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MASTER GRE VOCAB GROUPS Flashcards

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raillery

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funny

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harangue

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criticize/criticism

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cacophony

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harsh-sounding

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rue

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embarrass

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erroneous

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falsehood

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ameliorate

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pacify/satisfy

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soothe

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pacify/satisfy

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advocate

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assist

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venal

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greedy/corruptible/bribable

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beneficial

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healthy

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recreant

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timid/craven/turncoat/coward (re+create excuses=cowardly)

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expatiate

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wandering

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propitiate

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luck

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lull

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gaps/openings

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countenance

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assist

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melancholy

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sorrow

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sinuous

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not a straight line

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berate

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criticize/criticism

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axiom

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wisdom

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peripatetic

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walking about

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circuitous

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not a straight line

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vortex

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inescapable/ not a straight line

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pique

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bad mood

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forlorn

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sorrow

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aspersion

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criticize/criticism/calumny/slander

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mundane

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boring

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venerate/veneration

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praise

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cadaver

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death/mourning

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quintessence

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copy

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equity

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equal

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churlish

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hostile/rude/impolite

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grandiloquent

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overblown/wordy

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capricious

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changing quickly

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sojourn

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wandering/visit/short journey

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precursor

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copy

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frankness

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truth

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petulant

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bad mood/cranky/peckish

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partisan

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favoring/not impartial

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disparage

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criticize/criticism

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pernicious

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harmful

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interregnum

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gaps/openings

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dissipated

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carousal (overindulging in sensual pleasures)

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slothful

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lazy/sluggish

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limpid

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easy to understand (Limpid, Lucid, Liquid)

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pedestrian

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boring

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hector

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nag

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abet

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assist

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licentious

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carousal

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duplicity

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falsehood

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unstinting

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generous/kind/unsparing/unselfish

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esurient

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poor

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askance

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suspicion/disapproval/squint

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curmudgeon

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hostile

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indolent

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lazy/sluggish

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untoward

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indecent/indecorous/unbecoming

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distaff

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female

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pillory

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criticize/criticism

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consanguine

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family

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lament

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sorrow

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ardor/ardent

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favoring/partial/fervour

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absolve

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forgive

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lucid

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easy to understand

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bilious

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bad mood

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anomalous

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eccentric/dissimilar

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canny

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smart/learned

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iconoclast

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unusual

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fortuitous

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luck

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objurgate

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criticize/criticism

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dilettante

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beginner/amateur

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bereave

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death/mourning

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inhibit

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prevent/obstruct

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orifice

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gaps/openings

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injurious

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harmful

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fallacious

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falsehood

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discrete

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eccentric/dissimilar

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flippant

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funny

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awry

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not a straight line/when things go wrong

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aggrandize

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praise

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terse

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abbreviated communication

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munificent

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generous/kind

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admonish

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nag

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altruistic

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generous/kind

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canard

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falsehood

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precipitate

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act quickly

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rescind

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withdrawal/retreat

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temporal

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time

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antithetic

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hostile/sharp contrast

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obloquy

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criticize/criticism/opprobrium/defamation

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sonorous

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pleasant-sounding

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exhort

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nag

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chagrin

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embarrass

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kismet

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luck

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hiatus

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gaps/openings

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covetous

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greedy/avaricious/jealous

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meander

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wander/ramble/not a straight line

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diffident

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timid

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forfend

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prevent/obstruct

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vindictive

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hostile

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martinet

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nag/disciplinarian/moralist

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oscillate

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hesitate

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trite

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boring/banal

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volatile

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changing quickly

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lambaste

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criticize/criticism

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defamation

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criticize/criticism

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vacillate

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hesitate

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mainstay

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assist/pillar/prominent supporter

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optimum

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luck

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truculent

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hostile

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portentous

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predict

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recalcitrant

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stubborn

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rent

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gaps/openings

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craven

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timid

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counterpart

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copy

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iniquity

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evil/injustice/unfairness/wickedness

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ludicrous

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funny

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portentous

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done in pompous way

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guile

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falsehood

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fetter

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prevent/obstruct/restraint

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dour

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hard-hearted/stubborn/dogged/persistent

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laud/laudatory

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praise

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riposte

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funny

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mitigate

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pacify/satisfy

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fealty

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truth/allegiance/indebtness to

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amulet

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luck

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defunct

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death/mourning

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redress

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forgive/remedy/restitution

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prognosticate

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predict

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acidulous

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biting wit

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dissonant

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harsh-sounding/variable

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vitiate

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weaken

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retrograde

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withdrawal/retreat

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aberration

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unusual

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reprove

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criticize/criticism

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abortive

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withdrawal/retreat

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perspicacious

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harmonious

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pleasant-sounding

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trenchant

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biting wit/forceful/clear-cut

