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Allusion

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Indirect reference

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Accolade

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Praise

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Ambivalence

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Uncertainty; having mixed feelings

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Ambivalent

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Unable to decide

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Analogy

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Comparison

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Anecdote

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Short account of something interesting; story

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Anomalous

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Odd; not fitting pattern

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Apparition

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Ghost; something that appears

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Aspersion

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Negative feeling; damaging remark

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Belligerence

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Aggression

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Bombastic

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Too elaborate; exaggerated

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Candid

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Truthful

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Capricious

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Changeable; fickle

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Cherished

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Cared for; firmly held

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Cliche

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Over used expression

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Conception

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  1. Idea; view

2. Beginning of pregnancy

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Convoluted

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Complicated or long winded

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Credence

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Belief

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Cryptic

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Hidden

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Currency

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  1. Widespread acceptance

2. Money

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Decorous

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Good and correct (used of behavior)

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Denunciation

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Act of speaking out against

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Derailed

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Thrown off course

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Derivative

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Unoriginal

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Despotic

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Acting like a tyrant

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Detritus

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Rubbish

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Diaphanous

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Very thin and transparent

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Dictum

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Often used saying

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Dilettante

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Person who dabbles in the arts

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Disdained

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Showed contempt for

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Dispassionate

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Unbiased; fair

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Dowager

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An elderly women of elevate social status

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Dubious

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Doubtful

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Egalitarian

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Equal; believer in equality

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Elicit

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Draw out (used mainly for information or feelings)

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Elliptical

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  1. Shaped like an ellipse

2. Indirect

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Epitomizes

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Acts as a typical example of

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Equivocate

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Speak ambiguously/vaguely

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Evasiveness

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Trying to avoid something

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Explicitly

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Very clear; nothing hidden

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Foraging

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Searching for food

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Hypothetical

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Based of guesswork; not proven

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Iconoclast

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Person who goes against accepted authority

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Idiosyncratic

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Quirky; unique to an individual

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Imponderable

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Cannot be understood

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Indecorous

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Not well behaved; lacking in dignity

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Indigence

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Extreme poverty

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Inept

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Clumsy

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Inherent

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Inbuilt; genetic

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Intricate

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Complicated

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Irrefutable

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Cannot be proven wrong

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Jingoism

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Using words to stir up exaggerated patriotism

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Jubilant

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Joyful

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Judicious

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Fair and equal

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Lament

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Express regret over something

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Loquacious

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Talkative; using too many words

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Mendicancy

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Begging

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Metaphorical

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Not literal; figurative

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Milieu

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Environment; surroundings

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Mitigated

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Made less severe

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Nascent

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Just begun; in an early stage of development

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Nostalgia

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Longing for the past

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Obtrusive

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Easily seen

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Orthographical

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Concerned with writing and spelling

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Ossified

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Become fixed and rigid

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Ostentatious

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Showy

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Palpable

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Can be felt

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Pastoral

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  1. Concerned with the countryside

2. Concerned with the care a pastor gives to someone

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Pedestrian

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  1. Boring (adj)

2. Person who walks (n)

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Perfidy

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Treachery; betrayal

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Profligacy

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Wasteful and immoral behavior

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Prohibitive

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Very expensive

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Prudence

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Wisdom; caution

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Pugnacious

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Aggressive

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Purveyor

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One who sells something or caused something to spread

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Resonance

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Echo

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Respite

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Break (from work etc.)

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Resurgence

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Revival

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Sparse

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Thin; not thick

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Stringent

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Strict

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Succumbing

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Giving in to; falling under the influence of

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Supercilious

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Arrogant

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Tenacity

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Firmness of purpose

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Transcend

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Go beyond a limit

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Variegated

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Multicolored

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Venerable

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Worthy of respect

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Viable

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Workable; able to live or grow

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Visceral

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Concerned with the ‘guts’; physical rather than mental

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Apathy

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Lack of energy or interest

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Autonomy

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Self-government

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Benevolent

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Kindly

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Blanched

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Turned pale

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Bolster

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Give support to

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Bucolic

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Concerned with the countryside and farming

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Callous

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Cruel and unfeeling

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Cantankerous

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Bad tempered

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Chicanery

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Trickery; attempt to deceive

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Churlish

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Ill-mannered

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Cohesive

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Forming a whole; ‘sticking’ together

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Concur

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Agree

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Cryptic

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Hidden; obscure

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Decimation

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Extensive destruction

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Deft

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Skillful

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Delinquency

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Wrong-doing

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Depravity

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Moral corruption

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Desolate

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Lonely; devoid of life; feeling very sad and hopeful

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Devoid of

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Empty of

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Didactic

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Intending to teach or give instructions

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Disingenuous

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Not candid or sincere

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Disposition

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Tendency; personality

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Dissent

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Disagreement

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Effusive

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Overly expressive of emotions; ‘gushing’

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Endorse

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Support

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Enigma

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Puzzle

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Enumerate

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Count out; list

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived

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Erroneous

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Wrong

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Erudition

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Great knowledge or learning

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Esoteric

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Obscure

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Fabrication

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Something made up; untrue

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Facetious

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Cheeky; not to be taken seriously

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Factions

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Sides in a dispute; groups with common interests

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Flotsam

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Floating rubbish

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Fostered

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Encouraged

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Hackneyed

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Stale and over-used

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Harbored

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Held (as in ‘harbored an idea’)

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Hodgepodge

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Strange mixture

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Impetuous

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Impulsive

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Implacable

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Cannot be appeased; relentless

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Impugned

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Challenged; attacked in words

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Incorrigible

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Cannot be corrected (of behavior)

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Indigenous

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Native to a particular place

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Ineffable

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Cannot be expressed in words

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Ironic

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Unexpected

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Languid

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Having no energy or interest

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Lassitude

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Lack of energy

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Lugubrious

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Mournful; very sad

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Mercurial

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Rapidly changing

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Misnomer

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Wrong name for something

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Mollified

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Calmed; pacified

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Multifaceted

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Having many aspects

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Mundane

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Dull; ordinary

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Omnipotent

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All powerful

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Pedagogy

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Science of teaching

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Phlegmatic

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Calm

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Plausible

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Believable

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Precursor

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Fore-runner; earlier version

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Preeminence

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Fame; top position

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Pretentious

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Putting on an act

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Prognosis

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Outlook

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Prolific

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Producing a lot

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Provocative

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Provoking

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Raiment

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Clothes; garments

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Reciprocate

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Pay back

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Reconcile

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Bring disputing side together again

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Remiss

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Wrong

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Remonstrance

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Criticism

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Resilient

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Able to something spring back; strong

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Retrenchment

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Reducing staff or forces; conserving resources

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Robust

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Firm and strong

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Skeptical

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Doubtful

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Skewed

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Distorted; bent

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Subtle

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Not obvious

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Succinct

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Clear, short and well-expressed

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Sundry

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Miscellaneous

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Sustenance

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Support; food

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Tenable

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Can be held (of an opinion, for example)

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Tenuous

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Shaky; not firm

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Torrid

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Hot and steamy

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Undermine

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Attempt to overthrow; weaken

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Underscore

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Emphasize

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Unequivocal

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Clear; cannot be misunderstood

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Vector

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Carrier (of disease, for example)

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Whimsical

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Fickle; changeable

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Wistful

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Full of sadness and longing

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Cognizant

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To be informed or aware of something.

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