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| show | Using language in a pompous, showy way; speaking to impress others
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| Circumlocution | show 🗑
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| Garrulous | show 🗑
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| show | Using big and fancy words in order to impress others
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| show | Dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed
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| show | Made commonplace by over use; trite
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| Insipid | show 🗑
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| show | Quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if original
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| show | Dull; commonplace
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| show | Unoriginal and stale due to overuse
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| Vapid | show 🗑
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| show | To lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain
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| show | To make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension
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| show | To win a person over through special considerations of persuasive methods
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| Mitigate | show 🗑
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| Mollify | show 🗑
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| show | Easy to talk to or approach; friendly, kind, or amiable
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| show | Showing goodwill, peaceable
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| show | Compatible; having kindred needs or tastes; sympathetic
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| show | Sociable, outgoing in a festive way, especially when pertaining to eating and drinking; fond of good company
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| show | Sociable, outgoing
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| show | Liking to be with people, joke around with them, and have fun
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| Levity | show 🗑
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| Captious | show 🗑
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| show | Quarrelsom; belligerent
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| Polemical | show 🗑
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| Pugnacious | show 🗑
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| show | Showing an unselfish concern for others
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| Largess | show 🗑
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| Magnanimous | show 🗑
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| Munificent | show 🗑
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| show | Wasteful, lavish
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| show | Having great economy; showing self-control when it comes to forgoeing luxuries and frills; stern in manner or appearance
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| Avaricious | show 🗑
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| Parsimonious | show 🗑
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| Miserly | show 🗑
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| show | Singy; relating to great poverty or destitution
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| show | A difficult or troubling situation; a swampy ground, bog, or mire
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| Quandary | show 🗑
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| show | Causing ruin; harmful; pernicuous
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| show | Harmful to one's health or overall welfare
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| show | Loathesome; evil; revolting in a desgusting way
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| Pernicious | show 🗑
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| Carp | show 🗑
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| Castigate | show 🗑
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| show | To critize strongly
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| Impugn | show 🗑
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| Rebuff | show 🗑
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| Phlegmatic | show 🗑
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| Stolid | show 🗑
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| show | Having to do with sitting around a lot
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| show | Sleep-inducing; sleepy
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| show | Lacking energy; relating to inactivity; feeling sluggish
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| Obsequious | show 🗑
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| Sycophant | show 🗑
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| show | A flatterer; a sycophant
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| Ardent | show 🗑
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| Ebullient | show 🗑
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| show | Lively, full of uplifted spirit, vivacious
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| Dogmatic | show 🗑
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| Hidebound | show 🗑
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| Intractable | show 🗑
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| Oburdate | show 🗑
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| Recalcitrant | show 🗑
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| show | Lacking harmony or agreement
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| Euphony | show 🗑
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| show | Sweet and smooth-sounding
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| Raucous | show 🗑
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| show | Loud and noisy regarding one's own voice, especially shouting; demandingly clamourous
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| Strident | show 🗑
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| Acclaim | show 🗑
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| Accolade | show 🗑
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| show | To praise or flatter to greatly; fawn over
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| show | To praise or glorify; to lift up in status, dignity, or power
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| Laude | show 🗑
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| show | To praise a person or event in formal speech or writing; to praise highly
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| show | Abundant; much; plentiful
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| show | Abundant; more than enough
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| Prolific | show 🗑
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| show | An oversupply
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| show | Holding back from eating or drinking too much
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| Alimentary | show 🗑
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| Epicurean | show 🗑
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| show | Cautious; wary
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| Conscientious | show 🗑
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| Exacting | show 🗑
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| Scrupulous | show 🗑
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| show | Lasting a short time; fleeting
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| show | Vanishing quickly; fleeting
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| show | Lasting for only a short time; temporary
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