cheap car or aircraft especially one in bad condition

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Flivver

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And automobile especially one that is small and expensive and old

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Flivver

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A sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory in, especially to obtain something: a raid

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Foray

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A quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder

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Foray

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Show feelings of superiority; being patronizing

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Condescending

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Showing or implying usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority

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Condescending

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Refers to something that is not morally proper or acceptable

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Illicitly

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Not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed unlawful

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Illicitly

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Originating or occurring naturally and if either place; native

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Indigenous

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Originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country

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Indigenous

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A deduction or implication, that is, something that follows logically from or is implied by something else

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Entailment

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The act or fact of entailing, or involving by necessity or as a consequence

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Entailment

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A climbing asparagus, the decorative foliage of which is used by florist

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Smilax

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Any plant belonging to the genus Smilax of the Lily family growing in tropical and temperate zones consisting mostly of vines having wood stems

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Smilax

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The state of being annoyed, frustrated or worried

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Vexations

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The state of being vexed; annoyance; irritation

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Vexations

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A body louse

child’s term of an imaginary germ or disease that one can catch for touching a person who is disliked or socially or avoided

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Cooties

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Showing contempt; scornful

Showing or expressing contempt or distain; scornful; disrespectful

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Contemptuous

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Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy.

Tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome

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Contentious

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Irritable and quarrelsome.

rectory or unruly

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Factious

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Strong disapproval, typically on moral grounds.

disapproval; condemnation

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Disapprobation

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Conducive to success; favorable.

Promising success; propitious ; opportune; favorable

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Auspicious

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Wine made from the scuppernong grape

A silvery Ambergreen variety of Muscascdine grapes

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Scuppernong

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Reach an authoritative judgment or settlement

To decide as arbitrator or arbiter, determine

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Arbitrated

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To cause someone to feel embarrassed ashamed or humiliated

to humiliate or shame as by injury to one’s pride or self-respect

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Mortifying

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Of or in the style of architecture prevalent in Western Europe in the 12th -16th centuries characterized by pointed arches ribbed vaults and flying buttresses together with a large windows and elaborate tracery

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Gothic

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A story, a play, film or other work in the Gothic style

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Gothic

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Understood or implied without being stated

Understood without being openly expressed; implied

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Tacit

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Extremely stupid or foolish.

Foolish and intelligent or silly; stupid

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Asinine

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In a state of severe this repair. Loosely made or hold together; Ricky; shaky

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Ramshackle

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Deserted of people in any state of bleak and dismal emptiness.

Baron or laid waste; devastated

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Desolate

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Incapable of being fully explored or understood.

Not able to be fathomed or completely understood

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Unfathomable

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Departure from what is normal usual or expected typically one that is unwelcome.

The act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course

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Aberration

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Carry out or commit.

To present, execute, or to do in a poor or tasteless manner

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Perpetrated

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A plant or animal with both female and male sex organs

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Morphodite

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Next to order joining to something else

Lying near, close, or contiguous; Adjoining; neighboring

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Adjacent

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Inability to deal with or understand something complicated or an accountable.

The state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty

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Perplexity

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To an unusually or disproportionately large degree; excessively.

Not with improper or reasonable limits; given moderate; excessive

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Inordinately

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innocent and unsuspecting

Free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere

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Ingenuous

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Comparable in certain respects, typically in a way that makes clear the nature of the things compared.

Having analogy; corresponding in some particular way

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Analogous

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Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems. Watchful; being on ones guard against danger

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Wary

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Innocent and without deception.

Free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; Frank

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Guilelessness

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The clothes, household linen, and other belongings collected by a bride for her marriage

And outfit of clothing, household linen, etc. for a bride

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Trousseau

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Something very pleasing to taste or smell.

Something especially delicious to taste or smell

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Ambrosia

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Noisy and difficult to control.

Resisting control or straight and difficult manner: unruly

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Obstreperous

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Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language.

An insulting or abusive words or expression

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Invective

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Any forceful, passionate, or intense manner; great feeling.

Zealous; ardent; impassioned

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Vehemently

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Having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently.

Capable of speech that speechless

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Articulate

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No longer fashionable out of date

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Passe

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A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

A gloomy state of mine, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression

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melancholy

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A previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows is a conclusion

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Premise

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A proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion

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Premise

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Offense or annoyance

Offense; annoyance; displeasure

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Umbrage

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Morally correct behavior of thinking; righteousness.

Rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue

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Rectitude

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To relieve or lesson without curing

To relieve or lesson without curing; mitigate; alleviate

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Palliation

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A noisy argument or disagreement especially in public

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Altercation

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A heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy

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Altercation

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Clothing

clothes or clothing

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Habiliments

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A printing system using a rotary press with intaglio cylinders, typically running at high speed and used for long pregnant of magazines and stamps

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Rotogravure

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A photo chemical process by which pictures, typeset matter, are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder

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Rotogravure

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Relating to the Christian church or it’s clergy.

Of or relating to the church or the clergy that secular

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Ecclesiastical

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Severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance

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Austere

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A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class

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prerogative

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Not in a direct way; indirectly.

In an oblique manner or direction

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Obliquely

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Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong.

Absolutely trustworthy or sure

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Infallible

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The reluctant acceptance of something without protest.

The act or condition of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; argument or consent by silence or without objection

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Acquiescence

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Bad tempered and sulky ; gloomy.

Showing irritation or it’ll humor by gloomy silence or reserve

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Sullen

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Pointlessness and useless

The quality of being a futile; ineffectedness; uselessness

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Futility

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According to great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character.

Commanding respect because of great age for impressive dignity; worthy of the direction of reverence, as because, as because of high office or noble character

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Venerable

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Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, and fence, or capable.

Causing fear, apprehension, or dread.

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Formidable

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Willingness to secretly allow or be involved in wrongdoing, especially and inmoral or illegal act

The act of conniving

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Connivance

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Confirm or give support to A statement theory or finding;

to make certain; confirm

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corroborating

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Typically a speech or a debate angry and bitter

bitter speech speech behavior that is bitter and angry

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Acrimonious

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Arrogantly superior and disdainful

Disdainfully proud snobbish scornfully arrogant

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HAUGHTY

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Appease the anger or anxiety of someone

To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease

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Mollified

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With the full authority of office.

From the seat of authority; with authority use especially of those pronouncements of the pope that are considered fallible

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Ex cathedra

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Not sure I do respect for another person; impertinent

Of relating to or characterized by impertinence of effrontery

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Impudent

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Absolute; unqualified. Not mitigated; not softened not lessened

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Unmitigated

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Excessive confidence or boldness; audacity.

Reckless boldness; rashness

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Temerity

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The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral up rightness

Adhering to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty

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Integrity

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Believing that people are motivated by self interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.

Distrusting disparaging the motives of others like or characteristic of the cynic

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Cynical

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The quality of being trusted and believed in.

The quality of being believable or worthy of trust

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Credibility

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Attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a believe that discovery would lead to trouble

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Furtive

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Anyway that expresses dry, especially marking, humor. Bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing

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Wryly

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Writing consisting of hieroglyphs.

Hard to decipher hard to read

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Hieroglyphic

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Refusing to be persuaded or to change one’s mind.

Totally unyielding an attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings etc.

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Adamant

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Involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt .

Morally ignoble or base; vile

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Sordid

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Lack of respect; rudeness.

Unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence

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Impertinence

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Relating to or affecting cattle

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Bovine

104
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Having been murdered.

A person who willingly suffer death rather than renounced his or her religion

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Martyred

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To hostile and ill-treatment, especially because of the race or political or religious believes.

To annoy or trouble persistently

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Persecuted

106
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The state of being famous or well-known for some bad quality or deed.

The state, quality, or character of being notorious or widely known

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Notoriety

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Any cautious and surreptitious manner so as not to be seen or heard

Done characterized were acting buy stealthy

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STEALTHILY

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To steal something.

To take dishonesty steal filch pilfer

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Purloined

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Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.

Easily provoked to anger; very irritable

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Irascible

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To tie or hold the arms or legs of someone.

To disable or restraint in such a manner

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Pinioned

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With each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others.

Shortened and detached and played or sung

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Staccato

112
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Obtrusively bright and showy; lurid

Excessively bright; glaring

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Garishly

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Calm, dependable, showing little emotion or animation.

Not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive

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STOLIDLY

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Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

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Apprehensive

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Quick to learn or understand

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Apprehensive

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