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Acumen

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The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions in a particular area (ie business acumen)

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Mileau

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A person’s social environment

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Didacticism

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Communication intended to instruct, often morally, sometimes to excess

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Iconoclasm

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The action of attacking or rejecting cherished beliefs, institutions or practices

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Polemical

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Of or involving dispute or controversy.

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Insuperable

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Impossible to overcome

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Equivocal

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Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.

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Lucid

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Expressed clearly, easy to understand.

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Assuage

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To make an unpleasant feeling less intense.

To satisfy an appetite or desire.

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Erudite

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Having or showing great knowledge or learning.

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Opaque

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Dull, dim, obscure.

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Prodigal

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Spending money or resources freely and recklessly.

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Enigma

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Mysterious, difficult to understand.

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Fervid

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Intensely enthusiastic or passionate.

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Placate

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To pacify, soothe, appease

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Zeal

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Great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.

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Abstain

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To refrain from doing something

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Audacious

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Willingness to take bold risks

Showing a lack of respect

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Desiccate

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Removing moisture from something to preserve it

Lacking interest, passion or energy

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Laudable

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Deserving praise and commendation.

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Vacillate

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To waver between opinions or actions

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Adulterate

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To corrupt or make worse by the addition of a substance

To falsify, counterfeit.

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Capricious

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Given to sudden and unaccountable changes in mood an behavior

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Engender

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To cause or give rise to a feeling, situation or condition.

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Volatile

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Changeable, fickle, inconsistent

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Laconic

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Using few words, succinct, curt, terse.

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Mitigate

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To make less severe

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Propriety

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Conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals

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Mercurial

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Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes, fickle.

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Inter

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To bury, inearth, inhume

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Imbue

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Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality

Synonyms: impregnate, saturate, pervade, permeate

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Arrogate

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To take or claim something without justification.

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Capitulate

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To give in on one’s demands

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Acrimony

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Bitter feeligs

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Apogee

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The climax or culmination of something

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Impugn

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To call into question, to dispute the truth.

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Sinecure

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A position requiring little or no work but providing financial benefit.

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Diminutive

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Extremely or unusually small

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Miscreant

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A person who behaves badly or breaks the law

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Interloper

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One that interferes with the affairs of others, often for selfish reasons

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Ebullience

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Exuberance, enthusiasm.

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Ignoble

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Not honorable in character or purpose

Of humble origin or social status

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Facetious

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Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor

Synonyms: jocose, jocular

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Baneful

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Exceedingly harmful

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Vociferous

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Loudly or vehemently expressive

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Candor

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Being open and honest

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Nonplussed

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Perplexed

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Imbroglio

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Confused, complicated or embarrassing situation

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Aplomb

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Self-confidence, poise

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Taciturn

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Uncommunicative, reserved, saying little

Syn: reticent

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Deleterious

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Causing harm or damage

Syn: injurious, noisome, detrimental

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Imperturbation

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Tranquility, calmness

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Preeminent

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Very distinguished, surpassing all others

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Scintillating

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Sparkling or shining brightly

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Censure

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To express severe disapproval

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Quittance

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A release or discharge from debt or obligation

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Irascible

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Easily made angry

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Circuitous

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Indirect, roundabout

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Intransigent

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Stubborn, Unwilling or refusing to change one’s views

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Quotidian

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Commonplace, Ordinary or everyday

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Incongruous

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Inconsistent, out of place, inappropriate.

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Intemperate

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Having a lack of self control

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Abstemious

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Not self indulgent

Syn: abstinent, temperate, moderate

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Consummate

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To complete or perfect

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Affable

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Friendly, good-natured

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Reticent

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Not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily

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Veracity

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Habitual truthfulness

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Probity

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Having strong moral principles.

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Sonorous

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Resonant, ringing, orotund

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

Syn: obscure, recondite, profound

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Unctuous

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Excessively or ingratiatingly flattering

Syn: oleaginous

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Acerbic

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Sharp and forthright

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Caustic

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Biting, acrimonious, mordant, acrid

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Ochlocracy

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Government by mob

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Autocracy

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A government by one person with absolute power

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Oligarchy

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A government in which the power rests with a small group of people

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Plutocracy

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Government by the wealthy

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Prodigious

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Great in size

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Stentorian

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Powerful of sound

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Felicitous

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Appropriately and pleasingly expressed

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Expository

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Writing that explains or sets forth ideas

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Excogitate

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Considering deeply and thoughtfully.

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Abnigate

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To relinquish.

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Impinge

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To encroach.

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Kismet

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Fate

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Malapropism

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Unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with a word that sounds similar.

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Tepid

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Lukewarm, showing little enthusiasm

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Excoriate

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To criticize severely

To damage or wear off skin

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Obfuscation

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Bewilderment

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, obscure

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Voluble

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Extremely talkative

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Garrulous

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Extremely talkative

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Sycophant

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A self-serving, servile flatterer.

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Mien

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A person’s presence, manner.