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cavil

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nag

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endogamous

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family

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legitmate

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truth

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apocryphal

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falsehood

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obdurate

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stubborn

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burgeoning

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beginning/young

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enjoin

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nag

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abatement

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gaps/openings

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spurious

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falsehood

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forage

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wandering

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iconoclast

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eccentric/dissimilar

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adulterate

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weaken

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doleful

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sorrow

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epigram

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wisdom

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recant

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withdrawal/retreat

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impetuous

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act quickly

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healthy

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withdrawal/retreat/take exception to

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beginner/amateur

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filial

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family

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fawn

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praise

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praise

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overblown/wordy

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acclaim

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praise

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weaken

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decamp

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withdrawal/retreat

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insidious

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harmful

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quotidian

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boring

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hard-hearted

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criticize/criticism

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talisman

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luck

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falsehood

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terse/compact/succinct

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terse/uncommunicative/untalkative

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exonerate

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forgive

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abnegation

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withdrawal/retreat

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facetious

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funny (make funny faces)

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pellucid

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easy to understand

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respite

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gaps/hiatus/abatement/reprieve

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malice

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hatred

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vindicate

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forgive/exonerated/justify

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apothegm

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wisdom

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naive

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innocent/inexperienced

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reproof

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nag

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intractable

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stubborn

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novitiate

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innocent/inexperienced

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bolster

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assist

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neophyte

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beginner/amateur

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adage

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wisdom

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ersatz

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falsehood

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equitable

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equal

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recidivism

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withdrawal/retreat/habitual relapse into crime

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penultimate

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next to last

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dudgeon

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bad mood

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turpitude

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carousal/state of depravity

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abridge

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abbreviated communication

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implacable

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stubborn

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dolorous

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death/mourning

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carom

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not a straight line/rebound/ricochet

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harbinger

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predict

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morose

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sorrow

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occlude

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prevent/obstruct

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deleterious

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harmful

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synchronous

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time

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waspish

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bad mood

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refractory

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stubborn

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asperity

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hard-hearted/harsh/acrimony/acerbity

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tyro

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innocent/inexperienced

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fissure

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gaps/openings

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strident

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harsh-sounding

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inveigh

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criticize/criticism

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reprobate

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carousal

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harangue

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nag

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adventitious

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luck

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ancillary

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assist

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pusillanimous

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timid

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inhibit

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weaken

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circumlocution

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overblown/wordy

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expiate

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embarrass/atone/abye/make amends for

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vicarious

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copy/indirect/derivative

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exacerbate

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to make worse

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aberrant

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eccentric/dissimilar

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antagonism

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hatred

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cursory

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hasty/perfunctory

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caustic

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biting wit

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labyrinth

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not a straight line

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anomaly

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unusual

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foible

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embarrass

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fervid

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intensely enthusiastic or passionate

