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1
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Promulgate

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Proclaim

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Noisome

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Noxious, harmful

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Nugatory

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0 value, useless

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Mawkish

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Displaying emotions in an obvious way, cloying, lovey-dovey

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Timorous

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Timid

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Extol

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Glorify

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Sanguine

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Optimistic, esp during hard times

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Impugn

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Blame, castigate, reprobate, assail, censure

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Lionize

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Aggrandize

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Staid

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Proper

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Decadent

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Hedonist, very materialistic

Pervert, debaucher, profilgate

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Odious

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Disgusting, repulsive

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Ascetic

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Austere

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Impudent

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Audacious

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Cogent

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Convincing

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Insouciance

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Nonchalance

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Prosaic

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Relating to prose instead of poetry, factual, plain/boring/pedantic

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Ameliorate

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Make something bad better

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Nostrum

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Questionable medicine, panacea

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Torpid

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Dull, sluggish in mind, numb, dormant, apathetic
Vapid
Tepid

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Bucolic

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beautiful, relating to rural or village scenery, idyllic

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Idyllic

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Relating to an idyll, beautiful, bucolic

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Vociferous

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Loud mouthing, clamour, caterwaul

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Caterwaul

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Loudmouth, clamour, vociferous

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Filibuster

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Making long speeches to waste time

Irregular military adventure

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Impetus

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Something that starts something

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Hegemony

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Dominance

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Pithy

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Important, cogent, main point of something

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Inchoate

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Incomplete, in development

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Chary

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Weary, apprehensive

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Burgeon

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Expand

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Cadge

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Beg for something

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Anathema

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Hate something, curse

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Sagacious

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Intelligent

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Diffident

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Shy, quiet, modest

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Propitiate

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Appease, assuage, placate

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Tepid

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Lukewarm

Dull, sluggish in mind, numb, dormant, apathetic
Vapid

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Vapid

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Dull, sluggish in mind, numb, dormant, apathetic
Torpid
Tepid

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Avarice

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Greediness, Rapacity (rapacious), mercenary

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Anthropomorphic

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Having human like attributes

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Peripatetic

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Pedestrian, related to walking, travelling from place to place
ITINERANT
Vagabond, vagrant

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Itinerant

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Pedestrian, related to walking, travelling from place to place
Peripatetic
Vagabond, vagrant

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Specious

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Having a false look of truth, beguiling, sophistic

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Munificent

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Generous, charitable

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Phelgmatic

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Emotionless, stolid

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Exonerate

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To relieve of responsibility or hardship

To clear from accusation or blame

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Maven

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Expert

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Dilettante

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Someone w superficial interest in a topic
Dabbler
Tinkerer

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Fastidious

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Very attentive to detail, scrupulous, punctilious

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Rancor

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Bitterness, hate, spite

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Quotidian

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Daily
Commonplace, ordinary

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Bedaub

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Smear, anoint
To ornament w vulgar excess

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Stalwart

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Intrepid

Outstanding strength/vigour of mind/body

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Trenchant

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Keen, sharp, perceptive, incisive

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Abase

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To lower in rank/prestige

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57
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Plummet

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To fall sharply

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Vertiginous

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Relating to vertigo/dizziness

Smth that changes frequently

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Restive

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Uneasy, fidgety

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Blithe

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Casual, heedless, disregarding

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Succor

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Relief, aid

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Paucity

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Smallness of number, quantity
Dearth

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Alacrity

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Promptness in response, cheerful readiness

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Acumen

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Astuteness, sharp depth of perception, wit

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solicitous

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Apprehensive, anxious

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Jaded

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Exhausted

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Wag (waggish)

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To be in motion
Funny

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Fructify

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To make fruitful or productive

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Inveterate

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Habitual

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Fatuous

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Silly

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Halcyon

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Idyllic, happy and prosperous times

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Scotch (verb)

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Hinder, thwart

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73
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Asperity

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Roughness of manner or tongue

Severity

Acrimony
Vitriol
Caustic

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Gallantry

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Smartly dressed, stately

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75
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Erudite

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Having knowledge that is gained by studying

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76
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Feckless

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Weak, worthless

77
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Mendacious

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Characterised by deception from the truth,
Not completely true
(Belie)

78
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Appellation

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Designated

I’m entitled to the appellation “engineer”

79
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Squalid

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Filthy, degraded

80
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Inscrutable

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Mysterious, not easily understood
Runic

Abstruse
Arcane
Recondite
Esoteric (understood by a small group)

81
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Runic

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Mysterious, inscrutable

Abstruse
Arcane
Recondite
Esoteric (understood by a small group)

82
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Truculent

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Belligerent
Bellicose
Harsh, cruel, savage

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Begrudgingly

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To concede reluctantly

Begrudge: envy

84
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Vicissitude

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The quality of change, mutability

The vicissitudes of daily life: changes in daily life

85
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Equanimity

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Evenness of mind

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Callous

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Having no emotions, hardened/thickened

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Ritzy

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Fancy

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Eschew

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To avoid, esp on moral grounds

89
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Recividism

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Relapse, esp into criminal act

90
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Bedlam

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Scene of uproar or confusion

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Excoriate

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Censure, assail, castigate, reprobate, impugn

92
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Vituperate

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Censure, assail, castigate, reprobate, impugn, excoriate

93
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Stentorian

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Extremely loud

94
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Abet

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To second smth
To support/assist in smth

95
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Despoil

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Pillage

96
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Ineluctable

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Inevitable

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Abnegation

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To deny/renounce
To surrender/relinquish

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Exalt

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Extol, glorify, raise in rank

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Eviscerate

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To deprive of vital content, disembowel

