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Prompt

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Cause or bring about

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Apathy

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Lack of emotion

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Cloying

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sickeningly sweet

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Mitigate

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To make less violent

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Specious

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Seems correct or true

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Esoteric

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Understood by only a select few

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Compunction

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Distress caused by feeling guilt

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Deleterious

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harmful

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Idyllic

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Extremely happy, peacful

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Antagonistic

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showing or feeling active opposition or hostility towards someone or something

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Banal

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Dull

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Stolid

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Emotionless

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Eccentric

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Strange in a humurous way

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Vacuous

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Showing a lack of thought or intelligence

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Peruse

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Examine something carefully

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Rambunctious

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Something full of energy and often diffiucult to control

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Herculean

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Something that needs great strength

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Sedulous

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Someone being hard working

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Unctuous

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Someone being full of praise

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Penultimate

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Second last in a series of things

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Ingratiate

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To try and please someone through flattery

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Cacophony

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Unpleasant mixture of different sounds

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Constitute

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To represent