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Aberrant

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Deviating from the norm (noun form: aberration)

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality (adj. form: anomalous)

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Arduous

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Strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort

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Assuage

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To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify

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Audacious

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Daring and fearless; recklessly bold

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Austere

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Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

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Axiomatic

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Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Capricious

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Inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable

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Censure

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To criticize severely; to officially rebuke

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Chicanery

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Trickery or subterfuge

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Connoisseur

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An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert

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Convoluted

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Complex or complicated

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Disabuse

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To undeceive; to set right

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Discordant

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Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

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Disparate

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness; presumptuousness

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Eloquent

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Well-spoken, expressive, articulate

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Enervate

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To weaken; to reduce in vitality

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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Erudite

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Very learned; scholarly

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Exculpate
Exonerate; to clear of blame
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Exigent
Urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
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Extemporaneous
Improvised; done without preparation
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Filibuster
Intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speech making to delay legislative action
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Fulminate
To loudly attack or denounce
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Ingenuous
Artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
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Inured
Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Irascible
Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
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Laud
To praise highly
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Lucid
Clearly; easily understood
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Magnanimity
The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving
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Martial
Associated with war and the armed forces
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Mundane
Of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
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Nascent
Coming into being; in early developmental stages
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Nebulous
Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
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Neologism
A new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
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Noxious
Harmful, injurious
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Obtuse
Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
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Obviate
To anticipate and make unnecessary
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Onerous
Troubling; burdensome
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Paean
A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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Parody
A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art
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Perennial
Recurrent through the year or man years; happening repeatedly
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Perfidy
Intentional breach of faith; treachery
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Perfunctory
Cursory; done without care or interest
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Perspicacious
Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
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Prattle
To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
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Precipitate
(Adj.) acting with excessive haste or impulse | (Verb) to cause or happen before anticipated or required
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Predilection
A disposition in favor of something; preference
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Abscond
To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
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Prescience
Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
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Prevaricate
To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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Qualms
Misgivings; reservations; cause for hesitancy
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Recant
To retract, esp. a previously held belief
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Refute
To disprove; to successfully argue against
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Relegate
To forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position
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Reticent
Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
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Solicitous
Concerned and attentive; eager
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Sordid
Characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul
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Sporadic
Occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
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Squander
To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Static
Not moving, active, or in motion; at rest
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Stupefy
To stun, baffle, or amaze
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Stymie
To block; to thwart
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Synthesis
The combination of parts to make a whole
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Torque
A force that causes rotation
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Tortuous
Winding, twisting; excessively complicated
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Truculent
Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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Veracity
Truthfulness, honesty
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Virulent
Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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Voracious
Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
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Waver
To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion

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