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Onerous

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Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome

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Obviate

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To prevent or make unnecessary

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Obdurate

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Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion

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Naive

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Lacking sophistication or experience

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Mollify

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To calm; make less severe

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Malinger

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To evade responsibility; pretending to be ill. Exaggerate or feign illness to escape duty or work

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Lavish

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(v.) to give unsparingly
(adj.) extremely generous or extravagant

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Irascible

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Easily made angry

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled

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Insipid

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Lacking interest or flavor

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Inimical

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hostile; unfriendly

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Inchoate

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not fully formed; disorganized

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Impetuous

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Quick to act without thinking

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Iconoclast

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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions

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Guile

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Deceit or trickery

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Gregarious

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Outgoing, sociable

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Garrulous (antonym: laconic)

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Tending to talk a lot

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Foment

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To arouse or incite

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Florid

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Excessively decorated or embellished

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Fervid

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Intensely emotional, feverish

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Fanatical

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acting excessively enthusiastic, filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion

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Exculpate

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to clear from blame; prove innocent

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Eulogy

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Speech in praise of someone

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Estimable

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admirable

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Esoteric

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Known or understood by only a few

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Erudite

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Learned, scholarly, bookish

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Equivocate

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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

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Equivocal

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Open to more than one interpretation; misleading

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short time

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Enigma

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Puzzle; mystery

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Engender

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To produce, cause, or bring about

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Enervate

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to reduce in strength

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Eloquent

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persuasive and moving (especially in speech)

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Eclectic

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Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources

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Dogmatic

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Dictatorial in one’s own opinions

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Dissemble

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to present a false appearance; to disguise one’s real intentions or character

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Disparate (antonym: homogenous)

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Fundamentally different; entirely unlike

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Discern

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to perceive; to recognize

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Disabuse

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to set right; to free from error

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Dirge

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a funeral hymn or mournful speech

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Dilettante

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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

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Dilatory

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intended to delay

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Diffident

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Lacking self-confidence

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Desultory

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jumping from one thing to another; disconnected

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Desiccate

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to dry out thoroughly

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Deride

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to speak of or treat with contempt; to mock

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Deference

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respect, courtesy

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Credulous

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too trusting; gullible

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Cogent

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Convincing and well-reasoned

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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile

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Chauvinist

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Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs

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Caustic

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Sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way

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Castigate

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To punish or criticize harshly

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Cacophany

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Harsh, jarring noise

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Bombastic

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Pompous in speech and manner

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Austere

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Rigorous, severe, stern in appearance

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Audacious

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Fearless and daring

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Attenuate

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To reduce in force or degree, to weaken

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Assuage

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to make something unpleasant, less severe

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Ardor

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Intense and passionate feeling

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Antipathy

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extreme dislike

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Ameliorate

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to make better; to improve

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Amalgamate

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to combine; mix together

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Aggrandize

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to increase in power, influence, and reputation

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Adulterate

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to make impure

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Occlude

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to stop up; prevent the passage of

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Opprobrium

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public disgrace

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Ostentation

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excessive showiness

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Paragon

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model of excellence or perfection

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Pedant

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someone who shows off learning

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Perfidious

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willing to betray one’s trust

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Prevaricate

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to lie or deviate from the truth

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Perfunctory

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done in a routine way, indifferent
- lack of interest, quickly and carelessly

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Plastic

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able to be shaped, molded, altered, or bent

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Pragmatic

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practical as opposed to idealistic

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Precipitate

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to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation

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Prodigal

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lavish; wasteful

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Proliferate

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to increase in number quickly

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Propitiate

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to conciliate; to appease

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Propriety

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decorum; appropriate behavior; obedience to rules and customs

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Prudence

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wisdom, caution, or restraint

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Quiescent

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motionless

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Rarefy

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to make thinner or sparser

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Repudiate

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to reject the validity of

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Reticent

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silent; reserved

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Rhetoric

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effective writing or speaking

