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Cathartic

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cleansing, purging, (emotional balance)

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Caustic

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acrimonious, mordant, pungent, trenchant, acrid, malevolent, incisive, harsh, excoriating

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Clairvoyant

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prescient, preternatural, (can predict the future)

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Commiserate

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pity, empathy for

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Conciliatory

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peacemaking, pacific

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Condescending

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patronizing, imperious (bossy), humbling, humiliating, scornful of, snobbish

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Conditional

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contingent upon something else, contingent upon, qualified, (made on certain terms)

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Convergence

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coming together, merging, juncture

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Craven

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coward, timorous, fearfully afraid

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Cryptic

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esoteric, arcane, secret, hidden, veiled, obscure, inscrutable

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Cull

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winnow, separate out from, thresh, sift and separate from

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Deleterious

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harmful, pernicious, perfidious, virulent, malevolent, nefarious, ignominious, iniquitous, (causing harm or damage)

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Demagogue

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rabble-rousing leader, one who gets his followers to create trouble

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Digression

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rhapsodize, engage in circumlocution (taking around.off the point), discursive

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Diligent

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hard-working, dedicated, persevering, tenacious, assiduous, sedulous

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Diminution

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reduction, cutback, retrenchment, Less Common: mitigate, extenuate, mollify, alleviate, placate

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Discreet

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careful, prudent

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Disdain

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to regard with contempt, scorn, animosity, loathing

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Divergent

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moving apart

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Ebullient

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high-spirited, vivacious, enthusiastic

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Eccentric

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unconventional, atypical, bohemian

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Edifying

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instructive, didactic, enlightening

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Efficacious

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extremely effective

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Effrontery

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audacity, impertinence, imprudent, brazen, haughty, insolent

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Effusive

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demonstrative, unrestrained, rhapsodic, even histrionic (overacting)

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Egregious

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(outstandingly bad), flagrant, blatant, scandalous

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