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Arduous

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Strenuous

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Ameliorate

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Improve

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Ascetic

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Self denial practitioner

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Austere

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Barr, severely simple

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Bucolic

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Characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Contentious

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Argumentative, quarrelsome,

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Convoluted

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Complicated, complex

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Disabuse

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To set right

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Ecelectic

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Composed of elements drawn from various sources

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness

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Ephermal

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Brief , short lived

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Erudite

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Very learned, scholarly

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Eulogy

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A speech honoring the dead

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Extemporaneous

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Improvised, done without preparation

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Facetious

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Playful, humorous

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Fulminate

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To loudly attack or denounce

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Hyperbole

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An exxagerated statement, often used as figure of speech

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Lucidly

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Easily understood

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Paean

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A song or hymn of praise

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Penurious

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Excessively thrifty, ungenerous

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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith, treachery

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Pernicious

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Extremely harmful, potentially causing death

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Perspicacious

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Acutely perceptive, having keen discernment

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Pious

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Showing strong religious devotion

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Precipitate

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Acting with excessive haste or impulse

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Precursor

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One that precedes and indicates

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Predilection

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Preference , a disposition in favor of something

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Prolific

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Producing large number or amounts

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Qualms

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Misgiving, causes for hesitancy

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Quiescence

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Motionless

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Recant

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To retract, esp. Previously held belief

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Redoubtable

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Worthy of honor

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Reticent

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Silent, quiet, reserved

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Satire

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A literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or derision

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Sordid

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Characterized by filth, grime, squalor

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Squalid

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Sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect

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Squander

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To waste by spending, use irresponsibly

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Stoic

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Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain

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Stymie

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To block, thwart

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Supplant

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To take the place of

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Synthesis

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To combine parts to make a whole

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Torpid

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Lethargic, sluggish

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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere at the same time, widespread

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Veracity

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Truthfulness, honesty

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Vilify

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To defame, to characterize harshly

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful or poisonous , bitterly hostile