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Spendthrift

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One who spends money prodigally

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Indict

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To accuse of a crime

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Reprobate

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A person without morals

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Thrifty

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One who spends mindfully

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Indignant

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Angry over some injustice

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Serendipity

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Good luck in making unexpected fortune

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Embroiled

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Deeply involved in something complicated

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Ferret

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Search and discover

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Sanctimonious

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Considering one more pious than others

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Bellicose

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Ready to fight

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Melee

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A fight

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Vicarious

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Experienced at second hand

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Corroborate

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Give evidence for

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Extenuating

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Excusing or justifying

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Replete

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Deeply filled

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Desecrate

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Void a sacred place

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Fleece

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Ask unreasonable price

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Unconscionable

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Excessive

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Exhort

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To encourage

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Contrite

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Feeling pain or sorrow for sins

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Sanguine

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Optimism and confidence

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Ingenuity

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Having creative imagination

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Renege

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Not able to fulfill a promise

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Impede

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Be an obstacle to

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Plodding

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Slow and laborious

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Stolid

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Having no emotions

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Raffish

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Carefree behaviour

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Entice

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Provoke someone to do something through persuasion

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Obdurate

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Extremely stubborn

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Pithy

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Full of meaning

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Deter

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Turn away by persuasion

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Dearth

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Insufficient number

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Elusive

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Hard to pin down or catch

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Endemic

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Confined to a certain area

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Snide

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Mocking in an indirect way

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Morose

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Sullen and ill tempered

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Consummate

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Supreme mastery or skill

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Flounder

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Great difficulty

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Pertinent

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Relevant related to point

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Inadvertent

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Happening by chance or unintentionally

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Cornucopia

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Quality of being abundant

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Perpetuate

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Cause to continue

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Conducive

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Tending to bring about..responsible for

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Spurn

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Reject with contempt i.e thinking that it is unworthy of doing

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Vacuous

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Devoid of matter

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Perennial

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Recurring again and again

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Smattering

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A superficial understanding of a subject

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Grovel

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Showing fear

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Facetious

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Amusing in tone

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Genteel

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Marked by refinement in taste

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Illicit

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Not allowed by law

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Credence

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To believe immidiately

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Derisive

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Expressing contempt

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Contemptuous

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Showing contempt

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Surly

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Inclined to anger

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Rankle

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To make angry

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Whimsical

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Determined by chance or impulse

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Leery

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Unwilling to confide

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Peevish

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Easily irritated or annoyed

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Quip

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A witty saying

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Squander

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To throw away

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Impending

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Close in time

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Obstinate

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Very stubborn

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Travail

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Use of physical energy

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Elude

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To evade

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Foible

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Weakness

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Destitute

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Poor enough to help orhers

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Collusion

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Secret agreement

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Credulity

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Tendency to believe readily

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Connive

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Plot illegaly

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Smug

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Marked by self satisfaction

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Diligent

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Hardworking

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Complacent

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Cannot find fault in ones action

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Enmity

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Ill will

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Exasperate

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Make furious

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Derogative

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Insulting

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Melancholy

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Sadness

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Redress

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Make preparations for

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Irascible

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Quickly aroused to anger

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Wanton

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Bad woman

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Implicate

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To connect or involve

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Forthright

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Directly

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Incumbent

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Necessary as a duty

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Precarious

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Dangerous and not secure

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Incense

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Make angry

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Consecrate

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Make holy by religious rights

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Presumptuous

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Excessively forward

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Prevail

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To be in large nos

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Emulate

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To imitate a person

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Deride

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Speak with contempt

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Delegate

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A person elected to represent others

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Glean

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Extract from various sources

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Intermittent

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Starting or stopping at regular intervals

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Tribulation

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Annoying or frustrating event

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Finagle

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Achieve something by trickery

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Cavalier

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Haughty disregard of others

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Rile

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Disturb by minor irritation

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Coalesce

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Fuse to grow together

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Uncanny

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Surpassing the ordinary

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Clemency

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Mercy

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Eccentric

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Unusual

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Staid

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Char by dignity

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Balk

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Refuse to comply

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Convivial

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Lively and friendly atmosphere

105
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Relegate

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Assign to lower position

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Dilapidated

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In very bad condition

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Deliberate

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Discuss pros and cons of

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Debunk

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To expose

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Inkling

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A slight suggestion

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Snub

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Refuse to acknowledge

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Sordid

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Bad actions and motives

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Besiege

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Surround to defeat

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Qualm

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Uneasiness about something

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Peruse

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Examine carefully

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Bemused

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It means preoccupied..lost

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Resigned

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To accept it as it is i.e accept as inevitable(unavoidable)

