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Incendiary
Tending to excite or inflame
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stoic
not affected by passion or feeling
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Voluble
fluent and smooth in speech
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Supercilious
Haughtily, contemptuous, arrogant, overbearing
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Reticent
Silent or uncommunicative
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Prosaic
Lacking imagination or excitement
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Ingenuous
straightforward or frank
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Magnanimous
Showing or suggesting a lofty courageous spirit or generous
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Propitious
Being a good omen
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Sardonic
Expressing scorn or mockery
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Abstruse
Hard to understand
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Ubiquitous
Existing or being everywhere at the same time, or omnipresent
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Indigent
Impoverished or needy
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Indigenous
Produced, growing, or living in a particular region
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Surreptitious
Done, made, or acquired by stealth
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Peruse
to read attentively
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Condescend
To assume an air of superiority
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Ensconce
to shelter or conceal
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Usurp
To seize and hold by force or without
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Paradox
A statement that seems contrary to common sense and yet perhaps true
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Mitigate
to make less harsh
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Deprecate
to express disapproval of
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Predilection
A favorable inclination
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Sycophant
A servile flatterer
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Exacerbate
To increase the severity of
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Vanguard
The forefront of an action or movement
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Encumber
To weigh down or burden
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Chicanery
Trickery or deception
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Absolve
To set free from obligation or guilt
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Enigma
Something obscure or hard to understand like a puzzle or riddle
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Provincial
Confined to a region or province
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Precursor
One that precedes and indicates the approaches of another
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Amalgam
A mixture of different elements
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Decimate
To destroy a large part of
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Officious
Volunteering ones services where they are neither asked fro nor needed
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