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Entrails

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Intestines

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Unsavoury

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Unappealing, disagreeable, offensive

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Inquisitive

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Asking questions eager for knowledge

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Meticulous

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Extreme care about tiny details; precise

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Supplicate

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To pry humbly request pled

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Relishing

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Pleasured appreciation of something

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Contemptuous

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Showing distain; scornful

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Immaculate

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Pure; flawless

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Exuberant

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Enthusiastic; lavishly abundant

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Florid

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Ornate; showy

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Trammels

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Hindrances; restrains

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Genial

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Warmly and pleasantly cheerful

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Emanate

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To flow out of

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Epithalamia

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A song in honour of a wedding

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Fervent

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Intensity of sprit or enthusiasm

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Imperious

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Overbearing bossy

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Moiety

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An undefined portion part of share

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Reveries

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Dreamy meditation

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Trifle

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A thing of little value insignificant

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Caprice

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Sudden change to ones mind without apparent motive

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Emaciated

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Abnormally thin wasting away flesh

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Ethereal

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Heavenly; celestial

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Illusory

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Deceptive misleading

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Posterity

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Descendants; future generations

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Renounce

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To give up or put aside disown

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Dissimulation

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Becoming unlike

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Vex

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To annoy; irritate provoke

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Sagacity

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Wisdom

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Suavity

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Smooth manner

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Suppositions

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Assumptions

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Audacity

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Boldness; daring arrogance

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Vehement

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Extremely passionate strongly emotional

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Gesticulation

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Animated gestures

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Derision

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Ridicule; mockery

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Dissemble

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Conceal the truth put on the appearance of

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Irresolute

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Unsure, hesitating

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Ardent

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Passionate

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Countenance

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A Face expression

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Dauntless

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Fearless

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Irrevocably

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In a way impossible to change

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Benevolent

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Showing charity

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Commiserate

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To express symphony

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Consolation

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Something that eases sorrow or disappointment

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Discern

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To detect to perceive

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Fiend

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Evil sprit devil

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Omen

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A sing of future good or evil

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Conjecture

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To guess using the available evidence

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Disconsolate

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Unable to be cheered up

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Enigmatic

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Puzzling

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Flagrant

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Highly offensive

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Pensive

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Deeply or dreamily thoughtful

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Venerable

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Worthy of respect or reverence

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Vengeance

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Punishment inflicted in return for a wrong

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Wantonly

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Maliciously without restraint

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Base

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Mean-spirited

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Inexorable

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Unyielding

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Insurmountable

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Impossible to overcome

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Irksome

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Annoying

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Listless

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Deliberately harmful

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Torpor

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State of inactivity or apathy

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Traverse

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To Travel across

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Adversity

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Enemy opponent

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Consternation

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State of confusion

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Illustrious

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Very distinguished

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Omnipotent

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All -powerful

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Pilgrimage

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Long journey for spiritual purpose