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Overture

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Something introductory, prelude

Proposal

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Bleak

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Not warm, friendly, cheerful

Not hopeful or encouraging

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Generic

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General

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Gravity

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a serious situation or problem

The condition of being grave or serious

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Diverting

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Providing amusement or entertainment

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Propitious

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Favourable

Likely to have or produce good result

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Brute

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Very strong and forceful

Very harsh

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Flout

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to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn

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Culpable

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Blameworthy

Guilty

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Fret

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To agitate

To cause to suffer emotional strain

To become worried

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Stagnate

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To stop developing, moving etc

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Arduous

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Very difficult.

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Outlandish

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Very strange or unusual

Foreign

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Frenzy

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A temporary madness

intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity

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Intrinsic

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belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing

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Sway

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to cause (someone) to agree with you or to share your opinion

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Refute

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to prove wrong

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Disregard

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: to ignore (something) or treat (something) as unimportant

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Idle

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lacking worth or basis

not occupied or employed

Lazy

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Rehash

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to talk over or discuss again

to present or use again in another form without substantial change or improvement

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Transcend

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To overcome

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Manage

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to have control of

to take care of and make decisions about

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Empirical

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based on testing or experience

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Obscure

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not well-known : not known to most people

Difficult to understand

difficult or impossible to know completely and with certainty

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Resonate
To have particular meaning or importance to
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Subvert
to make (something) weaker or less effective to overturn or overthrow from the foundation : ruin
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Induce
to cause (someone or something) to do something to cause (something) to happen or exist
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Ascribe
to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author Accredit, attribute
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Fare
To cope, to get along To do something well or badly
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Outright
Completely, quickly
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Malfeasance
illegal or dishonest activity
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Hysteria
A state/situation in which your emotions (such as fear) are so strong that you behave in an uncontrolled way
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Backhanded
Sarcastic Not direct or sincere
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Paltry
Meager, very small in amount Trivial Mean, despicable
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Amplify
to speak or write about (something) in a more complete way To increase strength of
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serve
To help
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Secure
獲取
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Proscription
Banning, barring, prohibition
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Aggrandise
To increase, to enlarge To make appear greater To enhance power
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Milieu
Environment, background
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Salutary
Healthful, promoting health
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Corrosive
Bitingly sarcastic causing someone or something to become weak and damaged
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Cede
To give up controls To assign, to transfer
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Ascribe
To accredit, to attribute To refer to a supposed cause
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Erosion
the gradual destruction of something by natural forces The process of eroding
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Dire
very bad : causing great fear or worry requiring immediate action : very urgent warning of disaster
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Wane
to become smaller or less : to decrease in size, amount, length, or quality
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Capitulate
to surrender often after negotiation of terms to cease resisting
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Conform
to obey or agree with something to behave in a way that is accepted by most people to be similar to or the same as something
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Hindsight
perception of the nature of an event after it has happened
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Overlook
to fail to see or notice (something) to pay no attention to (something) to not consider
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Proximity
Closeness, the state of being near
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Punctilious
very carefu
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Rigorous
very strict and demanding done carefully and with a lot of attention to detail
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Expedient
an easy and quick way to solve a problem or do something
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Peddle
to try to get people to accept or believe To sell
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Inspire
To encourage to cause (something) to happen or be created
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Disingenuous
not truly honest or sincere
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Poignant
causing a strong feeling of sadness
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Mercenary
serving merely for pay or advantage
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Reiterate
to repeat something you have already said in order to emphasize it
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Hedge
to avoid giving a promise or direct answer
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Quiescent
Not active
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Accession
Increase by adding Something added, acquiescence The act of coming near
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Castigate
To criticise harshly
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Chastise
To criticise harshly
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Decouple
to eliminate the interrelationship of
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Evasive
done to avoid harm, an accident, etc. not honest or direct
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Certitude
Certainty
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Integrity
Honesty, completeness, soundness
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Humility
the quality or state of being humble
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Cachet
Prestige
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Accentuate
To make more noticeable To emphasise, to intensify
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Occlude
To block, to obstruct, to make difficult to see
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Chimerical
fantastically visionary or improbable Imaginary
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Inception
Origin, birth
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Extraction
Birth, ancestry
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Punctilious
Careful
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Plain
something free from artifice, ornament, or extraneous matter a large area of flat land without trees
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Peripatetic
Itinerant
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Revelation
a usually secret or surprising fact that is made known something that surprises you
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Somber
Very sad and serious
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Solemn
Sad and serious Somber, gloomy
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Ungainly
Clumsy Awkward
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Off-kilter
Not perfectly balanced Unconventional, eccentric
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Hardly
Almost not
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Scarcely
Almost not at all
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Rarely
Not very often, seldom Excellently, with rare skills

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