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Soporific

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causing sleep or lethargy

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Specious

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deceptively attractive, seemingly plausible but fallacious

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Stolid

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unemotional; lacking sensitivity

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Sublime

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lofty or grand

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Tacit

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done without using words

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Taciturn

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silent, not talkative

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Torpor

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extreme mental and physical sluggishness

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Transitory (syn. - ephemeral)

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temporary, lasting a brief time

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Vacillate

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to sway physically; to be indecisive

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Venerate

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to respect deeply

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Veracity

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truthfulness; accuracy

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Verbose

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wordy

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Zeal

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passion, excitement

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Whimsical

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acting in a fanciful or capricious manner, unpredictable

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Waver

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to fluctuate between choices

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Volatile

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easily aroused or changeable, lively or explosive

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Vex

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to annoy

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Tirade

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long, harsh speech or verbal attack

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Stigma

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a mark of shame or discredit

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Satiate

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to satisfy fully or overindulge

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Pungent

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sharp and irritating to the senses

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Pristine

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fresh and clean; uncorrupted

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Plethora

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excess

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Placate

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to soothe or pacify

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Philanthropy

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charity; a desire or an effort to promote goodness

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Permeate

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to penetrate

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Paradox

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contradiction or dilemma

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Opaque

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impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light

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Obstinate

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stubborn; unyielding

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Obsequious

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overly submissive and eager to please

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Monotony

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lack of variation

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Mitigate

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to soften; to lessen

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Misanthrope

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a person who dislikes others

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Meticulous

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extremely careful about details

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol

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Malleable

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capable of being shaped

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Luminous

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bright, brilliant, glowing

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Lucid

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clear and easily understood

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Loquacious

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talkative

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Lethargic

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acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner

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Laud

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to praise

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Lament

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to express sorrow; to grieve

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Inundate

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to overwhelm; to cover with water

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Ingenuous

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showing innocence or childlike simplicity

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Implacable

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unable to be calmed down or made peaceful

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Impervious

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impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected

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Imperturbable

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not capable of being disturbed

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Homogenous

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of a similar kind

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Gullible

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easily deceived

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Frugality

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a tendency to be thrifty or cheap

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Fawn

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to grovel

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Explicit

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Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression

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Exonerate

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to clear of blame

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Exigent

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urgent; requiring immediate action

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Exacerbate

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to make worse

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Euphemism

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use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one

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Erratic

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wandering and unpredictable

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Enumerate

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to count, list, or itemize

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Emulate

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to copy; to try to equal or excel

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Elegy

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a sorrowful poem or speech

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Efficacy

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effectiveness

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Dupe

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to deceive; a person who’s easily deceived

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dogma

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a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief

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Dissonance

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A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds

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Dilate

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to make larger, to expand

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Diatribe

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an abusive, condemnatory speech

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Decorum

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appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety

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Crescendo

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steadily increasing in volume or force

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Corroborate

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to provide supporting evidence

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Convoluted

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intricate and complicated

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Condone

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to overlook, pardon, or disregard

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Chaos

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great disorder or confusion

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Catalyst

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something that brings about a change in something else

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Capricious

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Changing one’s mind quickly and often

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Candid

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Impartial and honest in speech

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Bolster

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to support, to prop up

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Banal

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predictable, cliched, boring

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articulate

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able to speak clearly and expressively

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Archaic

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ancient, old-fashioned

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Arbitrate

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to judge a dispute between two opposing parties

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Apathy

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lack of interest/emotion

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Antagonize

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to annoy or provoke to anger

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Anomaly

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deviation from what is normal

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Analogous

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similar or alike in some way; equivalent to

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Anachronism

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out of place in time

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Ambiguous

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doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted several ways

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Alleviate

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to make more bearable

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Aesthetic

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concerning the appreciation of beautty

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Advocate

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to speak in favor of

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Abyss

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an extremely deep hole

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Abstain

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to refrain from

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Abscond

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to leave secretly

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Abate

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to reduce in amount, degree, or severity

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