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1
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Zeal

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Passion, excitement

2
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Veracity

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Filled with truth and accuracy

3
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Vacillate

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To sway physically, be indecisive

4
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Taciturn

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Silent, non talkative

5
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Tacit

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Done without using words

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Stolid

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Unemotional, lacking sensitivity

7
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Specious

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Deceptively attractive, seemingly plausible but fallacious

8
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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy

9
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Satiate

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To satisfy fully or overindulge

10
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Rarely

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To make thinner or sparser

11
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Quiescent

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Motionless

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Propriety

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Correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs

13
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Proliferate

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To increase in number quickly

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Propitiate

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To conciliate to appease

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Prodigal

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Lavish, wasteful

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Prevaricate

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To lie or deviate from the truth

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Paragon

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Model of excellence or perfection

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Pedant

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Someone who shows off learning

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Perfidious

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Willingness to betray ones trust

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Perfunctory

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Done in a routine way, indifferent

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Onerous

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Troublesome and oppressive, burdensome

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Obviate

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To prevent, to make unnecessary

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Obsequious

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Overly submissive and eager to please

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Obdurate

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Hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion

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Misanthrope

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A person who dislikes others

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Irascible

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Easily made angry

28
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Laconic

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Using few words

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Laud

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To give praise, to glorify

30
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Loquacious

A

Talkative

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Malinger

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To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill

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Iconoclast

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One who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutions

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Imperturbable

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Not capable of being disturbed

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Impetuous

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Quick to act without thinking

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Inchoate

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Not fully formed, disorganized

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Inimical

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Hostile, unfriendly

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Equivocate

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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

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Erudite

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Learned, scholarly, bookish

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Esoteric

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Known or understood by only a few

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Estimable

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Admirable

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Exculpate

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To clear from blame, prove innocent

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Exigent

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Urgent, requiring immediate action

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Fervid

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Intensely emotional, feverish

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Florid

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Excessively decorated or embellished

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Foment

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To arouse or incite

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Garrulous

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Tending to talk a lot

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Dogma

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Firmly held opinion, often religious

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Efficacy

A

Effectiveness

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Elegy

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A sorrowful poem or speech

50
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Enervate

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To reduce in strength

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Engender

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To produce, cause, or bring about

52
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Enigma

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A puzzle or mystery

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Dissonance

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A harsh or disagreeable sound

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Dissemble

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To present a false appearance, to disguise ones real intentions or character

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Dirge

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A funeral hymn or mournful speech

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Dilettante

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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

57
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Dilatory

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Intended to delay

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Diffident

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Lacking self confidence

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Desultory

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Jumping from one thing to another, disconnected

60
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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile

61
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Cogent

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Convincing and well reasoned

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Credulous

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Too trusting, gullible

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Deride

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To speak or treat with contempt, to mock

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Caustic

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Biting in wit

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Capricious

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Changing ones mind quickly and often

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Banal

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Predictable, cliched, boring

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Antipathy

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Extreme dislike

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Assuage

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To make something unpleasant less severe

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Attenuate

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To reduce in force or degree, to weaken

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Ameliorate

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To make better, improve

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Amalgamate

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To combine, mix together

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Aggrandize

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To increase in power, influence and reputation

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Abscond

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To leave secretly

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Mellifluous and euphonic

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Sweet or pleasing used in reference to speech

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Assuaging

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Make less intense, satisfy

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Trivial

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Of little value or importance, person concerned with unimportant things

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Inimical

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Tending to obstruct or harm or unfriendly/ hostile

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, obscure (esoteric)

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Prolific

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Present in large numbers or quantities , plentiful

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Lucid

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Easy to understand, or bright luminous

81
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Prosaic

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Lacking poetic beauty or commonplace/unromantic

82
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Gregarious

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Fond of company, sociable

83
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Scurrilous

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Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation or humorously insulting

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Arcane

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Understood by few/ mysterious or secret

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Lauding

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Praise especially in public context

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Deriding

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Express contempt for, ridicule

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Acclamation

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Loud and enthusiastic approval to welcome or honor someone in public

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Infallibility

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Inability to be wrong

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Abjured

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Solemnly renounce

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Chagrin

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Distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated

91
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Bemusement

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Bewilder or confuse

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Altruism

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Belief or practice of disinterested or selfless concern for the well being of others

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Malfeasance

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Wrongdoing especially by a public official

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Supercilious

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Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others

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Sardonic

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Grimly mocking or cynical

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Fatuous

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Silly, pointless

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Ribald

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Referring it sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way

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Patronize

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Treat with apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority

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Toothsome

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Temptingly tasty

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Ignominious

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Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

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Apocryphal

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Of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true

102
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Acumen

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Ability to make good judgements and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain

103
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Trenchancy

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Incisive or keen or vigorous, effective, energetic

104
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Laconic

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Using very few words

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Strident

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Loud and harsh, grating

106
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Circuitous

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Longer than the most direct way

107
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Extirpate

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Root out or destroy completely

108
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Recondite

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Little known, abstruse

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Detritus

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Waste or debris

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Gaudiness

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Vulgarly or cheaply showy

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Bedlam

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A scene of uproar and confusion

112
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Punctilious

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Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

113
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Vociferous

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Vehement or clamorous

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Waggish

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Humorous in a playful, mischievous or facetious manner

115
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Mien

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A persons look or manner especially one of a particular kind indicating their character or mood

116
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Salubrious

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Health giving or healthy

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Truculent

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Eager or quick to argue or fight, aggressively defiant

118
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Panegyrical

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A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something

119
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Disquieted

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Make someone worried or anxious

120
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Ebullient

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Cheerful and full of energy

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Phlegmatic

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Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition

122
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Vacillating

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Alternate or waver between different options or actions, indecisive

123
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Catholic

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Including a wide variety of things, all embracing

124
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Dilettantish

A

frivolous or superficial interest

125
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Ambrosial

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Pertaining to or worthy of the gods

126
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Apogee

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The highest point in developing something, climax or cumulative

127
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Eschewed

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Deliberately avoid using, abstain from

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Orotund

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Full, round, imposing

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Laconic

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Using very few words

130
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Torrid

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Very hot and dry

131
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August

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Respected and impressive

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Cosseted

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Care for and protect in an overindulgent way

133
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Obviate

A

Remove

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Capitulate

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Cease to resist a opponent or unwelcome demand, surrender

135
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Picayune

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Petty, worthless

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Exigency

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An urgent need or demand

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Conflagration

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An extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property

138
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Squall

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A sudden or violent gust of wind or localized storm

139
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Pithy

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Concise and forcefully expressive

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Slipshod

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Characterized by lack of care, thought or organization

141
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Blithe

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Showing casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper

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Parsimonious

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Unwilling to spend money or use resources, stingy, frugal

143
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Avaricious

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Having or showing extreme greed for wealth or material gain

144
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Penurious

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Extremely poor

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Rapacious

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Aggressively greedy or grasping

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Proscribe

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Forbid by law