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Russet

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brown-red color (like a potato)

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Execrable

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detestable. Execrable crimes

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Sacrilege

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violation of anything sacred

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Sage

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wise Wise person (pundit). Or sage words (adjective)

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Sapient

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wise

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Savant

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learned person

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Insolent

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rude or disrespectful

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Salutary

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healthful

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Sanguinary

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bloodthirsty

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Conscription

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draft to military

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Sedition

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rebellion or discontent against government

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Sequester

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remove or withdraw to solitude or retirement

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Non sequitur

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conclusion that does not follow from the premise

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Assiduous

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showing great care and judgement

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Dissident

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disagreeing

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Disport

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to divert or amuse

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Deportment

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conduct, behavior

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Posterior

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situated at the rear

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Posterity

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future generations

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Potable

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drinkable

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Precocious

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unusually advanced mentally

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Primeval

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ancient

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propound

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set forth for consideration

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Proselytize

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attempt to recruit or convert

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Provident

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foresight

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Protozoan

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belong to a group of single called animals which came before advanced animals

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Compunction

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feeling of uneasy from doing wrong

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Pyrosis

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heartburn

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Quaternary

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the forth in a series, the number four

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Perquisite

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a gratuity, a tip

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Acquiesce

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to comply, give in

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Deracinate

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to uproot

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Regicide

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killing a king

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Pauper

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a person without any personal means of support

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Paucity

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a smallness of quantity

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Impecunious

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having no money

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Peculation

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embezzlement

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Pecuniary

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relating to money

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Antipodes

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places diametrically opposite east other on the globe

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Penitent

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contrite

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Pertinacious

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persistent

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Philatelist

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collects postage stamps

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Philology

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study of texts

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Plenitude

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fullness or abundance

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Supplicants

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to make humble an earnest

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Polyandry

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many husbands (polygamy = many wives)

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Nautical

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relating to sailing or sailors

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Obfuscate

A

darken

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Omnibus

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collection of other work by same author. an omnibus of her first trilogy

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Ossuary

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a place where bones are kept

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