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Panegyric

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Formal praise

A public text or public speech of someone or something

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Objurgate

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Scold severely

Rebuke severely; scold

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Ersatz

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Fake

(Of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else

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Poignant

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Emotionally touching

Painfully affecting the feelings: deeply affecting; touching.

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Broadside

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Verbal attack

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Cogent

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Convincing

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Graft

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Corruption

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Errant

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Straying from course

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action

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Myriad

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1.A countless or extremely large number of people or things.

2.(chiefly in classical history) A unit of ten thousand

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