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Abhor

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To feel hatred for.

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Abjure

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To reject solemnly.

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Abortive

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rematurely born, fruitless, unsuccessful

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Abrogate

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Repeal or do away with, Avskaffa.

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Accost

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To approach and speak in an often challenging or aggressive way.

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Acme

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The highest point or stage.

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Acrimonious

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Angry and bitter, especially in feeling, language, or manner.

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Adroit

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Having or showing skill in handling situations.

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Alacrity

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Cheerful response.

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Altruistic

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Having or showing an unselfish concern for the welfare of others.

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Ameliorate

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To make better or more tolerable.

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Amicable

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Peaceable.

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Anathema

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Someone or something intensely disliked or loathed.

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Annals

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A record of events arranged I yearly sequence.

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Anomaly

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Something different or not easily classified.

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Appellation

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An identifying name or title. Like Dr.

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Ardent

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Very passionate and enthusiastic.

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Artifice

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An industry dominated by trickery.

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Artless

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Without guile or deception, eg. Natural, simple.

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Asperity

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Harshess of tone or manners.

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance.

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Audacity

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A willingness to take bold risks.

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Avarice

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Extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

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Banal

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Often used and therefor boring.

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Belligerent

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Hostile and aggressive.

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Benignity

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Kindness or tolerance against others.

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Blatant

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Obvious.

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Brash

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Full of oneself

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Burgeon

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Grow or increase rapidly

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Cabal

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Group, set, party, camp

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Cache

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A collection of the same type stored in a hidden place

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Cajole

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Persuade someone to do something with flattery

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Callous

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Showing or having an insensitive or cruel disregard forwards others

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Cant

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Hypocrite you, humbug, empty talk

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Capricious

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Variable, unstable

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Caustic

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Able to burn or corrode tissue by chemical action.

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Celerity

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Swiftness of movement

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Choleric

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Bad tempered or irritable

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Clique

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Inner circle, group

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Cogent

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Convincing, compelling

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Complacent

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Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction

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Complicity

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Collusion, involvement, collaborations

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Conflagration

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Fire

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Conjecture

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Opinion based on inconclusive information

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Consternation

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Feeling of anxiety

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Contort

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To bend out of shape

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Cursory

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Uninterested, half hearted

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Dearth

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Lack of something

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Debris

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Scattered pieces of rubbish or remains

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Decadence

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Moral or cultural decline characterised by indulgent interest in luxury

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Decrepit

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Worn out our ruined by age or neglect

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Deleterious

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Causing harm or damage

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Demur

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Show reluctance

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55
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Denouement

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Final part where the plot is explained

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Derogatory

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Showing a disrespectful attitude

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Desultory

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Lacking a plan or purpose

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Detriment

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State of being harmed

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Diatribe

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Forceful and bitter verbal attack

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Dilatory

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Slow to act

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Discern

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Recognise or find out

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Disparate

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Different in kind

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Disseminate

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Spread

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Duress

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Threats that force someone to do something

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Edifice

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A large imposing building

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Efficacy

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The ability to produce a desired result.

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Egregious

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Outstandingly bad

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Elicit

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Evoke or draw out something from someone.

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Eminent

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Esteem, notable, great

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Encomium

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A piece of writing or speech that praises someone highly.

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Enervated

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Making someone feel drained of energy

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Ennui

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A feeling of boredom.

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Epitome

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Essence, model, classic example

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Eschew

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Refrain from, avoid using.

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Euphemism

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Polite term, indirect word or expression.

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Evanescent

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Vanishing, fading.

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Exacerbate

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Aggrivate, make worse.

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Excoriate

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Remove pet of surface skin.

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Exculpatory

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Declare that someone is not guilty

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Exonerate

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Release someone from an obligation

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Expunge

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Erased, removed, deleted

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Extentuate

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Sträcka ut

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Extol

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Praise entustiasticly

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Extortion

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The practice of obtaining something.

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Facetious

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Treating an inappropriately situation with deliberate humor.

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Factitious

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Artificially created

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Fallacious

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Based on a misstanken belief

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Fastidious

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Perfectionist

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Fatuous

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Silly, foolish, stupid

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Felicitous

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Fortunate, advantageous

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Flagrant

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Obvious

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Foist

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Introduce

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Fortuitous

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Lucky, fortunate

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Fraught

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Anxious, worried

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Fulsome

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Compelmentary to a unflattering degree

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative

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G

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Relevant, applicable

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Gesticulate

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Signal

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Gregarious

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Social, friendly

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Guile

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Willingness, intelligence

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Guise

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Lioness, form, shape

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Gullible

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Over trusting, easily persuaded

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Heinous

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Wicked, evil

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Histrionics

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Dramatics, theatrics

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration, overstatement

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Ignominious

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Humiliating, embarrassing

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Impeccable

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Flawless, spotless

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Importune

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Harass someone to do something

