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Euphemism

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Kinder way

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Evanescent

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Disappearing

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Evocative

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Stimulating memories of the past

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Exaltation

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Feeling of extreme happiness

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Extant

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Still in existence

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Facile

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Easy

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Felicitously

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Appropriate

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Fetid

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Nauseating with a rotten

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Fettered

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Restraints; shackles

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Fleeting

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Passing or fading quickly

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Foibles

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Weakness

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Frivolous

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Not serious

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Furtive

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Secretive

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Garrulous

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Talking too much

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Germane

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Relevant Nd appropriate

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Grandiose

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Pretentious

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Grandiloquent

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Pompous Manner or writing

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Gregarious

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Friendly

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Hackneyed

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Unimaginative

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Hedonistic

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Seeking of pleasure

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Heritical

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Not following established views

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Hidebound

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Narrow minded

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Hypochondriac

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Somebody with imaginary illness

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Iconoclast

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Somebody challenging tradition

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Idiosyncrasy

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Behavior common to individual

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Ignominious

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Shameful

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Impudence

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Deliberate rudeness

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Inane

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Silly

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Incongruous

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Unsuitable odd

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Inculcated

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Impress on someone’s mind

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Induce

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Persuade to do something

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Inimical

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Not favorable

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Insidious

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Gradual and harmful

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Insuperable

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Unable to overcome

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Interminable

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Seemingly endless

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Intone

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Chant a prayer

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Invigorate

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Fill with energy

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Irascible

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Quick tempered

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Itinerant

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Traveling on the job

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Esoteric

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Intended for or understood by only an initiated few