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| Aberrant | departing from the usual course; exceptional; abnormal
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| accord | to be in agreement; to grant; or a harmonious union of sounds.
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| affable | pleasantly easy to approach and talk to; friendly; warm; polite
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| Affluent | having an abundance of wealth, property, or other materials. flowing freely.
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| allude | to make an indirect referance
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| Ambiguity | doubtfulness or uncertaintly of the meaning; unclear; indefinite.
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| Amorphous | lacking form
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| antipathy | natural aversion; disgust; hatred
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| archaic | marked by charicteristics of an eairlier period.
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| assimilate | persistant to take in and incorporate as one's own. absorb.
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| assidous | continuous; tireless
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| atrophy | wasting away of the bodys tissue
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| belligerent | warlike; giving or waging war
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| besiege | to crowd around; surround
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| cacophony | harsh sound
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| chronic | continuing frequently
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| complacence | a feeling of quiet plesure or security. self satisfaction.
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| confluence | a flowing together of two or more streams.
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| cosmopolitian | beautician
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| credulous | gullible
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| cryptic | mysterious; ambiguous
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| decadence | decay
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| derisive | mocking
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| desecrate | to treat with sacrilage; profane
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| detriment | loss; damage; injury
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| devious | indirect
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| diaphanous | very sheer or light; transparent
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| dichotomy | to cut into two parts
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| disparity | lack of similarity or equality; inequality.
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| dissonance | harsh sound; discord.
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| divulge | to disclose or reveal
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| docile | easily managed or handled
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| dynamic | pertaining to energy
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| eccentric | not having the same center
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| elucidate | to explain
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| elusive | hard to capture
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| empathized | to experiance empathy
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| enumerate | to mention seperatly as if counting
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| enunciate | to state as a theory
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| ephemeral | lasting only a very short time
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| epitomy | a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree that features of a whole class
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| equitable | characterized by fairness
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| equivocal | allowing the possibility of several meanings
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| excruciating | extremely painful; causing suffering
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| expunge | erase or obliterate
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| extenuating | to make less serious
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| fervent | having or showing great warmth
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| forte | a strong point at which one excels
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| gregarious | very talkative
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| homo | same
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| hyperbole | intentional exaggeration
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| idiosyncrasy | a chacracterstic or habbit that is strange
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| ignominious | humiliating
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| impecunious | having little or no money
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| impending | about to happen
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| impediment | henderance
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| impulsion | having the power to effect of impelling
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| incisive | biting or penatrating
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| infallible | not falliable
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| infringe | trespass
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| inquisitive | prying
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| levity | lack of seriousness
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| loquacious | talk constantly
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| magnaimous | forgiving an insult
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| malevolence | hatred
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| malicious | evil
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| neoteric | modern; new; or recent
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| orthodox | pertaining to any doctorine
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| panacea | cure-all.
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| pandemonium | wild uproar, chaos
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| paradox | contradictory statement
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| paragon | a model of excellence
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| pedantic | ostentatious on one's learning
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| peruse | to read through with thorouhness or care
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| philanthropy | an activity preformed with the goal of promoting the well being of a fellow man
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| placate | to pacify or appease
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| placid | calm or peaceful
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| poignant | keenly disstressing to the feelings
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| precarious | uncertaint
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| proliferate | to increasein number or spread rapidly
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| punctilious | strict in actions
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| recapitulate | to review by a brief summary
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| rectification | to act of setting right
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| remonstrate | dissoproval
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| resonance | to echo
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| salience | the state of being conspicious
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| sanguine | hopefull, cheerful
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| satiate | to satisfy to a full state
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| significant | having or expressing a meaning
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| stringent | marked by strictness
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| synchronized | to happen at the same time
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| tenuous | having little strength
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| transgression | violation of law
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| travesty | parody
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| trite | not fresh or original
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| unity | together as one
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| veracity | devotion to the truth
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| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement outcry
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