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Competent
Adj
Having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified.
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Avaricious
Adj
Characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
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Scrupulous
Adj
Having scruples; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled.
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Magnanimous
Adj
Generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness.
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Amiable
Adj
Having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable.
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Ovation
Noun
An enthusiastic public reception of a person, marked especially by loud and prolonged applause.
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Annul
Verb
To make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate.
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Divisive
Adj
Forming or expressing division or distrubution.
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Vociferous
Adj
Crying out noisily; clamorous.
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Garrulous
Adj
Excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, expecially about trivial matters.
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Effusive
Adj
Unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve.
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Reticent
Adj
Disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
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Munificent
Adj
Extremely liberal in giving; very generous.
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Miser
Noun
A stingy, avaricious person.
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Risqué
Adj
Daringly close to indelicacy or impropriety; off-color.
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Scruple
Noun
A moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
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Vindicive
Adj
Disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful.
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Affable
Adj
Pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite.
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Penurious
Adj
Extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
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Niggard
Noun
An excessively parsimonious, miserly, or stingy person.
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Cordial
Adj
Courteous and gracious; friendly; warm.
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Parsimony
Noun
Extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
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Elusive
Adj
Eluding clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define.
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Extraneous
Adj
Introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; foreign, not pertinent; irrelevent.
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Expedient
Adj
Tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances.
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Incontrovertible
Adj
Not controvertible; not open to question or dispute.
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Controvert
Verb
To argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
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Subjective
Adj
Placing excessive emphasis on one's own moods, attitudes, opinions, etc.
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Superfluous
Adj
Being more than is sufficient ore required; excessive.
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Vacillate
Verb
To waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute.
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Dictatorship
Noun
A country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator. