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Quarantine

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The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with a contagious disease

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Vacuous

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Empty

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Opulent

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Wealthy, Rich or Abundant

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Marvel

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To be astonished and perplexed because of something.

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Conspire

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To plot

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Discrepant

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Differing or inconsistent

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Exceed

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To go beyond, as in measure, quantity, value, action, power, skill and so on

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Frugal

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Economical

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Wreak

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To inflict. As in revenge or punishment

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Violate

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Changeable

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Simulate

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To imitate

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Oration

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An elaborate or formal public speech

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Loathe

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To abominate

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Loath

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Reluctant

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Genesis

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Creation

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Culpable

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Guilty

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Collide

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To meet and strike violently

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Disseminate

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To circulate

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Authentic

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Of undisputed origin

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Facsimile

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An exact copy or reproduction

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Intervene

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To interfere for some end

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Monotony

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A lack of variety

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Rendition

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Interpretation

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Zephyr

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Any soft, gentle wind

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Transcend

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To surpass

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Fluctuate

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To pass backward and forward Irregularly from one state or degree to another

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Demented

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Insane

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Accede

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To agree

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Transient

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Lasting a very short time

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Reverence

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A feeling of profound respect for someone or some thing

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Prosperity

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An economic state of growth or having a good fortune

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Adversity

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A stroke of ill fortune

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Fortuitous

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Having no cause or apparent cause ; Lucky

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Discredit

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To cause to be distrusted or disbelieved

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Affliction

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A state of pain, distress or grief

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Unwise

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Foolish

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Safeguard

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To protect

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Piccolo

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A small flute

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Mishap

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Misfortune

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Mania

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Insanity

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Lexicon

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A dictionary

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Inception

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The beginning

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Heifer

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A young, calf less cow

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Beneficial

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Helpful

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Desist

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To cease from action

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Fragile

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Capable of braking easy

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Hoard

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To gather or collect and keep

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Ire

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Wrath or anger

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Lapse

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A slight deviation from what is right, proper or just

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Narrator

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One who tells a story

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Frolicsome

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Playful

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Probe

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To search through and through

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Aroma

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An agreeable odour

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Auburn

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Reddish-Brown

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Cosmos

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The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement

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Immune

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Exempt, as from disease

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Knead

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To mix and work into a homogenous mass, especially with the hands

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Rapid

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Quick

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Submission

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The yielding of power or authority of another

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Waif

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A homeless person or wanderer

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Paraphrase

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To reword or translate freely

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Revile

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Subject to verbal abuse

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Brigand

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One who lives by robbery and plunder

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Jovial

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Merry or happy

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Ordnance

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A general name for all kinds of weapons and ammunition used in war

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Poignancy

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Severities or acuteness, especially in pain or grief

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Recur

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To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals

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Nunnery

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A convent for nuns

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Deride

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To ridicule

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Conjugate

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Joined together in pairs

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Abrupt

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Beginning, ending or changing suddenly

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Abeyance

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Temporary suspension

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Sturdy

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Well-Built

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Bullock

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A young bulk or ox

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Brevity

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Shortness of duration

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Veracious

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Truthful

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Pardon

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The excusing of an offence without exacting a penalty

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Lustrous

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Reflecting light evenly and effectively without glitter or sparkle

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Impertinent

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Characterised by rudeness

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Indigent

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Poor

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Null

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Having no value, or zero

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Buffoon

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Clown

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Terminate

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Come to an end

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Arbor

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A shelter of vines and branches or a tree

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Enmity

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Active hatred or I’ll will

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Craving

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An intense, abnormal, or urgent desire

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Dubious

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Of doubtful promise or outcome

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Confiscate

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To deprive of property

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Guile

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Deceitful or cunning

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Weal

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A sound, healthy or prosperous state

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Meager

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Sparse

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Deplore

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To feel or express grief or regret strongly

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Yearn

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To long for persistently, sadly, or wistfully

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Fraternal

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Relating to, or involving brothers