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Impunity

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Freedom of punshiment

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Inchoate

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Just begun and not so developed

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Indict

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Charged with, accused of

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Indigent

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Poor, needy

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Indolent

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Lazy

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Inebriated

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Make some one drunk, intoxicated

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Inexorable

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Impossible to stop or prevent

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Ingratiate

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Bringing oneself to favour by flattering someone else

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Insatiable

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Uncontrollable

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Internecine

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Deathly, bloody, internal, family

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Intrepid

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Fearless, adventurous

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Inundate

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Swamped, overwhelmed

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Inveigh

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Protest

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Itinerant

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Travelling, roaming, touring

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Jaunty

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Cheerful, happy

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Juxtapose

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Compare, context

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Laconic

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Brief, quiet

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Lassitude

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Lack of energy

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Lethargic

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Sluggish, lazy

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Lithe

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Graceful, slender, slim

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Livid

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Furiously angry, (dark in colour)

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Loathe

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Hate

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Lugubrious

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Sad, unhappy, gloomy

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Lurid

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Brightly coloured, exaggerated

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Malevolent

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Evil-minded

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Malleable

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Soft, easily influenced

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Martinet

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Disciplinarian, Slave-driver

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Maudlin

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Over sentimental, emotional

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Mendacious

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Dishonest, false

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Mien

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Appearance, expression

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Miscreant

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Criminal, offender

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Moribund

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Dying, near death

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Munificent

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Generous

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Myriad

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A large/great number/quantity of, mass

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Nascent

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Developing, growing

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Nefarious

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Wicked, evil, criminal

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Noisome

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Having an extremely offensive smell

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Nominal

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Titular, formal

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Obliterate

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Erased

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Obloquy

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Shame, humiliation

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Obsequious

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Greasy, submissive

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Obsolescence

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The process of becoming outdated

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and difficult to control.

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Ominous

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Threatening, dark

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Opprobrium

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Abuse, criticism, disgrace, shame, humiliation

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Ostentatious

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Showy, extravagant, flashy

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Ostensible

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Apparent, seeming, outward, surface

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Ostracize

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Exclude, cold-shoulder

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Overt

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Undisguised, unconceled, plain, clear, apparent

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Palliate

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Ease, relieve

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Panacea

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Universal remedy

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Paragon

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Perfect example, model

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Pariah

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An outcast.

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Paroxysm

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Spasm, attack, fit, burst, seizure

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Parsimonious

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Penny pinching, Scrooge- like, cheap

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Paucity

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Small or insufficient quantities or amounts

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Penchant

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Taste, liking

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Penury

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Extreme poverty

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Peregrination

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A journey

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Perfidious

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Disloyal, unfaithful, false

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Perfunctory

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Quick, brief, hasty

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Pernicious

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Harmful, damaging

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Perspicacious

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Having a ready insight into and understanding of things

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Peruse

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Read (something)

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Pique

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Irritation, annoyance

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Plaintiff

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A person who brings a case against another in court of law

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Plethora

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A large or excessive amount of something

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Poignant

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Touching, moving, sad

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Precipitate

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Bring about, lead on, through, lounge

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Prerogative

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A right or privilege

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Prescient

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Predictive, psychic

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Presentiment

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Intuition, feeling, hunch, suspision

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Proffer

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Offer, present, put-forward

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Profligate

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Wasteful, irresponsible, shameless

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Promulgate

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Make known, announce

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Propitious

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Fortunate, lucky

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Puissant

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Having great power or influence

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Qualm

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Doubt, second-though

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Quip

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Joke, witty remark

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Raconteur

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Storyteller

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Rapacious

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Grasping, greedy, money-grabbing

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Rebuke

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Criticise, tell of

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Recondite

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Little, difficult, complex

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Remuneration

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Payment, salary

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Repertoire

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Collection, store

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Repine

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Be/feel upset

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Replete

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Well feed, filled, full

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Reticent

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Withdrawn, shy

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Retort

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Answer, reply, respond

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Risible

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Laughable, amusing

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Salubrious

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Healthy, pleasant

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Sanguine

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Optimistic, hopeful

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Satiety

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Satisfaction, fullness

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Scion

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Twig, child, offspring, descendant

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Scurrilous

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Abusive, offensive

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Shibboleth

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A belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people

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Sinecure

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Easy job, easy money

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Succinct

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Short, brief

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Sultry

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Close, airless, suffocating

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Tortuous

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Curvy, bendy

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Trenchant

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Cutting, piercing, sharp

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Turpitude

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Immorality, corruption, evil

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Ubiquitous

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Present everywhere, worldwide, universal

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Umbrage

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Offence or annoyance, shade or shadows

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Unconscionable

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Unethical, immoral

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Unctuous

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Smooth talking, ass-kissing

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Viscid

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Sticky consistency

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Vitiate

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Destroy or impair the legal validity

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Vituperation

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Bitter and abusive language

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Voluble

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Talkative, wordy, chatty

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