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Abase

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To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Abundant

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Marked by great plenty (as of resources)

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Acumen

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Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment of insight

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Adroit

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Dexterous; deft

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Affable

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Easygoing; friendly

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Alacrity

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Cheerful willingness; eagerness

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Alleviate

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To ease a pain or a burden

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Altruism

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Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness

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Amalgam

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A combination of diverse elements; a mixture

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Ambiguous

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Open to more than one interpretation

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Ambivalent

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Simultaneously feeling opposing feelings; uncertain

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Amiable

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Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable

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Apparel

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Clothing; something that covers or adorns

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Arboreal

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Relating to or resembling a tree

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Arcane

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Known or understood by only a few

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Archaic

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Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned

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Ascertain

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To discover with certainty, as through examination or experimentation

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Astute

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Shrewd; clever

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Augment

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To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size

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Aural

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Of, relating to, or perceived by the ear

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Austere

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Without decoration; strict

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Autonomy

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Independence; self-determination; self-government or the right of

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Averse

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Strongly disinclined; reluctant

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Banal

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Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite

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Belie

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To picture falsely; misrepresent

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Belligerent

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Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive

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Benefactor

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Someone who takes care of or gives money to another person

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Benign

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Kind and gentle

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Bolster

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To buoy up or hearten; to support or prop up

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Bombastic

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Given to pompous speech or writing

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Brevity

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The quality or state of being brief in duration

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Burgeon

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To grow and flourish; to put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; to sprout

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Cacophony

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Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance

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Cajole

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To urge with gentle and repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery

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Callous

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Emotionally hardened; unfeeling

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Candid

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Characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward

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Capricious

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Impulsive and unpredictable

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Castigate

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To inflict severe punishment on

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Cathartic

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Causing relaxation after an emotional outburst

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Censure

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To criticize severely; to blame

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Chicanery

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A trick; deception by trickery

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Circumscribe

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To draw a circle around; to restrict

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Circumspect

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Heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent

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Clandestine

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Done secretively, especially to deceive; surreptitious

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Commodity

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Something brought or sold

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Conciliatory

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Appeasing; soothing; pleasant

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Conform

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To act in accordance with prevailing standards or customs

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Conjecture

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Inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome

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Contradiction

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A situation in which two things do not make sense together

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Contrary

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Opposite; disagreeing

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Convoluted

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Intricate; complex

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Copious

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Plentiful; having a large quantity

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Cordial

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Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate

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Cosmopolitan

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So sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world of conversant with

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Credible

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Capable of being believed; plausible

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Cultivate

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To help something grow

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Curative

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Something that cures; a remedy

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Cynical

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Distrustful of people’s motives

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Dearth

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A scarce supply; a lack

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Debacle

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A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat; a rout

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Debilitate

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To sap the strength or energy of; to enervate

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Debunk

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To expose or ridicule falseness, shams, or exaggerated claims

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Defunct

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Having ceased to exist or live

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Deleterious

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Having a harmful effect

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Deliberate

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To think deeply about

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Demure

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Modest and reserved in manner or behavior

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Denounce

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To condemn openly as being evil or reprehensible

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Depict

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To represent by, or as if by, a picture; to describe

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Deride

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To speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth (amusement, expressed in laughter)

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Derivative

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A by-product

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Derogatory

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Tending or intending to belittle (make someone seem unimportant)

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Devise

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To imagine or create

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Didactic

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Intended to instruct

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Diffidence

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Timidity or shyness

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Dilatory

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Habitually late

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Diligent

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Careful and steady in application to one’s work or duties

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Diminish

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To decrease in size, extent, or range; to lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

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Dirge

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A funeral hymn or lament

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Disparage

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To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle

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Disseminate

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To scatter widely, as in sowing seed

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Distend

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To swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure

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Distinguish

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To perceive a difference in

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Docile

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Ready and willing to be taught; teachable

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Dogmatic

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Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs

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Dubious

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Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity

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Duplicitous

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Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech

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Ebullience

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Intense enthusiasm

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Eclectic

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Made up of a variety of sources or styles

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Effrontery

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Brazen boldness; presumptuousness

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Effusive

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Showing excessive emotion; overflowing

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Embellish

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To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate

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Eminent

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Distinguished; prominent

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Enact

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To order by virtue of superior authority

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Enclosed

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Closed in or surrounded or included within

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Enigma

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One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable; a riddle

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Ephemeral

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Lasting for only a brief time

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Epitome

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A representative or example of a class or type

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Equivocal

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Open to two or more interpretations and often intended to mislead

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Eradicate

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To get rid of as if by tearing it up by the roots; to abolish

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Erratic

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Having no fixed or regular course; wandering

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Erudition

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Deep, extensive learning

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Esoteric

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Intended for or understood by only a particular group especially in mental aptitude

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Euphemism

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The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one

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Evident

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Obvious; easily seen or understood

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Exacerbate

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To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; to aggravate

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Exasperation

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The state of being annoyed or irritated

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Excavation

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Exonerate

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To free from blame

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Exorbitant

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Exceeding all bounds, as of custom or fairness

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Expedient

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Appropriate to a purpose; speedy

