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| affirmation | a positive statement
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| aggrandizement | the act of making oneself more pwerful; magnification
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| aggravation | annoyance
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| alienated | turned from friendliness to hostility or indifference; estranged
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| alignment | adjustment
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| annihilated | reduced to nothing
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| forte | strong point
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| grandeur | magnificence
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| impartiality | fairness; equity
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| infinitesmial | immeasurably small
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| infinitude | limitless
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| investiture | the act of authorizing
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| lineaments | features
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| nullified | invalidated
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| nullities | invalidities
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| particularization | careful treatment
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| travesty | mockery; grotesque imitation
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| unalienable | that cannot be taken away; unforfeitable
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| verbatim | word for word
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| verbiage | wordiness
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| abjure | to recant; renounce
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| abstruse | hard or difficulr to understand
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| accession | acquistion; succession
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| adduced | presented; alleged
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| advent | arrival
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| affinity | attraction; fondness
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| alleviate | to relieve; ease
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| annulled | voided; abolished
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| antecedent | previous; former
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| circumlocution | evasion in speech; verbiage
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| circumvented | thwarted; foiled
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| collusion | conspiracy
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| conducive | helpful; useful
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| contravenes | to contradict; deny
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| convened | met; came together
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| deductive | reasoned; derivable
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| delineate | to describe; outline
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| deludes | to deceive or fool oneself
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| deprecate | to disapproce
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| divested | stripped; deprived
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| align | to bring into line
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| congregation | assemblage
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| consecrate | to make or set apart as sacred or holy
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| execrate | to detest; to abhor
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| expunge | to strike out; to mark for deletion
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| imperturbable | calm; not easily disturbed or upset
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| imperviousness | the quality of not being open to argumentation or suggestion
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| imprecation | a curse
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| inadvertently | carelessly; by mistake
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| incessant | continual; constant
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| induce | to cause; to bring about
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| injustice | lack of fairness or rightness
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| insensate | senseless; foolish; brutal
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| intercession | the act of intervening between two parties in order to reconcile their differences
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| interlineations | material written between lines that are already written or printed
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| interlocutor | a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue
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| obloquy | blame; publie reproach
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| obtrude | to push out; meddle
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| perjury | the violation of an oath by giving false information
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| perverse | improper; wrongheaded
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| compendia | summaries; conspectus
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| concur | to agree
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| conspectus | synopsis; compendium
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| implement | to put into effect, carry out
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| insuperable | insurmountable
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| irrevocable | irreversible; fixed
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| preclude | to prevent; to make impossible
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| presentiment | a feeling about the future; a foreboding
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| propensity | a leaning, bias, tendency
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| protrusive | sticking out, projecting
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| redundant | wordy, unnecesary
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| regression | return; reversion
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| retrograde | backward; retreating
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| retrospective | looking back (on the past)
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| seclusion | detachment; separation
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| subvert | to sabotage, undermine
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| succor | help, assistance
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| supplemental | additional
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| transgressions | sins; infringements
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| video | television
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| accede | to agree with or consent to
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| centigrade | having a scale of one hundred degrees
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| centipedes | wormlike animals with pairs of legs for each body segment
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| convocation | an assembly
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| decimated | to destroy or kill a large part of
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| desecration | violation of something sacred
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| dualism | a condition consisting of two parts
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| elusive | tending to slip away or be unexplained
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| incursions | sudden attack or invasions
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| interlocutor | one who takes part in a conversation
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| pensive | thoughful or reflective in a sad way
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| primate | any of the the highest order of mammal; an archbishop
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| quadrpartite | divided into or consisting of four parts
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| quadrupeds | animals that have four feet
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| sacrosanct | very holy
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| semifinals | one of two matches
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| sextuplets | six children born at one birth
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| transverse | lying or passing across
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| tripartite | composed of three parts
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| viaduct | a bridge over a canal, railroad, or road
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| aggrieved | hurt; offended
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| bonbons | small pieces of candy
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| biennial | occurring every two years
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| compunction | guilt; remorse
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| complexities | difficult or complicated conditions
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| correlation | connection; mutual relationship
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| equanimity | calmness, composure
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| explicit | clearly stated or shown
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| inanimate | lifeless
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| incantations | magic spells or rites
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| iniquitous | unjust, wicked
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| interventionist | a person favoring interference in an affair of another
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| magnanimous | generous, noble
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| malice | spite, ill will
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| millennium | a period of one thousand years; a period of happiness, peace, etc.
