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| emollient | Softening and soothing, especially to the skin
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| epicure | a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
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| prevaricate | n 1: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth; equivocation
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| veracity | Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
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| minatory; minacious | Of a menacing or threatening nature
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| agog | Full of excitement or interest; in eager desire; eager, keen.
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| iconoclast | One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.
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| obdurate | Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent
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| itinerant | One who travels from place to place.
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| propitiate | to appease, to conciliate
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| propitious | auspicious, favorable
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| plangent | pounding, thundering, resounding
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| pusillanimous | cowardly, craven
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| saturnine | gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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| sententious | aphoristic; tending to moralize excessively
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| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful
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| salacious | lustful, bawdy, lascivious
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| lascivious | Given to or expressing lust; lecherous.
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| ineluctable | certain, inevitable
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| philatelist, philatelist | The collection and study of postage stamps, postmarks, and related materials; stamp collecting.
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| quixotic | not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic
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| captious | Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults
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| fastidious | Possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail.
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| impecunious | Lacking money; penniless
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| mendicant | Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging
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| punctilious | Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct
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| histrionic | characteristic of acting or a stage performance
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| rebarbative | Serving or tending to irritate or repel.
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| prosaic | Lacking in imagination and spirit; dull.
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| complaisant | Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.
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| pulchritude | physical beauty (especially of a woman)
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| beatitude | # Supreme blessedness or happiness.
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| indolent | Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy.
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| provident | Providing for future needs or events; Prudent, thrifty
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| putative | thought, assumed, or alleged to be such or to exist; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds
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| myopic | unable to see distant objects clearly; lacking foresight or scope
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| restive | being in a tense state; impatient especially under restriction or delay
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| salubrious | Conducive or favorable to health or well-being.
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| loquaciousness | very talkative; garrulous.
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| reticent | Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself.
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| protean | Readily taking on varied shapes, forms, or meanings.
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| puerile | # Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
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| pugnacious | ready and able to resort to force or violence; Combative in nature; belligerent
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| puissant | powerful; potent
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| turgid | Swollen, bloated, puffed up; as, "a turgid limb."; Swelling in style or language; bombastic, pompous; as, "a turgid style of speaking."
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| prescient | perceiving the significance of events before they occur
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| parsimony | Unusual or excessive frugality; extreme economy or stinginess.
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