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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
Disconnected | Jumping from one thing to another. Erratic
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Diatribe
An abusive, condemnatory speech. | Fulminations jeremiad, harangue, malediction, invective obloquy
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Dilatory
Intended to delay | Dragging, lagging, slow going, laggard, flagging.
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Dilettante
Someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic. Tyro, dabbler.
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Dirge
Funeral hymn or mournful speech | Elegy or lament.
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Disabuse
Set right and free from error, correct.
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Espy, descry, glimpse are all synonyms of what?
To discern: perceive or recognize.
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Dissemble
Present a false appearance and disguise ones real intention or character. Cloak, feign sham, dissimulate, pretend.
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Dogmatic
Dictatorial in ones' opinions. | Magisterial, peremptory, bossy, domineering, masterful.
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Bluff, beguile, and Cozen are all like what other word?
Deceive or dupe
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Enervate
To reduce in strength | Debilitate, weaken, enfeeble, sap
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Engender
To produce, cause, or bring about | Beget, proliferate, procreate, spawn.
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Equivocate
Use of double meaning expressions in order to mislead. | Ambiguous, evasive waffling.
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Erudite
Learned. Scholarly, bookish.m
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Esoteric
Understood by few: | Abstruse, arcane, obscure
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Estimable
Admirable Laudable Meritorious
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Euphemism
Using a milder word in place of a stronger one | Whitewash and circumlocution.
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Exculpate
Clear from blame; prove innocent
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Exigent
Urgent, requiring immediate action
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Exonerate
Absolve, exculpate, acquit, vindicate, clear
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Fervid
Intensely emotional, feverish | Vehement, zealous
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Florid
Excessively decorated or embellished. | Ostentatious, roccoco, baroque
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Foment
Arouse or niche | Instigate kindle inflame
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Frugality
Tendency to be thrifty or cheap | Sparing economical parsimony prudence
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Garrulous
Talking too much | Effusive or loquacious
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Gregarious
Outgoing and sociable
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Guile
Deceit or trickery Artifice, chicanery, connivers, duplicity Guileless: innocent
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Impetuous
Quick to act without thinking | Impulsive, precipitate, spontaneous, rash
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Implacable
Unable to calmed down or made peaceful, | Inexorable, intransigent,
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Inchoate
Not fully formed, disorganized. | Amorphous,
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Ingenuous
Innocent or showing childlike simplicity
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Inimical
Hostile, unfriendly | Adverse, recalcitrant, dissident, antagonistic
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Insipid
Lacking interest or flavor, | Banal, vapid, dull
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Intransigent
Uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled. | Implacable, obdurate. Unyielding, unrelenting.
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Irascible
Easily made angry | Cantankerous ornery irritable
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Lament
Express sorrow grieve, | Bewail , deplore
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Lethargic
Acting in an indifferent, sluggish, manner. Apathetic, lackadaisical, languid, torpid.
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Lucid
Clear and easily understood | Coherent, limpid, explicit, intelligible
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Malinger
One who fakes illness to evade responsibility | Shirk or slack
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Scrupulous
Meticulous
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Misanthrope
Someone who dislikes others p
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Mitigate
To soften or lessen | Mollify, allay, assuage, moderate, temper
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Mollify
To calm or make less severe | Pacify appease, assuage
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Obdurate
Hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion. | Intransigent, recalcitrant, tenacious, unyielding.
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Obsequious
Overly submissive and eager to please. | Compliant, deferential, servile, subservient
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Obviate
Prevent or make unnecessary | Forestall, preclude, prohibit.
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Onerous
Troublesome or oppressive | Arduous, cumbersome formidable, rigorous,
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Occlude
Stop up, prevent passage of. | Barricade, obstruct, block
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Opprobrium pub
Public disgrace, ignominy, infamy, disrepute, obloquy
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Ostentation
Showiness Flashiness Pretentiousness
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Paragon
Model of excellence and perfection Apotheosis Quintessence
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Pedant
Someone who shows off learning, | Pedantic: making an excessive display of learning.
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Perfunctory
Routine way indifferent | Apathetic mechanical
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Permeate
Penetrate, imbue, infuse, suffuse.
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Placated
Sooth or passify | Appease, conciliate, mollify
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Precipitate
To throw violently or bring about abruptly, lacking deliberation Impulsive, reckless, hasty, impetuous
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Propitiate
To conciliate, appease.
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Propriety
Correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs, | Decency
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Prudence
Wisdom, caution, or restraint. | Astuteness, judiciousness, discretion,
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Quiescent
Motionless, dormant, latent
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Rarefy
Make thinner or sparser
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Repudiate
Reject the validity of. Think reputation. | Renounce, disclaim, deny, disown.
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Reticent
Silent reserved Taciturn Laconic Standoffish
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Soporific
Causing sleep or lethargy.
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Specious
Deceptively attractive seedling plausible but fallacious | Illusory, ostensible, spurious sophistical
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Stigma
Mark of shame or discredit. | Opprobrium
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Stolid
Unemotional, lacking sensitivity | Stoical, phlegmatic, opprobrium
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Transitory
Temporary, lasting a brief time. Evanescent Fleeting
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Vacillate
To sway physically, to be indecisive.
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Venerate
Respect deeply
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Veracity
Truthfulness and accuracy | Candor, fidelity, probity
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Vex
To annoy | Exasperate, peeve, provoke, irk, chafe nettle.
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Volatile
``` Easily aroused or changeable. Lively or explosive Capricious Erratics Fickle Mercurial ```

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