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Rigid

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Inflexible

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Ghastly

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Terrifyingly horrible to the senses

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Subterfuge

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Evasion

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Habitant

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Dweller

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Invalid

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Being without foundation

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Illustrious

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Famous

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Surround

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To enclose on all sides

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Benefit

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Something that promotes well being

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Cite

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To specify or refer to

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Recline

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Lean

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Spectator

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Observer

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Preserve

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To keep safe or intact

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Facilitate

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To help make easier or being about

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Paradigm

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Model

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Hinder

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Prevent

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Comfortable

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Enjoying contentment

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Secure

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Safe, not expose to danger or harm

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Assimilate

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To absorb

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Theory

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A proposed explanation

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Cognisance

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Awareness

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Flagrant

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Obvious or glaring

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Adept

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Very skilled, proficient ; Expert

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Pretend

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To appear falsely

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Clever

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Having sharp intelligence or wit

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Edible

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Able to eaten as food

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Pretense

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A false showing of something, dishonestly

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived

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Inamorata

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Female lover, mistress

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Slake

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To cool or refresh

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Verdant

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Green with vegetation

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Paroxysm

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Sudden outburst

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Echinate

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Prickly

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Apex

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Top

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Penalty

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Consequence

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Abundant

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Plentiful

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Prattle

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Babble

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Licit

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Lawful

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Tacit

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Understood

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Contrived

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Premeditated

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Supplicate

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To seek it ask for humbly

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Brackish

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Somewhat salty

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Superior

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Higher in performance or rank

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Extreme

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Great in degree

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Elect

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To choose or select

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Avarice

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Greediness

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Rank

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A class in any scale or comparison

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Determinant

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A deciding factor or agent

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Resignation

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A formal request to end a situation or position

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Acquiescence

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Consent without objection

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Repel

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To resist

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Aversion

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A strong feeling of dislike

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Repugnance

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Strong distaste or inconsistency

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Hostility

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Antagonism, I’ll will

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Contradictory

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Opposite

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Paradox

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An absurd statement expressing possible truth

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Acrid

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Bitter to the senses

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Render

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To make or represent for viewing

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Disparity

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Lack of equality

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Concomitant

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Accompanying

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Arcane

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Mysterious or secret

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Edifice

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A large building or structure, often limiting view

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Genre

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A category having particular form

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Insular

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Isolated, as in a island

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Inane

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Lacking sense; silly

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Lionise

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To treat as or pursue company form a celebrity

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Melee

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Confusion or turmoil among people

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Lustre

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Sparkle or sheen

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Erratic

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Deviating from usual behaviour

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Garble

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To confuse unintentionally ; Jumble

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Hapless

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Unlucky

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Dissemble

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To conceal truth

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Somber

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Dark and gloomy

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Propound

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To set fourth for consideration

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Mundane

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Earthly, ordinary and unimaginative

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Proactive

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Preparing, intervening or controlling an expected situation

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Occlude

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To close, shut or stop up

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Solicit

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To seek for (something) by request

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Rational

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Reasonable with sound judgment

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Pacify

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To restore a state of peace

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Sullen

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I’ll-humoured

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Obdurate

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Stubbornness

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Rotund

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Rounded or plump

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Utopia

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An ideal place or state, such as perfection

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Serene

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Calm; peaceful

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Fester

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To generate pus

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Indelible

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Cannot be erased, eliminated or forgotten

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Flourish

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To be successful, prosper or thrive

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Duress

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Forcible restraint

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Innuendo

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Insinuation of something generally supposed improper

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Interim

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An intervening time

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Divulge

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To disclose or revel

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Malleable

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Adaptable

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Malapropism

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The act of misusing words ridiculously

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Imbroglio

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A misunderstanding or disagreement

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Evince

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To reveal or show clearly

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Lucid

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Easily understood, clearly perceived

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Exhume

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To dig from the earth

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Immolate

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To sacrifice, especially by fire

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Distend

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To spread in all directions ; expand

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Forestall

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To prevent by action in advance

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Inert

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Having little or no ability to react

