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10/03/2008
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apex
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high point;zenith;pinnacle
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bane
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a cause for ruin
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bard
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a poet
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tout
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to flaunt
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dolt
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an obtuse person
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bevy
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a large group
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bilk
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to steal;to embezzle
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boor
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a rude person
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deft
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skillful, adept
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tyro
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beginner, neophyte, a fledgling
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dire
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serious, urgent
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arable
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able to be cultivated, farmable
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fawn
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subsurviently
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1 : useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate
2 : serving to promote some end
3 : obsequiously submissive : truckling
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arboreal
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relating to trees
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Acme
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high point;zenith
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foil
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to baffle a plan to thwart
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gait
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a manner or rate of walking
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dupe
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to trick
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boon
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a sudden gain;a windfall
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garb
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clothin attire
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keen
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sharpminded cacute
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curt
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abrupt to the point of rudeness
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mire
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a swamp pit, mud, a quagmire
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avid
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passionate;ardent
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molt
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to shed hair feathers shell or horns
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onus
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a duty or burden
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tome
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a very big book
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aesthete
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one who appreciates and seeks beauty
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alacrity
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cheerful readiness
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aphorism
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a wise saying an adage a maxim
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appropriate verb
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to take anothers propert as ones own
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auspicious
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foretelling well for the future
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avant-garde
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cutting edge, new experimental
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behemoth
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a huge animal, something of great size or power
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bequest
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a gift upon one's death
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brook verb
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to endure, to put up with
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bungle
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to botch, to mess up
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byzantine
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ornate, fancy
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celerity
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cheerful speed
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cerebral
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intellectual
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chagrin
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embarrassment
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circumscribed
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defined or limited; isolated
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cloying
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oversweet;saccharine
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confound
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to confuse; to perplex; to befuddle
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conjecture
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a guess
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constituents
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voters
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consummate
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complete; perfect
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crude
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rude; lacking refinement
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curtail
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to cut short
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debased
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morally low; base
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decorous
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having propriety
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desultory
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aimless;lackinf a plan or purpose
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didactic
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relatinf to nstruction, lecturing
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dilatory
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lacking goals or purpose; aimless
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dilatory
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lacking goals or purpose; aimless
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din
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noise
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dirge
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a funeral song
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discomfited
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embarrassed;disconcerted
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discretionary
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based on personal choice;showing prudence
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disingenuous
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dishonest;crafty
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disposed
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behaviorally inclined
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edifice
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a building
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effigy
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a crude likeness of a loathed person
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egregious
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blatantly wrong
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elusive
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hard to grasplescaping;evasive
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emollient
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a soothing lotion
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empirical
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based on data.evidence,and/or experiments
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enfranchise
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to free from slabery;to bestow the right to vote
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epitaph
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words inscribed on a tomb
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espouse
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to support
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expurgate
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to delete obscene or other undesirable material from a text
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extant
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existing
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fabrication
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a lie
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facile
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easy
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felicitous
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suitable;pleasant
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feral
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savage;wild
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galvanize
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to incite;to arouse to action
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gaunt
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thin;haggard
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gingerly
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carefully
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grovel
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to beg or plead;to crawl;to behave subordinately
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hapless
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ill fated;unfortunate;unlucky
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harbinger
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a messenger;an omen
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hermetic
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sealed in an airtight manner
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histrionic
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over theatrical;melodramatic
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hubris
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excessive pride
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inanimate
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not living
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incantation
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a calling out for inspuiration or guidance;an invocation
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inchoate
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not fully formed
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incisive
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harsh;cutting;vitriolic
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incumbent
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one who holds political office
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indelible
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unable to be erased;permanent
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ineffable
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incapable of expresssion in words
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inexorable
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steadfast; resolute
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inflammatory
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likely to excite rage or disorder
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insular
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isolated;remote
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intemperate
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excessive;immoderate
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interlocutor
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one who participates in conversation or dialogue
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intractable
