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Prescient

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Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

Eg. a prescient warning

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Incensed

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Very angry

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Vindicated

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Disposed or seek revenge

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Lionized

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Give a lot of public attention and approval to to someone

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Fastidious

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Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.

He chooses his words with fastidious care

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Ascendancy

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Occupation of a position of dominant or influence

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Primacy

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The fact of being primary, preeminent, or more important

The primacy of air power in the modern war

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Adjudicate

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Make a formal judgement or decision about a problem

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Contempt

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No respect

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Galling

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Humiliating

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Dilatory

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Slow to act

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Irascible

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Having of showing tendency to be easily angered

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Circumscribed

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Restricted/limited

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Cogent

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Clear logical and convincing

They put up cogent arguments

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Flagrant

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Wrong, immoral or offensive

A flagrant violation of law

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Bemoaning

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Express disconnect or sorrow

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Aberrant

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Departing from an accepted standard

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Belie

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Falsely represent

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Plundering

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Steal something aggressively

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Precocious

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Having developed certain activity

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Urbane

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Well mannered

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Caprice

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A sudden change in mood of behaviour

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Assiduity

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Constant effort or application

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Perspicacious

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Having an insight or understanding into something

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Dissembler

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A person who has profound views or beliefs he doesn’t hold or conceal

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Maverick

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An independent minded person

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Inured to

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Accustomed by

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Benign

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Gentle and kind

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Banal

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Lacking in originality

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Paupe

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Poor

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Perfunctory

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Go through the motions

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Brusque

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Rude

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Apposition

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Follow one another

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Polemical

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Passionate about a topic

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Contrived

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Deliberately created

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Spuriously

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In a way that is false and not what it appears to be

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Persnickety

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Fussy about small details

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Objurgate

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Scold

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Verisimilitude

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Appearance of being real

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short time

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Defection

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Act of living a country or political party

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Necropolis

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Graveyard

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Contempt

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Worthless

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Pedantic

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Describe someone who annoys others by correcting

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Pedantic

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Someone who annoys others by correcting

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Cede

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Give up

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Pellucid

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Clear

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Trivialize

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Make something less important

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Relinquish

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Voluntarily cease

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Incendiary

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Designed to cause fires

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Astute

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Having or showing an ability to assess situations or people

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Litanies of

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Long account of

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Contentious

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Controversial

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Vanguard

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Forefront of an action or movement

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Unscrupulous

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Having or showing no morals

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Riveting

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Compelling

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Apotheosis

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Highest point of climax

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Vicissitude

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A change of circumstance or fortune

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Repudiation

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Refuse to be associated with

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Ebb

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Movement of tide out to see

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Ameliorate

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Make something bad better

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Debonair

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Confident stylish and charming

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Stolid

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Calm, dependable

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Intransigent

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Unwilling or refusing to change one’s views

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Ephemeral

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Short lived

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Transient

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Short lived

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Inimical

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Harm/obstruct

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Vitiated

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Spoiled or impaired

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Inundated with

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Taken over by

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Racket

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Fraudulent

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Mollify

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Reduce the anger

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Besmirch

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Damage reputation

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Indelible

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Markings that can’t be removed

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Malaise

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A general feeling of discomfort

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Nadir

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Lowest point

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Precarious

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Not securely held in position

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Stultifying

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The ending to stifle enthusiasm or initiate freedom

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Voracious

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Wanting large amounts of food

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Ravenous

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Extremely hungry

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Pithy

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Meaningful in expression

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Despondent

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Low spirit

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Ebullient

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Happy

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Fecund

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Producing in abundance

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Apogee

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Climax

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Overt

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Readily apparent

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Nettlesome

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Causing annoyance

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Countermand

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Revoke an order

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Inveterate

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Doing something constantly

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Harried

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Harassed

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Mendacious

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Doesn’t tell the truth

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Muckracking

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Trying to find unpleasant info about people

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Machinating

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Scheming

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Banal

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Lacking in originality

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Tepid

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Half hearted

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Parsimony

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Stinginess

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Germane

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Relevant to the topic

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Convoluted

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Extremely complex or difficult to follow

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Onerous

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Intensive

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Erudite

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Possess profound knowledge

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Capriciously

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A sudden change in mood or behavior

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Cumbrously

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Something done with difficulty

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Ponderously

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Something done slowly

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Brazen

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Very bold

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Corral

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Gather support

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Attenuated

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Weaken or reduce in force

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Acerbic

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A style of speaking

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Inviolable

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Never to be broken

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Unconscionable

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Unethical

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Timidity

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Shy

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Stringent

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Strict

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Remiss

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Negligent

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Evanescence

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Quickly fading or disappearing

