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Celeritous

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Swift

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Punctilious

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Overly concerned with proper behavior and etiquette

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Remiss

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Negligent

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Perfunctory

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Careless

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Myopic

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Short sighted

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Subterfuge

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Deceit used in order to achieve one’s goals

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Maladroit

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Clumsy

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Tempestuous ness

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Characterized by strong and turbulent conflicting emotion - very stormy

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forthright

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Directly forward

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Kowtow

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To act in an excessively servile manner

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Fawning

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Subservient

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Subversive

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Going against authority

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Obsequious

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Fawning

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Pandemonium

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Wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar

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Halcyon

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Denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful

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Straitened

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Characterized by poverty

Restricted in range or scope

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Crony

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A close friend or companion

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Chin

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A close friend

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Intransigent

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Unyielding

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Debonair

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Confident, charming

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Implacable

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Unpleasable, unforgiving

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Stolid

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Calm, showing little emotion

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Austere

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Lacking decoration, comforts, luxuries

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Spartan

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Lacking decoration, comforts, luxuries

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Deified
Worshiped
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Aver
To assert
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Unavailed
Futile - achieving no result
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Ruminate
Contemplate
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Probity
Having strong moral principles; honesty and decency
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Swindle
To cheat - To use deception to deprive someone of money
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Deluge
To overwhelm, flood
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Pithy
Terse, succinct
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Acerbic
Sharp, sarcastic
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Akimbo
Hands on hips
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Abreast
Side by side To remain current
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Obtuse
Slow to understand
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Askance
Suspicious, disapproving
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Vicissitude
A change, alteration
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Mercenary
Money oriented
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Lackey
A servent
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Apologist
Defender, supporter in defense of something controversial
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Demarcate
Set the boundaries of
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Whitewash
To paint or defeat
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Improvident
Not having foresight, wasteful
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Dissolute
Lax in morals
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Licentious
Promiscuous, immoral
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Dissipated
A person overindulging in sensual pleasures
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Enervated
To cause someone to feel drained of energy
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Addlepated
Confused
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Turgid
Swollen and distended or congested
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Mellifluous
Sweet or musical, pleasant to hear, dulcet
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Posits
Assumes as fact
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Cajole
Persuade
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Mendacious
Lying
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Panned
Criticized
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Brusque
Abrupt, blunt in speech, curt
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Inscrutable
Impossible to understand
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Vanquish
Defeat
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Inundate
Overwhelm, flood
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Berate
Coda
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Coda
The concluding piece
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Shrewd
Astute, sharp witted
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Providential
Opportune, involving divine intervention
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Inured
Accustomed to, hardened
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Effusive
Expressing feelings of gratitude, gushy
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Maudlin
Sentimental
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Amortized
To reduce or extinguish a debt by money
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Neologism
Newly coined word
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Quagmire
Hazardous or awkward situation A swamp
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Depredate
To lay waste, ravage
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Recidivist
Reoffending criminal
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Presage
A warning sign that something bad will happen, an omen
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Deft
Characterized by skill and cleverness
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Sanguine
Optimistic
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Consanguineous
People descended from the same ancestor
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Notoriety
The state of being famous or well known for a bad reason