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Odious

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(adj) - hateful, evil or vile.

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Odyssey

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(n) - A long, difficult journey marked by changes in fortune.

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Ogle

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(v) - To stare at in a disrespectful way.

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Opaque

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(adj) - Difficult to see through, unclear.

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Oust

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(v) - To eject, banish or expel.

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Permeate

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(v) - To spread or seep through; to penetrate or pervade

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Peruse

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(v) - To study or read over leisurely.

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Pique

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(v) - To hurt or rile the feelings of someone; to irritate

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Placate

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(v) - To soother or appease with concessions.

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Plausible

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(adj) - believable

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Poignant

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(adj) - emotionally moving

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Preclude

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(v) - To make impossible or to shut out

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Pretentious

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(adj) - Showy, self-important, making unjustifiable claims to excellence.

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Quaint

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(adj) - Pleasantly old-fashioned; picturesque

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Quell

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(v) - To put an ending to something; to calm

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Quintessential

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(adj) - The most perfect example

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Raucous

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(adj) - Boisterous, harsh sounding, noisy and disorderly

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Reciprocal

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(adj) - Mutual, interchangeable, or shared.

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Reprehensible

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(adj) - Deserving of blame

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Recind

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(v) - To cancel, to repeal

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Resillient

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(adj) - An ability to recover from something or adjust easily

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Scintillate

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(v) - To sparkle, to gleam, to be animated or brilliant

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Stoic

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(adj) - Indifferent to pleasure or pain

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Stymie

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(v) - To get in the way of something, to hinder or block

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Succinct

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(adj) - Concise, clearly expressed with few words

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Tedious

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(adj) - Boring or tiresome

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Thwart

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(v) - To prevent from being accomplished, to frustrate or hindere

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Tirade

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(n) - A long and angry speech

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Tout

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(v) - To brag publicly, to praise highly

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Trite

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(adj) - Unoriginal, overused, cliched or very common

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Trivial

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(adj) - Unimportant or unsignificant

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Vapid

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(adj) - tasteless or very dull

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Vehement

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(adj) - intense, forceful or market by strong feelings

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Verbose

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(adj) - wordy

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Viable

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(adj) - able to succeed, capable of living and growing

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Vilify

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(v) - to defame or slander, to blacken the character of

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Vivacious

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(adj) - lively and spirited

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Zealot

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(n) - a person with great enthusiasm for something or a commitment to a cause

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Zenith

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(n) - the highest point

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Abscond

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(v) - to leave quickly and secretively

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Accolade

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(n) - award or honor; high praise

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Acquit

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(v) - to find guilty

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Aggreive

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(v) - to distress or mistreat

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Ameliorate

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(v) - to make better, to ease or improve

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Behemoth

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(n) - something that is enormous or monstrous in size and power

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Besmirch

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(v) - to stain or soil (commonly referring to a reputation)

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Calumny

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(n) - slander, deliberate false statements

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Capricious

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(adj) - whimsical, fanciful or impulsive

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Clout

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(n) - influence or forceful blow

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Compunction

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(n) - remorse, feeling uneasy after having done something.

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Contentious

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(adj) - argumentative over a point; quarellsome

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Covet

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(v) - to wish for with envy

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Debacle

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(n) - a disaster or violent breakdown

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Dissipate

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(v) - to break up or to squander

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Ennui

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(n) - boredom, listlessness, lack of interest.

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