227
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tyro

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beginner/amateur

228
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compunction

A

embarrass

229
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auspicious

A

luck

230
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circumvent

A

not a straight line

231
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disingenuous

A

insincere

232
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ingenuous

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innocent/inexperienced

233
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palliate

A

assuage/forgive/allay/lessen

234
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progenitor

A

family

235
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disconsolate

A

sorrow

236
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eclectic

A

eccentric/dissimilar

237
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eloquent

A

easy to understand

238
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peregrination

A

wandering

239
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gullible

A

innocent/inexperienced

240
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fatuous

A

boring

241
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appease

A

pacify/satisfy

242
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propitious

A

luck

243
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contrition

A

embarrass

244
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indigent

A

poor

245
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veracious

A

truth

246
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calumny

A

criticize/criticism

247
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articulate

A

easy to understand

248
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inert

A

lazy/sluggish

249
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specious

A

falsehood

250
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ascertain

A

investigate

251
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abrupt

A

act quickly

252
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fey

A

strange/slightly insane

253
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loathing

A

hatred

254
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satiate

A

pacify/satisfy

255
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inexorable

A

stubborn

256
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philanthropic

A

generous/kind

257
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encomium

A

praise

258
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espouse

A

assist

259
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inimical

A

harmful

260
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curtail

A

abbreviated communication

261
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simper

A

funny/smirk

262
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rhetoric

A

overblown/wordy

263
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abjure

A

withdrawal/retreat

264
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zealot

A

favoring/fanatical/uncompromising

265
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sententious

A

wisdom

266
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corroborate

A

assist

267
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platitude

A

boring/cliche/bromide/banality

268
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remission

A

withdrawal/retreat

269
Q

susstenance

A

assist

270
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credulous

A

innocent/inexperienced

271
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novitiate

A

beginner/amateur

272
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anachronism

A

eccentric/dissimilar

273
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feigned

A

falsehood

274
Q

depraved

A

carousal

275
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epoch

A

time

276
Q

stalwart

A

assist/loyalist/sturdy

277
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aphorism

A

wisdom

278
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trepidation

A

timid

279
Q

plaintive

A

sorrow

280
Q

syllabus

A

abbreviated communication

281
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hinder

A

prevent/obstruct

282
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torpid

A

lazy/sluggish

283
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millennium

A

time

284
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careen

A

rush/ sway/ tilt/ not a straight line

285
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tantamount

A

equal

286
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abeyance

A

withdrawal/retreat

287
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appraise

A

investigate

288
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fell

A

hard-hearted/cruel/vicious

289
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sincere

A

truth

290
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truism

A

wisdom

291
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slake

A

pacify/satisfy

292
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assay

A

investigate

293
Q

largess

A

generous/kind

294
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gaucherie

A

embarrass

295
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enervate

A

weaken

296
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munificent

A

assist

297
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fulsome

A

insincere

298
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tirad

A

criticize/criticism

299
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dolor

A

sorrow

300
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aperture

A

gaps/openings

301
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scion

A

family

302
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tendentious

A

favoring/not impartial

303
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proponent

A

assist

304
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fratricide

A

family

305
Q

clement

A

generous/kind

306
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timorous

A

timid

307
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baneful

A

harmful

308
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phlegmatic

A

lazy/sluggish (unemotional/calm)

