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Beguile is:

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to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.

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Vicarious is:

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performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute.

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Ascetic is:

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a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reason

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Licentious is:

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sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.

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Pecuniary is:

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of or pertaining to money: pecuniary difficulties.

consisting of or given or exacted in money or monetary payments: pecuniary tributes.

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Vacuous is:

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without contents; empty: the vacuous air.

lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind.

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Allocate is:

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to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
to fix the place of; locate.

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Capricious is:

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subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He’s such a capricious boss I never know how he’ll react.

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Epistle is:

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a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.

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Impetus is:

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a moving force; impulse; stimulus: The grant for building the opera house gave impetus to the city’s cultural life.

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Efficacy is:

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However one wants to do something

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Reticent is:

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disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.

reluctant or restrained.

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Crass is:

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without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.

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Interloper

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Someone who meddles with other people and their situations personally

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Corroborate

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To make correct to confirm

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Inexorable

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Unyielding or unalterable. Cannot be changed.

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Insipid

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To be bland, lacking taste or characteristic

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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked or villainous

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Physiognomy

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The face or countenance. Especially when considered to be an index of the character

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Retinue

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A body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage

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Blasé

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Indifferent or bored with life. Unimpressed or jaded.

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, dismal, gloomy.

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Feckless

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Ineffective, incompetent, futile

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Affront

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A personally offensive act or word. A deliberate act or display or disrespect.

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Adulation

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A devotion to someone. Servile flattery

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Dissemble

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To give a false or misleading appearance to. To conceal the truth or real nature of.

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Allay

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To relieve and mitigate.

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Palpitate

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To excessively shake and pulsate

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Capacious

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Very roomy and spacious

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Droll

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Unusually funny or entertaining

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Tedium

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Being meticulous and fine

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Extricate

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To free from a constraint

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Ignominious

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Deserving of ridicule

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Prostrate

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To lie down flat in submission

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Arduous

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Requiring effort way too tough

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Inundate

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To overwhelm

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Admonish

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Harshly criticize

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Cognizant

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To be aware of

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Collusion

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Secretly illegal deeds

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Acquiesce

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Accept something reluctantly

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Preposterous

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Contrary to reason or common sense. Absurd or ridiculous

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Trepidation

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Fear with paranoia and anxiety

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Propitious

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Indicating a good chance of success

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Perjury

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Lying in court under oath

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

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Moribund

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At the point of death

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Censure

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To disapprove

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Indolent

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Slothful and lazy

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Encumber

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To restrict or burden

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Akin

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Similar in character

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Auspicious

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Conductive to success

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Beseech

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To implore and ask fervently

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Disparity

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A great difference

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Subversive

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Seeking to disrupt an institution

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Presumptuous

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Failing to observe the limits of what is allowed

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Plight

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An unfortunate situation

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Defray

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To provide money

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Lassitude

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State of physical weariness, lack of energy

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Conspicuous

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Very obvious

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Despotic

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of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
(Tyrantrum)

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Eclectic

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Mix of many different things

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Indefatigable

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incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.

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Clemency

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the quality of being clement; disposition to show forbearance, compassion, or forgiveness in judging or punishing; leniency; mercy.

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Catalyst

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An impetus of a reaction, something that starts something else

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Clandestine

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characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious:

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Dissemble

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To get conceal of or to hide

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Charlatan

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a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.

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Banal

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devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite:

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Acquiesce

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To submit or comply. to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent:

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Intractable

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not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate:

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Cajole

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to persuade by flattery

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