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Amenities

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Convenient features, courtesies

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Aplomb

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Poise, self assurance

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Astringent

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Causing contraction, harsh and severe

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Barb

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Sharp fishhook, openly cutting remark

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Behoove

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Be a duty or responsibility, be appropriate or suitable

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Bluster

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Blow in heavy gusts, threaten emptily, bully

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Bravado

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Swagger, assumed air of defiance

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Buxom

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Large breasted

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Cadge

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Ask for, obtain

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Chagrin

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Vexation, disappointment

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Cavalcade

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Formal procession, parade

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Cataclysm

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Sudden violent upheaval

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Colloquial

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Used in conversational speech, informal

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Comport

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Conduct oneself, behave

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Consummate

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Complete and perfect, highly skilled

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Crass

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Lacking refinement or intelligence

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Demeanor

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Behavior

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Demoniac

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Fiendish

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Demagogue

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Person who appeals to people’s prejudice, false leader

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Dirge

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Lament with music

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Discernible

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Distinguishable, perceivable

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Discombobulated

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Confused

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Amenable

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Easily persuaded, accountable legally

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Dregs

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Sediment, worthless residue

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Droll

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Queer and amusing

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Duress

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Unlawfully forcible restraint

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Effervescence

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Inner excitement

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Effusive

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Expressing gratitude or approval

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Embroider

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Decorate, ornament

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Enjoin

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Command, order, forbid

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Equable

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Calm, steady, uniform

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Execrate

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Curse, express loathing

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Expletive

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Oath or swear word

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Facade

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Superficial or false appearance

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Extirpate

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Destroy completely

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Foist

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Insert improperly

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Frolicsome

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Lively and playful

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Fugitive

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Disappear quickly, fleeting

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Fraught

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Filled or charged with, causing emotional distress

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Fulminate

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Denounce, explode

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Gauche

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Uncouth, clumsy

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Germane

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Relevant to a subject under consideration

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Hue and cry

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Outcry

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Hilarity

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Loud laughter

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Imperious

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Arrogant, domineering

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Impenitent

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Not feeling shame or regret

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Impugn

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Dispute or contradict, challenge

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Incite

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Motivate, stir up

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Incorporeal

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Insubstantial, lacking a material body

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Incontinent

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Lacking self restrained

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Intercede

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Intervene on behalf of another

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Intermittent

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Not continuos or steady, occurring in irregular intervals

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Inveigle

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Persuade by deception or flattery

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Invocation

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Call for reference or support

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Jettison

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Throw overboard

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Languid

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Weary, sluggish

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Livid

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Angry, black and blue

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Macabre

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Gruesome, horrifying because of death or injury

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Maudlin

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Self pityingly sentimental

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Meteoric

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Rapid, brilliant

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Modulate

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Tone down, regulate

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Mote

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Tiny piece of substance

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Muse

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Ponder

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Oblique

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Sloping, indirect

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Ordain

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Decree or command, grant holy orders

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Oracular

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Prophetic, mysterious or ambiguous

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Orgy

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Wild, unrestrained indulgence

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Overwrought

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Nervous anxiety

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Parsimony

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Thrift, stingy

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Pandemonium

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Uproar, noisy disorder

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Pejorative

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Negative, belittle

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Pert

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Insolent, forward

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Perquisite

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Any gain above stipulated salary

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Pharisaical

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Self righteous, hypocritical

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Pine

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Decline, long for

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Piquant

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Pleasantly stimulating

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Ponderous

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Weighty, clumsy

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Preempt

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Take action in order to prevent, acquire in advance

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Prolixity

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Wordiness

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Promulgate

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Officially put into effect, make widely known

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Punctilious

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Great attention to details

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Queasy

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Nauseated, nervous

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Quirk

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Strange, sudden twist

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Reconnaissance

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Preliminary survey

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Retentive

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Holding, having good memory

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Restitution

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Restoration, compensation

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Rhapsodize

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Speak or write in exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner

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Sect

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Faction

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Seethe

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Filed with intense but unexpressed anger

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Skinflint

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Stingy person, miser

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Skittish

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Lively, playfully

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Smolder

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Burn without flame, showing barely suppressed emotion

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Stalwart

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Strong, loyal

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Suavity

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Charming, elegant

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Supplicate

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Ask earnestly or humbly

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Threadbare

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Worn out clothe, poor and shabby

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Tightwad

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Excessively thrift, miser

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Treatise

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Written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject

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Unconscionable

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Excessive, unreasonable

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Unrequited

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Not reciprocated

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Flimsy

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Easily damaged, insubstantial

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Impart

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Make information known

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