309
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serrated

A

not a straight line

310
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lassitude

A

lazy/sluggish

311
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garrulous

A

overblown/wordy

312
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lugubrious

A

sorrow

313
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sidle

A

move sideways/ not a straight line

314
Q

acerbic

A

biting wit

315
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esoteric

A

eccentric/dissimilar

316
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apace

A

act quickly

317
Q

remonstrate

A

criticize/criticism

318
Q

rift

A

gaps/openings

319
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exculpate

A

forgive

320
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verity

A

truth

321
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penurious

A

greedy

322
Q

discomfort

A

prevent/obstruct/irritation

323
Q

doctrinaire

A

stubborn/dogmatist

324
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proselyte

A

beginner/amateur

325
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enmity

A

hatred

326
Q

pithy

A

terse/abrupt/blunt/gruff

327
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melodious

A

pleasant-sounding

328
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noisome

A

nasty/fetid

329
Q

truculent

A

hard-hearted

330
Q

decry

A

criticize/criticism

331
Q

expiate

A

forgive

332
Q

vexing

A

stubborn/annoying/galling/plaguy

333
Q

loquacious

A

overblown/wordy

334
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dauntless

A

bold

335
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perfidious

A

harmful

336
Q

renege

A

withdrawal/retreat

337
Q

discursive

A

wandering

338
Q

revile

A

criticize/criticism

339
Q

diffidence

A

embarrass/self-doubt

340
Q

opprobrium

A

criticize/criticism

341
Q

evident

A

easy to understand

342
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vituperation

A

hard-hearted

343
Q

callow

A

beginning/young

344
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prescient

A

predict

345
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probity

A

truth

346
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irascible

A

bad mood/hotheaded/choleric

347
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sardonic

A

hard-hearted/mocking

348
Q

encumber

A

prevent/obstruct

349
Q

languid

A

lazy/sluggish

350
Q

rebuke

A

criticize/criticism

351
Q

elegiac

A

sorrow

352
Q

baleful

A

hard-hearted/harmful/evil/sinister

353
Q

dissemble

A

falsehood

354
Q

stultify

A

weaken

355
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misanthropic

A

hostile

356
Q

indisputable

A

truth

357
Q

facsimile

A

copy

358
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propitiate

A

pacify/satisfy/appease

359
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bromide

A

wisdom

360
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salacious

A

carousal

361
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gyrate

A

not a straight line

362
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gainsay

A

criticize/criticism

363
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acquit

A

forgive

364
Q

accolade

A

praise

365
Q

rancor

A

hatred

366
Q

gibe

A

funny

367
Q

peruse

A

investigate

368
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acrimonious

A

biting wit/bitter cynicism

369
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miserly

A

greedy

370
Q

castigate

A

criticize/criticism

371
Q

mercurial

A

changing quickly

372
Q

augur

A

predict

373
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dissemble

A

insincere

374
Q

excoriate

A

criticize/criticism

375
Q

renitent

A

stubborn/reluctant

376
Q

mollify

A

pacify/satisfy

377
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mercenary

A

greedy

378
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antedate

A

time/precede

379
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peripatetic

A

wandering

380
Q

diatribe

A

criticize/criticism

381
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candor/candid

A

truth

382
Q

vitriolic

A

hard-hearted

383
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platitude

A

cliche/commonplace/banality

384
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providential

A

luck

385
Q

oblique

A

misleading/indirect/devious

386
Q

defer

A

pacify/satisfy

387
Q

impede

A

prevent/obstruct

388
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intransigent

A

stubborn

389
Q

ambulatory

A

walking about

390
Q

prevaricate

A

falsehood/mislead/equivocate

391
Q

eulogize

A

praise

392
Q

fetid

A

nasty

393
Q

idiosyncrasy

A

unusual

394
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irascible

A

hostile

395
Q

vituperate

A

criticize/criticism

396
Q

libidinous

A

carousal/lustful

397
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dither

A

hesitate

398
Q

din

A

harsh-sounding

399
Q

mordant

A

biting wit/sinister/grim

400
Q

bombastic

A

overblown/wordy

401
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equivocate

A

falsehood

402
Q

minatory

A

harmful

403
Q

lethargic

A

lazy/sluggish

404
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beneficent

A

generous/kind

405
Q

belittle

A

criticize/criticism

406
Q

interstice

A

gaps/openings

407
Q

deride/derisive

A

criticize/criticism

408
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banal

A

boring

409
Q

antecede

A

time

410
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engender

A

generate/cause/spawn/breed

411
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rapacious

A

greedy

412
Q

jocular

A

funny

413
Q

periphrastic

A

overblown/wordy

414
Q

compendium

A

abbreviated communication

415
Q

turgid

A

overblown/pompous/bombastic/tumid

416
Q

detestation

A

hatred

417
Q

placate

A

pacify/satisfy

418
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simulated

A

copy

419
Q

hackneyed

A

boring

420
Q

anachronism

A

time

421
Q

diurnal

A

time/active during the day

422
Q

anterior

A

time/prior/near front end

423
Q

obstinate

A

stubborn

424
Q

cogent

A

easy to understand/very persuasive

425
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undulating

A

not a straight line/wobble/smooth up and down

426
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pettish

A

bad mood/easily irritated

427
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odium

A

hatred

428
Q

succinct

A

terse

429
Q

demise

A

death/mourning

430
Q

abrogate

A

withdrawal/retreat

431
Q

euphonious

A

pleasant-sounding

432
Q

itinerant

A

wandering

433
Q

curt

A

terse

434
Q

mordant

A

biting humor

435
Q

threnody

A

sorrow

436
Q

reprehend

A

criticize/criticism

437
Q

emulate

A

copy

438
Q

courageous

A

bold

439
Q

mendacious/mendacity

A

falsehood

440
Q

inchoate

A

beginning/young/incipient/partially done

441
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erudite

A

smart/learned

442
Q

obviate

A

weaken

443
Q

incipient

A

beginning/young/incomplete

444
Q

insipid

A

boring (don’t wanna sip it=boring)