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Extol

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To praise highly

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant

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Extrapolate

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To infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information

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Exuberant

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Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy

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Fabricate

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To make in order to deceive

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Fallacy

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A false notion

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Fastidious

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Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please

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Feasible

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Capable of being accomplished; possible

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Felicitous

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Admirably suited; apt

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Flagrant

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Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable

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Flippant

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Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert

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Gaffe

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A clumsy social error; a faux pas (embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation)

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Grandiose

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Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand

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Gratuitous

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Given freely; unearned; unwarranted

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Hackneyed

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Worn-out through overuse; trite

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Idiosyncrasy

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A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group

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Ignominy

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Great personal dishonor or humiliation

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Impetuous

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Characterized by sudden and forceful energy or emotion

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Impetus

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An impelling force; an impulse

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Indict

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To accuse of wrongdoing; to charge

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Insinuate

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To introduce or otherwise convey gradually and insidiously

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Insipid

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Uninteresting; unchallenging

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Insular

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Suggestive of the isolated life of an island; narrow or provincial

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Inundate

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To overwhelm as if with a flood; to swamp

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Invocation

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To call on (a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration

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Jocular

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Characterized by or given to joking

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Juxtapose

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To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast

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Litigious

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Tending to engage in lawsuits

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Loquacious

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Very talkative

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree

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Magnanimous

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Courageously noble in mind and heart

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Mendacious

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Lying; untruthful

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Mercenary

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(adj.) Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain; (n.) a professional

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Meticulous

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Extremely careful and precise

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Modicum

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A small, moderate, or token amount

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Multifarious

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Having great variety; diverse

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Nefarious

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Infamous by way of being extremely wicked

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Onerous

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Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome

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Opulent

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Exhibiting a display or great wealth

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Ornate

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Elaborately decorated

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Palliative

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Relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without dealing with the underlying cause

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Parity

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Equality, as in amount, status, or value (antonym: disparity)

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Partisan

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Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause

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Patron

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One who uses wealth or influence to help a cause

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Pedantic

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Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning

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Pejorative

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Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone

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Penchant

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A definite liking; a strong inclination

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Pernicious

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Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly

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Persist

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To continue

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Pictorial

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Consisting of pictures

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Pilfer

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To steal (a small amount)

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Pitiful

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Eliciting compassion

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Placid

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Calm or quiet; undisturbed by tumult or disorder

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Portent

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An indication of something important or calamitous (disastrous) about to occur

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Precocious

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Manifesting or characterized by unusually early development or maturity

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Profundity

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Great depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning

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Proliferate

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To grow or increase rapidly

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Prominence

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The state of being noticeable

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Prosaic

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Unimaginative; dull

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Prose

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Words in sentences and paragraphs, as opposed to poetry

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Quarrel

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A usually verbal conflict between antagonists

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Quell

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To put down forcibly; to suppress

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Quiescent

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Being quiet, still, or at rest; inactive

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Rancorous

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Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will

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Rectitude

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Moral uprightness; righteousness

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Redolent

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Having or emitting fragrance; aromatic; suggestive; reminiscnet

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Refute

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To disprove

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Relinquish

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To retire from; to give up or abandon

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Remiss

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Lax in attending to duty; negligent

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Repudiate

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To reject the validity or authority of

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Repugnant

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Arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive

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Reticent

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Inclined to keep one’s thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself

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Rile

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To irritate or stir up

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Rudimentary

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Of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary; being in the earliest stages

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Sanctimonious

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Feigning piety or righteousness

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Sanguine

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Of a healthy reddish color; ruddy; cheerfully confident; optimistic

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Scintillating

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Soporific

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Inducing or tending to induce sleep

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Sporadic

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Occurring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order in time

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Squelch

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To crush by or as if by trampling; to squash

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Staid

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Unemotional; serious

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Stupor

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Mental confusion; daze

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Stymie

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To thwart; to stump

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Substantiate

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To support with proof or evidence; to verify

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Subterfuge

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A deceptive stratagem or device

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Sufficient

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Supercilious

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Disdainful; haughty; arrogant

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Surreptitious

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Done by secretive means

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Sycophant

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A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people

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Tangential

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Merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant

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Tenuous

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Having little substance or strength; shaky

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Therapeutic

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Having or exhibiting healing powers

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Transient

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Passing away with time; passing from one place to another

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Tumultuous

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Noisy and disorderly

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Turmoil

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A state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion

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Ubiquitious

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Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent

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Unscrupulous

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Without honor or morals

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Vacillate

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To sway from one side to the other; to oscillate

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Validity

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Truth; correctness

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Vapid

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Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull

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Variegated

A

Having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored

214
Q

Veracity

A

Adherence to the truth; truthfulness

215
Q

Vex

A

To annoy or bother, to perplex

216
Q

Vicarious

A

Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another

217
Q

Vignette

A

A short scene or incident, as from a movie

218
Q

Vindicate

A

To free from blame

219
Q

Vindictive

A

Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful

220
Q

Vital

A

Important, necessary

221
Q

Vituperative

A

Using, containing, or marked by harshly abusive censure

222
Q

Whimsical

A

Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable

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