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Docile

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Someone who is easily taught; submissive

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Subjective

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One’ own opinion

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Eloquent

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Well spoken

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Superfluous

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More than what is requires

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Incontrovertible

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Not disputed

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Vacillation

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Wavering

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Infallibility

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Unable to make a mistake

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Hitherto

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Up to now

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Wary

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Cautious or caution

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Weary

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Tired

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Unmarred

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Clean

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Hallowed

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Holy or very respected or to do with religion

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Hollowed

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With a hole, not very deep

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Eclectic

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The best taken from; a collection of

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Invidious

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Harmful, but can’t see it coming

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Impromptu

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Done without rehearsal

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Extemporaneous

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Done without rehearsal

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Sanguine

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Optimistic; hopeful or healthy

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Intransigence

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Stubborn

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Affinity

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A liking for

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Salutary

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Beneficial

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Salutation

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Greeting

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Exacerbated

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To make a bad situation worse

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Zenith

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The top of. Synonyms: acme or apex

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Nadir

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At the bottom of

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Provincial

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Very narrow minded. Synonym: parochial

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Expatriate

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Citizen of one country who lives in another

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Wayward

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Someone who goes off the normal path

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Nostalgia

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Looking back at something in the past

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Ostentatious

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Very loud and showy

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Capricious

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Changes mind often

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Ossified

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Rigid

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33
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Strategy

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Planning to do something POSITIVE

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34
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Stratagem

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Planning to do something NEGATIVE

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Machination

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Planning process - NEGATIVE (synonym to stratagem)

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Equivocate

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Not giving a clear answer (negative)

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Unequivocal

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Without a doubt

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Cryptic

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Mysterious

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Perfidy

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Disloyalty

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Indignant

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Anger for a justified cause

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Indigenous

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Native to area

42
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Dubious

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Doubtful

43
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Currency

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Value

44
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Diaphanous

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Transparent

45
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Anomalous

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Abnormal

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Inconoclast

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Someone who goes against society

Synonyms: unorthodox, renegade, maverick, rebel.

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Dowager

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Rich widow

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Palpable

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Anything that you can feel moving (example: heart)

49
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Esoteric

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Language understood by a few

50
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Mollified

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To calm down. Synonyms: pacify, assuage, mitigate

51
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Railment

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Clothing

52
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Irascible

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Cranky

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Cantankerous

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Cranky

54
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Laconic

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Very brief and to the point. Synonym: succinct

55
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Mercurial

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Someone who is very moody and shifts moods

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Phlegmatic

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Sluggish, lazy

57
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Edify

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Instructive

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Effusive

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Very enthusiastic

59
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Desolate

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All alone or lonely

60
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Precursor

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Something that predicts something

61
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Harbinger

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Something that predicts something (synonym: precursor)

62
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Gaudy

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Loud or vivid colors

63
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Bucolic

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Rural or agricultural

64
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Rustic

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Rural or agricultural

65
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Erudition

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Very scholarly

66
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Lassitude

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Lack of energy

67
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Chicanery

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False information

68
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Dissent

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When people can’t come to an agreement

69
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Prolific

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Very productive

70
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Lugubrious

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Deeply mournful

71
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Remonstrance

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To be sorry for something you did

72
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Hinder

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To not allow; to block

73
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Ousted

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To fire

74
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Coddled

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To be pampered; to cook slowly

75
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Chided

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To scold

76
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Banal

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Over used, cliché, unimaginative, flat

77
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Discrimination (adjective)

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Some one who is insightful

78
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Discrimination (verb)

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Biased or prejudice

79
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Miscreant

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Villain or some one who causes trouble

80
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Tacit

A

Silent approval

81
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Fervent

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Done with a lot of passion

82
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Impetuous

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Done without hesitation

83
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Ephemeral

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Short in duration

84
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Evanescent

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Short in duration

85
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Unaffected

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Original

86
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Affected

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Copying; not original

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