445
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waver

A

hesitate

446
Q

perfidy

A

falsehood

447
Q

sordid

A

carousal/sleazy

448
Q

teeter

A

hesitate

449
Q

ribald

A

carousal/risque/vulgar

450
Q

verbose

A

overblown/wordy

451
Q

paradigm

A

copy

452
Q

antipathy

A

hatred

453
Q

indubitable

A

truth/undoubtable

454
Q

asperity

A

biting wit

455
Q

raucous

A

harsh-sounding/loud/rough/strident

456
Q

salutary

A

healthy

457
Q

ostensible

A

insincere/apparent/seemingly

458
Q

dictum

A

wisdom

459
Q

malevolent

A

hard-hearted/hostile

460
Q

prosaic

A

boring

461
Q

eon

A

time

462
Q

levity

A

funny

463
Q

magnanimous

A

generous/kind

464
Q

noxious

A

nasty

465
Q

chortle

A

funny

466
Q

conjugal

A

family

467
Q

factitious

A

copy/fictitious/artificial

468
Q

astute

A

smart/learned

469
Q

audacious

A

bold

470
Q

abash

A

embarrass

471
Q

destitute

A

poor

472
Q

assuage

A

pacify/satisfy

473
Q

droll

A

funny

474
Q

impecunious

A

poor

475
Q

belabor

A

nag

476
Q

quiescent

A

lazy/sluggish

477
Q

mordacious

A

biting wit

478
Q

umbrage

A

offense/bad mood/take offense to

479
Q

remonstrate

A

nag

480
Q

unctuous

A

insincere/ excessive flatter

481
Q

archaic

A

time

482
Q

fortnight

A

time

483
Q

anathema

A

hatred/something hated

484
Q

lackadaisical

A

lazy/sluggish

485
Q

libertine

A

carousal

486
Q

nascent

A

beginning/young

487
Q

synopsis

A

abbreviated communication

488
Q

headlong

A

act quickly/headfirst/hasty

489
Q

ephemeral

A

time/short lives

490
Q

auspice

A

predict

491
Q

descry

A

investigate/distinguish/detect

492
Q

avaricious

A

greedy

493
Q

denounce

A

criticize/criticism

494
Q

itinerant

A

walking about

495
Q

debauchery

A

carousal

496
Q

abhorrence

A

hatred

497
Q

presage

A

predict

498
Q

bacchanalian

A

carousal

499
Q

querulous

A

bad mood/whiney

500
Q

laconic

A

terse

501
Q

base

A

immoral

502
Q

dispatch

A

expeditiousness/prompt/send off/kill efficiently

503
Q

despondent

A

low spirits/without hope

504
Q

halcyon

A

calm

505
Q

legion

A

in large numbers

506
Q

thoroughgoing

A

unqualified/arrant

507
Q

lickspittle

A

a person who behaves obsequiously to those in power/suckup

508
Q

self-effacing

A

not drawing attention to oneself; modest

509
Q

demure

A

quiet and modest; reserved

510
Q

bridle

A

restrain/control/govern

511
Q

quibble

A

to argue over insignificant and irrelevant details

512
Q

bristle

A

stiffen with fear or anger

513
Q

beam

A

express happily

514
Q

guffaw

A

sudden loud laughter

515
Q

countermand

A

cancel; revoke (an order)

516
Q

dispirited

A

dejected; discouraged; gloomy

517
Q

diminutive

A

(adj.) small

518
Q

deferential

A

respectful

519
Q

inconsequential

A

trifling/unimportent

520
Q

wayward

A

(adj.) disobedient

521
Q

precocious

A

talented beyond one’s age

522
Q

bemoaning

A

complaining about

523
Q

exorcise

A

to drive out/forced removal

524
Q

maladroit

A

clumsy; inept

525
Q

forthright

A

direct and without evasion; honest

526
Q

subterfuge

A

an excuse or trick for escaping or hiding something/deceitfulness

527
Q

tropes

A

figures of speech

528
Q

anodynes

A

painkiller/something that soothes

529
Q

auguries

A

signs or omens which are used to predict the future

530
Q

impertinent

A

rude and disrespectful

531
Q

moot

A

Open to discussion and debate

532
Q

belies

A

means to falsely represent

533
Q

solicitous

A

concerned and attentive; eager

534
Q

fitfully

A

in an irregular way; unsteadily

535
Q

prevarication

A

evasion of truth

536
Q

aplomb

A

self-confidence

537
Q

histrionic

A

overly dramatic/melodramatic

538
Q

dissimilitude

A

lack of resemblance or similarity/diversity

539
Q

affront

A

an insult

540
Q

edifice

A

a large structure

541
Q

stopgap

A

a temporary solution

542
Q

diabolical

A

devilish; wicked or evil

543
Q

ebb

A

To fade away

544
Q

preclude

A

(v.) to make impossible/shut out

545
Q

restiveness

A

restlessness

546
Q

genial

A

friendly and cheerful

547
Q

sacerdotal

A

priestly/sacred

548
Q

equivocal

A

ambiguous

549
Q

arriviste

A

a person who has recently reached a position of power; a social climber

550
Q

malapropism

A

a word humorously misused

551
Q

protean

A

changeable

552
Q

cupidity

A

greed; avarice

553
Q

blinkered

A

to have a limited outlook or understanding/blink and you wont understand

554
Q

languish

A

lack spirit/neglected/lingering/weaken

555
Q

heretic

A

someone who goes against accepted religious beliefs

556
Q

inured

A

accustomed to things unpleasant

557
Q

embellishment

A

excessive details/decorations

558
Q

intrepid

A

fearless

559
Q

bucolic

A

charmingly rural

560
Q

merriment

A

high-spirited fun and enjoyment

561
Q

idler

A

lazy person

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