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1
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Hypnotize enthrall hold by an irresistable attraction

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Mesmerized

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Concerned anxious attentive

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Solicitous

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Restore to harmony or friendship make consistent with cause to accept

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Reconcile

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A proposition to be proved or to be defended against objections

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Thesis

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Discourage from actim restrain by fear or doubt

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Deter

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One who keeps others from using something that he himself has no use for

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Dog in the manger

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Brief outline of the main points of a series of lectures or of a coverse of study

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Syllabus

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A person who receives the blame for what others have done

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Scapegoat

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9
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Saying much in few words terse concise

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Laconic

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10
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To deliver up to obtain

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Extradite

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Fanatically devoted to ones country believing unreasonably in the superiority of ones own group

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Chauvinistic

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12
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Seperation

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Estrangement

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13
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Prevention of action by threat or use of force

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Constraint

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14
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A person having a mental problem

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Psychopath

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15
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A decisive crushing defeat

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Waterloo

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16
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Place that many people visit center of activity goal to be reached

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Mecca

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17
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Following a winding course wander aimlessly without a destination

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Meander

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Person being guided helped in his career by a prominent person

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Protege

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19
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female protege

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Protegee

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Unshakeable unyielding in ones opinion on opposition

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Adamant

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21
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Complete authority to act as one wishes

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Carte blanche

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22
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A disagreeable detestable loathesome thing

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Abomination

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23
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Use improperly debase secular impure defiled

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Profane

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24
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A voter represented by someone in public a component part

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Constituent

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25
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Particular

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Meticulous

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26
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Work hard suffer pain agony

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Travail

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One who has an… Or one who pretends an…

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Aethete

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28
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Art or practice of reaching the very brink of danger before stopping

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Brinkmanship

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29
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Artfulness refinement skill in handling of difficult matters

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Finesse

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30
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Painfully sharp deeply moving causing pity

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Poignant

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31
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Break up into parts or particles

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Disintergrate

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32
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Social blunder mistake in etiquette

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Faux pas

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33
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A footrace of 26.2 miles any endurance contest or prolonged effort

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Marathon

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34
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A formal expression of praise eulogy fervent praise

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Encomium

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35
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Giving or spending wastefully giving or producing abundantly

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Prodigal

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The main or recurring theme in a work of art or literature

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Motif

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37
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Info used as a basis for a decision facts known or available an organized in an organized form

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Data

38
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The number 10 to the 100

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Googol

39
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Device that produces synchronized light waves for such purposes as measuring distance in space carrying audio and video info and welding or fusing various materials

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Laser

40
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A mild functional disorder of the mind or emotions

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Neurosis

41
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A male grad school (pl) 2 or more male grads male and female grads together

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Alumnus

42
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To express emotion excessively in a play pr as if in a play

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Emote

43
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Loud and forceful

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Forte

44
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Seperate from make hostile or indifferent to

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Alienate

45
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A narrow-minded self satisfied member of the american middle class

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Babbitt

46
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Member of a spacecraft crew

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Astronaut

47
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An instrument making low pitched audio sounds

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Woofer

48
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A female graduate of a school

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Alumna

49
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Bring to mind

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Evoke

50
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To spend time in idleness to loaf

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Laze

51
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Being idle disciplined to work

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Lazy

52
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One who prepares written material for publication

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Editor

53
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An unbranded calf or colt any range animal away from the herd an independent person who does not conform to his group

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Maverick

54
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An instrument making high pitched audio sounds

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Tweeter

55
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A branched candlestick holding several candles

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Candelabrum

56
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A soviet astronaut

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Cosmonaut

57
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A reference list for a larger work

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Index

58
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Method of reveaing distance by beaming microwave pulses at an object and picking up the returning radiation by an antenna

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Radar

59
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Ill will bitter emnity

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Animosity

60
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Immediate knowledge not gained by reasoning

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Intuition

61
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Leaders of large corporations observed successful entrepreneurs and began encouraging enterprising employees to be intrapreneurs

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Intrapreneur

62
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A british policeman

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Bobby

63
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A system of treating diseases by natural means

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Natropathy

64
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Restraining all expression of emption or pain

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Stoic

65
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A strong feeling such as joy sorrow fear or hate

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Emotion

66
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Waver be indecisive in purpose or opinion

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vacillate

67
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A person who treats

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Naturopath

68
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Observable event rare outstanding or abnormal event person or thing

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Phenomenon

69
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To have immediate…

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Intuit

70
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Tearfully or weakly sentimental

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Maudlin

71
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Small unimportant details trifles

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Minutia

72
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Items priced seperately as listed on the menu

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A la carte

73
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Lighthearted affable sprightly having refined manners

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Debonair

74
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In an idealistic but impractical manner

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Quixotically

75
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Tending to contradict turning away from right and good

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Perverse

76
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The act of delivering up an alleged criminal to another government for trial the act of detaining an alleged criminal for trial

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Extradition

77
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Stern severe harsh unadorned simple

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Austere

78
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Long life

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Longevity

79
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List of things to be done in a meeting

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Agenda

80
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A thing to be added such as a supplement to a book

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Addendum

81
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A hunter

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Nimrod

82
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Victory at the cost of overwhelming losses

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Pyrric victory

83
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Hold as if by force compel confine limit

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Constrain

84
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A catchword custom or manner of dress enabling members to of a group to recognize each other and exclude others

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Shibboleth

85
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Pertaining to an appreciation of the beautiful

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Aesthetic

86
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Something that a person does especially well

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Forte

87
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Highest rank or importance

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Preeminence

88
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To prepare

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Edit

89
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Style of cooking food prepared in a particular style

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Cuisine

90
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Cheap and gaudy in appearance

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Tawdry

91
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Very small tiny trivial petty

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Lilliputian

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