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hard to manage or control
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jaded
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bored from thoo many pleaseure or overindulgence
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juggernaut
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relentless force
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juxtapose
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to place things side by side for the sake of comparing
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kinetic
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relating to motion and energy
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legion
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a very large number
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leviathon
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a subaquatic, mythological sea creature; something huge
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licentious
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morally lax
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melee
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a hand to hand fight involving several participants
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milieu
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environment
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myopic
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sgirt-sighted
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naivete
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lack of experience or sophistication
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nihilism
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a philosphical beleif involving the rejection of established values and morality
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nondescipt
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featureless; haard ot describe
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nonplussed
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confused to the point of being unable to act or speak
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obfuscate
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to obscure the meaning of
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obliged
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forced; made to do something because of conscience or obligation
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oblique
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indirect;slanted
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olfactory
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relating to the sense of smell
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onerous
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burdensome
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ostensible
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apparent
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panacea
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a cure-all
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partisan
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biased;opinionated
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pathos
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empathy;sympathetic pity
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pedagogic
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relating to education;instructive
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pedantic
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narrowly or pretentiously learned
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perfidious
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disloyal;traitorous
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petulant
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irritable
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plaudits
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applause;praise
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pontificate
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to speak in a supercilious and self-important manner
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pragmatist
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a practical person
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precept
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a rule of behavior or action
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precipitate
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to hurry up; to make hapen before planned
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prescience
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advance knowledge;foresight;anticipation
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probity
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honesty;integrity
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profligate
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extravagant to a fault; prodigal
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proliferate
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to reproduce or multiply quickly
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promulgate
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to make known, formally, a law or set of beleifs
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prose
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language ordinarily used in speaking or writing;writing that is NOT poetry
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prototype
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a model;an archetype;a first specimen
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pundits
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erudite(learned,scholarly) persons
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qualm
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doubt;hesitation;uneasiness
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quibble
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to find fault with
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quixotic
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romantic or dreamy
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refractory
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stubborn
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relegate
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to demote to an inferior position
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reprehensible
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worthy of blame
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rescind
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to take back; to withdraw
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retrograde
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going backward and therefore not progressing
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sanction (verb)
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to approve
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sanctimonious
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pretending to be religious
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scrupulous
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very conscientious
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serendipity
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faculty of benefiting(e.g., finding valuable objects) by random chance
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sophistry
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deceptive thinking;invalid arguments
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spate
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an outpouring
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specious
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false, no authentic; spurious
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steadfastness
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loyalty; resolve
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stupefy
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to stun
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subterfuge
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deception
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supplant
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to replace; to substitute for
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surfeit (noun)
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a surplus, an oversupply
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sybarite
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a pleasure-loving person
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synergistic
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working together and having a greater combined effect because of sumultaneous operation
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table (verb)
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to set aside an issue to be discussed at a later time
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tawdry
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cheap looking;gaudy
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temerity
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reckless boldness
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temper (verb)
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to lessen the severity of
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threadbare
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very worn;shabby
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treachery
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disloyalty,perfidy
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truculent
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belligerent
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turgid
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swollen;pompous
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unctuous
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inky,oily
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unherakded
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unannounced
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untenable
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unable to be defended
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upstart
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a rebel, an insurgent;a maverick
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utopian
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relating to a perfect society;idealistic
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vaunt
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to brag or boast
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venial
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forgivable;pardonable
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verdant
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green,lush
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verisimilitude
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probability;something that has the appearance of truth
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vestigial
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extremely small
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victuals
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food
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vignette
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a bref written description
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virile
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manly,strong
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visceral
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relating to the abdomen;instinctive rather that reasoned
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vitiate
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to impar;to render ineffective
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vitriolic
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harsh,biting,caustic
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watershed
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a defining moment;a turning point
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waylay
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to ambush
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wheedle
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to cajole or coax
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wily
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sly
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windfall
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an unexpected gain or boon
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winsome
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attractive
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witticism
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a clever remark
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xenophobic
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fearful of foreigners
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zephyr
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a light breeze
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