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1
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Abhor

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To regard with extreme repugnance or aversion.

2
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Anguish

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Severe upset or pain.

3
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Apathetic

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Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

4
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Apex

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The best, the top, the highest point.

5
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Apprehensive

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Uneasy or fearful about something that might happen.

6
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Ascribe

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To attribute to a specific cause, source or origin; to attribute responsibility for some result.

7
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Assail

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To attack violently.

8
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Assimilate

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To bring to conformity with something. To be absorbed.

9
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Baffle

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To confuse.

10
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Barrage

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Any overwhelming attack, as of words or blows or artillery.

11
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Beguile

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Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.

12
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Bereaved

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Descriptive of a person greatly saddened at being deprived by death of a loved one.

13
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Brawl

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A nasty fight.

14
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Capitulate

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To surrender, to give in.

15
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Catalyst

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A person or thing that causes a change.

16
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Chastise

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Rebuke or reprimand severely.

17
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Civility

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Courtesy of politeness.

18
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Cognizant

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Aware, having knowledge of something.

19
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Commend

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To praise formally or officially.

20
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Conscientious

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1) Controlled according to your inner sense of what is right.
2) Painstaking; particular; scrupulous.

21
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Contort

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To distort by twisting in a violent manner.

22
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Contrite

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Having or showing sincere remorse or sorrow for one’s actions.

23
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Contemplate

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To think about something.

24
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Corpulent

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Very fat, obese.

25
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Crucible

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Any severe experience or trial.

26
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Cryptic

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Having a hidden or obscure meaning.

27
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Cynical

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Non-believing or even doubtful as to the veracity of others.

28
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Derisive

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Characterized by or expressing contempt.

29
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Derogatory

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Offensive, uncomplimentary.

30
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Deter

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To discourage, to keep someone from doing something.

31
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Denigrate

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Charge falsely or with malicious intent; to damage ones reputation.

32
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Diatribe

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A bitterly verbal attack.

33
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Improvisation

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The act of creating something from whatever materials are handy.

34
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Inarticulate

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Lacking the ability to express yourself, especially in clear and effective speech.

35
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Incantation

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Words uttered as a magic spell.

36
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Incredulous

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Showing or indicate unbelief.

37
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Indifferent

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Without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: having no bias, prejudice, or preference.

38
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Indolent

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Having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful.

39
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Inimical

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Harmful in tendency or effect.

40
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Inquire

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To seek information by asking questions.

41
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Insidious

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Working in a subtle but destructive way.

42
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Interminable

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Monotonously annoying, incapable of ending.

43
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Intrinsic

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When the quality or item belonging to something is there because it is the very nature of the thing.

44
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Inure

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To get used to something undesirable.

45
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Juncture

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A point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances.

46
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Lament

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The act of expressing grief or sorrow, mournful song for death.

47
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Legacy

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Anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor.

48
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Loathsome

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Something so repulsive it causes feelings of loathing (hateful disgust); something that is disgusting; revolting; repulsive.

49
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Lucid

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1) Completely intelligible or comprehensible.
2) Characterized by clear perception or understanding.
3) Rational or sane.

50
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Luxuriant

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Richly abundant, very fruitful.

51
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Malevolent

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Evil, harmful.

52
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Manifest

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Clearly apparent to the sight or understanding.

53
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Maternal

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Having the qualities historically associated with a mother.

54
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Memoir

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A record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.

55
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Mortification

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A feeling of humiliation or shame.

56
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Motif

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Central or recurring theme or distinctive idea in a literary work.

57
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Myopic

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Having to do with being nearsighted.

58
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Myriad

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Having innumerable possibilities.

59
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Nocturnal

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Happening at night.

60
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Obtuse

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Not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant.

61
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Perilous

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Involving serious risk.

62
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Pervasive

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Spreading throughout (as in a group of people or a place)

63
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Vengeance

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The act of inflicting injury, harm or humiliation on someone because they have hurt you.

64
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Waif

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A person, especially a child, who has no home or friends. A very thin, often small person, usually a young woman.

65
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Winnow

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To eliminate or to rid of undesirable parts.