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Salubrious

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Healthy, favorable to or promoting health or well-being

Fresh air and an exercise routine have always been considered salubrious activities

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Paean

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A work that praises or honors its subjects

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Incipient

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Beginning to come into being or becoming apparent

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Inchoate

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Being only partly in existence or operation; imperfectly formed

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Fecund

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Fruitful in offspring or vegetation; Intellectually productive to a degree

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Irrefragable

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Impossible to refute; impossible to break or alter

The prosecutor painstakingly built an irrefragable case.

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Dogma

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Something held as an established opinion. A point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds

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Polity

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Political organization

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Draconian

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Relating to the cruel or severe laws formed by Draco, a 7th century Athenian law giver

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Mercenary

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One that serves primarily for wages

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Facetious

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  1. Joking or jesting often inappropriately

2. Meant to be humorous or funny, not serious

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Panegyric

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  1. Eulogistic oration or writing

2. Formal or elaborate praise

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Elocution

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  1. A style of speaking especially in public

2. The art of speaking effectively in public

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Paltry

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Inferior, trivial, despicable

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Abhorrent

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Causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred

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Impede

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Slow the progress of

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Desultory

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Lacking a plan

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Parsimonious

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Frugal

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Circumnavigate

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To go around rather than through

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Circumvent

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To avoid altogether

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Sacrosanct

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Sacred, inviolable

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Postulate

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To hypothesize

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Pestilential

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Harmful, virulent

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Insipid

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Commonplace, boring

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Prolocutor

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Spokesperson

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Phlegmatic

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Calm

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Neophyte

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Novice or one who is untrained

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Antithetical

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Opposite

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Enervate

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To weaken

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Diffident

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Shy

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Mendacious

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Deceptive