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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Aberrant

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Deviating from normal

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal

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Approbation

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Approval

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Assuage

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Relieve , To ease or lessen

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Audacious

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Daring, bold

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Capricious

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Unpredictable, erratic

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Censure

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To criticize severely

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Connoisseur

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An informed and astute judge in matters of taste, expert

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Discordant

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Conflicting or dissonant or harsh job sojnd

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Disparate

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Fundamentally different

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Eloquent

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Well spoken, articulate

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Enervate

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Reduce in strength

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction a d restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language to mislead

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Exculpatory

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Exonerate

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Exigency

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Urgent

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Filibuster

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Intentional obstruction,

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Ingenuous

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Artless, lacking in sophistication , childlike

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Inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable, hardship - inured to cold

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Laud

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To praise

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Magnanimity

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The quality of being generously noble inundated and heart

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Martial

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Associated with war and military

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Mundane

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Typical, concerned with the ordinary

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Nascent

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Coming into being, early stages of development

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Nebulous

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Vague, cloudy

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Neologism

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A new word, expression

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Noxious

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Harmful, injurious

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Ontuse

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Lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise

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Obviate

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Make unnecessary

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Onerous

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Troublesome, oppressive

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Parody

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Humorous imitation for comic effect

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Perennial

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Happening repeatedly in two years

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Perfunctory

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Down without care of interest

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Prattle

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To babble meaninglessly

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Prescience

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Foreknowledge of events

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Prevaricate

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Lie

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Refute

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To disprove

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Relegate

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To forcibly assign esp. To a lower position

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Solocitous

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Concerned or attentive, eager

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Sporadic

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Occurring only occasionally, or Ina scattered instances

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Static

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Not moving

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Stupify

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Baffle ,amaze

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Tortuous

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Winding, twisting

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Truculent

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Fierce or cruel

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Voracious

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Ravenous

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Waver

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To move to and for, sway, unsettled in opinion.

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Ravenous

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Extremely eager and avid

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Avid

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Extremely enthusiastic

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