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Axiomatic

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Taken as a given; possessing self evident truth

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Chicanery

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Trickery; subterfuge

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Extemporaneous

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improvised; done without preparation

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Deleterious

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Hurtful morally or physically. Harmful

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Fatuous

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Foolish or silly, especially in a smug, self-satisfied way

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Subterfuge

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Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Deliquesce

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To melt away

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Derogate

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To take away; detract; to deviate from a standard

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Scurrilous

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Grossly indecent or vulgar; offensive

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Arduous

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Strenuous, taxing, requiring effort

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Audacious

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Daring and fearless; recklessly bold

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the norm

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Austere

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Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

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Assuage

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To ease or lessen; to pacify

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Abase

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Cause to feel shame; to hurt the pride of

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal order, form or rule

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Ascetic

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Avoiding pleasure and comfort

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Sebaceous

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Pertaining to, appearing like fat

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Antedate

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To be of an earlier date than; precede in time. To affix a date earlier than he actual date

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Injurious

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Causing or tending to cause injury; offensive or insulting

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Deluge

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To overwhelm with a flood of water

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Ataraxia

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Peace of mind. State of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety

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Demulcent
An application soothing to a surface
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Capricious
Inclined to change ones mind impulsively; erratic
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Manumit
To free from bondage or slavery
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Bacarole
Boat song of a Venetian gondolier
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Convoluted
Complex or complicated
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Censure
To criticize severely
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Antedate
Be earlier I time; go back further. Precede, predate
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Onerous
troubling; burdensome
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Bestir
To cause to become active; to rouse
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Scruple
An uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action; moral compass
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Approbation
An expression of approval or praise
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Obtuse
lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
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Dendroid
Like a tree
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Artless
An inability to mask ones feelings; not devious, simple, showing lack of art
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Aberrant
markedly different from an accepted norm
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Ennui
dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
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Disabuse
to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking
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Abscond
To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
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Disparate
fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
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Equivocate
to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
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Anomaly
deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
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Connoisseur
An informed and astute judge in matters of taste
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Discordant
conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
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Eloquent
well-spoken; expressive; articulate
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Demurrage
The detention of a vessels beyond the time allowed
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Enervate
to weaken; to reduce in vitality
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Effrontery
brazen boldness; presumptuousness
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Erudite
very learned; scholarly
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Exculpate
to clear from blame; prove innocent
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Ingenuous
artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
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Fulminate
to loudly attack or denounce
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Inured
accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Irascible
Easily angered
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Exigent
urgent; requiring immediate action
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Laud
to praise highly
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Filibuster
intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
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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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Paean
a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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Parody
humorous imitation
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Prescience
foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
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Nascent
coming into being; in early development
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Prattle
to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
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Lucid
easily understood; clear
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Nebulous
hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused
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Noxious
harmful; injurious
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Torque
a force that causes rotation
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Perspicacious
acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
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Neologism
new word or expression
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Static
not moving, active, or in motion; at rest
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Obviate
to anticipate and make unnecessary
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Perennial
(adj.) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n.) a plant that lives for many years
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Synthesis
the combination of ideas into a complex whole
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Perfidy
Intentional breach of faith; treachery
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Precipitate
acting with excessive haste or impulse
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Predilection
a predisposition in favor of something
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Sordid
characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul
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Prevaricate
to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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Qualms
misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
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Voracious
having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
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Perfunctory
cursory; done with minimum effort or reflection
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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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Veracity
truthfulness
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Solicitous
concerned and attentive; eager; showing interest
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Waver
to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
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Sporadic
occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
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Tortuous
winding; twisting; excessively complicated
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Stymie
to block; thwart
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Truculent
fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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Squander
to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Virulent
extremely poisonous; full of malice; spiteful
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Stupefy
to stun, baffle, or amaze

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