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Abscond

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To depart clandestinely

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Aclarity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undersirable

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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith; treachery

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Prevaricate

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To deliberately avoid the truth/to mislead

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Recant

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To retract

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Solicitious

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Concerned and attentive

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Stimye

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To block; To thwart

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Thwart

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To block

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Ameliorate

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To make better or more tolerable

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Bucolic

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Rural and pastoral

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Chary

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Wary; cautious

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Cogent

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Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing

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Impecunious

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Lacking funds; without money

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Inveigle

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To obtain by deception

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Penurious

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Ungenerous; penny penching

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Obdurate

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Unyielding; hardhearted

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Diatribe

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A harsh enunciation

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Obsequious

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Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

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Occlude

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To obstruct or to block

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Pine

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To languish; to lose vigor

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Pithy

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Precise and brief

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Querulous

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Prone to complaining or grumbling

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Specious

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Seeming true but actually fallacious; plausible but false

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Supurious

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Lacking authenticity or validity; false

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Glib

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Marked by esse or informality; nonchalant

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Obfuscate

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To deliberately obscure; to make confusing

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Profligate

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Excessively wasteful

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Terse

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Brief and concise in wording

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Trenchant

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Sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating

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Vexation

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Annoyance; irritation

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Broach

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To bring up

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Grouse

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To complain or grumble

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Quail

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To lose courage; to turn frightened

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Sap

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To enervate or weaken the vitality of

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Scurvy

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Despicable

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Tender

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To proffer or to offer

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Adumbrate

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To Foreshadow or intimate

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Anodyne

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Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain

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Cavil

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To find ult without good reason

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Descry

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To catch sight of

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Desuetude

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Disuse

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Desultory

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Random, aimless

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Eschew

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To avoid habitually ok moral or practical grounds

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Fractious

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Quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly

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Gainsay

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To deny, to contradict, to oppose

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Insouciant

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Unconcerned; carefree

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Inveterate

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Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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Jejune

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Vapid, uninteresting

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Meretricious

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Attracting by false show

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Obstreperous

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Noisily and stubbornly defiant

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Panegyric

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Eulogy, formal praise

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Parsimonous

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Cheap, miserly

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Plangent

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Pounding; thunderous

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Prolix

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Verbosity

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Propiate

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Calm down, to appease, to conciliate

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Puissance

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Power, strength

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Salacious

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Lustful, lascivious

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Sanguine

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Cheerful, confident, optimistic

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Stentorian

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Extremely loud and poweful

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Tyro

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Novice,

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Voluble

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Verbal, fluent, having easy use of spoken language

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Peruse

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To examine with great care

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Remonstrate

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To object, to protest

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Peroration

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The concluding part of a speech; flowery rethorical speech

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Disparate

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness

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Extemporaneous

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Improvised; done without preparation

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Fulminate

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Loudly attack or denounce

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Ingenuous

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Artless; Frank and candid

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Obtuse

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Lacking sharpness of intellect

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Obviate

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To anticipate and make unnecessary

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Perfunctory

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Done without care or interest

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Cursory

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Done without care or interest

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Precipitate (adj)

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Acting impulsively

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Prescience

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Foreknowledge of event

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Qualms

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Reservations

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Reticent

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Quiet reserved

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Squander

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To waste by spending or using irresponsibly

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Truculent

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Eager to fight; fierce and cruel

81
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Accolade

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An expression of praise

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly or flourish

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Contentious

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Argumentative

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Facetious

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Playful; humorous

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Harangue

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To deliver a forceful or angry speech

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Morose

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Sad; sullen; melancholy

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Quiescence

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Stillness; motionless

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Squalid

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Very dirty or filthy
Immoral
Miserable

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Torpid

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Lethargic; sluggish

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Grandiloquence

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Pompous speech or expression

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Impassive

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Revealing no emotion

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Infelicitous

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Unfortunate; inappropriate

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Mendacity

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The condition of being untruthful

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Platitude

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A superficial remark

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Profuse

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Given or coming forth abundantly

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Transient

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Fleeting: passing quickly; brief

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Derision

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Scorn; ridicule

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Disparate

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To slight or belittle

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Intractable

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Not easily managed or directed

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Laconic

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Using few words; terse

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Phlegmatic

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Calm; unemotional

102
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Presumptuous

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Taking liberties

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Probity

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Integrity; uprightness

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Prosaic

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Dull; lacking in spirit or imagination

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Quixotic

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Foolishly impractical

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Sedulous

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Diligent; hard working

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Untenable

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Not viable; indefensible

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Vituperate

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To use harsh condemnatory language

109
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Alloy

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To debase by mixing with something inferior

110
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Brook

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To tolerate

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Exact verb

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To demand; to call for

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Lumber verb

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To move heavily

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Mince

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To tiptoe: to speak too carefully

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Nice

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Fastidious, extremely precise

115
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Qualify

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To limit

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Steep

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To completely soak

117
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Table

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To remove from consideration

118
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Wag

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Wit, joker

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Apostate

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One who abandons long held religious or political convictions

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