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Ensconced

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Place to hide

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Cynical

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Selfish / dishonest / negative attitide

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Plaited

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Braided

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Dissentient

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To publicly disagree with an official opinion

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Enmity

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Very deep unfriendly feelings

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Pre-eminent

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More important / skillful / successful than others

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Apathy

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Not having much emotion or interest

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Gambolled

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To run or jump in a lively way

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Conceived

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To become pregnant / give birth

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Acute

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Strong / sharp / sensitive / clear

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Cryptic

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Has a hidden meaning, difficult to understand

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Maxim

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A common, well known truth / saying

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Tractable

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Easy and simple to control

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Contemptible

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Doesn’t deserve any acknowledgement or respect

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Flogging

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To whip someone / to be whipped

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Irrepressible

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Can’t be stopped, usually in a positive manner

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Ignominious

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Making / causing shame

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Impromptu

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Made up on the spot with no planning

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Pretext

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A lie to cover up what you’re really doing

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Publican

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Someone who owns a pub

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Manifestly

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Easily seen / recognizable

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Liable

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Able to be held responsible for something

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Innovation

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New idea or new improvment

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Procured

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To obtain by some effort

Restive

Difficult to control

Articulate

To speak clearly

Disinter

To reveal

Arable

Able to grow crops

Malignity

The effect is evil

Capitulated

To surrender and to make an agreement like a treaty

Attribute

A characteristic / quality

Graphically

Vivid clear picture / explination

Categorically

Divided into an organized system

Countenance

Calm expression

Incited

To stir up and move to action

Retribution

Something given in payment for an offensive

Sulking

To be angry or upset, and stubborn

Rash

To be too quick in speech or action

Machinations

A plan to usually target towards accomplishing evil

Censured

Act of blaming someone

Conciliatory

To have people agree

Unscathed

Not hurt, harmed, or damaged

Contrived

Fake

Superannuated

Old, out of date

Complicity

To associate with the wrong group

Demeanor

A behavior

Inebriate

To make drunk

Morose

Having a negative attitude, sullen, gloomy

Taciturn

Temperamentally declined to talk

Subsisted

To exist