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Wary

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To proceed with caution eg be wary of risky things like mushrooms

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Portentous

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Something that is an ominous sign related to a future event

119
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Subliminal

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Negative implicit..the messages our conscious gathers

120
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Purblind

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Reduced vision

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Prim

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Polite and straight faced

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Meretricious

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To fake

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Lascivious

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Thoughts driven by sex

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Vindicate

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To clear of accusations with proof

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Impertinent

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Being disrespectful

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Profligate

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To spend wastefully

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Venality

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The condition of being corrupt or susceptible of bribe

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Impertinent

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Being disrespectful

130
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Preclude

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To prevent from happening

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Culminate

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Reach the highest point

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Mawkish

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Overly sentimental to the point of insulting

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Reticent

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Disinclined to talk

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Deferential

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Showing respect

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Mitigate

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Make less severe

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Didactic

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Instructive i.e giving lots of info

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Recondite

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Difficult to penetrate

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Conspicuous

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Completely obvious

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Vehement

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Marked by increased enthusiasm and emotions

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Tenacious

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Stubbornly unyielding

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Circumvent

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Cleverly find ways to escape a duty

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Treacherous

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Tending to betray

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Incongrous

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Lacking compatibility

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Fallacious

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A belief that is true yet kept

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Travesty

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Mockery

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Mitigate

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To make less severe

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Culminate

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To reach highest point

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Impudent

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Improperly forward

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Frivolous

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Not serious in attitude

150
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Recondite

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Difficult to penetrate

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Conspicuous

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Completely obvious

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Deferential

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Showing respect

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Tenacious

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Stubbornly unyielding

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Contrive

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To plan by trickery

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Vehement

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Marked by extreme emotions

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Precocious

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Early developement or maturity

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Exonerate

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Pronounce guilty of charges

158
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Denigrate

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To charge with false accusations

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Petulant

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Easily annoyed n irritated

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Ostentatious

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Tawdry and vulgar

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Contingent

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Gathering of people belonging to a larger group

Dependent upon

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Incorrigible

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Impervious to correction

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Temperence

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The trait of avoiding excess

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Intransigent

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Unwilling to change

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Forthcoming

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1) ready or made available when needed

2) not easy to talk or not revealing details

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Precipitous

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Done suddenly without attention

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Subversive

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In opposition to a system

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Inimical

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Hostile

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Repudiate

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Reject as untrue

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Inveterate

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Habitual

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Pernicious

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Very harmful; working in a secret way

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Vapid

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Boring, lacking imagination

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Cordial

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Pleasant and friendly

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Requiem

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A ceremony for a person who has died

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Magnanimity

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Extremely liberal and generous

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Conjecture

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An opinion or idea not based on definite knowledge and formed by guessing

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Decry

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To criticise someone publically

178
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Denounce

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Decry

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Languor

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State of feeling lazy and without energy

180
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Reiterate

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To repeat something that you have already said

181
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Meek

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Quiet, gentle and always ready to do what other people want you to without expressing your opinion

182
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Commemorative

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Intended to help people remember and respect an important person in past

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Ratify

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Sign or give formal consent

184
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Wistful

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Thinking sadly about something that is in the past and we would like to have

185
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Vivid

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Producing very clear picture in mind

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Prolixity

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Using too many words

187
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Presentiment and premonition

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Having a feeling that something bad is going to happen in future

188
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Perigrinated

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Travelled from one place to other

189
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Loiter

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To hang around somewhwre with no purpose

190
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Repudiate and refute

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To reject and disapprove

191
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Recant

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To publicly disapprove something that once you used to agree

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Rue

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Feel sorry for

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Recapitulate

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To review by a brief summary

194
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Recuperate

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Recover from sickness

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Recalcitrant

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Opposed to authority

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Requite

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To give something in return for

197
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Invigorated

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Brought back to energy

198
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Smirk

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Irritatingly smug smile

199
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Cachet

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Seal of approval

200
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Indelible

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Impossible to forget

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Henpecked

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Bullied by ones wife

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Uxorious

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Completely given to ones wife

203
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Facetious

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Trying to be amazing when bot appropriate

204
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Factitious

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Not genuine but created and appeared to be made true

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Thrift

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Frugal

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Pivotal

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Being of crucial importance

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Morbid

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Suggesting death and disease

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Utopian

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Something that cannot be achieved

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