Units 4-9
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| affable | courteous and pleasant
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| aggrandize | increase in greatness
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| amorphous | shapeless
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| aura | atmosphere
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| contraband | illicit
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| erudite | scholarly
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| gossamer | thin, light, delicate
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| infer | to find out by reasoning
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| inscrutable | incomprehensible
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| insular | relating to
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| irrevocable | unalterable
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| propensity | natural inclination
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| querulous | peevish
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| remonstrate | reason against
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| repudiate | to disown
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| resilient | elastic
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| reverberate | to re-echo
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| scurrilous | vulgar or low
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| sedulous | persistent, tireless
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| sleazy | tawdry, cheap
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| amnesty | general pardon
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| autonomy | self-government
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| axiomatic | taken for granted
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| blazon | adorn or embellish
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| caveat | warning or caution
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| equitable | right, just
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| extricate | disentangle
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| flout | to mock
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| fractious | tending to be troublesome, peevish
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| precept | principle
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| salutary | helpful
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| scathing | bitterly severe
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| scourge | punish severely
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| sepulchral | funereal
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| soporific | tending to cause sleep
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| straitlaced | overly strict
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| transient | lasting only a short time
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| unwieldy | cumbersome
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| vapid | dull, uninteresting
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| anomalous | abnormal
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| aspersion | act of slandering or defaming
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| bizarre | outlandish
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| brusque | curt, abrupt
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| cajole | to coax
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| castigate | chastise
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| contrive | think up, devise
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| demagogue | rabble-rouser
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| disabuse | undeceive
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| ennui | boredom
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| fetter | bond, restraint
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| heinous | wicked, offensive
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| immutable | unchangeable
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| insurgent | revolutionary, rebellious
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| megalomania | delusions of grandeur
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| sinecure | "no-show" job
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| surreptitious | stealthy, secret
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| transgress | exceed
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| transmute | transform
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| vicarious | performed, imagined
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| austere | stern, harsh
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| beneficent | humanitarian
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| cadaverous | corpse like
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| concoct | create
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| crass | unfeeling
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| debase | cheapen
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| desecrate | violate
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| disconcert | faze, confuse
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| grandiose | majestic, bombastic
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| inconsequential | unimportant
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| infraction | violation
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| mitigate | to make milder or softer
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| pillage | ravage, booty
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| prate | chatter, prattle
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| punctilious | precise
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| redoubtable | inspiring fear or awe
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| reprove | chide
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| restitution | compensation
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| stalwart | sturdy
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| vulnerable | defenseless
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| acrimonious | biting, caustic
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| bovine | stupid, cow
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| consternation | bewilderment
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| corpulent | overweight
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| disavow | disclaim
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| dispassionate | unbiased, free from emotion
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| dissension | disagreement
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| dissipate | disperse
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| expurgate | censor
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| gauntlet | trial
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| hypothetical | assumed
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| ignoble | mean, low, base
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| impugn | challenge
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| intemperate | excessive
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| odium | hatred
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| perfidy | betrayal
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| relegate | demote
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| squeamish | nauseated
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| subservient | servile
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| susceptible | vulnerable
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| abate | diminish
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| adulation | adoration
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| anathema | abomination
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| astute | shrewd
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| avarice | greedy desire
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| culpable | guilty
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| dilatory | stalling
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| egregious | flagrant, blatant
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| equivocate | speak in a way that allows for more than one interpretation
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| evanescent | transitory
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| irresolute | indecisive
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| nebulous | cloudlike, hazy
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| novice | newb
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| penury | destitution
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| pretentious | ostentatious
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| recapitulate | summarize
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| resuscitate | revive
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| slovenly | unkempt
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| supposition | assumption
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| torpid | sluggish
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