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1
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Avaricious

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Excessively greedy

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Eminent

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Above others in quality

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Precocious

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Characteristic of early maturity or development

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Staunch

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Firmly dependable

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Vehement

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Marked by intense emotions

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Subsume

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Verb: Contain or include

Verb: consider as part of a general principle

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Disaffected

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Discontent towards authority

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Contrive

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Verb: Scheme

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Vilify

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Spread negative information about

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Quotidian

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Found in ordinary events

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11
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Reticent

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Quiet or restrained

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12
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Salutary

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Good for your health

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13
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Muckraking

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The exposure of scandal especially about public figure

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14
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Machinate

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Scheme or plan

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Unseemly

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Inappropriate or unacceptable behavior. Synonyms are inept, indecorous, indecent, inelegant

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Calumny

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Make false statements about someone

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17
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Disinterested

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Unbiased or neutral

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Profligate

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Spends recklessly

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Amenable

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Easily persuaded

20
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Intimate

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Suggest something subtly

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Enervate

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Sap energy from

22
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Aberration

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Deviation from the norm

23
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Anomolous

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Not normal

24
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Fledgling

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Young and inexperienced

New person

25
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Sanguine

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Cheerful and optimistic

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Amok

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Frenzied or uncontrollable state

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Beatific

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Blissfully happy

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Immaterial

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Not relevant

29
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Flush

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To be in abundance

30
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Paucity

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Lack of something

31
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Replete

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Completely stocked or furnished with something

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Errant

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To be wandering

33
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Sanctimonious

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Holier than you

34
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Errant

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To be wandering; not to be fixed to a specific path

35
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Misanthrope

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Hater of humanity

36
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Scintillating

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Describe someone who is brilliant

37
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Raft

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Large number of something

38
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Pugnacious

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Eager to fight or argue; verbally combative

39
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Aboveboard

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Open and honest

40
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Exhort

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Strongly encourage

41
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Repudiate

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Reject it; refuse to accept or support

42
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Patent

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Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

43
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Peddle

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Go out and sell it

44
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Vexation

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Anger that produced by something annoying

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Cunning

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Inventiveness and skill

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Naïveté

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Lack of sophistication or worldliness

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