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Languid

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Showing or having no energy

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Effrontery

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Insolence, audacity

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Aver

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Declare positively, insist upon

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Inveigle

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Entice, win over by wiles

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Demulcent

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Soothing, (emulsion kinda oily kinda smooth n soothing)

105
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Expurgation

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To cleanse of smth morally harmful, EXPUNGE

106
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Deleterious

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Harmful in a sudden/unexpected way

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Glib

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Offhand, nonchalant, lacking in substance (superficial)

108
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Encumberance

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Weigh down, burden, hinder

109
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Lucrative

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Profitable

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Disinterested vs uninterested

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Disinterested: unbiased
Uninterested: bored

111
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Protract

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Prolong, delay, defer

Continue

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Tout

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To praise, support

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Seminal

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Creative, original

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Hackneyed

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Banal, trite, lacking in originality

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Oracular

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Prophetic, prescient, foresight (slightly in a foreboding sense)

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Euphemism

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Replacing an offensive phrasing in a less offensive manner

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Rhetoric

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Art of speaking/writing effectively

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Vilify

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Slander
Calumny
Traduce
Libel
Defame
Asperse

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Vacillate

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Oscillate, fluctuate

120
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Avow

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To declare assuredly (aver)

121
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Buttress

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In architecture: wood or smth to SUPPORT the building

Smth that supports or strengthens

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Repudiate

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Refuse to accept
Disavow
Disclaim

123
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Transcribe

A

Paraphrase
Write down

124
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Squander

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Waste
Disperse/Scatter

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Despondence

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Sadness, hopelessness

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Abrogate

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Annul
Abolish by authoritative action

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Stratify

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To divide into classes (strata)

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Inundate

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Overwhelm, overflow

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Disburse

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Distribute

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Apposite

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Appropriate, apt

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Gradiloquent

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Bombastic
Pompous
Too extravagant (esp in manner of language)

132
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Proffer

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To present smth for acceptance

133
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Disavow

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Repudiate - Refuse to accept
Refuse to acknowledge - disclaim

134
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Dogged

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Stubbornly determined
Bullheaded

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Unstinting

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Not holding back
Giving freely or generously

136
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Impertinent

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Impudent
Insolent
Audacious
Rude

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Loquacious

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Garrulous
Full of excessive talk

138
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Abstruse

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Arcane
Mysterious
Runic
Recondite
Esoteric (understood by few)

139
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Esoteric

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Understood by very few people, generally those who theorised/made it

140
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Recondite

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Abstruse
Arcane
Mysterious
Runic
Inscrutable

141
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Acrimony

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Asperity
Vitriol
Caustic

142
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Improvidence

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Not providing for future
Myopic
Shortsighted

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Providence

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Providing for future
Frugal
Sustainable

144
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Ornery

A

irritable
CANTANKEROUS

Mischievous (sometimes)

145
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Cantankerous

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Irritable
Ornery

146
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Probity

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Uprightness

Adherence to highest principles or ideals

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Pathos

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Evoking pity or compassion

148
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Iconoclast

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Someone who opposes set beliefs

Bohemian (which can also mean vagrant)

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Trifling

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Trivial, frivolous

150
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Bombastic

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Pompous, extravagant, grandiloquent, gaseous

151
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Lambaste

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Attack
- physical: beat, whip
- verbal: censure, assail, vituperate

152
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Duplicitous

A

Deceptive in words or actions

153
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Rarefy

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To make rare (less dense, thin, porous)

To make more spiritual/abstruse

154
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Vitriol

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Acrimony
Asperity
Caustic

155
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Prevaricate

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Lie
Fabricate
Equivocate

156
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Fortitude

A

Strength

157
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Inimical

A

Hostile
Adverse
Unfriendly

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Pariah

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Outcast

159
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Vestigial

A

VESTIGIAL ORGAN: appendix

That which is now a small and defunct part of something that existed before

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Assignation

A

Tryst

Setting up time n place for a meeting

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Hubris

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Exaggerated self confidence or pride

162
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Equivocate

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Prevaricate
Fabricate
Lie

163
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Equivocal

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Subject to two or more interpretations, unclear

164
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Felicity

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Being happy

165
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Untenable

A

Not possible to defend (untenable position)

Not possible to occupy (untenable apartment)

166
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Balmy

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Soothing, mild, demulcent

CRAZY/FOOLISH (eg. balmy policy of govt)

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Onerous

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Burdensome

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Vacuity

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Empty like vacuum

If mind is empty->
Vacuous: inane, stupid

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Demagogue

A

Leader who makes use of prejudices or false claims

170
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Winnow

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Separate out, sift

Remove undesirable content

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Pernicious

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Deadly, wicked

172
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Fulminate

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Send forth censures

Basically send jabs at smth, speak against smth

173
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Penury

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Lack of stuff: poverty/extreme frugality

174
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Occlude

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Obstruct, hide smth, conceal

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Détente

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Relaxation of strained relations

176
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Apocryphal

A

Forged
Spurious
Of doubtful authenticity

177
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Spurious

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Forged
Apocryphal
Of doubtful authenticity

178
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Ebullient

A

Exuberant
Joyous
Flamboyant

179
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Exuberance

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Ebullient
Joyous
Flamboyant

180
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Recapitulate

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Retell

181
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Temporal

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Related to time (not eternal)

182
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Eclectic

A

Heterogenous mix

183
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Doctrinaire

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Just devoted to a doctrine without regard for practical considerations

Eg. religious extremists

184
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Jettison

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Jetsam

Throw out useless stuff

185
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Modish

A

Stylish

186
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Salubrious

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Healthy
Promoting good health

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Discomfit

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Disconcerting
Weird/embarrassing

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Florid

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Flowery, ornate

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