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Assuage

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To make easier or milder; to calm or appease

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Decadence

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A guilty pleasure

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Elicit

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To extract details or ideas from; to draw forth

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Expostulate

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To attempt to dissuade somebody from a course of action

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Hiatus

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A break or gap

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Innuendo

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An implication or hint

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Intercede

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To go in between in an argument

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Lurid

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Disgusting, offensive, crude

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Petulant

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Peevish, easily irritated

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Provincial

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Countrified. Literally or in thought or manner

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Transcend

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To rise above or beyond

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12
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Unctuous

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Brown-nosey

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13
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Aplomb

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Poise

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Bombastic

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Using high end, knowledgeable language to make oneself seem smarter

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Callow

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Inexperienced or immature

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Exhort

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To urge strongly

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17
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Ingratiate

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To make oneself agreeable to others in order to gain favor

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18
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Intrinsic

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Belonging to something by its very nature

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Permeate

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To soak through

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Precipitate

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To cause or bring about suddenly

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21
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Stringent

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Strict or severe

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Surmise

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To believe without evidence

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23
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Ascribe

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To attribute to

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Circuitous

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Roundabout

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Commiserate

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To sympathize with

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Enjoin

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To direct or order

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Expiate

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To make amends

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Inadvertent

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Accidental

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Nominal

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So small as to be insignificant

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30
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Proclivity

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A natural or habitual inclination or tendency

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31
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Seditious

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Resistant to lawful authority

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32
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Tenuous

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Lacking a sound basis

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33
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Vitriolic

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Bitter, sarcastic

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34
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Wheedle

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To use coaxing and flattery to gain a certain end

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35
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Affable

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Courteous and pleasant

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36
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Fetter

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Chains or shackles that go around the ankles; to make helpless

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37
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Megalomania

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Thinking that you are more powerful than everybody else

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38
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Surreptitious

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Sneaky

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39
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Transgress

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To go beyond a border

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40
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Vicarious

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To experience through somebody else

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41
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Austere

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Severe or stern in manner

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42
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Concoct

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To prepare or devise

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43
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Crass

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Coarse, unfeeling, stupid

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44
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Debase

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To degrade or lower in quality

45
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Desecrate

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To commit sacrilege upon

46
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Disconcert

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To disturb the composure of or unsettle

47
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Inconsequential

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Nominal

48
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Mitigate

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To make milder or softer

49
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Punctilious

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Very careful and exact

50
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Reprove

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To deny the validity of

51
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Vulnerable

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Open to attack

52
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Restitution

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The act of restoring something to its rightful owner or former state position

53
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Acrimonious

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Stinging, bitter in temper or tone

54
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Consternation

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Dismay, confusion

55
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Corpulent

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Fat, having a large, bulky body

56
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Disavow

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To deny any relation to

57
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Dissension

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Disagreement

58
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Dissipate

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To cause to disappear; to scatter

59
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Gauntlet

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A challenge

60
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Impugn

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To attack as false

61
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Intemperate

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Lacking in self control

62
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Relegate

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To place in a lower position

63
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Squeamish

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Inclined to nausea

64
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Susceptible

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Open to; easily influenced

65
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Adjunct

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Something helpful but not necessary

66
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Bellwether

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A leader in a desperate or violent undertaking

67
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Caterwaul

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To scream noisily and harshly

68
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Chimerical

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Absurd, impossible

69
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Effete

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Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy

70
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Fait Accompli

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An accomplished and irreversible deed, a done deal

71
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Hidebound

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Narrow minded and rigid; stubborn and conservative

72
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Hierarchy

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A system of rankings

73
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Liturgy

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A religious service or rite

74
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Mirage

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An illusion

75
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Morass

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A confusing situation in which one is entrapped

76
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Noisome

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Foul smelling

77
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Oblivious

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Completely clueless; forgetful

78
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Poltroon

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A coward

79
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Proselyte

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A convert

80
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Quasi

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Ish

81
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Raillery

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Good-humored ridicule

82
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Ribald

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Irreverently mocking; vulgar

83
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Supine

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Lying flat on one’s back

84
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Vignette

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A short sketch or description

85
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Aegis

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Protection

86
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Apprise

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To inform of

87
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Bibulous

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Inclined to drink

88
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Claque

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A clique

89
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Deracinate

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To pull by the roots; to eliminate all traces of

90
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Aggrieved

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Feeling or expressing a sense of injustice

91
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Choleric

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Easily angered

92
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Comport

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To behave and conduct oneself

93
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Interpose

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To place or come between

94
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Temerity

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Reckless boldness, audacity

95
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Amenable

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Willing to follow advice, agreeable

96
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Qualm

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Feelings of uneasiness

97
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Tortuous

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Winding, circuitous

98
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Surfeit

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Surplus

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Lascivious

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Gesture or manner revealing an offensive sexual desire

100
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Requisite

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Needed

101
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Onus

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Something burdensome

102
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Scintillating

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Sparkling; exceptionally brilliant

103
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Pernicious

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Extremely harmful, deadly

104
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Abate

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To lessen, subside

105
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Palpable

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Able to be felt

106
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Winsome

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Charming

107
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Reprobate

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A depraved person, scoundrel; wicked, corrupt; to disapprove of

108
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Impromptu

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Sudden or without preparation

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