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- ABERRANT
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ADJ
DEVIATING FROM THE NORM - ALACRITY
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NOUN
EAGER AND ENTHUSIASTIC WILLINGNESS - APPROBATION
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NOUN
AN EXPRESSION OF APPROVAL OR PRAISE - ASSUAGE
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VERB
TO EASE OR LESSEN
TO APPEASE OR PACIFY - AUDACIOUS
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ADJ
DARING AND FEARLESS; RECKLESSLY BOLD - CAPRCIOUS
- INCLINED TO CHNGE ONES MIND IMPULSIVELY;ERRATIC, UNPREDICTABLE
- CENSURE
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VERB
TO CRITICIZE SEVERELY; TO OFFICIALLY RBUKE - CHICANERY
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NOUN
TICERY OR SUBTERFUGE - CONNOISSEUR
- AN INFORMED AND ASTUTE JUDGE IN MATTERS OF TASTE; EXPERT NOUN
- DISCORDANT
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ADJ
CONFLICTING;DISSONANT OR HARSH SOUND - DISPARATE
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ADJ
FUNDAMENTALLY DISTINCT OR DISSIMILAR - ELOQUENT
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ADJ
WELL-SPOKEN;EXPRESSIVE;ARTICULATE - ENERVATE
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VERB
TO WEAKEN;TO REDUCE IN VITALITY - ENNUI
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NOUN
DISSATISFACTION AND RESTLESSSNESS RESULTING FROM BOREDOM OR APATHY - EQUIVOCATE
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VERB
TO USE AMBIGUOUS LANGUAGE WITH A DECEPTIVE INTENT - EXCULPATE
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VERB
EXONERATE;TO CLEAR OF BLAME - EXIGENT
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ADJ
UNGENT;PRESSING;REQUIRING IMMEDIATE ACTION OR ATTENTION - FILIBUSTER
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NOUN
INTENTION OBSTRUCTION ESP. USING PROLONGE SPEECHMAKING TO DEALY LEGISLATIVE ACTION - INGENOUS
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ADJ
ARTLESS;FRANK AND CANDID;LACKING IN SOPHISTICATION - INURED
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ADJ
ACCUSTOMED TO ACCEPTING SOMETHING UNDESIREABLE - URASCIBLE
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ADJ
EASILY ANGERED;PRONE TO TEMPERAMENTAL OPUTBURSTS - LAUD
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VERB
TO PRAISE HIGHLY - MAGNAMINITY
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NOUN
THE QUALITY OF GEING GENEROUSLY NOBLE IN MIND AND HEART---FORGIVING - MARTIAL
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ADJ
ASSOCIATED WITH WAR AND THE ARMED FORCES - MUNDANE
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ADJ
OF THE WORLD;TYPUICAL OF OR CONCERNED WITH THE ORDINARY -
NASCENT
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ADJ
COMING INTO BEING;IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT STAGES - NEBULOUS
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ADJ
VAGUE;CLOUDY;LACKING CLEARLY DEFINED FORM - NEOLOGISM
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NOUN
A NEW WORD, EXPRESSION OR USAGE; THE CREATION OR USE OF NEW WORDS OR SENSES - NOXIOUS
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ADJ
HARMFUL;INJURIOUS - OBTUSE
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ADJ
LACKING SHARPNESS OF INTELLECT;NOT CLEAR OR PRECISE IN THOUGHT OR EXPRESSION - PARODY
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NOUN
A HUMOROUS IMITATION INTENDED FOR RIDICULE OR COMIC EFFECT, ESP. IN LITERATUREOR ART - PERENNIAL
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ADJ
RECURRENT THROUGH THE YEAR OR MANY YEARS; HAPPENING REPEATEDLY - PERFUNCTORY
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ADJ
CURSORY;DONE WITHOUT CARE OR INTEREST - PRATTLE
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VERB
TO BABBLE MEANINGLESSLY;TO TALK IN AN EMPTY AND IDLE MANNER -
PRESCIENCE
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NOUN
FORKNOWLEDGE OF EVENTS;KNOWING OF EVENTS PRIOR TO THEIR OCCURING - PREVICARICATE
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VERB
TO DELIBERATELY AVOID THE TRUTH;TO MISLEAD - refute
- to disprove;to successively argue against
- relegate
- to forcefully assign espt to a lower place or position
- solicitous
- concerned and attentive;eager
- sporadic
- occuring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
- static
- not moving, active, or in motion;at rest
- stupefy
- to stun, baffle or amaze
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tortuous
a road that winds around bends - winding;twisting;excessively complicated
- truculent
- fierce;cruel;eager to fight
- voracious
- having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit;ravenous
- waver
- to move to and from;to sway;to be unsettled in opinion
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ABSCOND - TO DEPART CLANDESTINELY;TO STEAL OFF AND HIDE
- AMELIORATE
- TO MAKE BETTER OR MORE TOLERABLE
- ARDUOUS
- STRENUOUS;TAXING;REQUIRING SIGNIFICANT EFFORT
- ASCETIC
- ONE WHO PRACTICES RIGID SELF DENIAL ESP AS AN ACT OF RELIGIOUS DEVOTION
- AUSTERE
- WITHOUT ADORNMENT;BARE;SEVERLY SIMPLE ASCETIC
- AXIOM
- A UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED PRINCIPLE
- AXIOMATIC
- TAKEN AS A GIVEN;POSESSING SEF-EVIDENT TRUTH
- BUCOLIC
- RUSTIC AND PASTORAL;CHARACTERISTIC OF RURAL AREAS AND THEIR INHABITANTS
- CANONICAL
- FOLLOWING OE IN fewwmwnr qirh XXWPRWS, RESIRIONl arNSesa
- culpable
- deserving blame
- disabuse
- undeceive;to set right
- elctic
- composed of elements drawn from various sources
- effrontery
- estreme boldnes; presumptuousness
- precipitate
- to cause or happen before anticipated or required
- precursor
- one that precedes and indicates or announces another
- predilection
- a dispositon in favor of something;preference
- prolific
- producing large coumes or amounts;productive
- quiescence
- stillness;motionless;quality of being at rest
- recant
- to retract esp a previously held belief
- redoubtable
- awe-aspiring;worthy of honor
- reticent
- quiet;reserved;reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
- stire
- literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
- sordid
- characterized by filth, grime, or qualor: foul
- squaldid
- sordid;wretched and dirty as in neglect
- squander
- to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
- stoic
- indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain;steadfast
- stymie
- ato block; thwart