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| multiplicity | a great variety or diversity
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| optimize | to make the most or best of
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| proffer | to offer
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| quadrennial | occurring every four years
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| secured | to make safe or protect
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| successively | coming one after another
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| aqueous | watery
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| collare | put together in proper order
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| colloquial | conversational; informal
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| contemporaneous | contemporary; belonging to the same time period
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| continual | never stopping
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| corporal | bodily
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| crucial | very important; decisive; critical
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| devious | not sincere; deceitful
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| dissimilar | different; not similar
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| distend | swell out or stretch out by pressure from within; expand
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| incorporeal | not made of any material substance
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| injudiciously | not showing good judgment
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| perennial | lasting for a long time; perpetual; enduring
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| pertain | to be connected as appropriate or in some way related
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| pretense | a false claim
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| primal | of early times; original
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| rectilinear | in a straight line
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| temporal | lasting for only a time; of this time only; transient
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| tenuous | flimsy; weak; not substantial
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| verbose | wordy
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| aquatic | taking place in or on water
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| contemporary | occurring in the present time
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| corpulent | obese; fat; stout
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| deflated | to injure or destroy the conceit or confidence of
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| enchanted | delighted or charmed
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| generate | to produce; to bring into being
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| generic | pertaining to a whole class of similar things
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| gregarious | enjoying the company of others
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| infer | to derive or find out by reasoning
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| inflame | to excite; stir up; arouse; kindle
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| invoke | to call or bring into effect; implement
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| luminary | a famous person; celebrity
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| luminous | glowing; radiating light
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| precarious | not secure or safe; uncertain; risky
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| quadrilaterals | a plane figure having four sides and four angles
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| retained | to employ by payment or a fee
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| senile | characteristic of old age
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| servile | submissive; slavish
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| turbulent | disorderly; unruly
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| unilateral | proceeding from only one of two or more sides in a contract, agreement, or transaction
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| aggregate | the sum of separate units; combined mass
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| concubine | a woman who lives with a man without being married to him
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| congenital | existing as a result of faulty development at birth; inborn, inherent
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| diffident | shy; timid; lacking self-confidence
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| expedient | advantageous rather than fair or just; suitable
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| flagrant | outrageously noticeable; blatantly offenseive; scandalous
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| incumbent | resting (on a person) as a duty
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| inherent | inborn; innate
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| inordinate | much too great; excessive
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| insubordinate | not submissive to authority; disobedient
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| omnipotent | having all power
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| plenipotentiary | having full power and authority
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| pungent | having a sharp smell
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| resilient | readily recovering, buoyant, cheerful
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| salient | standing out; prominent
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| sedentary | sitting still too much of the time; inactive
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| subsidiary | subordinate or secondary
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| supersede | to take the place of; displace; replace
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| terrain | any tract of land especially considered with respect to its natural features
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| universe | everything there is
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| assimilable | capable of being absorbed
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| contingent | depending on something uncertain; conditional
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| credible | believable; reliable; trustworthy
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| credit | to have faith in; believe; trust
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| defame | to attack or harm the reputation of
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| despiceable | despised; contemptible
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| docile | easy to mangage or control
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| equable | unvaried; even
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| fallacious | deceptive or misleading
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| fallible | capable of being mistaken
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| Fates | the three goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans
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| genitally | in a manner pertaining to the sex organs
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| immutable | not tending to change; never changing
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| incontrovertible | not capable of being denied, opposed, changed
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| ineffable | indescribable
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| intangible | not capable of being touched
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| intractable | difficult to persuade, influence, manage
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| obsessed | to keep one's attention to an unreasonable extent
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| tenable | capable of being defended
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| transmuted | changed
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| acrid | sharp, bitter, and stinging to the nose
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| adventitious | added as something extra; nonessential
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| capacious | capable of holding a great quantity
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| confluent | flowing into one
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| decadent | growing worse; declining
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| defoliated | stripped of all foliage
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| distracting | to turn (the mind or attention) away from a course or direction
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| efficacious | having, showing, or producing the desired result or effect; effective
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| effluent | sewage; waste water from plants
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| elevate | to raise in quality
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| factitious | not natural; forced
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| feasible | excessively ornate or showy in style
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| florid | to understand; comprehend
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| incredulous | not will to believe; skeptical
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| pendulous | hanging downward
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| perceive | to restore to a good condition
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| pernicious | causing great damage or harm; injurous
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| precepts | a rule or action or conduct; guide
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| renovate | to restore to a good condition
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| versatile | able to do many things well
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| assiduous | showing diligence or careful attention
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| compulsive | having the power to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly
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| conservative | a person who generally favors keeping things as the are or were in the recent past
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| cursory | showing haste and superficiality
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| deciduous | shedding leaves each year at the end of the growing season
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| desultory | jumping from one thing to another
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| discernible | able to be recognized or perceived clearly
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| discursive | tending to wander from one subject to another
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| during | throughout the time of
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| effusive | showing too much feeling or emotion
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| expository | characteristic of speech or writing that explains an idea, a process, etc.
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| impulsive | tending to act on a sudden influence, idea, etc.
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| introspectiveness | the quality of looking inward and examining one;s own thoughts and feelings
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| nascent | just beginning to exist or develop
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| obdurate | stubborn, unyielding
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| perspicuous | easily understood
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| prefatory | introductory
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| repulsive | causing strong dislik or disgust
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| sensuous | made aware of through the senses
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| tortuous | full of twists and turns
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| acuity | quality of being perceptive; sharpness; acuteness
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| affability | courteous and considerate manners
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| amity | friendly relations
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| animosity | strong and active dislike
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| deity | a god
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| efficacy | the power to produce the desired effects
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| fortitude | courage in the face of pain, danger, adversity, etc.
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| inequity | a state of being unfair or unjust
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| inexorably | in an unyielding manner; relentlessly
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| infirmity | the state of being in bad health; weakness, debility
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| lucidity | clearness or thought or perception
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| primacy | the fact or condition of being first
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| probity | integrity; rectitude
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| rapacious | given to plundering and seizing by force
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| rectitude | moral integrity; honesty
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| stringent | marked by strictness (concerning ruls and standards)
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| surreptitious | performed secretly
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| translucent | letting light through
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| verities | a truth or a true statement
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| verisimilitude | an appearance of truth
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