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Abridge

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To shorten, diminish

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Abate

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To reduce in intensity it amount

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Adulterate

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To make impure by adding lesser substances, to corrupt

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Apprehend

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To seize, arrest, to take into custody; or understand, become aware of

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Bestial

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Brutally lacking reason, having the attributes of a savage

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Brazen

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Shameless, insolent, disrespectful

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Boisterous

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Rowdy, rough, and stormy

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Bulwark

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A strong defense, something that defends

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Carnal

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Marked by sexuality that is often frank, crude and unrelieved by higher emotions

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Celestial

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Pertaining to the sky or heavens

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Chide

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To voice disapproval, scold

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Circumscribed

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Restricted or limited

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Circumvent

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To get around something, to outwit, frustrate; avoid

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Clemency

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Leniency

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Communal

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Pertaining to a group or community

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Conjecture

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An inference or conclusion drawn or deduced by dummies or guesswork

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Dexterous

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Skillful and active with the hands; manually adroit and skillfull

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Diligent

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Characterized by steady, earnest, attentive, and energetic effort in a pursuit or study

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Discord

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Lack of agreement, tension, strife

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Discretion

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Ability to act on ones own power of individual decision

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Emulate

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To try to equal or be like, usually through imitation

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Enmity

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Positive hatred

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Entreaty

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A plea, an earnest request

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Extant
Still in existence
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Extol
To praise, glorify
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Felicitous
Happy or delightful
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Fetter
To restrict by shackling or chaining
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Forestalled
Prevented or delayed beforehand
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Galling
Very irritating
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Gambol
To playfully skip or leap
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Germane
Important to the issue at hand, pertinent
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Gratis
Free
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Homage
A reverential regard; respect shown by external action
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Impetuous
Violent, hasty, rash, impulsive
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Infallible
Incapable of error
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Ingenuity
Cleverness, inventiveness, resourcefulness
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Insolence
Insulting or contemptible behavior
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Inter
To deposit a dead body into a grave
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Jaded
Weary from overuse, surfeited
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Lament
To mourn or express sorrow in a demonstrative manner
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Loathe
Detest
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Oblivion
State of being forgotten
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Obsequious
Overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile
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Obstinate
Unyielding regardless of reason or logic
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Paragon
A model of excellence or perfection
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Partisan
One who exhibits extreme and possibly bound allegiance to a group or cause
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Peevish
Fretful, obstinate
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Perdition
Eternal damnation, utter ruin
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Pernicious
Very destructive, or harmful, deadly
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Peruse
To read or examine
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Pithy
Concise and meaningful
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Portent
A sign or forewarning
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Precept
A rule guiding conduct or imposing a standard
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Precursor
Something that comes before, forerunner
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Prodigal
Wasteful, person given to extravagance
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Profane
Showing contempt roared sacred things
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Promontory
Land or rock projecting into a body of water
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Reconcile
To reestablish friendship, to resolve a dispute
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Resolute
Characterized by decided purpose
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Replicate
To repeat, copy or duplicate
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Requite
To make repayment or return
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Sanctify
To set apart for sacred use, to make holy, to purify
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Shrill
A high pitched or piercing sound
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Spurn
To reject or refuse with hostility
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Superfluous
Beyond what us needed or required, an overflow
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Traducer
One who slanders or speaks falsely about someone
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Turbulence
Wild or disturbing activity
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Valid
Well-grounded, justifiable
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Vulnerable
Susceptible to injury or attack
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Wan
Very pale and sickly
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Wantonness
Immoral, lewd
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Warranted
Justified
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Whets
Stimulates, sharpens
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Ostentatious
Showy, pretentious

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