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Abstract

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Expressing a quality separate from any concrete thing or real object

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Arcane

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Something known or understood by very few

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Accessible

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Easy to approach, reach, or use

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed feelings about someone or something

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Archaic

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Something from an earlier time

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Belabor

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To concern oneself with or worry about something excessively

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Candid

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Clear; frank; open; honest

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Candor

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The state of being clear; frank; open; honest

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Coalesce

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To unite; blend or grow together as one

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Coerce

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To force

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Convivial

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Friendly; agreeable

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Digress

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To deviate from the main topic

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Eccentric

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Irregular; erratic; peculiar

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Eclectic

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Selecting or choosing from various sources

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Epitome

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Person or thing possessing features typical of a whole class

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Explicit

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Fully and clearly expressed

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Fortuitous

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Fortunate; lucky

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Hardy

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Tough

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Haughty

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Arrogant; rude

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Imprudent

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ill-advised; without sufficient foresight

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Infallible

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Incapable of error

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Jaunty

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Easy or sprightly in manner or bearing

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Jeopardy

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Risk of or exposure to harm or injury

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Neophyte

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A beginner or novice

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Nonchalant

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Cooly unconcerned; indifferent; unexcited

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Opportunist

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Someone who takes advantage of a situation

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Penchant

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Having a marked inclination to do some particular thing

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Ponderous

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Of great weight; heavy; massive

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Recluse

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A person who lives apart from society

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Stealth

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Something done in secret

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Bastion

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A fortified place; a person, place, or institution upholding particular values or ideals

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Clemency

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Showing mercy; forbearance; compassion; leniency

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Conundrum

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A riddle; puzzle

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Didactic

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Serving to teach or instruct

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Delineate

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To sketch or trace in outline; to portray in words

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Dilatory

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Slow; tardy; procrastinating

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Dilettante

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Someone who takes up an art, activity, or subject in a superficial way

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Extemporize

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To make something up as one goes along

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Hedonist

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One who is devoted to pleasure and self-gratification

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Impudence

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Rudeness; insolence

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Infamous

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Having an extremely bad reputation

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Marginal

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Situated at the outer limits; on the border or edge

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Nihilism

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Complete rejection of established institutions and laws; the belief in nothingness or the nonexistence of reality

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Penurious

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Extremely poor; destitute

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Perfidious

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Deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful

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Populist

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Member of a political party that extols the virtues of the common man; an underdog

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Prolific

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Characterized by abundant production; fruitful

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Propitiate

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To make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate

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Propriety

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Conformity to established standards of good behavior or manners; rightness

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Reciprocity

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Mutual exchange

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Recondite

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Dealing with a very profound, abstruse or difficult subject matter

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Restitution

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Paying back a debt; restoring to an original state

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Retract

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To draw back or in

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Sedentary

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Characterized by a sitting position

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Seditious

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A person or idea that incites discontent or rebellion against authority

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Stigmatize

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To set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon someone or thing

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Tangent

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In physical contact at a single point, such as a line touching the circumference of a circle

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Tangible

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Capable of being touched; material or substantial

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Virulent

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Poisonous, malignant, spiteful, hostile

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Visceral

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Reacting on gut feeling or instinct as opposed to considering something carefully

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