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Omniscient

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having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight

knowing everything

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Trepidation

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Fear

A feeling of fear that causes you to hesitate because you think something bad or unpleasant is going to happen

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Decipher

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to find the meaning of (something that is difficult to read or understand)

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Oversee

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To watch and direct

To examine and supervise

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Glean

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To collect in a gradual way

To search carefully

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Mass

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To form or gather into a large group

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Supple

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To be able to bend or twist easily

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Enormity

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A shocking, evil or immoral act

Great size

Great evil or wickedness

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Devolve

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To pass on (responsibility, power etc)

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Hubris

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exaggerated pride or self-confidence

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Chagrin

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a feeling of being frustrated or annoyed because of failure or disappointment

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Complacency

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self-satisfaction

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Prolong

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To continue, to extend

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Conflate

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To confuse

To combine into a whole

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Countenance

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to accept, support, or approve of (something)

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Impugn

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to criticize suggesting that someone is not honest

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Explicit

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fully revealed or expressed without vagueness

Fully developed

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Disclose

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To reveal

To make known or public

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Uphold

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To support

To lift up

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Porous

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Easy to pass through

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Hard-and-fast

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Strict, something cannot be change

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Rudimentary

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Not very developed

Basic or simple

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Sketchy

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Not complete or clear

Done quickly without details

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Delusive

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Deceitful , misleading ;

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Succinct
Concise; using few words
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Imperturbable
Very calm, serene
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Recede
To diminish To move back, retreat
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Materialise
to appear especially in a sudden or magical way To become real
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Perception
Observation the ability to understand or notice something easily Sagaciousness
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Unconceivable = inconceivable
Unbelievable
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Fixation
Obsession
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Impalpable
Intangible
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Unqualified
Complete, total Definite
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Manifest
Obvious, evident
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Unalloyed
Unqualified, pure, definite
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Antediluvian
Very old fashioned
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Ethereal
Intangible, immaterial
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Imperial
of superior or unusual size or excellence
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Abash
to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of
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Impetuous
Marked by impulsive passion marked by force and violence of movement or action
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Choleric
Made easily angry, irate, hot-tempered
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Officious
Meddlesome used to describe an annoying person who tries to tell other people what to do in a way that is not wanted or needed
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Irenic
Favouring toward peace, moderation and conciliation
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Seminal
very important and influential Creative, original
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Emulsion
A mixture of liquids Amalgamation
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Denigrate
to attack the reputation of : defame to deny the importance or validity of : belittle
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Petrify
to make (someone) very afraid to make rigid or inert like stone: to make lifeless or inactive : deaden
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Riot
to behave in a violent and uncontrolled way
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Surfeit
Excess
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Upheaval
a major change or period of change that causes a lot of conflict, confusion, anger, etc.
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Compunction
Regret, guilt
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Crude
very simple and basic : made or done in a way that does not show a lot of skill rude in a way that makes people uncomfortable very simple and basic in a way that is true but not complete
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Counterpart
someone or something that has the same job or purpose as another
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Interminable
having or seeming to have no end
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Foment
To promote the growth or development of
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Smother
to suppress expression or knowledge of, to stop or prevent the growth of To suffocate
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Auspicious
showing or suggesting that future success is likely Favourable
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Immutable
Unable to be changed
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Deluge
A large amount
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Irreparable
Too bad to be corrected or repaired
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Precocious
exceptionally early in development or occurrence exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age
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Nefarious
Evil, immoral
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Juxtaposition
the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side;
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Vernacular
using the language of ordinary speech rather than formal writing using a language or dialect native to a region or country
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Jeremiad
Diatribe, tirade, rant
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gaffe
a mistake made in a social situation
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Inversion
a change in the position, order, or relationship of things so that they are the opposite of what they had been
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Estrange
to cause someone to be no longer involved or connected with something
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Brevity
shortness of duration or expression
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stalwart
Strong Very loyal and dedicated
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Solicitous
full of concern or fears meticulously careful full of desire; eager
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Cinch
Something that is very easy to do
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Obliterate
To destroy completely To cancel
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Distinguished
Marked by excellence Famous
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Venal
willing to do dishonest things in return for money
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Bearing on
To be relevant to something
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Pretense
False show Pretentiousness Make-believe; fiction
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Vestige
the last small part that remains of something that existed before the smallest possible amount of something
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Relic
Remains An objects that's considered holy
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suspense
a feeling or state of nervousness or excitement caused by wondering what will happen Indecisiveness
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Poised
marked by balance or equilibrium ready or prepared for something
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Wane
to decrease in size, amount, length, or quality
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Galvanise
To excite

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