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Sanctioned

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Approved by authority

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Virulence

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Extreme harmfulness (by a microorganism) 
Extreme hatred
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Propitious

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Likely to result in success: favorable circumstances

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Portents

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Sign that something is about to happen

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Sybarite

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One who loves luxury

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Litigant

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One involved in a lawsuit

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Bemuse

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To confuse

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Veritable

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Real or genuine

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Quiescent

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Temporary

In a state of inactivity

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Suffuse

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To cover with: to spread

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Querulous

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Always finding fault

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Savant

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A scholar

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Refuse

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garbage

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Overweening

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Arrogant

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

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Tortuous

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Winding

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Reprobate

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Evil

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Phlegmatic

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Stoidly calm

Unemotional

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Scintillating

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Brilliantly clever

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Omnipotent

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All powerful

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Impel

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To push something into motion

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Precondition

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To bring into a desired state

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Travesty

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False distorted way

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Inanity

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Lack of substance

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Précis

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A summary

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Verisimilitude

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Realistic

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Bent

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Natural talent

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Gratis

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Without charge

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Minatory

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Conveying a threat

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Recalcitrant

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Obstinacy

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Prevaricate

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Evasive way

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Pariah

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One who is hated

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Vituperation

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Bitter language

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Mellifluous

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Flowing sweetly

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Recidivist

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One who returns to life as a criminal

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Salient

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Important, noteworthy

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Captious

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Critically overbearing

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Pugilist

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A boxer

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Amenable

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Prone to the idea of

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Stultify

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To make useless by degrading or to make tired

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Disabuse

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To free from error or falsehood

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Tenable

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Able to be proved in an argument

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Profligate

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Wasteful spending

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Dirge

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Sad music or a hymn

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Digest

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Previously published information

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Salubrious

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Good for the health

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Anodyne

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A pain killer

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Epidemiology

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Study of disease

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Sanctimonious

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False holiness

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Pertinacious

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Stubborn in belief

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Unctuous

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Insincere

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Antideluvian

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Before the bible

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Euphonious

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Pleasing to the ear

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Germane

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Relevant to the subject at hand

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Perspicuous

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Clearly understood

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