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Noxious

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Poisonous

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Rancid

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Tasting unpleasant

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Clemency

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Mercy

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Puritan

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Pleasure is unnecessary

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Hedonist

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Pursue of pleasure

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Sybarite

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Pursue of pleasure

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Nonplussed

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Confused

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Belligerent

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Aggressive

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Conspicuous

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Visible

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Stymed

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Prevent hinder progress

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Largess

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Generous

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Cravennesss

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Lacking courage

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Cronies

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Friends

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Untenable

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Unable of being justified

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Exhaustive

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Fully comprehensive

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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to a certain degree

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Veracity

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Conformity to facts

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Uncanny

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Strange or mysterious

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Happenstance

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Luck. Coincidence

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Farrago

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A confused mixture of

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Insularity

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Lack of interest in cultures, ideas or people’s own experiences

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Asceticism

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Severe self discipline and avoidance of enjoyment

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Austerity

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Living without unecceary things and without comfort with limited money or goods

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Aesthete

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Have a special appreciation for art and beauty

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Philistine

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Someone that has no understanding of the arts

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Convoluted

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Complicated, intricately involved

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Salient

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Most notable or important

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Scathing

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Scornful

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retroactive

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Starting from a point in the past

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Glibness

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Quality of being confident but too simple and lacking in thought

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Martyr

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Dying for a cause

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Heretic

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Promoting religious heresay

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Parsimony

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Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources

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Bellicose

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Demonstrating a willingness to fight

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Timorous

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Showing or suffering from fear, lack of confidence

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Soohoric

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Inducing drowsiness or sleep

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Bastion

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A stronghold or a place that upholds specific principles

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Jingoism

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Saying how great something is

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Restiveness

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Restlessness

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Curative

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Able to cure diseases

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Facile

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Shallow

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Histrionic

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Dramatic behavior to draw attention

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Stymied

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Prevent or hinder progress

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Peripatetic

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Traveling from place to place

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Itinerant

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Traveling from place to place

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Plucky

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Having or showing determined courage in the face of difficulties

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Truculent

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Eager or quick to fight

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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive

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Caving carping

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Making unnecessary objections

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Blase cavalier

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Something that is indifferent

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Gall rankle

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Irritate

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Munificence

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Generous

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Trounce

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Defeat heavily in a contest

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Dithering

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Hesitation

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Prevarication

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Deviating from the truth

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UnEquivocal

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Leaving no doubt

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Celebrity

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Swiftness

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Fecklessness

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Lacking initiative strength or character

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Austere

A

Strict and critical

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Bucolic

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Insolvent

A

Unable to pay debits

174
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Ardor

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Inclement

A

Severe changes in weather. Hot or cold

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Sweltering

A

Extreme hot situations

177
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Bucolic

A

Rural countryside

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Intrepid

A

Fearless adventurous

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Gratuitous

A

Unnecessary

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Genial

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Stultified

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Galvanized

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Assuage

A

Make an unpleasant feeling less intense

184
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Solicitude

A

Care or concern for something

185
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Reprisal

A

An act of retaliation

186
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Subvert

A

Undermine the power and authority of an established system

187
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Lacrhysome

A

Tearful or close to weeping

188
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Soporific

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Plodding

A

Moving in a boring manner

190
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Exacting

A

Rigid or stressful

191
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Platitude

A

A remark or statement, especially with moral content that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful

192
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Pejorative

A

Expressing contempt or disapproval

193
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Cower

A

Crouch down in fear

194
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Satorial

A

Relating to clothes

195
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Ingratiating

A

Intended to gain formal approval

196
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Ornate

A

Complex style of writing

197
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Truculent

A

Quick to argue or fight

198
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Recondite

A

Little known

199
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Elucidates

A

Clearly explains

200
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Behooves

A

Forces someone

201
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Incumbent

A

Make someone do something

202
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Mercurial

A

Sudden and unpredictable changes in mood

203
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Repose

A

State of ease

204
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Efficaciosuly

A

Having the power to produce a desired effect

205
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Untoward

A

Inconvenient

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Boorishness

A

Rough and bad mannered

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Prosaic pedestrian

A

Lacking inspiration or excitement

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Poignant

A

evoking keen sense of sadness

209
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Puckish

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Tacitly

A

Done without being directly stated

211
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Treacly

A

Overly sentimental

212
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Subsume

A

Include or absorb something in something else

213
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Quixotic

A

Exceedingly idealistic

214
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Antedate

A

Assign something at an earlier time

215
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Pilloried

A

Attacked or ridiculed publicly

216
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Sclerotic

A

Rigid or unresponsive. Losing the ability to adapt

217
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Invigorated

A

Strengthened or energized

218
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Anachronism

A

An act of attributing a custom, event or object or period to which it does not belong to

