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apportionate
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divide and share
stigmatized
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condemned
deified
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worship
annotated
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add notes
antedated
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precede in time
lascivious
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lustful
preternatural
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extraordinary
preordained
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fate
pithy
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express an idea cleverly in a few words
indemnify
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reimburse
actuarial
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insurance work
doyenne
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most respected woman in a particular field
caustic
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sarcastic, acrimonious
lackadaisical
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lacking enthusiasm, lukewarm, languid
visissitude
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a change of circumstances/fortune, typically one that is unwelcome/ unpleasant
akimbo to
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hands on a hip stance
obtuse to
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slow witted
subservient
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obsequiously submissive
askance
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disapprove
proponent
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advocate
demarcate
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delimit
white wash
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to cover over someone's errors
improvident
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failing to provide for the future, profligate
dissolute
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unrestrained by morality
inimical
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hostile
palled
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pale, weak
impecunious
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poor
enigmatic to
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difficult to understand
quixotic
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romantic, Idealistic
grandiloquent
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excess use of difficult words to impress others
cajole
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coax, entice
roundly
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emphatically
panned
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severe criticism
insouciance
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carelessness
catharsis
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release of emotional tension, purging
coda
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conclusion
homily
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sermon
simpatico
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compatible temperament
inured to
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habituate
effusive towards
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unrestrained, overflow of emotions
maudlin over
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mawkish; overly sentimental
syncopated
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shortened word, missed beat (music)
agglomerate
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form into a mass or a collection
amortized
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reduce in debt
inveigle
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convince someone to do something, entice
hector
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bully, torment
presage
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foreshadow
defer
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to delay
abhorrent
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disgusting
consanguineness
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of the same blood
cottish
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lively, playful
cumbersome
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drag
beguiled by
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deceive; charm
chary of
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cautious of
fecund
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fertile
impervious
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unable to be affected by
obtrusive
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protruding
stouter
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thick, large
concomitant
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accompanying
vestigial
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residual
evanescence
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ephemeral
sagacious
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wise
verdant
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green; inexperienced
enamoured
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amorous; loving
facile
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effortless, superficial
dulcet
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sweet, melodious
garrulous
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excessively talkative
skittish
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timid
solicitous
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anxious
motley
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heterogeneous, incongruous mixture
facetious
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jocular; treating serious issues with deliberating inappropriate humor
immutable
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cannot be changed
polemical
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strong verbal attack
excoriate
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to censure, condemn
obloquy
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abusive language, false accusation
artifice
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trickery, deception
pulchritude
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physical beauty
tepid
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lukewarm
indolence
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laziness
probity
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integrity
antediluvian
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outdated
deplorable
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shockingly bad
desultory
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unmethodical
brusque
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rudely abrupt
metastasise
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spread
parlous
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dangerous, risky, terrible, appalling
semiotic
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relating to signs and symbols; relating to symptoms
ergonomic
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reduce discomfort, fatigue
sangfroid
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composure, aplomb
fascist
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despotic
vainglorious
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boastful
brook
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tolerate, endure, enjoy
entreaty
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treatment, reception
stopgap
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temporary cure
paragon
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model
perpetuity
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forever
mores
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moral rules, customs
truism
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self-evident, obvious truth
terseness
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abrupt, curt, brusque
distention
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to swell, spread
expatiation
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to write/speak at length
repertory
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a collection of things
tendentious
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to lean towards a controversial opinion
protean
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multiform
arcadian
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ideally rustic
squalid
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extremely dirty and unpleasant
hinterland
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remote, undeveloped area, backwaters
prudish
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of excessive propriety; easily offended / or shocked by sexual matters
licentious
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lacking restraint, especially in
perspicacious
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perceptive
auxiliary
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secondary, supportive
whet
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to stimulate, make more keen
effete
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exhausted, worn out; feeble, powerless
halcyon
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peace, serene, calm
anemic
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weak, listless
botched
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clumsily mad or referred in an unacceptable manner
leery
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cautious, obligated
implicit
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implied
seething
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angry
livid
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pallid because of anger
bay
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to howl, bark at
illiberal
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oppressive
heterodox
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unorthodox
callous
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heartless
risqué
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suggestive of sexual impropriety
decamp
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abscond
pandered
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to tempt with improper motivations
fester
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to worsen, due to lack of attention
paradigm
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model, exemplar

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