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Sanguinity

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Cheerful optimism

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Temerity

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Excessive confidence or boldness

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Ingenue

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Girl who is artless, innocent, naive

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Trite

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Made boring by overuse, hackneyed, unoriginal

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Artless

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Free from deceit, cunning or craftiness, sincerely simple

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Pulchritude

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Physical beauty or loveliness

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Astute

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Shrewdness or keen perception, accurately assessing situations

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Solecism

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Ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence
OR something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order
OR a breach of etiquette or decorum

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Licentious

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Pernicious and unprincipled in sexual matters

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Portentous

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Serious or significant OR eliciting awe, amazing

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Festoon

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And ornamental chain of flowers or ribbons

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Imprudent

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Lacking good sense

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Staid

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Sedate, self-restraining, proper (even boring)

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Purple

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Extravagant, or flowery writing; break flow because of extravagance

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Repine

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Feel or express discont; fret; low in spirits

Syn:complain, grumble, murmur

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Impudent

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Characterized by offensive boldness, rude, uncivil OR impertinent

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Impuissant

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Powerless, weak or feeble

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Bathetic

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Characterized by a sudden switch often ludicrous from elevated to everyday or banal

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Rebuff

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Reject or criticize bluntly, in and ungracious manner

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Circumscribe

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To define or mark off carefully, bounded

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Sedulous

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Taking great care and diligence

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Manifestations

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Happenings, occurrences

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Constituent

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Part (ie part of everyday experience)

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Sordid

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Behavior that is disgraceful and scandalous

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Hyperbole
Exaggeration
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Cede
Relinquish, give back
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Annex
Gaining (land)
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Etiology
Describe or assign a cause
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Finesse
Extreme delicacy, subtlety, or diplomacy in handling sensitive situations or in a performance or skill OR a deceptive strategy
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Eclectic
Selecting the best of everything or from many sources
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Eclipse
Th obscuring of one thing by another | Billy R Cyrus by Miley
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Efficacious
Quality of being able to produce the intended effect
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Flag
Get tired, lose enthusiasm; hang limply or droop
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Gauche
Tactless, lacking social grace, awkward | Eating with mouth open...
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Exculpate
Clear from guilt or blame
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Fallacious
Containing a fallacy, or mistake in logic; logically unsound
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Exponent
Champion, advocate, or representative | An exponent of clean fuel.
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Fidelity
Faithfulness, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound
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Egalitarian
Related to the belief in equality of all people
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Egregious
Extraordinarily or conspicuously bad
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Enigma
Puzzle, mystery, riddle; mysterious or contradictory person
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Figurative
Metaphorical, based on figures of speech; portraying human or animal figures
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Gainsay
Declare false, deny, oppose
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Fringe
The people in a group who hold the most extreme views
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Futile
Producing no useful result; ineffective,trivial
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Eschew
Shun, avoid, abstain from
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Glib
Fluent and easy in way that suggests insincerity
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Foment
Instigate, stir up, incite; apply medicated liquid to a body part
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Fanatical
Excessively devoted, devoted, zealous in an uncritical way
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Estimable
Worthy of esteem, admirable, able to be estimated
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Extrapolate
A conjecture about the unknown by projecting info about the known
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Fanciful
Whimsical, imaginary
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Gradation
A progression, a process taking place gradually
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Ephemeral
Lasting only a short time, fleeting
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Eloquent
Marked by forceful, fluid, apt speech; expressive, moving
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Fortify
Strengthen, invigorate, encourage
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Hearken
Listen, pay attention
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Hedonist
Person devoted to pleasure
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Erroneous
Mistaken, in error; improper, morally incorrect

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