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1
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Becoming less in amount or intensity

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Abate

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2
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Showing humiliation or submissiveness

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Abject

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3
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Depart secretly and hide

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Abscond

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4
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And ability that is been acquired by training

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Acquisition

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5
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In spite of the facts, regardless of the fact; although

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Albeit

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6
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In the open air outside

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Alfresco

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7
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Remote in manner not involved

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Aloof

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8
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Completely surrounding encompassing

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Ambient

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9
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And expression his meaning cannot be determined from its context

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Ambiguity

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10
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Friendly agreeable

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Amiable

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11
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A political theory favoring the abolition of governments

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Anarchism

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12
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The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

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Apathy

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13
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The highest point

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Apex

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14
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Any large body of water studded with islands or the islands collectively themselves

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Archipelago

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15
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To attack someone physically or emotionally

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Assail

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16
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A distinctive but in tangible quality surrounding a person or thing

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Aura

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17
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To prevent avoid turn away

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Avert

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18
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Like an uncle in kindness or indulgence

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Avuncular

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19
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A Very wealthy and powerful businessman

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Baron

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20
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Showy trinkets

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Baubles

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21
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A marshy inlet of a lake river etc. usually stagnant

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Bayou

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22
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To scold severely or angrily

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Berate

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23
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Excessively bold or brash

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Brazen

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24
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Gold or silver in bars or ingots a mass of precious metal

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Bullion

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25
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Sincerity the quality of being honest and straightforward and attitude and speech

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Candor

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26
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Determined by chance or impulse or a whim rather than by necessity or reason

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Capricious

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27
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To go around encircle

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Circumvent

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28
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To compel someone to do something by insistent outcry loud and persistent outcry from many people

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Clamor

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29
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Secret covert stealthy

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Clandestine

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30
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To take the first step or steps in caring out an action to begin or start

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Commence

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31
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To acknowledgedefeat

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Concede

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32
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To reveal in trust or confidence

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Confide

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33
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To call forth by magic to bring to mind to recall or evoke

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Conjure

34
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Give moral or emotional support to comfort

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Console

35
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A companion or associate, associate with, keep company, a husband or wife, or a ruler

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Consort

36
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Fear resulting from the awareness of danger

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Consternation

37
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A brilliant victory or accomplishment or the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group

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Coup

38
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Old friends close companions

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Cronies

39
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An interest followed with exaggerated zeal a system of religious beliefs and rituals

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Cult

40
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Terminate or abbreviate before it’s intended proper end or it’s full extent

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Curtail

41
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To degrade reduce in quality and value degenerate lower in esteem disgrace

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Debase

42
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Reason by deduction

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Deduce

43
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The time when something ends

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Demise

44
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To attack the reputation of to criticize in a derogatory manner

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Denigrate

45
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To Dethrone remove from office testify

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Depose

46
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A ship abandoned on the high seas neglectful of obligation

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Derelict

47
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Expressing low opinion disparaging, detract

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Derogatory

48
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Caused to turn away from a previous or expected course

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Deviate

49
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A Difference of opinion

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Dissent

50
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Disagreeing with an opinion group or a government rebellious

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Dissident

51
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To entertain distract or cause a detour

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Divert

52
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To deprive of status or authority reduce or dispose of

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Divest

53
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Feebleness of mind due to old age

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Dotage

54
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Infatuated marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

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Enamored

55
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To be a typical example of to represent to exemplify

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Epitomize

56
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Containing or characterized by error

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Erroneous

57
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To obtain by violence threats compulsion or the subjection of another to some necessity

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Extort

58
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The surrender of a fugitive from one state to another

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Extradition

59
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A member of a political party who supports extreme nationalism and a dictator

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Fascist

60
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Involving financial matters

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Fiscal

61
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To startle in sudden activity

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Galvanize

62
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To acquire or deserve by one’s efforts or actions

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Garner

63
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To make perfect or complete

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Hone

64
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To compel to behave in a certain way

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Impose

65
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Permanently in a way that cannot be erased or removed

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Indelibly

66
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Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

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Infatuate

67
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To gain favor with somebody by deliberate effort’s

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Ingratiate

68
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Unlikely to harm or disturb anyone

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Innocuous

69
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Gracefully slender flexible supple

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Lithe

70
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Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree even to engage in lawsuits

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Litigious

71
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A motor truck especially a large one

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Lorry

72
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Producing wealth profitable

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Lucrative

73
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Pretended to be someone or something that you were not

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Masquerade

74
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Not subject to a court ruling because the controversy has not actually arisen or has ended open to argument or debate

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Moot

75
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Someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious beliefs an advocate of the doctor in that nothing either exists or can be known

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Nihilist

76
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Describing a show or pretentious display

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Ostentatious

77
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Unnatural lack of color in the skin

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Pallor

78
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To cater to the tastes and desires of others or exploit their weaknesses

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Pander

79
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As from an altitude or distance

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Panoramic

80
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A model of excellence or perfection of a kind

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Paragon

81
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To cut shave or remove from anything

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Pare

82
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Pertaining to disease study of disease

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Pathological

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