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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Deleterious

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Causing harm or damage

S: The deleterious effects of the hurricane.

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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect

Syn: malign, baneful, pestilent)

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Querrelous

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Complaining in a petulant/whining manner

S: Sabrina’s querrelous manner is vexing.

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Parsimony, parsimonious

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Stingy

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Probity

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Good behavior, integrity, honesty, uprightness

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Precocity

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Intelligence developed far ahead of one’s developmental years

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Circumspect

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Wary, unwillingness to take risks

Syn: cautious, prudent

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Odium

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General widespread hatred or disgust

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Predilection

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A preference or special liking

Syn: fondness, penchant, partiality

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Loquacious

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Excessively talkative

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Debacle

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A great disaster, complete failure

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Wane

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To decrease gradually in size, amount or degree

Sales were waning quarterly causing the investors great concern.

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Affable

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Friendly, good natured, easy to talk to, like-able

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Insipid

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Lacking vigor or interest

Syn: flat, vapid

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Churlish

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Rude in a mean spirited, surly way

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Surly

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Bad- tempered and unfriendly

Syn: morose, gruff, sullen, sulky

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Servile

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Having or showing and excessive willingness to please

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative

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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive degree

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Acrimonious

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Using sharp language

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Inure

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To become accustomed to

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the proper or expected course

The dogs aberrant eating behavior alerted the owner that there was indeed a problem.

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Decorous

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Polite, restrained; in keeping with good taste and propriety

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Repatriate
Send back to homeland against one's will
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Extradite
To give up or deliver to the legal jurisdiction of another government
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Commandeer
Take official control or possession of
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Appropriate
Set apart for use; take possession of or take something for one's own use Syn: apposite, convenient, suitable
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Interdict
Prohibit, forbid, an authoritative prohibition
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Indigent
Poor, needy
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Imbibe
Act of consuming liquid
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Lugubrious
Looking or sounding sad and dismal
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Lucubration
Study, meditation, intense study
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Magnanimity
Generous in forgiving; high-minded, noble
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Pedantic
Excessive attention to book learning and rules; use learning to show off
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Prodigious
Remarkably or impressively great in extent | Syn: stupendous, marvellous
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Ubiquitous
Existing everywhere at the same time
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Volubility | Voluble
Talkative, marked by a steady flow of speech
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Impugn
Dispute the truth | Syn: challenge, contest, dispute
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Penury
Extreme poverty, destitution
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Placate
To please, to pacify OR allay the anger of
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Placid
Calm and satisfied
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Depravity
Moral corruption, a wicked act | Syn: corruption, perversion
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Perverse
Turned away from what is right or good
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Complacent
Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or ones achievements Syn: pleased, contented, satisfied
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Turgid
Swollen and distended or congested
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Timorous
Suffering for nervousness fear or lack of confidence | Syn: shy, timid
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Inveterate
Long established and unlikely to change | Syn: in-grained, deep seated
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Predilection
A preference or special liking for something | Syn: penchant, partiality, fondness
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Erudite
Having or showing great knowledge or learning | Syn: learned, scholarly
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Nascent
Just coming into existence and showing signs of future potential, not fully developed
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Intractable
Hard to control or deal with; difficulty, stubborn
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Archaic
Very old or old fashioned
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Astute
Having an ability to accurately asses situations | Syn: shrewd, crafty, cunning
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Benignant
Kindly and benevolent, having a good effect, beneficial | Syn: gracious, benevolent
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Iconoclastic
To attack/ seek to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions
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Reprobate
Scoundrel, unprincipled person (humorously)
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Mercurial
One subject to sudden or unpredictable changes
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Equivocate
Using ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth; avoid making an explicit statement

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