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Flux

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Flow or flowing

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Disperse

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To scatter in various directions

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Fulsome

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Offensive to good taste overdone

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Extrinsic

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Not a basic part or quality

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Fanatic

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A person with extreme enthusiasm

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Infringe

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To violate or trespass

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Hiatus

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A break or interruption

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Emanate

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To flow out, issue or proceed ; originate

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Inure

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To accustom to hardship

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Ennui

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Lack of interest ; Boredom

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Kindle

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To start a fire

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Interlude

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An intervening episode, period or space

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Chronic

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Constant or habitual

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Allege

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To assert without proof

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Apposite

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Suitable ; Well adapted

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Dilatory

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Tending to delay

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Cohort

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A companion, group or company

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Apathy

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Absence of passion or emotion

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Indolent

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Slothful or benign

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Fatuous

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Foolish

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Infest

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To overrun in a troublesome degree

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Fecund

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Very productive

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Elocution

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The study/practise of oral delivery or gesture

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Hubris

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Arrogance

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Irascible

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Easily provoked to anger ; irritable

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Heinous

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Hateful

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Latent

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Existing as potential

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Entity

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Something that has real existence

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Grovel

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To humble oneself in great fear or humility

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Minion

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A minor official

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Extort

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To obtain by force, intimidation, threat or violence

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Malevolent

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Wishing Evil or harm to others

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Oblique

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No straight or direct

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Solemn

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Seriousness

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Sunder

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Separate

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Surmise

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To guess

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Palpable

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Obvious; evident

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Qualm

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An uneasy feeling

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Stupor

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Suspension of sense ability

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Retract

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To draw back or in

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Obscure

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Not clear, hard to perceive

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Turbid

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Thick or dense, as smoke or clouds

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Pathos

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Ability to evoke a feeling or pity or comparison

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Tenuous

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Thin

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Penury

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Extreme poverty

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Obtrusive

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Impairing oneself or opinions or others

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Procure

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To obtain by car, effort or special means

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Static

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Showing little or no change ; fixed

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Boisterous

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Rowdy

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Transpire

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To occur, happen ; Take place

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Viable

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Capable of living

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Ulterior

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Being beyond what is seen ; Intentionally kept concealed

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Sacrilege

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The violation of something held sacred

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Pliable

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Flexible

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Nexus

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A connected series or group

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Prolix

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Great or tedious length

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Dispirit

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To deprive of spirit or hope

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Induce

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To bring about ; Produce ; Cause

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Dross

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Waste matter

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Embroil

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To throw into confusion ; Complicate

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Inveigh

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To protest strongly

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Futile

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Ineffective ; Not successful

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Extricate

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To free or release ; Disengage

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Facetious

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Not meant to be taken serious ; Joking inappropriately

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Abrogate

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Abolish

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Abysmal

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Extremely severe

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Raffish

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Tawdry

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Strident

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Harsh

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Mulct

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To defraud

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Taciturn

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Temperamentally silent

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Chimera

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Monster

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Concocted

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Invented

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Embonpoint

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Plumpness

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Dulcet

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Harmonious

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Terse

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Brief

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Arcanum

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A secret

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Cursory

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Superficial

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Allot

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Assign

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Defective

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Flawed

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Eldritch

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Eerie ; Weird

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Exempt

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Excused

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Crimson

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Red

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Amateur

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Novice

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Debouch

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Emerge

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Inconsequential

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Irrelevant

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Protracted

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Extended

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Acute

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Sharp

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Kvetch

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To complain

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Avocation

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Hobby

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Mawkish

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Sentimental

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Incoherent

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Unintelligible

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Proclivity

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Predisposition

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Antithesis

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Completely opposite

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Reference

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Mention

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Insinuate

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To suggest

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Acquaint

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To introduce

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Ventilate

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To oxygenate

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Compendium

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Summary

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Descry

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To discover

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Kraal

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A livestock enclosure

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Penultimate

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Next to the last

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Quotidian

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Daily

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Various

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Numerous

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Adjournment

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End