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Abate

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decrease in intensity

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Aberrant

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atypical

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Abjure

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Reject or renounce

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Abscond

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run away for doing something bad

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Abstain

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refrain from doing something intentionally

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Acumen

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skillful in making right judgments

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Admonish

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scold or advice

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Adulterate

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make it impure by introducing other elements

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Advocate

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support or advice

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Affectation

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fake or artificial behavior

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Aggrandize

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increase in wealth or status or reputation

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Alacrity

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eagerness

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Alleviate

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to relieve a problem or ease a burden

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Amalgamate

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to combine together

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Ambivalent

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having a mixed or contradictory feeling about something

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Ameliorate

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making something bad better

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Amenable

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easily convinced or persuaded

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Anachronism

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old-fashioned

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Analogous

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comparable

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Anoint

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smear in oil; to choose for a particular position

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Anomaly

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oddity

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Antipathy

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extreme hatred

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Antithetical

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contrary t

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Apathy

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disinterest

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Appease

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to pacify; satisfy a demand or feeling

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Arbitrary

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randomly

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Arcane

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secrets known to select people

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Archaic

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old-fashioned

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Articulate

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well-spoken

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Arduous

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difficult and requires a lot of effort

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Artless

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natural and simple; without skill

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Ascetic

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self-denying

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Assuge

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to provide relief from a bad feeling

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Audacious

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bold and disrespectful

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Austere

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severe

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Avarice

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extreme greed

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Aver

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to assert

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Banal

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boring, cliche

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belie

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to contradict

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Benign

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harmless and gentle

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Bolster

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support

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Bombastic

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exaggerate

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Brazen

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bold or shameless

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Bucolic

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related to the pretty aspects of country life

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Burgeon

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expand or flourish

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Cacaphony

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loud and chaotic noise

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Calumny

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lie or slander

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Candid

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open and honest

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Canon

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set of rules; sacred books

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Capricious

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unstable; variable; unpredictable

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Castigate

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scold firmly

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Caustic

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corrosive or sarcastic

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Censure

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express severe disapproval

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Chauvinist

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someone who believes their own group is superior

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Chicanery

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deception or tricky

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Coalesce

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combine together to form a larger mass

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Cogent

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clear, logical, and convincing

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Commensurate

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in proportion

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Comprehensive

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complete

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Condone

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to approve or allow

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Confound

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to astonish or confess

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Connoisseur

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expert in a subject

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Contentious

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controversial

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Contrite

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remorseful

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Convoluted

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complicated

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Copious

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plentiful or abundant

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Cosmopolitan

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universal

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Covet

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desire something that does not belong to you

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Craven

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cowardly

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Credulous

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naive

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Decorum

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good manner and behavior

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Deference

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respect or polite submission

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Deftness

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skillful and without effort

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Delineate

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Outline or describe

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Demur

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to object or raise a concern

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Denigrate

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to say something negative

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Deride

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to ridicule or mock

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Desiccate

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to dry out

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Desultory

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without purpose or enthusiasm

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Diatribe

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rant or angry speech

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Didactic

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intended to teach

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Diffident

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modest or shy

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Dilettante

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someone with a strong interest in something

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Dirge

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mournful song

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Disabuse

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to persuade someone that their opinion is mistaken

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Discern

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recognize or find out

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Discrepancy

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inconsistency

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Disparage

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belittle

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Disparate

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Not familiar

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Dispassionate

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not influenced by strong emotion

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Dissemble

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deceive

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Disseminate

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spread out

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Dissonance

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lack of harmony

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Diverge

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split apart

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Dogma

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rules put by authority

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Dupe

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deceive

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Ebullient

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energetic

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Eccentric

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weird or quirky

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Eclectic

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wide-ranging, board

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Efficacy

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effectiveness

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Elegy

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sad song

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Eloquence

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persuasive

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Emulate

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match or surpass a person

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Enervate

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exhausted

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Engender

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cause or give rise to

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Ephemeral

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short-lived

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Equable

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does not change much

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Equivocate

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use ambiguous language to deceive

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Erroneous

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incorrect

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Erudite

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learned; showing great knowledge or learning

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eschew

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avoid or abstain from

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Esoteric

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understood by small people with specialized knowledge

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Estimable

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deserving respect

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Eulogy

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memorial speech given at a funeral

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Exacerbate

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to make something worse

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Exacting

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challenging or demanding

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Exculpate

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show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrongdoing

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Exigent

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urgent or pressing

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Exonerate

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(official being) absolve (someone) from wrongdoing

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Expatiate

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elaborate in more detail

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Explicate

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explain in detail

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Exposition

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event; explanation

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extraneous

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irrelevant

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facetious

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treating serious issues with inappropriate remarks

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fallacious

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incorrect

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fastidious

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very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and details

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Foment

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start or provoke

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forestall

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hold off or try to prevent

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fortutious

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lucky

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gainsay

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deny or oppose

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