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to embellish
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to make something more beautiful or interesting by adding something to it
to emulate
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to copy something achieved by someone else and try to do it as well as they have
ephemeral
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lasting for only a short time
to eschew
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to avoid something intentionally, or to give soething up
to exhort
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to strongly enourage or try to persuade someone to do something ‚the governon exhorted prisoners not to riot’
extraneous
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not directly connected with or related to something, also unneeded
fallacious
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not correct, wrong
fatuous
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stupid, not correct, or not carefully thought about, a ~ idea
to forestall
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to prevent something from happening by acting first (ubiec kogoś)
garish
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unpleasantly bright
grandiloquence
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sth complicated in order to attract admiration and attention, especially in order to make someone or something seem important
hackneyed
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a phrase or an idea which ha been said or used so often that i has become boring and it has no meaning
heinous
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very bad and shocking, a heinous crime
imperious
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unpleasantly proud and expecting obedience
to impinge
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to have an effect on something, often causing problems by limiting it in some way
incessant
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never stopping, especially in an annoying or unpleasant way
incumbent
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officially having the named position
inextricable
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unable to be separated, relesed or escaped from
innocuous
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completely harmless
insurgent
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someone who is fighting against the governmentin their own country

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