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Abscond

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Run away, often taking something or somebody along

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Accretion

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An increase by natural growth or addition

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Adjudicate

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Hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of

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Admonish

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Scold or reprimand; take to task

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Adulation

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Exaggerated flattery or praise

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Alacrity

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Liveliness and eagerness

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Amalgamate

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Bring or combine together or with something else

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Ameliorate

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Make better

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Antipodes

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Two Places direct opposite sides of the Earth

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Antithetical

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Sharply contrasted in character or purpose

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Augmented

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Added to or made greater in amount or number or strength

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August

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Profoundly honored

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Avaricious

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Immoderately desirous of acquireing something

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Beauteous

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(poetic) Beautiful, especially to the sight

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Befuddle

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Be confusing or perplexing to

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Bellicose

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Having or showing a ready disposition to fight

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Braggadocio

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Vain and empty boasting

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Cadence

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The accent in a metrical foot of verse

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Capacious

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Large in the amount that can be contained

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Caprice

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A sudden desire

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Charlatan

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A flamboyant deceiver

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Clandestine

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Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

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Corpulence

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The property of excessive fatness

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Craven

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Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful

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Cudgel
A club that is used as a weapon
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Culpability
A state of guilt
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Deleterious
Harmful to living things
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Derisive
Expressing contempt or ridicule
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Despost
A cruel and oppressive dictator
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Diaphanous
So thin as to transmit light
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Doggerel
A comic verse of irregular measure
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Dolorous
Showing sorrow
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Elegiac
Resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
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Ephemeral
Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
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Equanimity
Steadiness of mind under stressEr
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udite
Having or showing profound knowledge
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Extol
Praise, glorify, or honor
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Factious
Dissenting with the majority opinion
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Factotum
A servant employed to do a variety of jobs
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Fealty
The loyalty that one owes to a country, sovereign, or lord
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Flippant
Showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness
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Foment
Try to stir up
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Galvanize
Stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock
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Gentrification
Change in poorer areas due to an influx of wealthier people
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Gregarious
Temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
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Guerdon
A reward or payment
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Hubris
Overbearing pride or presumption
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Idiosyncratic
Peculiar to the individual
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Ignominy
A state of dishonor
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Imperious
Having or showing arrogant superirority
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Incongruous
Lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
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Incontrovertible
Impossible to deny or disprove
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Inexorable
Impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
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Insidious
Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
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Ire
Anger; irritability
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Jocular
Characterized by jokes and good humor
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Lascivious
Driven by lust
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Martinet
Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
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Martyr
One who voluntarily suffers death
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Misogynist
A misanthrope who dislikes women in particular
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Modicum
A small or moderate or token amount
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Monastic
Relating to life in an isolated religious community
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Moribund
Being on the point of death
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Morose
Showing a brooding ill humor
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Motley
Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
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Multifarious
Having many aspects
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Myopic
Unable to see distant objects clearly
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Nebulous
Lacking definite form or limits
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Nefarious
Extremely wicked
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Onerous
Burdensome or difficult to endure
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Parsimonious
Excessively unwilling to spend
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Penchant
A strong liking or preference
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Penury
A state of extreme poverty or destitution
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Pernicious
Exceedingly harmful
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Poignant
Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
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Pragmatic
Concerned with practical matters
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Precipitous
Extremely steep
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Prescient
Perceiving the significance of events before they occur
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Purloin
Make off with belongings of others
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Querulous
Habitually complaining
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Rectitude
Righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
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Rector
A person authorized to conduct religious worship
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Reticence
The trait of being uncommunicative
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Salient
Conspicuous, prominent, or important
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Sanctimonious
Excessively or hypocritically pious
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Sanguinary
Accompanied by bloodshed
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Saturnine
Bitter or scornful
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Solicitous
Full of anxiety and concern
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Stasis
Inactivity resulting from a balance between opposing forces
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Stoicism
An indifference to pleasure or pain
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Stringent
Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
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Supercilious
Having or showing arrogant superiority
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Surreptitious
Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
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Sycophant
A person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
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Synaesthesia
A sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
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Taciturn
Habitually reserved and uncommunicative
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Truculence
Stubborn and defiant aggressiveness
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Venal
Capable of being corrupted
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Vociferous
Conspicuously and offensively loud
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Penitent
Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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Irrevocable
Incapable of being retracted

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