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Vapid

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Lacking liveliness, dull

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Halcyon

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Calm, peaceful, happy, prosperous.

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Philistine

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A person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values.

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Furtive

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Secretive, sly

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Maelstrom

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A destructive whirlpool which rapidly sucks in objects

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Tenuous

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Very weak or slight.

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Amenable

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Willing,compliant.

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Undulate

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To move in waves.

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Debacle

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Disastrous failure, disruption.

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Requisition

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A demand for goods, usually made by an authority.

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Arrogate

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To take without justification.

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Augury

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Prophecy, Prediction of events.

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Convoluted.

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Intricate, complelicated.

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Perusal

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A careful examination, review

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Pulchritudinous

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Physically beautiful/ attractive

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Sublime

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Loafty, grand, exalted.

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Facetious

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Using or tending to use unsuitable jokes; irreverent.

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Denigrate

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To belittle, diminish the opinion of

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Congenial

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Pleasantly agreeable.

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Rapturous

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Filled with great joy or delight.

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Decorus

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Socially proper, appropriate.

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Tyro

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Beginner, novice.

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Arboreal

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Of or relating to trees.

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Stolid

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Unemotional.

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Moratorium

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Temporary prohibition of an activity.

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Multifarious

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Great diversity or variety

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Pejorative

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Expressing contempt or disapproval

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Cronyism

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Appointment of friends and associates tonpositions of power without regard for qualification

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Sardonic

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Mocking or cynical

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Despot

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One who has total power and rules brutally

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Goad

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To urge, spur, incite to action

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Tenuous

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Having little substance or strength

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Exhort

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To urge, prod, spur

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Polemic

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Aggressive argument against specific opinion

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Emollient

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Acquitted

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Free someone off criminal charge

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Lassitude

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State of diminished energy

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Equanimity

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Composure, steadiness of mind under stress

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Conciliatory

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Friendly, agreeable

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Consecrate

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To make or declare sacred

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