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Diverge

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To move or extend in different directions from a common point

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obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

Synonyms
servile - subservient - slavish - menial - fawning

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Dissonance

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Hey lack of agreement especially between ones believes and actions

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Dissemble

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  1. To hide under false appearance
  2. To put on the appearance of

@patdissent: If #Liberalism is so great, then why do its adherents have to lie, move goal-posts, deceive and dissemble about everything to do with it?

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Disparate

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  1. Containing or made up of fundamentally different often incongruous elements
  2. Distinct in quality or character
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Disparage

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To lower in rank or reputation: Degrade

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Dirge

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A song or hymn of grief lamentation especially one meant for a funeral

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Diffidence

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Being hesitant in acting or speaking through a lack of self-confidence

@senecaltremblay: What would Hobbes think? Study suggests war rooted in human diffidence, not lust for conquest.

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Dichotomy

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A division of two entities

Forking as in plants or a family tree

Contradictory

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Desultory

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  1. March by lack of a definite plan regularity or purpose
  2. Not connected with the main purpose
  3. Disappointing in progress
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Desiccant

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  1. To dry up
  2. To preserve food by drying
  3. To drain of emotional or intellectual vitality
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Deference

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Respect or esteem due to a superior or elder

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Derivative

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Made up of derived elements

Lacking originality

Math or chemical

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Deride

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  1. To laugh at contemptuously

2. To subject to bitter or contemptuous ridicule

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Daunt

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To lessen the courage of

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Craven

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Archaic: Defeated or vanquished

Lacking the least bit of courage

Synonym cowardly

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Contention

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An act of struggle debate or argument rivalry competition

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Commensurate

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Corresponding in size or extent

“Salary commensurate with experience”

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Chicanery

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Deception by artful subterfuge

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Caustic

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Biting wit acid or acidic

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Castigation

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Subject to severe punishment

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Burgeon

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To send forth a new growth to bloom to flourish

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Boorish

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Crude insensitivity

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Bombastic

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Mark by given or given to pretentious inflated speech or writing

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Belie

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To give a false impression of

To show something to be wrong or false

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Banal

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Lacking originality freshness or novelty: trite

Synonym: insipid

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Attenuate

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Reduced especially in thickness density report

Tapering gradually usually to a long slender point

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Assuage

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To lessen the intensity of to pacify or to quiet

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Assiduous

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Careful unremitting attention or persistent application.

“she was assiduous in pointing out every feature”.

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Artless

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Lacking art

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Arduous

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Hard to accomplish or achieve

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Appropriate [V.]

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To take exclusive possession of: Annex

To set apart or assigned to particular purpose

To take or make use of without authority or right

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Apprise

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To give notice to or to tell

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Antipathy

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Obsolete: Opposition in feeling

Settled aversion or dislike

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Analogous

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Showing inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others

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Anachronism

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An error in chronology

A person or thing that is chronologically out of place

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Ameliorate

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To make better or more tolerable

To grow better

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Amalgamate

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To merge into a single body

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Admonish

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To indicate duties or obligations to

To express warning to especially in a gentle earnest or solicitous manner

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Abscond

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To depart secretly and to hide oneself

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Abate

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To put an end to

To reduce in degree or intensity

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Occlude

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To close up or block off

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Equivocate

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To use language with two or more meanings especially with the intent to deceive

To avoid committing oneself in what one says

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Intractable

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Not easily governed, managed, or directed

not easily relieved

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Engender

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To beget or procreate

To cause to exist

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Penchant

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I strong and continued inclination

Broadly liking

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Invective

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Of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse

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Inured

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Accustomed to something undesirable

“Children inured to violence”

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Impassive

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Giving no sign of feeling or emotion

Unsusceptible or destitute of emotion: apathetic

@reillyadam: As he describes fatally shooting McLaughlin six times, Flemmi’s totally impassive. Just an old dude reminiscing about his lifelong career.

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Indolent

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Lazy

Causing little or no pain

Slow to develop or heal

Adverse to activity, lazy

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Insipid

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Lacking taste or savor

Lacking qualities that interest

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Innocuous

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Producing no injury

Not likely to give offense Or to arouse strong feeling

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Elegy

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A song or poem expressing sorrow especially for one who is dead

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Laud

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Praise acclaim

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Efficacy

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The power to produce an effect

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Erudite

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Having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying

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Immutable

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Not capable of or susceptible to change

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Perfidious

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Disloyal

Relating to or characterized by the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal

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Ebullient

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Boiling or agitated

Having or showing liveliness and enthusiasm

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Divest

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To deprive or dispossess especially of property authority or title

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Inert

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Lacking the power to move

Very slow to move or act

Deficient in active properties

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Guileless

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Innocent and naïve

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Endemic

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Belonging or native to a particular people or country

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Flag [V.]

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To decline in interest attraction or value

To become unsteady feeble or spiritless

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Mollify

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To soothe in temper

to appease

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Malinger

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To fake being sick to get out of work

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Laconic

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Using or involving the use of minimal words

concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious

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Incongruity

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being incompatible

not harmonious

not conforming

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Fawn

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To show affection

to court favor

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Insularity

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Of relating to or constituting an island

Being isolated

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Pedantic

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Narrow stodgily and often ostentatiously learned.

Unimaginative pedestrian

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Paragon

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A model of excellence or perfection

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Extrapolation

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To project extend or expand data or experience into an area not known

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Idolatry

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The worship of a physical object as a God

Immoderate attachment or devotion to something

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Pathological

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caused by disease

Existing to an extreme degree

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Garrulous

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Given to speech that is dull or commonplace

pointlessly or annoyingly talkative

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Impede

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To interfere with or slow the progression of

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Obsequious

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Subservient

Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

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Empirical

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Originating in or based on observation or experience

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