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Surreptitiously

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Acting with or marked by stealth

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Decorum

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Appropriate behavior or conduct

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Unorthodox

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Breaking with convention or tradition

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Incredulous

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Skeptical; disbelieving

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Superfluous

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Being beyond what is required ot sufficient; over abundant

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Promiscuous

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Indulgence in casual sexual activity with multiple partners

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Heretic

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A person who holds controversial opinions; one who dissents from the accepted

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Croon

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To hum or sing softly

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Grievance

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An actual or supposed circumstance regarded as just cause for complaint

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Replica

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A copy or reproduction

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Prototype

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An original type, form, or instance serving as a standard for later stages

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Notorious

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Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous

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Overzealous

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Too enthusiastic; overly determined

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Decant

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To pour off; to pour from one container to another

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Pneumatic

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filled with or containing compressed air; voluptuous

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Surrogate

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a substitute

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Infantile

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pertaining to an infant; babyish; childish

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Indefatigable

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Incable of being fatigued; tireless

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Precipice

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the edge of the cliff; overhanging mass of rock

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Inexorable

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unyielding, unalterable; not to be persuaded moved or affected by prayers or entreaties