Syn: appearance, carriage, countenance, demeanor

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Peregination

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A journey

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Credulous

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Naive, gullible, easily confused.

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Lugubrious

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Depressive

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Ersatz

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Substitute

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Foible

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A quirk

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Presage

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To predict

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Specious

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False.

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Incipient

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Just beginning

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Venerate

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To respect

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Liberality

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Generosity, magnanimity.

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Idiosyncrasy

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A mode of behavior or way of thought particular to an individual.

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Redolent

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Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something (often having to do with smell)

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Contrite

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Remoresul

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Malevolent

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Evil.

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Impecunious

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Penniless.

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Liminal

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  1. Relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process

2. On the edges, at a point where things cross.

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Precipitous

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Fast and unexpected.

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Fracas

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A fight.

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Torque

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Power from twisting

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Chasm

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A gaping hole

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Conformable

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Similar

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Aberration

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Something that departs from what is normal.

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Cavalcade

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Ceremonial procession

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Mendacity

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Dishonesty

Mendacious= dishonest

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Abjure

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To renounce

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Umbrage

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Offense (to take umbrage at)

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Anachronistic

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Belonging to another time

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Augment

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To add to or improve

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Aggrandize

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To make something grander or seem so

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Vituperate

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To speak abusively

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Buffet

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To strike against forcefully

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Lackadaisical

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Lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy

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Portentous

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Ominous.

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Impute

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To assign or attribute something to someone.

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Vindicate

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To justify or clear from blame.

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Adamantine

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Very hard.

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Gossamer

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Fine or thin.

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Frangible

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Easy to break.

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Tensile

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Capable of being drawn out or stretched.

Of or relating to tension.

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Austere

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Rigorous or severe.

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Primordial

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Primitive or from earliest time.

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Orthodoxy

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Conforming to an established doctrine.

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Apocryphal

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Of questionable authenticity.

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Arcane

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Obscure.

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Modish

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Fashionable.

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Refractory

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Rebellious.

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Philistine

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Lowbrow, someone who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts.

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Quiescence

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Being at rest.

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Ennui

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Boredom.

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Extant

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Existing.

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Recursive

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Returning to the same points repeatedly.

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Amorphous

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Vague or unorganized.

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Defunct

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No longer in existence.

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Actuate

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To put into action.

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Inculcate

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Instill.

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Quintessence (of)

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Perfect embodiment (of)

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Zenith

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Highest point

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Ingenuous

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Honest, straight-forward

Innocent and unsuspecting.

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Inveigh

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To speak or write about with great hostility

Syn: vituperate

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy.

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Aesthetic

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Concerned with beauty.

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Assiduity

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Constant effort, diligence.

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Redound

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To make someone look good or give someone credit.

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Amortize

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To reduce debt.

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Macerate

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To soften something by soaking

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Malign

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To slander or defame

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Peripatetic

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Wandering from place to place

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Postliminary

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Following on or happening after

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Supervening

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Ensuing, occurring after

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Gratuitous

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Not justifiable

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Ineffable

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Indescribable, unutterable

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Maladroit

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Awkward, inept

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Inculcate

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To indoctrinate

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Indelible

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Unable to be removed

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Fastidious

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With great attention to detail and high standards

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Ululate

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To howl or moan

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Pathos

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A quality invoking pity or sadness

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Artifice

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Clever trick, illusion

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Inimical

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Tending to obstruct or harm
Unfriendly, hostile
(“Inimical to our interests”)

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Abrogate

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To formally revoke

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Monolith

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Something having a massive and uniform structure; large and character-less

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Efficacious

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Effective

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Enervate

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To cause someone to feel drained of energy

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Prevaricate

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To speak or act in an evasive way, to equivocate or evade

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language o avoid telling the truth

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Repudiate

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To refuse to accept

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Ubiquitous

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Found or appearing everywhere, omnipresent

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Myopic

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Short-sighted or narrow-minded

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Regnant

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Prevalent, widespread

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Implacable

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Refusing to be pacified

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Fugacious

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Fleeting, transitory

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Beguile

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To charm, sometimes by deception.

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Untoward

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Improper

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Approbation

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Praise

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace

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Bijoux

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Trinkets

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Vestments

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Clothing

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Sanguine

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Dark red

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Verdigris

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Green

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Azure

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Deep blue

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Suffuse

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To spread throughout something

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Deprecate

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To disapprove, protest, reprobate

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Dudgeon

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A sullen mood

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Scion

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Descendant

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Bucolic

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Rural, idyllic

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Compendious

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Succinct, concise, laconic

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Antediluvian

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Antiquated

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Otiosity

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Laziness

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Indolence

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Laziness

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Puerility

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Childishness

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Curio

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An unusual object

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Paragon

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A model or perfect example

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Compunction

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Guilt

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Malignity

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Desire to do evil

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Sedulity

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Diligence

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Fetid

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Bad-smelling

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Vitriolic

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Cruel, caustic

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Calumnious

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Slanderous

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Tetchy

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Irritable

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

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Acuity

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