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Reverence

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Feeling deep respect

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Venerable

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Command respect because of age or dignity

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Deferential

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Respectable

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Eminent

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High in rank

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Lionize

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To treat person like celebrity

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Acclaim

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Welcome with shouts of sounds

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Laudable

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Praise

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Eulogy

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Speech/writing in praise

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Extol

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Praise

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Prevaricate

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Speak falsely

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Sanctimonious

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Make hypocritical show of religious devotion

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Guileful

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Deceptive, cunning

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Disingenuous

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Lack in sincerity

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Duplicity

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Deceitful

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Mendacity

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Untruthful

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Artifice

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Clever trick

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Machination

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Act for plot

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Effrontery

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Shameless

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Audacity

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Boldness

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Insolence

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Rude

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Impertinent

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Rude, uncivil

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Impudent

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Characterized as shameless

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Flippant

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Disrespectful

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Palliate

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Relieve

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Mitigate

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Lessen in force or intensity

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Attenuate

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Weaken force

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Placate

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Pacify

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Mollify

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Soften in temper

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Sanguine

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Hopeful

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Euphoric

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Happy

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Blithe

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Joyous

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Exalted

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Raised or elevated

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Disparage

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To speak of or treat slightingly, belittle

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Deride

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To laugh at in scorn or contempt

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Ridicule

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Speech or action intended to cause scornful laughter at a person or thing

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Deplore

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To regret deeply or strongly

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Deprecate

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To express earnest disapproval of

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Disdain

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To look upon or treat with contempt, despise

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Anathema

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A person or thing detested or loathed/hated

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Acrimony

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Sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, etc.

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Disdainful

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Full of or showing distain

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Contemptuous

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Showing or expressing contempt, scorn

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Emergent

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Coming into view or notice

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Nascent

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Beginning to exist or develop

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Puerile

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Of or pertaining to a child or childhood

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Fledging

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An inexperienced person

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Inchoate

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Not yet fully developed

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Ardor

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Great warmth of feeling passion

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Zeal

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Eager desire

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Fever

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Great warmth and earnest feeing

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Vehemence

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the display of strong feeling; passion.

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Alacrity

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Promptness, willingness

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Verve

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Liveliness

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Staunch

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Adherence, loyalty as a person

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Assiduous

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Hardworking

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Industrious

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Hard working

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Demonstrative

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Characterized by or given open expression of emotion

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, gloomy

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Histrionic

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Overly dramatic

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Effusive

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Excess demonstrative

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Maudlin

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Tearful or weakly emotional

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Treacly

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Contrived, planes or forced

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Mawkish

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Weakly emotional

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Cloying

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Causing disgust

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