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Aggrandize

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Increase in power influence reputation

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Absconds

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To leave secretly

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Amalgamate

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Combine, mix together

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Ameliorate

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To make better, to improve

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Apathy

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Lack of interest or emotion

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Arbitrate

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Judge a dispute between two opposing parties

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Ardor

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Intense passionate feeling/with fervor
Fervidness
Fervency

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Assuage

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Make something unpleasant less severe.

Mollify, palliative, propitiate, allay, appease, placate

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Attenuate

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Reduce in force or degree, to weaken

Debilitate, enfeebled, rarefy, enervate.

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Audacious

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Fearless and daring

Plucky stout, undaunted, doughty, mettlesome, valiant, assertive

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Austere

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Severe or stern in appearance

Harsh, Grim, Bleak

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Banal

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Predictable, boring, cliched

Musty, quotidian, platitudinous, bromidic, threadbare, hackneyed, jejune, prosaic, stale, timeworn, vapid.

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Bombastic

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Pompous in speech or manner

Orotund, fustian, pretentious, high flown.

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Capricious

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Changing ones mind quickly and often

Arbitrary, fickle, random,

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Castigate

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Criticize or punish harshly

Chide, reproach, tax, reboke, upbraid, admonish

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Catalysts

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Brings about a change in something else,

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Caustic

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Biting in wit

Acerbic trenchant biting mordant

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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile 
Pettifoggery
Sophistry
Conniving
Subterfuge
Underhandedness
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Cogent

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Convincing and well reasoned
Go cogitate
Persuasive, solid, valid,

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Condone

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Overlook, pardon, disregard

Exculpate, remits, excuse

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Corroborate

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Provide supporting evidence
Buttress
Validate
Substantiate

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Decorum

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Appropriateness of behavior, conduct, propriety, mores, seem lines

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Deference

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In respect or courtesy,

Obeisance, reverence, veneration

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Deride

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To speak with contempt and mock.
Gibe
Jeer
Scoff

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desultory

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Disconnected

Jumping from one thing to another. Erratic

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Diatribe

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An abusive, condemnatory speech.

Fulminations jeremiad, harangue, malediction, invective obloquy

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Dilatory

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Intended to delay

Dragging, lagging, slow going, laggard, flagging.

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Dilettante

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Someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic.
Tyro, dabbler.

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Dirge

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Funeral hymn or mournful speech

Elegy or lament.

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Disabuse

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Set right and free from error, correct.

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Espy, descry, glimpse are all synonyms of what?

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To discern: perceive or recognize.

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Dissemble

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Present a false appearance and disguise ones real intention or character.
Cloak, feign sham, dissimulate, pretend.

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Dogmatic

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Dictatorial in ones’ opinions.

Magisterial, peremptory, bossy, domineering, masterful.

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Bluff, beguile, and Cozen are all like what other word?

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Deceive or dupe

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Enervate

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To reduce in strength

Debilitate, weaken, enfeeble, sap

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Engender

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To produce, cause, or bring about

Beget, proliferate, procreate, spawn.

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Equivocate

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Use of double meaning expressions in order to mislead.

Ambiguous, evasive waffling.

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Erudite

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Learned. Scholarly, bookish.m

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Esoteric

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Understood by few:

Abstruse, arcane, obscure

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Estimable

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Admirable
Laudable
Meritorious

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Euphemism

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Using a milder word in place of a stronger one

Whitewash and circumlocution.

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Exculpate

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Clear from blame; prove innocent

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Exigent

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Urgent, requiring immediate action

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Exonerate

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Absolve, exculpate, acquit, vindicate, clear

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Fervid

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Intensely emotional, feverish

Vehement, zealous

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Florid

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Excessively decorated or embellished.

Ostentatious, roccoco, baroque

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Foment

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Arouse or niche

Instigate kindle inflame

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Frugality

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Tendency to be thrifty or cheap

Sparing economical parsimony prudence

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Garrulous

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Talking too much

Effusive or loquacious

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Gregarious

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Outgoing and sociable

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Guile

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Deceit or trickery
Artifice, chicanery, connivers, duplicity
Guileless: innocent

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Impetuous

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Quick to act without thinking

Impulsive, precipitate, spontaneous, rash

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Implacable

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Unable to calmed down or made peaceful,

Inexorable, intransigent,

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Inchoate

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Not fully formed, disorganized.

Amorphous,

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Ingenuous

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Innocent or showing childlike simplicity

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Inimical

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Hostile, unfriendly

Adverse, recalcitrant, dissident, antagonistic

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Insipid

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Lacking interest or flavor,

Banal, vapid, dull

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled.

Implacable, obdurate. Unyielding, unrelenting.

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Irascible

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Easily made angry

Cantankerous ornery irritable

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Lament

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Express sorrow grieve,

Bewail , deplore

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Lethargic

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Acting in an indifferent, sluggish, manner.

Apathetic, lackadaisical, languid, torpid.

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Lucid

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Clear and easily understood

Coherent, limpid, explicit, intelligible

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Malinger

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One who fakes illness to evade responsibility

Shirk or slack

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Scrupulous

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Meticulous

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Misanthrope

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Someone who dislikes others p

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Mitigate

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To soften or lessen

Mollify, allay, assuage, moderate, temper

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Mollify

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To calm or make less severe

Pacify appease, assuage

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Obdurate

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Hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion.

Intransigent, recalcitrant, tenacious, unyielding.

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Obsequious

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Overly submissive and eager to please.

Compliant, deferential, servile, subservient

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Obviate

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Prevent or make unnecessary

Forestall, preclude, prohibit.

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Onerous

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Troublesome or oppressive

Arduous, cumbersome formidable, rigorous,

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Occlude

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Stop up, prevent passage of.

Barricade, obstruct, block

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Opprobrium pub

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Public disgrace, ignominy, infamy, disrepute, obloquy

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Ostentation

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Showiness
Flashiness
Pretentiousness

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Paragon

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Model of excellence and perfection
Apotheosis
Quintessence

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Pedant

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Someone who shows off learning,

Pedantic: making an excessive display of learning.

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Perfunctory

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Routine way indifferent

Apathetic mechanical

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Permeate

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Penetrate, imbue, infuse, suffuse.

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Placated

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Sooth or passify

Appease, conciliate, mollify

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Precipitate

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To throw violently or bring about abruptly, lacking deliberation
Impulsive, reckless, hasty, impetuous

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Propitiate

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To conciliate, appease.

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Propriety

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Correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs,

Decency

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Prudence

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Wisdom, caution, or restraint.

Astuteness, judiciousness, discretion,

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Quiescent

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Motionless, dormant, latent

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Rarefy

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Make thinner or sparser

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Repudiate

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Reject the validity of. Think reputation.

Renounce, disclaim, deny, disown.

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Reticent

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Silent reserved
Taciturn
Laconic
Standoffish

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy.

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive seedling plausible but fallacious

Illusory, ostensible, spurious sophistical

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Stigma

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Mark of shame or discredit.

Opprobrium

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Stolid

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Unemotional, lacking sensitivity

Stoical, phlegmatic, opprobrium

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Transitory

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Temporary, lasting a brief time.
Evanescent
Fleeting

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Vacillate

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To sway physically, to be indecisive.

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Venerate

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Respect deeply

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Veracity

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Truthfulness and accuracy

Candor, fidelity, probity

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Vex

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To annoy

Exasperate, peeve, provoke, irk, chafe nettle.

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Volatile

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Easily aroused or changeable. Lively or explosive
Capricious 
Erratics 
Fickle
Mercurial

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