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Assuage

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To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet , calm to put an end to

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Expostulate

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To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning

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Hiatus

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A gap opening break

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Lurid

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Causing shock horror or revulsion senational

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Approbation

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the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval

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Meritorious

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Worthy deserving recognition and praise

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Petulant

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Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset

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Simulate

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Make a pretense of, imitate to show the outer signs of

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Transcend

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To rise above or beyond, exceed

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Umbrage

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Shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power, offense, resentment; a vague suspicion

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Unctuous

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Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity ir piety; fatty oily pliable

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Aplomb

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Poise assurance great self confidence perpendicularity

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Ex officio

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By virtue of holding a certain office

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Exhort

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To urge strongly advise earnestly

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Infringe

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To violate trespass , go beyond recognized bounds

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Intrinsic

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Belonging to someone or something by it very nature, essential inherent originating in a bodily organ or part

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Inveigh

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To make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval

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Lassitude

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Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy

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Stringent

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Strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling

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Surmise

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To think or believe without certain support evidence to conjecture or guess; likely idea that lacks definite proof

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Abominate

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To have an intense dislike or hatred for

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Accultration

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The modification of the social patterns, traits or structured of one group or society by contact with those of another

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Enjoin

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To direct order; to prescribe a course of action in an authority way; to prohibit

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Expedite

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To make easy, cause to progress faster

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Ferment
A state of great excitement, agitation or turbulence
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Proclivity
A natural or habitual inclination or tendency
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Sangfroid
Composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances
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Vitriolic
Bitter sarcastic; highly caustic or biting
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Wheedle
To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end
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Affable
Courteous and pleasant sociable easy to speak to
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Amorphous
Shapeless without definite form of no particular type of character; without organization , unity or cohesion
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Erudite
Scholarly, learned, bookish
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Gossamer
Thin light delicate insubstantial
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Insular
Relating to characteristics of or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience
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Querulous
Peevish, complaining fretful
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Repudiate
To disown, reject, or deny the validity of
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Resilient
Able to return to an original shape or form, able to recover quickly
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Reverberate
To re echo, resound to reflect or be reflected repeatedly
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Scurrilous
Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low; foul mouthed
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Axiomatic
Self evident, expressing a universally accepted principle
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Blazon
To adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim widely
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Caveat
A warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
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Extricate
To free from entanglements or difficulties to remove with effort
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Filch
To steal especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts
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Flout
To mock, treat with contempt
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Fractious
Tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable
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Salutaty
Beneficial, helpful; healthful, wholesome
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Sepulchral
Funereal, typical of the tomb; extremely gloomy or dismal
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Soporific
Tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy
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Anomalous
Abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
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Aspersion
A damaging or derogatory statement
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Brusque
Abrupt, blunt, with no formalities
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Cajole
To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises
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Contrive
To plan with ingenuity to bring about through a plan
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Castigate
To punish severely to criticize severely
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Fetter
A chain or shackle placed on feet
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Insurgent
One who rebels or rises against authority
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Megalomania
A delusion marked by feeling of power, wealth, talent
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Surreptitious
Stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud
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Austere
Severe or stern in matter; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
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Debase
To lower in character, quality or value
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Inconsequential
Trifling unimportant
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Infraction
A breaking of a law or obligation
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Mitigate
To make milder or softer to moderate in force or intensity
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Pillage
To rob of goods by open force
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Reprove
To find fault with, scold, rebuke
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Acrimonious
Stinging, bitter in temper or tone
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Bovine
Resembling a cow or ox ; sluggish unresponsive
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Corpulent
Fat, having a large bulky body
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Disavow
To deny responsibility for or connection with
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Gaunlet
An armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them
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Odium
Hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct
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Perfidy
Faithlessness treachery

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