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1
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Capricious

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Changing Quickly

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Calumny

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Criticism/Criticize

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Salacious

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Carousal

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Vaccilate

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Hesitate

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Apace

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Act Quickly

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Turbid

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Difficult to Understand

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Pellucid

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Easy to Understand

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Gainsay

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Criticism/Criticize

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Mordant/Mordacious

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Biting (Wit)

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Perspicacious

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Smart

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Asperity

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Biting (Wit)

Similar to ‘aspersion’, in the criticism word group

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Opprobrium

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Criticism/Criticize

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13
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Ersatz

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Falsehood

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14
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Vituperate

A

Criticism/Criticize

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Dissipated

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Carousal

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Venerate

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Praise

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17
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Limpid

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Easy to Understand

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18
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Iniquity

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Carousal

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19
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Veracious

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Truth

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Ribald

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Carousal

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21
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Penurious

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Greedy

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Aspersion

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Criticism/Criticize

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Probity

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Truth

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Canard

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Falsehood

Remember: ‘Canard’ is the French word for ‘Fox’

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Riposte

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Funny

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Inimical

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Harmful

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Acrimonious

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Biting (Wit)

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Inveigh

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Criticism/Criticize

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Recondite

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Difficult to Understand

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Trenchant

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Biting (Wit)

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31
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Encomium

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Praise

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Minatory

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Harmful

Like a minotaur might be

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Obloquy

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Criticism/Criticize

34
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Pusillanimous

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Timid

35
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Reprobate

A

Carousal

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Recreant

A

Timid

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Fatuous

A

Boring

38
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Objurgate

A

Criticism/Criticize

39
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Gibe

A

Funny

40
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Umbrage

A

Bad Mood

Like Dolores Umbridge, one-time headmistress of Hogwarts

41
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Prosaic

A

Boring

42
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Perfidious

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Harmful

43
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Truculent

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Hostile

44
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Ancillary

A

Assist

45
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Rapacious

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Greedy

46
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Excoriate

A

Criticism/Criticize

47
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Chicanery

A

Falsehood

48
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Churlish

A

Hostile

49
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Expatiate

A

Wandering

50
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Covetous

A

Greedy

Remember: thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife

51
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Prolix

A

Wordy

52
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Pillory

A

Criticism/Criticize

53
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Turgid

A

Wordy

54
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Gaucherie

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Embarrass/Embarrassment

Remember: something gauche could be quite embarrassing

55
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Novitiate

A

Amateur

Similar to novice

56
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Presage

A

Predict

57
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Turpitude

A

Carousal

58
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Esurient

A

Poor

59
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Proselyte

A

Amateur

60
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Tendentious

A

Favoring

61
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Discomfit

A

Prevent

62
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Tyro

A

Amateur

63
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Raillery

A

Funny

64
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Fetter

A

Prevent

Opposite of unfettered

65
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Simper

A

Funny

66
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Inpecunious

A

Poor

67
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Iconoclast

A

Unusual

68
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Discursive

A

Wandering

69
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Munificent

A

Assist

70
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Peripatetic

A

Wandering

71
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Fey

A

Predict

Like Tina Fey predicted Alec Baldwin would be a huge success on 30 Rock

72
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Dudgeon

A

Bad Mood

Like you would be, if you were in a dungeon

73
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Encumber

A

Prevent

Opposite of unencumbered

74
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Peregrination

A

Wandering

75
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Querulous

A

Bad Mood

76
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Diffidence

A

Embarrass/Embarrassment

77
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Explate

A

Bad Mood

78
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Augur

A

Predict

79
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Portentious

A

Predict

80
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Bilious

A

Bad Mood

Remember: the Greeks thought that excessive amount of bile cause ill-temperedness

81
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Indigent

A

Poor

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