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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, recondite

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Analeptic

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Restorative or stimulating; as a drug or medication

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Accord

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Agreement; harmony

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Acculteration

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A process in which a culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one; especially a more advanced society.

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Adjudicate

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To hear and settle

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Adulatory

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Overly flattering

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Agglomerate

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A confused jumbled mass; a heap

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Aggrieved

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Feeling distressed or affliction

Treated wrongly

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Agrarian

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Related to or concerning the land, cultivation and tenure

Agriculture or rural

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Aleatory

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Dependent on chance, luck or uncertain outcome

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Anathema

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A ban or curse or excommunication

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Ecclesiastical

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Of or relating to a chrurch

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Anomie

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Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values

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Antithetical

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Directly opposed

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Apologia

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A formal defense or justification

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Apologists

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A person who argues in defense or justification of something

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Apportion

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To divide and distribute

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Approbation

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An expression of warm approval

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Ardor

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Fierce intensity of feeling

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Arrant

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Complete and utter

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Asseveration

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An earnest affirmation or declaration of support

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Assiduousness

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Conscientious and unremitting diligence

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Autodidact

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A self taught person

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Aver

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To affirm positively

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Rancorous

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Characterized by bitterness or resentment

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Volition

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The capacity to use ones own free will

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Desuetude

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A state of disuse

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Argot

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The slang of a particular group

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Lodestar

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One that serves as an inspiration, model or guide

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Subterfuge

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Deceit used in order to achieve ones goal

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Bald

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Empirically unsupported

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Balkanize

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To divide a territory into small, hostile states

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Ballast

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Something that gives stability especially in character

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Bane full

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Causing harm ruin or death

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Barbarous

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Primitive in culture and customs uncivilized

Lacking refinement or culture; coarse

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Baroque

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Extravagant, complex or bizarre

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Bedlam

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A place or situation of noisy uproar and confusion

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Beguile

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To deceive or delude

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Belletristic

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Written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content

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Bellicose

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Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament

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Besmirch

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To stain, sully

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Besotted

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Infatuated

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Blandishments

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Flattering speech or actions designed to persuade or influence

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Blather

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Nonsensical talk

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Boondoggle

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An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity

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Bootless

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Without advantage or benefit; useless

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Cad

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A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable

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Canonization

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Making someone a saint for perpetual veneration and invocation

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Capitulatory

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Briefly stated

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Catharsis

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A release of emotional tension

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Celerity

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Swiftness of action or motion; speed

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