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WPME Chapter 12: Flatteer your Friends Flashcards

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convival

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friendly, extrovert, gregarious, sociable, genial, cordial, affable.
one who likes to attend feasts and banquets.

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gregarious

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Instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others

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genial / cordial

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Diffusing warmth and friendliness

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indefatigable

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Never tiring, he has boundless, illimitable energy.

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ingenuous

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people who are pleasingly frank, utterly lacking of pretence or artificiality so honest and overboard can scarcely conceive of trickery chicanery or dissimulating in anyone, the unsophistication of a child.
2. frank, open, artless

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aboveboard

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Without concealment or deception; honest

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chicanery / trickery

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The use of tricks to deceive someone

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dissimulation

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The act of deceiving

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perspicacious

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Sharp as a razor

  1. Acutely insightful and wise
  2. Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
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discerning

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  1. Having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

2. Quick to understand

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magnanimous

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No placating neccesary::most generous about forgiving an insult or an injury, never do harbour resentment or store up petty grudges, waste energy in thought of revenge or retaliation.

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versatile

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Master of all trades, one person orchestras.

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stoical

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No grumbling, bear their troubles bravely and never ask for sympathy, never yield at sorrow, never wince at pain.

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wince

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  1. Makeaface indicating disgust or dislike

2. Drawback, as with fear or pain

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intrepid

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No fear, audacious, dauntless, contemptuous of danger and hardships

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audacious or dauntless

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Invulnerable to fear or intimidation

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Contemptuous

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Open disrespect for a person or thing

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hardship

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A state of misfortune or affliction

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affliction

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  1. A state of great suffering and distress dueto adversity.

2. A condition of suffering or distress dueto illhealth

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distress

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Psychological suffering

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scintalating

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No dullness: witty, clever, delightful, they are brilliant and entertaining conversationalist.

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witty

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Combining clever conception and facetious expression

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facetious

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Cleverly amusing in tone

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urbane

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city slickers::cultivated, poised, tactful, socially so experienced, so sophisticated and courteous that they’re at ease under all circumstances of social intercourse.

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placate

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Cause to be more favourably inclined; gain the goodwill of

“She managed to placate the angry customer”

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vivacious

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(viv::life)full of joy of living, animated, peppy

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vivid

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possessing the freshness of life, strong, sharp

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revive

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bring back to lfe

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vivisection

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operating on a live animal

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antivivisectionist

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one opposing vivisection

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viviparous

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(Pareto:: parents)producing live babies

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oviparous

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producing young ones from egg

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ovulate

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release egg from ovary

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vital

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(vita : life) essential to life; of crucial importance

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revitalize

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to bring back to life

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devitalize

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to rob someone of life

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joie de vivre

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joy of living; an effervescent keenness for all human activities; they are never moody, depressed, bored or apathetic

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apathetic

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Showing little or no emotion or animation

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effervescent

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Marked by highspirits or excitement

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ennui

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feeling of boredom, discontent, or weariness resulting sometimes from having a jaded, over sophisticated appetite applying to physical lassitude and general inactivity

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lassitude

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  1. 0 A state of comatose torpor (as found in sleepingsickness)
  2. A feeling of lack of interest or energy
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comatose

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Relating to or associated with a coma

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torpor

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  1. A state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility
  2. Inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigour or energy
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bon vivant

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a person who lives luxuriously, especially in respect to rich food, good drink, expensive theatre parties, operas, and other accoutrements of upper-class life

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accoutrements

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Clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing

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gourmand

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one who enjoys food for sensual pleasure

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gourmandize

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to stuff oneself like a pig

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gourmet

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keen interest in food and drink, he’s more of a connoisseur, has a most discerning palate for delicate tastes, flavours, and differences.

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connoisseur

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An expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the finearts

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discerning

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  1. Having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  2. Quick to understand
  3. Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
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palate

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The uppersurface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasalcavities

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glutton

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person who eats voraciously, with no discernment whatever, just to stuff himself
2. someone who has voracious, insatiable appetite for money, sex, punishment etc.

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voracious

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  1. Excessively greedy and grasping

2. Devouring or craving food in great quantities

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gluttonous

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strongest epithet you can apply to someone who has voracious eating habits you find repulsive

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epithet

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A defamatory or abusive word or phrase

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hermit

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One retired from society for religious reasons

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reinvigorate

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Impart vigour, strength, or vitality to

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naive

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people have not learnt the ways of the world

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gullible

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easily tricked or easily fooled

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credulous

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willingness to believe almost anything.

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ingenious

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shrewd, clever, inventing

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expedient

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  1. Serving to promote your interest

2. Appropriate to a purpose; practical

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credible

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can be believed

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credo

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personal belief, code of ethics

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creed

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close synonym of credo + religious beliefs eg Hinduism, judaism, catholicism etc.

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credence

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belief

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`credentials

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document/s proving a person’s right to a title or priviledge

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disingenuos

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not frank or open + crafty cunning, dishonest, artful, insincere, untrustworthy.

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retrospect

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to look back

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prospect

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to look forward

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conpicuous

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easily seen or looked at

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perspicacious

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person is keen minded, mentally sharp, astute

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astute

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Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

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acumen

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perspicacity

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punctilious

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person is exact scrupulous, very careful to observe the proper points of behaviou, procedure etc.

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pungent

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sharp, spicy, pricking the nose or taste buds

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perpicuos

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easily understood from one look, and applies to writing, style, books or things to be understood

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circumspect

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to look around

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introspect

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to look inside

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specious

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an argument that’s sounds plausible but in reality is based on an error, fallacy, or an unthruth.
noun: speciousness

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magniloquent

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Lofty instyle

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Lofty

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Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style

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pusillanimous

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tiny mind or soul; opposite to magnanimous

always oriented towards seeking revenge

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unanimous

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of one mind

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equanimity

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of equal mind i.e. evenness or calmness of mind; composure

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animus

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hostility, ill will, malvolence

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animosity

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hostility, ill will

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piques

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A sudden outburst of anger

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expounding

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A systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic

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fortitude

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Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage

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unflinching

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Not shrinkingfrom danger

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trepidation

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great feat, trembling, or alarm

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scintilla

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very small particle; a bright spark

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scintillate

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the idea of spark remains

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urbane

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gracious, affable, cultivated, suave, tactful etc.

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suburbs

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area close to big cities

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exurbs

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way outside a large city

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rustic

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opposite to urbane ; unsophiticated, boorish, lacking in social graces, uncultured

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boorish

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Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behaviour or appearance

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rusticate

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spend time in country side

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