219
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Misnomer

A

A wrong or in actuate name

220
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Cupidity

A

Love for money

221
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Reticent

A

Not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily

222
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Bristle bridle

A

Express anger

223
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Specious

A

Superficially plausible but actually wrong

224
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Charlatan

A

One who pretends to possess knowledge

225
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Chauvinist

A

One who is keen on their own views

226
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Proselytize

A

Convert someone from one religions belief to another

227
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Espouse

A

Adopt or support

228
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Dissent

A

Different opinions

229
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Instructive

A

Useful and informative

230
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Predilection penchant

A

Strong habitual liking

231
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Reticent

A

Very secretive

232
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Torpid

A

Mentally or physically inactive

233
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Turgid

A

Being unable to digest something

234
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Torpid

A

Mentally or physically inactive

235
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Surfeit

A

An overuse

236
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Canards

237
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Moribund

A

Point of death

238
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Hackneyed

A

Lacking significance through having been overused

239
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Disheveled

A

Disordered or untidy

240
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Undergrid

241
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Conflate

A

Join together 2 things

242
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Admonitory

A

Giving or conveying a warning

243
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Foreboding

A

An act of advance warning

244
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Numinous

A

Having a strong, religious or spiritual quality

245
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Arcane

A

Understood by few people

246
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Conflate

A

Join two things together

247
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Eschew

A

Deliberately avoided; abstained from

248
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Eschew

A

Deliberately avoided; abstained from

249
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Ostensibly

A

Apparently or purportedly but perhaps not actually

250
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Superannuated

251
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Superannuated

252
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Clandestine

A

Keep secret or done secret because illicit

253
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Clandestine

A

Keep secret or done secret because illicit

254
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Petered out

255
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Petered out

256
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Burgeoned

A

Begin to grow

257
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Burgeoned

A

Begin to grow

258
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Rejoinder

A

A sharp witty response

259
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Rejoinder

A

A sharp witty response

260
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Beguiling

A

Charm or possess someone often in a charming or witty way

261
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Beguiling

A

Charm or possess someone often in a charming or witty way

262
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Unprepossesing

A

Not attractive or pleasing to the eye

263
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Contumely

264
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Brook

A

Small stream/tolerate

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Brook

A

Small stream

266
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Quixotic

A

Unrealistic

267
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Quixotic

A

Unrealistic

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Cronyism

A

Appointment of friends to places of high position

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Deftly

A

Smart skilled way

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Deftly

A

Smart skilled way

271
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Encomiastic

A

Praising someone

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Gaudy

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Insipid

A

Dull not exciting

274
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Taciturn

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Propitious

A

Giving a chance to be favourable successful

276
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Propitious

A

Giving a chance to be favourable successful

277
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Maladroit

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Tempestousness

A

Turbulent/ a state of wild storminess

279
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Exemptore

A

Spoken or done without preparation

280
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Ubiquitous

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Demystify

A

Make something clearer

282
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Sprightly

A

Full of energy

283
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Enervating

A

Draining one’s energy

284
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Tenacious

A

Expressing or supporting a particular opinion that many people disagree with

285
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Peccadillos

A

Minor misdemeanours

286
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Harangues

A

Lengthy aggressive speech

287
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Desultory

A

Superficial lacking a plan or purpose or enthusiasm

288
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Languorous

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Beholden

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Beholden

291
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Aplomb

A

Self assurance

292
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Disquediate

A

Not at ease

293
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Disquediate

A

Not at ease

294
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Presage portend

A

Lead to something brand worse

295
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Impugning

A

Dispute the truth

296
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Penurious

297
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Allaying

A

Diminishing put at rest

298
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Pugnacious

A

Quick to fight or argue

299
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Puerile

A

Childishly silly and trivial

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Demur

A

Raise objections

301
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Fringe

A

Not part of the mainstream

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Discomfiting

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Bluster

A

Talk in a loud aggressive way with little effect

304
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Truncated

A

Short lived

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Phlegm

A

Calmness of tempermant

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Insidious

A

Proceeding in a gradual subtle way but with harmful effects

307
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Profligacy

A

Wastefulness

308
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Humdrum

A

Lacking excitement

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Motley

A

Assorted range

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Anodyne

A

Not likely to provoke or offend

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Mileau

A

A persons social environment

312
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Mileau

A

A persons social environment

313
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Fungible

A

Can easily be replaced

314
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Encomia paeans

A

Praises someone highly

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Frenetic

A

Fast and energetic

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Frenetic

A

Fast and energetic

317
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Expedient

A

Not morally convenient

318
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Foible

A

A minor weakness in someone’s character

319
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Penury

A

The state of being very poor

320
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Turpitude

A

Depraved or wicked behaviour

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Cacophony

A

A harsh discordant mixture of sounds

322
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Cacophony

A

A harsh discordant mixture of sounds

323
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Ingenuity

A

The quality of being clever

324
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Rebuffing

A

Quality of rejecting someone

325
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Dilettante

A

A person who cultivates an area of interest such as the arts without real communication or knowledge

