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Erudite

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Learned, knowledgeable, or scholarly

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Diffident

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Lacking self-conidence; shy, timid

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Eschew

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To shun, avoid, or abstain from

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped or moded, as by a hammer or pressure

Susceptible to control or outside influence

Adaptable to changing conditions

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Savant

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Learned person, scholar, sage, an idiot savant

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Sedulous

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Diligent or persevering in effort or application

Done or achieved through perseverance

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Hallmark

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an outstanding or distinguishing feature; a mark indication quality or excellence

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Hapless

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Unfortunate or unlucky

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Sinecure

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A paid position or office requiring little or no work

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Harrow

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To disturb or torment

To prepare ground of planting with a harrow, a tool designed to break up and even out plowed land

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Exhaustive

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Thorough; not leaving anything out

Tending to exhaust, exhausting

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Haven

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A place of comfort or rest, a sanctuary

A port or harbor

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Clinch

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Grab, hold; secure a goal (to “clinch the win”)

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Stymie

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To block, thwart, or stand in the way of

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Enigma

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A puzzling or inscrutable person, occurrence, or situation

A puzzling or obscure text or speech

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Welter

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A conused jumble or mass

To become deeply involved or embroiled in something

To roll, writhe, or heave

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Supplicate

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To ask humbly of (someone); to beseech

To ask for something humbly, to pray for

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Zealous

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Fervent, filled with or motivated by passionate or excessive enthusiasm

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration, often used for effect as a figure of speech

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Torrid

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Parched, burning, intensely hot

Passionate, ardent

Fast, hurried

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Idyll

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A poem, either a short description o an idealized rural scene or a narrative dealing with romantic or heroic themes

carefree, lighthearted experience or period, a romantic interlude

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Travesty

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A distorted, debased, grotesque, or inferior imitation or likeness

An exaggerated burlesque or imitation of a serious literary work, usually. grotesquely incongruous

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Turpitude

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Depravity, baseness, or vileness

A corrupt act

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Fervor

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Intensity or warmth of emotion

Intense heat

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Cacophony

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Dissonance, Jarring, harsh, or discordant sound

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Fledge

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To care for (as a young bird) until it is ready to fly

To cover with or as with feathers

To grow plumage needed for flight

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Impassive

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Not reavealing, expressing, or betraying emotion

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Impecunious

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Penniless, without money

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Warmonger

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One who advoates or attempts to incite war

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Impede

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To hinder or obstruct movement or progress

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Abhor

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To hate, despise, regard with horror or repugnance

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Prevaricate

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To equivocate, lie, or stray from the truth

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Divulge

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To reveal or make known (a secret or confidence)

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Precursor

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One that precedes and announces or suggest anothers approach

A forerunner or predecessor, on that precedes another

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Attenuate

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To make thin, slender, or small

To reduce in density or consistancy, to rarefy

To lessen the force,value, numbers, or strength of

To reduce the intesity, vitality, or virulence of

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Ostentatious

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Given to excessive, pretentious, conspicuous display

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Improbity

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Dishonesty, lack of probity (probity = honesty)

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Conservance

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Familiarity, the state of being able to speak about something (converse) knowledgeably

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Quandry

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State of perplexity, especially regarding how to proceed

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Propriety

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The quality of being proper or appropriate

Plural: The customs and rules of polite society

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Impudent

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Insolent, boldly disrespectful

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Dwindle

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To shrink or diminish until little remains

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Impugn

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To challenge or attack as false or questionable

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Capricious

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Whimsical, governed by or subject to caprice or impulse

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Inadvertent

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Accidental or unintentional

Inattentive, not fully focused or taking head

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Recumbent

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Lying down or reclining, especially in repose

Resting or idle

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Impromptu

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Done, said or composed on the spur of the moment, improvised

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Abjure

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To renounce, recant, or repudiate on the spur of the moment, improvised

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Refulgent

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Radiant, resplendant, shining brilliantly

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