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Inimical

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Tending to obstruct or harm

Unfriendly, hostile

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Histrionic

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Overly theatrical or melodramatic in character or style

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, obscure

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Prosaic

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Having the characteristics of prose,lacking poetic beauty

Unromantic, commonplace

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Reticent

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Not revealing ones thoughts or feelings

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Congenial

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Pleasant or agreeable due to similarities to oneself

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Brusque

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Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner

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Gregarious

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Fond of company, sociable

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Scurrilous

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Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intent to damage their reputation.
Humorously insulting

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Arcane

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Understood by few, mysterious or secret

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Lauding

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Praise highly especially In a public context

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Abjured

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Solemnly renounce

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Malfeasance

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Wrongdoing especially by a public official

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Supercilious

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Behaving or looking as though one thinks they are superiors to others

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Fatuous

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Silly and pointless

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Ribald

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Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way

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Ingenuous

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Innocent and unsuspecting

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Toothsome

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Temptingly tastey

Good looking and attractive

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Ignominious

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Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

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Apocryphal

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Of doubtful authenticity though widely circulated as being true

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Acumen

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The ability to make quick judgements and good decisions

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Acridity

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Having an irritatingly strong or unpleasant taste or smell

Angry or bitter

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Trenchancy

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Vigorous or incisive in expression or style

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Mellifluous

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Sweet or musical, pleasant to hear

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Laconic

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Using very few words

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Euphonic

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The quality of being pleasant to the ear

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Strident

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Loud and harsh, grating

Presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an unpleasantly and excessively forceful way

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Circuitous

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Longer than the most direct way

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Extirpate

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Root out and destroy completely

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Recondite

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Little know; abstruse (of information or knowledge)

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Detritus

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Waste or debris of any kind

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Bedlam

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A scene of uproar and confusion

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Punctilious

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Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

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Vociferous

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Vehement or clamorous

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Waggish

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Humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner

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Mien

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A persons look or manner especially one of a particular kind indicating their mood or behavior

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Redolent

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Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something

Fragrant

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Salubrious (for)

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Health giving, healthy

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Truculent

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Eager or quick to argue or fight

Aggressively defensive

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Panegyrical

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A public speech or published text to praise or favor of someone or something

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Ebullient

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Cheerful or full of energy

Boiling or agitated as if boiling

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Phlegmatic

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Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

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catholic (lowercase)

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Including a wide variety of things, all embracing

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Dilettantish

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A person with amateur interest in the arts

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Ambrosial

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Something very pleasing to taste or smell

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Apogee

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The highest point in the development of something

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Eschew

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Deliberately avoid using, abstain from

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Belied

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Disguise or contradict

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Delineate

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Describe or portray precisely

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Revile

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Criticize in an obtrusive or angry manner

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Wizened

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Shriveled or wrinkled with age

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Expurgating

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Remove matter thought to be unsuitable from

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Edifying

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Provide moral or intellectual instruction

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Inchoate

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Just begun and so not fully developed, rudimentary

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Obstinate

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Stubbornly refusing to change ones opinion, difficult to change

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Cosseted

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Care for and protect in an overly indulgent way

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Exculpate

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Show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrongdoing

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Calamitous

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Catastrophic

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Perfunctory

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Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated state,nets or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Salacious

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Treating sexual matters in an indecent way

Lustful, lecherous

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Spurious

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Not being what it purports to be; false or fake

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Pecuniary

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Relating to money

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Pellucid

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Translucently clear (water)
Lucid in reasoning, easily understood
Of music: clear in tone

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Affable

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Friendly, good natured, easy to talk to

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Languid

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Slow relaxed, lazy peaceful

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Castigated

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Reprimand severely

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Inculpated

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Accuse or blame

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Alacrity

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Brisk and cheerful readiness

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Invective

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Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language

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Esurient

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Hungry or greedy

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Indolent

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Wanting to avoid activity or exertion, lazy

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Paeans

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A thing that expresses enthusiastic praise

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Erudite

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Having or showing great knowledge or learning

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Aberrant

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Departing from an excepted standard

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Abase

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Behave in a way so as to belittle or degrade (someone)

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Venerate

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Regard with great respect

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Expatiate

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Speak or write at length or in detail

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Incipient

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In a beginning stage, starting to develop

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Vaunt

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Bast about or praise excessively

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Specious

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Superficially plausible but actually wrong

Misleading in appearance

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Intransigent

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Unwilling or refusing to change one views about something

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Hackneyed

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Lacking significance for having been overused; trite

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Quotidian

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Ordinary or everyday, ESP when mundane

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Vagaries

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An unexpected or inexplicable change in a situation or someone’s behavior

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Extemporaneous

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Spoken or done without preparation

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Dilatory

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Slow to act

Intended to cause delay

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Vertiginous

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Causing vertigo

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Saturnine

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Slow and gloomy

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Taciturn

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Uncommunicative in speech, saying little

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Desultory

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Lacking a plan purpose or enthusiasm

Unfocused

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