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Averring

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Averring

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Commiserate console

A

Console a feeling of sadness

329
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Commiserate console

A

Console a feeling of sadness

330
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Lugubrious

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Lugubrious

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Sinecure

A

A position requiring little or no work

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Limpid

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Rapt

A

Completely fascinated by absorbed by

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Rapt

A

Completely fascinated by absorbed by

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Forswear

A

Agree to give up or do without

337
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Credulity

A

Ready to believe something without sufficient evidence

338
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Jettison

A

Drop something from a plane or ship

339
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Extenuating

A

Serving to lessen the seriousness of an offence

340
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Atavistic

A

Happening at a different time

341
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Serendipitous

A

Occurring or being discovered by chance

342
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fete

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fete

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Dowdy

A

Lacking in taste of fashion

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Dowdy

A

Lacking in taste of fashion

346
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Frumpish

A

Not looking nice in appearance

347
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Mordant

A

Showing a sharp or critical quality

348
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Mettlesome

A

A person full of spirit and energy

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Unseemly

A

A behavior not appropriate

350
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Unseemly

A

A behavior not appropriate

351
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Vestigial

A

Forming a very small remnant of something that was once greater

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Lassistude ennui

A

Lacking in energy

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Haughty

A

Arrogantly superior

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Haughty

A

Arrogantly superior

355
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Supercilious

356
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Occludes

357
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Eponyms

A

Assigning a popular name to a landmark

358
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Chicanery

A

Use of deception to achieve one’s purpose

359
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Skulduggery

A

Dishonest behavior or activities

360
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Feted

361
Q

Obfuscates

A

Render obscure, confuse

362
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Obfuscates

A

Render obscure, confuse

363
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Excoriated

A

Criticized seriously

364
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Ostentatious

A

Desire for flashy things and flamboyant

365
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Avaricious

A

Excessively greedy

366
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Vacillate

A

Be undecided about something

367
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Dogma

A

Accepted practices

368
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Dogma

A

Accepted practices

369
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Quotian

A

Happening everyday

370
Q

Effervescent

A

Vivacious or enthusiastic

371
Q

Anodyne

A

Not likely to provoke or dissent offense

372
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Shrewdness

373
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Shrewdness

374
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Shrewd

A

Canny showing good business judgement

375
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Panacea

A

Remedy for all difficulties

376
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Revered

A

Feel deep respect or admiration

377
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Adroit

A

Clever or skilful using hands or mind

378
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Hidebound

A

Unwilling or unable to change

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Adulator

A

One who loves to flatter. Sycophant

380
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Ersatz

A

Low quality substitute often regarded as fake

381
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Solipsistic

A

Means really selfish

382
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Ran the gamut

A

From a to z

383
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Ran the gauntlet

A

Withstood an attack from all sides

384
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Ape

A

Means copy or mimic

385
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Hoi polli

A

Common people

386
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Simpatico

A

Likeable and easy to get along with

387
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Inveigle

388
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Sentries

A

A soldier aimed to keep guard or protect a place

389
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Progeny

A

Someone’s offspring

390
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Progeny

A

Someone’s offspring

391
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Heralded

A

A sign that something good is happen

392
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Concomitant

A

Naturally accompanying something

393
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Castigated

A

Reprimanded seriously

394
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Minutiae

A

Petty, small

395
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Dissipation

A

Wastefulness

396
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Canonization

A

To declare something as a saint

397
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Paragon

A

A thing declared as a perfect example of

398
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Plaudits

A

An expression of praise of approval

399
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Arcadian

400
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Hinterland

A

An area lying behind what is visible or known

401
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Whet

A

A thing they stimulates desire

402
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Halcyon

A

A time in the past that was happy or joyful

403
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Congenial

A

Pleasant and agreeable because suited to one persons taste

404
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Congenial

A

Pleasant and agreeable because suited to one persons taste

405
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Mutiny

A

An open rebellion against formal authorities

406
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Mutiny

A

An open rebellion against formal authorities

407
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Heuristic

A

Inciting and guiding discovery

408
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Spurning

A

Reject with disdain

409
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Spurning

A

Reject with disdain

410
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Imbroglio

A

An embarrassing situation

411
Q

Rectitude

A

Morally correct behavior

412
Q

Reprobate

A

An unprincipled person

413
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Florid

A

Having a red or flushed complexion/complex language

415
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Dereliction

A

Negligence

416
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Inanities bromides

A

A nonsensical remark

418
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Zealots

A

Inflexible- ideologues

419
Q

Cynics

A

People are motivated purely by self interest

420
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Anamalous

A

Deviating from what is standard or expected

422
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Balkanized

A

Classist society

423
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Maladies

A

A disease or ailment

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