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04/11/2006
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intrepid
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fearless
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impecunious
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poor
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desiccate
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dry up
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sycophant
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servile flatterer
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antediluvian
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ancient
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carping
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finding fault
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aviary
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enclosure for birds
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brevity
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conciseness
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munificient
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v generous
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quiescent
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at rest, dormant
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partisan
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one-sided/perjudiced/committed to a party
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gratuitous
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given freely
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spurious
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false
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soporific
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sleep inducing
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taciturn
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habitually silent
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solidity
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dullness/impassiveness
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laconic
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brief/to the point
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guile
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deceit/duplicity
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innocuous
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harmless
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contend
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struggle/compete
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rescind
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cancel
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nefarious
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wicked
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asceticism
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doctrine of self-denial
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beguile
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amuse/delude
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viable
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capable of maintaining life
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recant
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repudiate/withdraw
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ratify
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approve formally/verify
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rancor
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bitterness/hatred
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profilgate
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dissipated/wasteful/licentious
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repudiate
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disavow/disown
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qualified
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limited/restricted
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prodigal
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wasteful
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ponderous
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weighty/unweildy
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misnomer
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wrong name/incorrect designation
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parsimony
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stinginess/careful with money
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abstemious
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sparing in eating and drinking/temperate
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insuperable
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insurmountable/invincible
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culpable
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deserving blame
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circumlocution
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indirect/roundabout
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aprocryphal
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not genuine/sham
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doctrinaire
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unable to compromise about points of doctrine
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ebullient
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showing excitement/enthusiasm
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incontrovertible
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indisputable
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evanescent
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fleeting/vanishing
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fell
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cruel/deadly
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emend
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correct(by a critic)
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querulous
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complaining/whining
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ambivalence
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state of having contradictory emotional states
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debunk
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expose as false
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iconoclastic
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attacking traditions
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illicit
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illegal
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intractable
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unruly/refractory
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exalt
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raise in rank/dignity/praise
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derivative
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unoriginal
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deprecate
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disapprove regretfully
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amorphous
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shapeless
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ascendancy
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controlling influence
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disputatious
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argumentative
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voluable
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fluent/glib
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reprehensible
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deserving blame
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fallacious
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misleading
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credulity
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belief on slight evidence
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efface
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rub out
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