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Substantive

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independent.

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Hearsay

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gossip; rumor

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Fallacy

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misleading

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Equivocation

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to mislead

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Redolent

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Good smelling

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Deficient

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inadequate

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Indicative

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Foreshadowing

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Cosseted

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to treat as a pet

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Laconic

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Expressing much in a few words

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Disingenuous

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Lacking candor

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Corrosive

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corroding

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Mercurial

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quick-witted.

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Reticent

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reserved

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Assiduous

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constant in effort

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Fallible

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capable of being mistaken

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Provident

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providing for future needs

Cautious,prudent

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Clairvoyant

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having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision

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Perceiving

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to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses

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Quixotic

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impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.tr

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Hypothetical

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pertaining to, involving, or characterized by hypothesis

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Inescapable

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incapable of being escaped, ignored, or avoided

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Deluded

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to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive

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Rapturous

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full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight

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Nihilistic

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the total rejection of established laws and institutions

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Intractable

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not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable;stubborn

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Phlegmatic

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not easily excited to action or display of emotion

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Dispensed

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to deal out; distribute

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Morose

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Gloomy

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Facetious

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amusing; humorous.

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Obdurate

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unmoved by persuasion, pity, stubborn; unyielding.

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Sanguine

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having blood as the humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful,reddish

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Controvertible

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to argue about; debate; discuss.

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Vertiginous

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affected with vertigo; dizzy

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Inconsolable

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Cannot be comforted

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Sedulous

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persistently or carefully maintained

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Somnolent

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Sleepy

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Fractious

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Easily angered; peevish; irritable; unruly

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Inveterate

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settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling,

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Benevolent

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desiring to help others; charitable

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Cantankerous

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disagreeable to deal, peevish, quarrelsome

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Spavins

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A disorder of a horses hock

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