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Tepid

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Showing little enthusiasm

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Derisive

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Expressing contempt or ridicule

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Disparage

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Regard or represent as being of little worth

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Plausible

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Seeming reasonable or probable

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Multifarious

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Having many varied parts or aspects

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Gesticulate

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Use gestures, especially dramatic ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize one’s words

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Tableau

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A group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history; a tableau vivant

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Clandestine

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kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit

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Dissemble

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conceal one’s true motives, feelings, or beliefs

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Chastity

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the state or practice of refraining from extramarital, or especially from all, sexual intercourse

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Debauchery

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excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

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Lucid

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expressed clearly; easy to understand

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Sinecure

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a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit

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Urbane

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courteous and refined in manner

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Queue

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a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.

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Odious

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extremely unpleasant; repulsive

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Furtive

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attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive

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Axioms

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a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true

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Abject

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experienced or present to the maximum degre

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Proletarian

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workers or working-class people, regarded collectively

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Tacit

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understood or implied without being stated

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Specious

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superficially plausible, but actually wrong

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Futile

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incapable of producing any useful result; pointless

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Vapid

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offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging

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Pugnaciously
eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight
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Grievous
very severe or serious
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Raucous
making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise
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Zealot
a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals
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Esoteric
intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest
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Regress
return to a former or less developed state:
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Incongruous
not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something
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Ostracize
exclude (someone) from a society or group:
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Utopia
an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. Compare with dystopia.
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Charlatan
a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud:
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Plight
a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation:
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Berate
scold or criticize (someone) angrily:
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Eradicate
destroy completely; put an end to:
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Inundate
overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with:
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Masochist
a person who derives sexual gratification from their own pain or humiliation:
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Innocuous
not harmful or offensive:
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Austere
severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance:
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Reticent
not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily:
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Autonomy
the right or condition of self-government:
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Adamant
refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind:
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Attrition
the action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure:
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Repugnant
extremely distasteful; unacceptable:
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Imminent
about to happen:
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Idiosyncrasy
a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual:
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Stint
supply an ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something):
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Scoff
speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way:
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Contrite
feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt:
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Germane
relevant to a subject under consideration:
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Exhort
strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something:
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Extricate
free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty:
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Insidious
proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects:
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Insinuate
suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way:
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Fastidious
very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail:
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Deride
express contempt for; ridicule:
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Macabre
disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury:
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Misconstrue
interpret (something, especially a person's words or actions) wrongly:
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Quandary
a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation:
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Docile
ready to accept control or instruction; submissive:
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Commensurate
corresponding in size or degree; in proportion:
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Vehement
showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense:
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Obtrusive
noticeable or prominent in an unwelcome or intrusive way:
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Presumptuous
(of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate:
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Disparity
a difference in level or treatment, especially one that is seen as unfair:
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Stringent
(of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting:
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Verbose
using or expressed in more words than are needed:
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Adroit
clever or skillful in using the hands or mind:
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Sordid
involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt:
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Decorum
behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety:
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Exorbitant
(of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high:
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Superficial
existing or occurring at or on the surface:
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Travesty
a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something:
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Procure
obtain (something), especially with care or effort:
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Conscript
enlist (someone) compulsorily, typically into the armed services:
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Despondent
in low spirits from loss of hope or courage:
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Disingenuous
not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does:
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Vivisect
perform vivisection on (an animal) (used only by people who are opposed to the practice):
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Sporadic
occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places; scattered or isolated:
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Contingent
subject to chance:
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Fodder
food, especially dried hay or feed, for cattle and other livestock.
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Rescind
revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement):
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Relinquish
voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up:
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Megalomania
obsession with the exercise of power, especially in the domination of others.
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Demagogue
a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument:
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Hegemon
a supreme leader.
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Estrange
cause (someone) to be no longer close or affectionate to someone; alienate:
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Sundry
of various kinds; several:
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Doctrine
a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a Church, political party, or other group:
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Nominal
(of a role or status) existing in name only:
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Coercion
the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats:
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Supine
(of a person) lying face upward
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Commiserate
express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize:
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Beckon
make a gesture with the hand, arm, or head to encourage someone to come nearer or follow:
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Vestigial
forming a very small remnant of something that was once much larger or more noticeable:
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Apt
appropriate or suitable in the circumstances:
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Rudimentary Gall
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