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Unfriendly; hostile; injurious.

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Inimical

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Nonsense; unintelligible speech.

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Gibberish

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A link, tie, or bond.

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Nexus

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Of the same time period.

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Coeval

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Tending to delay or procrastinate.

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Dilatory

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Complicated; intricate.

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Convoluted

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To earnestly request or petition.

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Entreat

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A short account of an incident.

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Anecdote

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Obligatory; necessary.

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Incumbent

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Boorish or vulgar.

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Churlish

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To announce or make known.

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Promulgate

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Showing dignity and often strait laced propriety.

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Staid

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Extremely angry.

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Livid

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Shocking, explicit.

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Lurid

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Convincing, reasonable.

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Cogent

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To exploit weaknesses of others; to cater to the vices of others.

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Pander

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Useless; futile.

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Otiose

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Childish; juvenile.

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Puerile

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Dependent on luck or chance.

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Aleatory

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Roughness of harshness; severity.

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Asperity

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Rejection; refusal to acknowledge.

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Renunciation

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Unquestionable, beyond doubt.

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Unimpeachable

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To disapprove angrily; to protest.

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Inveigh

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To assign great, social importance to; to treat as a celebrity.

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Lionize

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To relieve; to alleviate.

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Allay

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To corrupt morally; to contaminate.

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Vitiate

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Stubbornly resistant; showing opposition.

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Recalcitrant

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An explanation of a text; critical interpretation.

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Exegesis

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To make better; to improve.

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Ameliorate

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Wasteful and immoral.

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Profligate

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Tending to excite or stimulate.

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Provocative

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An unsophisticated, awkward person.

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Bumpkin

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A person who flatters for personal gain.

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Toady

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Deserving blame or condemnation; guilty.

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Culpable

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Encouraging; inciting.

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Horatory

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Next to last.

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Penultimate

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Full and rich in sound ( in speech).

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Orotund

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Carefree and lighthearted.

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Blithe

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Tending to induce sleep.

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Soporific

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Permeating; spreading throughout.

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Pervasive

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Beneficial; favorable.

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Benign

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Wildly excited

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Frenetic

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A counteraccusation

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Recrimination

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Lacking good taste; improper.

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Indecorous

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To strengthen by adding evidence.

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Corroborate