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Industrious

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Diligent and hard working

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Rudimentary

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Bacic

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Forsaken

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Abandoned

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Scrutinize

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Examine

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Stoic

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Be calm, almost with no emotion

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Complicit

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Involved / know about a crime

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Incessant

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Continuing without interruption

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Blasphemy

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Disrespect shown to god

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Inhospitable

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Not friendly

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Crescendo

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Gradual increase in loudness

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Solemn

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Formal

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Heathen

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Someone who is not religious

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Meander

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To proceed / continue

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Ominous

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The impression something bad will happen

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Chimera

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A strange idea

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Indifferent

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Not caring

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Resonance

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Harmony amoung components

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Mediate

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Low view on someone

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Humility

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A low view on someone’s view in an argument

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Incoherent

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Not difficult

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Solace

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Comfort in grief

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Cleave

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Split in something / cut

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Relentless

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Determined to do something and does not give up

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Placidly

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Calm, peaceful, or quiet

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Callow

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To be imature

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Denigrate

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Attack the reputation of something or somone

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Façade

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Have the wrong impression of something / someone that hurt you

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Vindictive

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Having the desire to hurt someone, because you think they hurt you

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Contrition

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The state of feeling remorseful and penitent

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Succinct

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Clear and short / saying what needs to be said without unnecessary words