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Acuity

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Sharpness or perfection

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Alacrity

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Prompt or cheerful response

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Antipathy

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A dislike, distaste, enmity

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Arduous

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Very difficult to accomplish

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Benign

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Not causing harm

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Capricious

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Changing suddenly

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Deleterious

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Harmful

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Depravity

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Moral corruption

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Despotic

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Ruling oppressively

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Edifice

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Large building

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Erudite

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Scholarly

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Esoteric

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Understood by few

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Ethereal

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Heavenly, intangible

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Exigent

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Urgent

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Gratuitous

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Given freely

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Impugn

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Attack ones and integrity

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Inclement

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Stormy, severe

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Indefatigable

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Tireless, incapable of being fatigued

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Insidious

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Treacherous, dangerous in a secret sort of way

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Loquacious

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Very talkative

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Malevolence

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Wishing ill will or evil on someone

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Misanthrope

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Hater of mankind

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Odious

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Deserving hate

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Penitent

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Showing or feeling of regret

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Piety

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Religious devotion

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Prattle

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Meaningless sounds

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Predilection

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Preference

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Propinquity

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Nearness, kindship

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Superfluous

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Beyond what is needed, overflow