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Adamant

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Stubborn;; completely inflexible

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Acute

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Sharp; shrewd

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Address

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To speak to; to direct one’s attention to

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Adherent

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Follower; supporter; believer

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Admonish

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To scold gently; to warn

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Adroit

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Skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease

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Adulation

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Wild or excessive admiration; flattery

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Adulterate

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To contaminate; to make impure

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Adiverse

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Unfavorable; antagonistic

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Aesthetic

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Having to do with artistic beauty; artistic

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Affable

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Easy to talk to; friendly

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Affectation

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A natural or artificial behavior, usually intended to impressed

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Affinity

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Sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity

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Affluent

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Rich; prosperous

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Agenda

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Program; the things to be done

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Aggregate

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Sum total; a collection of separate things mixed together

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Agnostic

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One who believes that the existence of a God can be neither proven or disproven

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Agrarian

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Relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land

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Alacrity

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Cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond

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Allege

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To a certain without proof

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Alleviate

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To relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen

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Allocate

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To distribute; to assign; to a lot

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Alloy

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A combination of two or more things, usually metals