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Condescend

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Deal with others kindly in a snobbish way

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Malevolent

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Wishing harm to others

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Illicitly

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Unlawfully; improperly

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Iniquity

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Wickedness or injustice

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Contentious

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Liking disputes or arguments

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Diminutive

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Very small; tiny

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Amiable

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Good-natured; friendly

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Arbitrate

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Disputes; decide

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Melancholy

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Sad and depressed

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Aloof

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Reserve; at a distance

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Placid

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Calm; quiet

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Asinine

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Stupid; silly

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Malignant

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Passionately malevolent; evil

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Perpetual

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Lasting a long time

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Acertain

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To find out with certainty

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Altercation

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A fight; a quarrel

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Articulate

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Speak clearly/distinctively

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Contemptuous

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Disdainful or disgusted

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Cordial

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Warm, sincere

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Curtness

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Harshness; rudeness

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Elusive

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Hard to identify

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Feeble

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Week

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Formidable

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Causing fear

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Inconspicuous

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Attracting little attention

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Inevitable

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Certain to happen; unavoidable

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Innate

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Inborn, natural

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Livid

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Enraged

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Simultaneous

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Occurring at the same time

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Undulate

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Sway back and forth

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Unfathomable

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Not understandable

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Acrimonious

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Caustic, bitter or harsh in speech or manner

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Ambidextrous

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Using both hands with equal ease

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Complacent

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Content, often to the point of self-satisfaction or smugness

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Convene

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To come together

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Cynical

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Denying the sincerity of people’s motives

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Discreet

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Prudence are careful about one’s actions

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Fluctuate

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Shift back-and-forth uncertainly

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Impassive

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Calm, not feeling or showing emotion

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Indigenous

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Living or occurring naturally in an environment

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Infinite

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Without boundaries or limits

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Irrelevant

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Having no application; having no importance the topic at hand

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Mollify

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To soothe, appease; to make less severe

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Scrutiny

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Close, careful inspection

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Volition

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And acts of choosing or deciding; agency

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Warranted

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Justification or grounds for action; possessing a legal document allowing search

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Acquiesce

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To consent without protest

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Acquit

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To release from obligations; to clear of a charge

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Adamant

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Inflexible or unyielding

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Arid

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Dry or Baron; uninteresting or dull

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Bleak

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Cold, bare; gloomy or not hopeful

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Connive

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To cooperate secretively it a scheme or wrongdoing

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Contradict

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To assert the opposite of what is being spoken, to be contrary

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Corroborate

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To confirm or support

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Credibility

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Believability, reliability

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Reluctant

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To be hesitant because of doubts

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Drone

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Idler or a loafer or to talk in a monotonous tone

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Fatalism

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The belief that all events are determined by fate and inevitable

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Mortification

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Extreme humiliation

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Perpetrate

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To commit (a blunder or a crime)

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Reprimand

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To rebuke or discipline severely

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Accommodate

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To make fit, suitable; to bring into agreement or give consideration to

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Apprehensive

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Fearful or uneasy about the future; anxious

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Disengage

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To release from something; to withdraw or detach oneself

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Furtive

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Sneaky; sly

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Garishly

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Adorned with excessive color or ornamentation; Showily; gaudily

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Ghoul

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Graverobbers; ghostly figment

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Integrity

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Truthfulness, honesty; adherence to a moral code

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Lectern

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A reading stand or desk used by speakers

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libel

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Written statement that injures one’s character; publish unjust to statements

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Mysterious

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Relating to something unknown or questioned

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stolidly

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Seriously; having or showing little emotion

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suspense

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UnCertainly, anxiety; state of being undecided or doubtful

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Teeming

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Swarming; overflowing

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Tension

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Process of stretching or building up of something; inner striving, unrest

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Untrammeled

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Unconfined; unrestrained; free in movement or activity

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Apparation

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Ghosts, vision, or Spector

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Disposition

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The temperament of a person or thing

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Exulting

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Taking pride or reveling in glory

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Facilitate

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To make easy or smooth the progress of

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indisputable

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Certain beyond any doubt

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Keenly

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Intensely or eagerly; with dedication

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Meander

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To Rome or wander aimlessly

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Obscure

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Ambiguous and hard to understand

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Ominous

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In a warning matter; threatening and gloomy

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Prim

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Formal and proper, almost into stuffy, snobbish way

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Relish

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To take pleasure in

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Rigor

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Severity, strictness; inflexibility

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Sneer

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To scorn, mock, or laugh at

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Vex

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To anger or irritate

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Vigorous

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With energy; forceful and spirited

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