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caprice

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impulsive behavior or notion

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mien

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appearance

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fastidious

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difficult to satisfy; stubborn

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pliant

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easily influenced; yielding; easy to bend

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assail

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to attack violently with words or blows

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abjure

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to recant, renounce, or repudiate

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alacrity

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promptness in response; readiness

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ductile

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capable of being fashioned; easily influenced

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felicity

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a pleasing manner or quality

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pedantic

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ostentatiously learned

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induce

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to motivate to action

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archly

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brashly

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insipid

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tasteless

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abrogate

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to abolish, do away with, or annul by authority

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accost

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to approach aggressively

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stricture

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a close restraint or limit

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effusion

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unrestrained expression of words or feelings

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indolent

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habitually lazy

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celerity

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rapidity of motion or action

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abstemious

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moderate in drinking and eating

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acumen

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quickness or keenness of judgment or action

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panegyric

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formal or elaborate praise

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auspicious

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attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success, prosperous

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reproof

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criticism of fault

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belie

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to misrepresent; to represent falsely

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obstinate

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not easily persuaded

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bellicose

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warlike; hostile

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precipitance

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undue hastiness

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bowdlerize

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to remove objectionable or offensive material

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appertain

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to be relevant

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deference

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affected regard for one’s wishes

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chicanery

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deception by trickery

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expostulation

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the act of discussing to dissuade

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approbation

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praise

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diffuse

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to scatter

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implacable

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not capable of being appeased or changed

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churlish

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vulgar

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circumlocution

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the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language

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propitious

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benevolent

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laconic

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concise

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iniquitous

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characterized by wickedness

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asperity

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harshness (uneven?)

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obsequious

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exhibiting an affected, fawning attentiveness

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circumnavigate

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to proceed completely around

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insolent

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insultingly contemptuous

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veracity

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devotion to truth or accuracy

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imprudent

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not practical

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enumerate

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to count or list

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ingratiate

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to gain favorable acceptance by deliberate effort

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languor

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sluggishness

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diffident

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distrustful, not confident

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purport

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to profess

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deciduous

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falling off or shedding; not lasting; ephemeral

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deleterious

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dangerous; having a harmful effect

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injunction

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an order, or the act of

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coquetry

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flirtation

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dissemble

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to put on the appearance of

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dawdle

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spend time idly, aimlessly

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assiduous

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marked by close attention

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enervate

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to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of

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enfranchise

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to free, to endow with the rights of citizenship

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peevish

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marked by ill-temper

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despond

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to become discouraged or hopeless

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expedient

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appropriate to seize or capture opportunity

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incumbent

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imposed as a duty, obligatory

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rectitude

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moral integrity

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pertinent

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relevant

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odious

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deserving hatred or repugnance

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repine

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to feel or express discontent

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epiphany

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a revelation; a sudden manifestation of meaning or essence

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defection

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desertion

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vexatious

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distressing, troubling

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evanescent

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vanishing, short-lived

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expurgate

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to remove erroneous, objectionable, vulgar material from publication

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facetious

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playfully jocular, humorous

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fatuous

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foolish or silly in a smug or self-satisfying way

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affable

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friendly

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prodigious

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enormous

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officious

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informal

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derision

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the act of ridicule

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incredulous

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unwilling to believe

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chagrin

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distress by humiliation

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volatility

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transitory

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feckless

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lacking purpose, ineffective

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gauche

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awkward or tactless

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homogeneous

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uniform in structure or composition, the same

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incognito

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concealed

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profligate

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extravagant

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perturbation

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a disturbance

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exigent

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urgent

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sanguine

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pertaining to blood

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cogent

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relevant

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abate

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to put an end to

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sagacious

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wise

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addle

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to confuse

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penurious

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stingy

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iterate

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to say again

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visceral

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felt deeply

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gallivant

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to roam about for pleasure

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incontrovertible

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unquestionable

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inculcate

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to instill

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interpolate

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to insert

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jejune

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dull

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kinetic

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relating to motion

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lexicon

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a vocabulary of a particular type

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loquacious

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talkative

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lugubrious

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gloomy

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nihilism

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a denial of the existence of the real, skepticism

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