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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand or interpret

Not easily understood

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Obsequies

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Funeral rites

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Specious

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Superficially plausible, it actually wrong

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Longueurs

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Tedious passage in a book or other work

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Libertine

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Characterized by disregard of morality, esp. in sexual matters

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Apoplectic

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Filled with rage

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Jaundiced

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Affected by bitterness, resentment, or envy

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace arising from shameful conduct

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Solicitude

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More than average concern for someone

Perhaps too much concern

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Verisimilitude

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Appearance of being true or real

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Amalgam

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A mixture or blend.

“a curious amalgam of the traditional and the modern”

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Belie

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(of an appearance) fail to give a true notion or impression of (something); disguise or contradict.
“his lively alert manner belied his years”

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Recalcitrant

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having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.
"a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds”
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Cosset

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care for and protect in an overindulgent way.

“all her life she’d been cosseted by her family”

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beleaguer

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Beset with difficulties

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Pedantic

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someone who is pedantic makes a big display of knowing obscure facts and details.

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Engender

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cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition)

To produce or bring about

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Cloying

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disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment

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Adumbrate

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To adumbrate something is to outline it.

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Evocative

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bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind

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Disingenuous

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not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does

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