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Consternation

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Feeling of worry, shock or confusion

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Solipsism

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Belief only your own experiences and existence can be known

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Fortitude

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Courage over a long period

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Lionization of

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Act of making someone famous

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Austerity

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Condition of living without unnecessary things or without comfort

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Archaism

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Word or expression that is not generally used anymore

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Avarice

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Extremely strong wish to keep money or possessions

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Volition

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Power to make own decisions

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Mollify

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Make someone less upset or angry

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Delineate

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Explain

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Impertinent

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Rude, especially to authority figure

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Consilience

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Linking together of principles from different disciplines, forming a comprehensive theory

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Scorn

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Open dislike

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Venal

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Capable of being bought or bribed

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Profligate

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Extremely extravagant, shamelessly immoral

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Felonious

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Very evil

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Impetuous

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Impulsive action, forceful action

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Miserliness

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Grasping meanness

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Penurious

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Extreme poverty or frugality

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Denigrate

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Attack reputation

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Indolence

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Inclination to laziness

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Lackadaisical

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Lacking life or spirit

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Listless

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Lack of energy

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Interminable

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Seemingly having no end

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Anachronistic

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Error in chronology

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Incongruous

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Non-conforming or non harmonious

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Reprieve

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Delft punishment or given relief for some time

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Hackneyed

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Lacking in freshness or originality

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Feckless

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Weak

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Pugnacious

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Combative nature

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Truculent

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Agressively self-assertive, harsh

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Belligerent

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Exhibiting assertiveness, waging war

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Vitriolic

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Bitterly harsh

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Felicitous

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Well suited

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Malingering

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Pretend illness

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Equivocation

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Deliberate evasiveness

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Rectitude

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Moral integrity

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Dissembling

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To hide under a false appearance

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Fastidiousness

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Extreme attention to detail

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short time

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Quiescent

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Inactivity, no trouble

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Solicitousness

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Expressing fear or concern

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Irksome

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Annoying

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Enervating

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Lacking physical, mental or moral vigor

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Stolidity

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Unemotional

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Subterfuge

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Deception or deceptive trick

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Venality

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Able to be bought or bribed

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Acuity

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Clarity

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Eclectic

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Composed of elements drawn from many different sources

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Mercurial

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Quickly changable mood, having qualities of eloquence or ingenuity

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Vexation

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State of being irritated

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Bellicose

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Showing willingness to fight

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Elision

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Omission

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Perspicacious

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Keen, acute mental vision

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Bifurcation

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Poitn where something divides into two branches

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Temerity

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Audacity

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Sinecure

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Pisition requiring no work but gives status and financial benefit

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Shirk

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Avoid or neglect

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Morass

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Complicated or confusing situation

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Inoculate

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Immunize

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Scion

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Descendent