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gainsay

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to deny, dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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heterodox

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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indefatigable

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not easily exhaustible; tireless

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ineluctable

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certain, inevitable

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inimitable

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one of a kind, peerless

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insouciant

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate

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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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jejune

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile

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lubricious

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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mendicant

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a beggar, supplicant

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meretricious

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy; attracting by false show

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minatory

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menacing, threatening

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nadir

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low point, perigee

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nonplussed

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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ossified

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tending to become more rigid, conventional with age; literal turn to bone

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palliate

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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less intense/severe

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panegyric

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium

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parsimonious

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cheap, miserly

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pellucid

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery

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plangent

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix

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long winded, verbose

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propitiate

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to appease; to conciliate

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peurile

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childish, jejune, nugatory

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puissance

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power, strength

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pusillanimous

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cowardly, craven

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remonstrate

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to protest, to object

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sagacious

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having sound judgement; perceptive, wise

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salacious

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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sanguine

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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saturnine

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gloomy, dark, sullen , morose

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sententious

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aphoristic, or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively

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stentorian

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extremely loud and powerful

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stygian

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gloomy, dark

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sycophant

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toady; servile; self seeking flatterer; parasite

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tendentious

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biased; showing marked tendencies

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timorous

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timid, fearful, diffident

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tyro

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novice, greenhorn, amateur

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vitiate

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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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voluble

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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