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Efficacious

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Very effective

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Ostentatious

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Very show display; pretentious seeking attention

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Fastidious

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Very attentive to detail; intricate

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Brazen

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Excessively brash, bold; shameless

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Inchoate

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Not fully developed

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Continental shelf

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A pet of a continent submerged under ocean along the continents edge

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Convuluted

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Extremely complex, difficult to follow

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Clandestine

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Kept secret done illicitly

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Convivial

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(Of atmosphere or event) friendly lively and enjoyable

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Dubious

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Doubtful; questionable

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Fecund

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Producing or capable of giving an abundance of offspring or growth; very fertile

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Complaisant

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Obediant

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Pageant

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A public entertainment consisting of a procession of people in elaborate colourful costumes, or an outdoor performance of a historical scene

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Perturbed

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Feeling anxiety or concern; unsettled

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Tyro

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Beginner

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Obstinate

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Stubborn

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Perfusion

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The passage of blood, a blood substitute, or other transfer of fluid through blood vessels or other nature channels in an organ or tissue.

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Prodigiously

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In a way that is extremely great in ability, amount or strength. He was a prodigiously gifted artist.

Synonym: stupendous tremendous monstrous

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Anodyne

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That which soothes

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Recrimination

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Mutual attacks

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Myopic

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Short sighted

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Insolent

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Rude

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Pedestrian

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Lacking imagination

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Circumvent

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Get out of duty

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Lascivious

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Perverted

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Mendicant

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Beggar

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Protean

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Versatile

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Protean

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Versatile

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Byzantine

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Overly complex

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Byzantine

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Overly complex

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Brook

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To put up with

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Brook

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To put up with

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Circumvent

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To get out of duty

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Imbroglio

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Confusing situation

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Sartorial

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Relating to clothes

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Sartorial

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Relating to clothes

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