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Bemused

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Puzzled, confused, or bewildered

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Susurration

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Whispering, murmuring, or rustling
“The susurration of the river”

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Spurious

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Not what it purports to be, false or fake

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Maladroit

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Ineffective or bungling, clumsy

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Profligacy

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Reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources, promiscuous behavior

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Panegyrical

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Eulogistic oration or writing

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Gauche

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Lacking ease or grace, unsophisticated and socially awkward

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Banal

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So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring

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Quiescent

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In a state or period of inactivity or dormancy

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Decorous

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In keeping with good taste and propriety, polite and restrained

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Prepossessing

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Attractive or appealing in appearance

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Felicitous

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Well chosen or suited to the circumstances, pleasing and fortunate

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Diffidence

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Modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self confidence

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Reticent

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Not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily

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Doughty

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Brave and persistent

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Retrenchment

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The reduction of costs or spending in response to economic difficulty

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Coruscating

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Flashing, sparkling, or severely critical, scathing

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Teleological

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Explaining phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than how they’re caused, or relating to the doctrine of design and purpose in the material world

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Preternatural

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Beyond what is normal or natural

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Countenance

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A person’s face or facial expression, support, admit as acceptable or possible

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Edifying

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Providing moral or intellectual instruction

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Cadge

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Ask for or obtain something to which one is not strictly entitled

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Mendicate

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To beg

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Iridescent

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Showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles

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Monocoque
An aircraft or vehicle structure in which the chassis is integral with the body
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Pavonine
Of or like a peacock
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Parietal
Of, relating to, attached to, or denoting the wall of the body or of a body cavity or hollow structure. Or, relating to residence in a college dormitory and especially to visits from members of the opposite sex.
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Execrable
Extremely bad or unpleasant
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Sidereal
Of or with respect to the distant stars
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Etiolated
Having lost vigor or substance, feeble, (of a plant) pale and drawn out due to lack of light
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Circumscribed
Restrict something within limits
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Acute
Present or experienced to a severe or intense degree (of a bad situation), having or showing a perceptive understanding or insight; shrewd
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Analogous
Comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared
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Commensurate
Corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
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Comportment
Behavior, bearing
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Invidious
(of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others, (of a comparison or distinction) unfairly discriminating, unjust.
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Nugatory
Of no value or importance, useless or futile
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Denouement
The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved, or the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear
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Antediluvian
Ridiculously old fashioned
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Imbibe
To receive into the mind and retain
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Belie
(of an appearance) fail to give a true notion or impression of (something); disguise or contradict, fail to fulfill or justify (a claim or expectation); betray
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Apocryphal
(of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true
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Superannuation
obsolete through age or new technological or intellectual developments
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Senescence
The condition or process of deterioration with age, loss of a cell's power of division and growth
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Lachrymose
Tearful or given to weeping
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Polemical
Expressing a strongly critical attack on or a controversial opinion about someone or something
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Incarnation
A person who embodies a deity, spirit, or abstract quality
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Infelicitous
Unfortunate, inappropriate
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Effete
Affected and overly refined, no longer capable of effective action, (of a man) behaving in a way traditionally associated with women
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Acrimonious
(typically of a speech or debate) angry and bitter
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Inveterate
having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change
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Turgid
swollen and distended or congested, (of a language or style) tediously pompous
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Interdict
An authoritative prohibition, to prohibit or forbid, to intercept or prohibit the movement of (a commodity or person)
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Indigence
A state of extreme poverty
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Parsimony
extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources
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Antipathy
a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion
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Ignobility
Characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness, of low birth or common origin
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Probity
the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.
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Redress
remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation)
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Florid
having a red or flushed complexion, elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated
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Choleric
bad-tempered or irritable
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Physiognomy
a person's facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin, the general form or appearance of something
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Indispose
Make (someone) unfit for or unable to do something, make (someone) averse to something
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Forbearance
patient self-control; restraint and tolerance
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Contend
struggle to surmount (a difficulty or danger), assert something as a position in an argument
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Tyro
a beginner or novice.
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Agronomist
an expert in the science of soil management and crop production.
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Flocculent
1. having or resembling tufts of wool. "the first snows of winter lay thick and flocculent" 2. having a loosely clumped texture. "a brown flocculent precipitate"
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Thewy
Muscular, brawny
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Insolvent
unable to pay debts owed. "the company became insolvent"
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Pneumatic
containing or operated by air or gas under pressure. "the machines with pneumatic loading are more efficient
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Ebullient
cheerful and full of energy.
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Stratagem
a plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end. "a series of devious stratagems"
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Paucity
the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity. "a paucity of information"
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Indemnify
1. compensate (someone) for harm or loss. "the amount of insurance that may be carried to indemnify the owner in the event of a loss" 2. secure (someone) against legal liability for their actions. "the newspaper could not be forced to indemnify the city for personal-injury liability"
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Liquidate
1. wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets. "if the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honor the debts" 2. eliminate, typically by violent means; kill. "rivals and critics were liquidated in bloody purges"
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Pillory
attack or ridicule publicly.
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Belie
to show (something) to be false or wrong
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Capitulate
cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender

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