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Abhor

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To regard with repugnance, HATE, DETEST

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Bigot

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INTOLERANT PERSON to any different opinion or belief.

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Counterfeit

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Made in imitation, no genuine, FAKE, SIMULATED

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ENFRANCHISE

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Set FREE, admit to citizenship. LIBERATE, RELEASE.

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Hamper

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to hold back or interfere with. RESTRICT, BLOCK.

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Kindle

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To start, to cause to begin burning. INCITE, FLAME, BLAZE.

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Noxious

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Toxic, injurious. Harmful to health or physicial well-being.

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Placid

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Calm, mild. Pleasantly calm or peaceful.

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Remuneration

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Payment, compensation. Reward or pay.

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Abrasive

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Irritating, annoying. Tending to annoy, overly

aggressive.

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Bilk

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Cheat, defraud. Intended to defraud.

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Covert

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Hidden, secret. Under the protection of,

covered.

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Engender

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CAUSE to happen INDUCE, PRODUCE, give rise to.

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Hangar

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Wide structure used for housing airplanes, SHELTER, SHED.

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15
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Knotty

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COMPLICATED, TRICKY, Difficult

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Nuance

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A SUBTLE variation. SLIGHT DIFFERENCE

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PLAGIARISM

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Act of imitating, COPYNING, FALSIFICATION.

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Renown

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Widespread and high repute. FAME, GLORY, HONOR.

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Tangent

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Disgressing suddenly from a course and turn to another, GOING OFF TOPIC

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Abasement

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Reduce in rank, reputation. HUMILIATION, SHAME.

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Billowing

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To rise or surge, BOUNCE, SURGE.

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22
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Cower

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To crouch in fear or shame. HIDE SNEAK.

23
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Enhance

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IMPROVE, INCREASE, INTENSIFY, MAGNIFY.

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Harangue

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A long speech, intense verbal. DECLAMATION, LONG LECTURE.

25
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NULLIFY

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Declare legally rejected, CANCEL, REVOKE, ANNUL.

26
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Replete

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Abundantly supplied. FILLED, LOADED, WELL-STOCKED.

27
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Tangible

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Capable of being touched. REAL, PLAPABLE, CONCRETE.

28
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Abrogate

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Abolish by official terms, INVALIDATE, ANNUL.

29
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Nuzzle

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Lie very close to something, CUDDLE, CARESS.

30
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Tardy

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Not in time, LATE,DELAYED, BELATED.

31
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Detrimental

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To cause damage, Harmful.

32
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Restive

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Impatient of control, restless uneasy. Refusing to go foward. Nervous, unquiet.

33
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Forerunner

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ancestor, precursor. Sign of something to follow.

34
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Tycoon

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person of great power, influence and wealth. Magnate.

35
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Conundrum

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anything that puzles, a puzzling question or problema. A riddle.

36
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Confine

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limit or restrict. Frontier. To shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place.

37
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Contrite

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showing remorse. Filled with a sense of guilt.

38
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Blandish

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to influence by flattery. Cajole.

39
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Mishap

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unfortunate accident. Misadventure or mischance.

40
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Tamper

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with the purpose of altering, damaging or misusing. To make changes specially to falsify. Interfere.

41
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Poised

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being in balance or equilibrium. Self-assurance, refinement.

42
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Vicarious

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performed, received or suffered in place of another. Taking the place of another person or thing. Substitute.

43
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Offspring

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children of a particular parent or progenitor. A descendant. A product, outcome or result.

44
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Decipher

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to make out the meaning of. To discover. Solve, unravel, explain.

45
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Drawback

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a disadvantage, an undesirable feature. An amount paid back from a charge made. A tax.

46
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Staggeringly

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overwhelming, shocking.

47
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Defile

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to make dirty, pollute. To make impure or violate the chastity.

48
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Brusque

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abrupt in manner. Rough.

49
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Flout

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scoff at, to treat with disdain.

50
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Putative

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supposed. Inferred.

51
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jeopardize

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To put in risk

52
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Steep

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Having a sharp inclination

53
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ROGUE

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unreliable person

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