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Mitigated

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Make less severe or painful

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Venerable

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According a great deal of respect

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Ossified

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Cease developing

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Visceral

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Inward feelings rather than intellect

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Decorous

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Keeping up with good taste, reserved

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Bombastic

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High sounding with little meaning

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Capricious

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Marked by sudden change in mood or behavior

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Ostentatious

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Designed to impress or attract attention

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Escapade

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Incident involving danger or excitement

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Terse

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Sparing with use of words. Abrupt

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Tenacious

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Tending to keep a firm hold

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Jaunt

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Short excursion

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Raffish

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Unconventional and slightly disreputable

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Armaments

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Military weapons

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Iconoclast

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Person who attacks cherished beliefs

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Diatribe

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Verbal attack

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Malcontents

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A person who is dissatisfied or rebellious

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Palisade

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Fence of stakes

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Diminution

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Reduction

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Derivative

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Originated from, based on

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Haphazard

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Unorganized

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Lackadaisical

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Lacking enthusiasm

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Pious

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Hypocritically virtuous

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Brusque

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Abrupt or offhand

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Tawdry

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Cheap but gaudy

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Cataclysmic

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Used as a bad emphasis

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Benighted

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In a state if pitiful ignorance

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Ambulatory

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Able to walk

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Blight

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Spoil harm or destroy

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Haughty

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Arrogantly superior

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Protean

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Able to take new shape

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Contemplation

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Thinking over thoroughly

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Indictments

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Charge or accusation

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Agnostic

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Neither faith nor belief

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Exemplary

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Model, best of its kind

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Expatriate

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Person living outside or their native country

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Benevolent

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We’ll meaning and kindly

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Epitome

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Perfect example of a quality or trait

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Inception

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The starting point

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Periphery

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Outer limits

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Zenith

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Highest point

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Paradigm

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Model or example

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Perverse

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Acting in spite of something

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Counciliatory

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Intending to placate or pacify

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Salutary

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Producing good effects

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Dissent

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Holding opinion against majority

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Peril

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Serious danger

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Surmises

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Assuming true without evidence

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Divisive

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Causing disagreement

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Miserly

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Extremely stingy

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Docile

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Gentle

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Boistered

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Strengthened or propped up

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary

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Imperiled

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Compromised

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Mercenary

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Making money at the expense of others

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Stymied

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Prevent progress

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Spuricous

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False or fake

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Dogmatic

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Assume principals as true

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Impromptu

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Done without planning

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Sanguine

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Optimistic or positive

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Reticent

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Resistant to being open

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Clandestine

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Kept secret

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Doctrinaire

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Imposing with practical considerations

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Liberality

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Open and free of prejudice

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Autonomous

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Acting independently

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Intransigence

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Unwillingness to change views or agree

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Ambivalence

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State or having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas

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Anagolous

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Comparable

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