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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cupidity | greed |
| deference | courteous going along with the opinion or wishes of another |
| deprecate | to disprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disproval |
| disrepute | disgrace, loss of approval |
| dissipation | wasteful spending, squandering |
| dubious | doubtful, not clear |
| duplicity | double dealing, hypocrisy |
| impetuous | violent, hasty, rash, impulsive |
| incipient | beginning to come into being, the early stage of something |
| incongruity | incompatibility, nonconformity |
| indolence | laziness |
| jocose | given to jokes and jesting |
| malicious | motivated by hate or deliberate intent to harm |
| meritorious | deserving honor or praise |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile, to make less severe |
| prevarication | evasiveness, lie |
| profuse | extravagantly abundant, flowing freely |
| propitious | favorably disposed, graciously inclined |
| propriety | correct conduct |
| superfluous | beyond what is needed or required |