RocketReview

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Urbane

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having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities

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Salutary

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promoting or conducive to some beneficial purpose; wholesome.

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Rapacious

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inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate

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Vogue

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popular currency, acceptance, or favor; popularity

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Plaintive

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expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful

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Vacillate

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to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute

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felicitous

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well-chosen; especially appropriate; pleasing

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embellish

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to decorate; to make beautiful or aesthetic; to make additions to, especially as in adding fictitious details to a story

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eclectic

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selecting the best from different sources; selective; varied

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vindicate

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to prove someone right in the end; to free him or her from blame; to exonerate

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autonomy

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independence; self government

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comprehensive

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all-inclusive; thorough; complete; encompassing a great deal

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rhetoric

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impressive sounding, though sometimes empty, words; a formal speech

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definitive

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settling a disputed matter finally; no longer tentative; conclusive; authoritative; decisive

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transient

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passing through a place quickly; not lasting; short lived; transitory; ephemeral; evanescent

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prosaic

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ordinary; matter-of-fact; lacking imagination; uninspired; hackneyed; mundane; banal

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substantiate

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to offer supporting evidence; to help prove; to corroborate

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apprehensive

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having great doubts; nervous; fearful; diffident

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polemical

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arguing a position, especially a radical one

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belie

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to contradict; to fail to confirm

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diferential

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respectful; reverent; venerating

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dogmatic

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stubbornly opinionated; arrogantly inflexible; close-minded; intractable

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transitory

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of short duration; brief; ephemeral

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immutable

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unchanging; not able to change; everlasting

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cursory

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hurried and superficial; quick; perfunctory; not meticulous

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rancor

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extremely bad feelings about something; bitterness

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underscore

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to emphasize, as if by drawing a line under; to highlight

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explicate

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to explain or analzye logically; to clear up any misunderstanding; to make explicit; to elucidate

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tenuous

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thin; insubstantial; unable to support anything else

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patronize

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to be a customer; to treat rudely, condescendingly, or contemptuously

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contentious

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to fight; to deal with difficulty; to argue a point

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deter

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to prevent; to discourage; to impede; to daunt

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pedantic

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overly academic about minor matters; being a stickler for academic correctness

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reprehensible

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deserving great blame; wicked; evil

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tractable

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obedient; easily controlled; amenable

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adversity

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a difficult, harmful, or dangerous situation

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inundate

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to flood; to overwhelm with overabundance

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insolvent

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unable to pay; out of money

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dilatory

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delaying; not prompt

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cerebral

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intellectual; relating to the brain

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ardent

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extremely eager and enthusiastic

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incisive

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sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute

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affectation

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a pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior

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florid

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overly decorated; flowery

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amenable

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cooperative; willing; tractable; amicable

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condone

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to allow to happen; to forgive or overlook something wrong; to indulge`

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officious

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bossy; overly asserting one's authority; using one's position or authority to forve others; authoritatian

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astute

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insightful; clever; wise; discerning; discriminating

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peremptory

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bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious

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vignette

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a brief description of a scene

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sensibility

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preferences; awareness; tastes; delicacy or refinement of tastes; discernment

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ingenuous

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naive; childlike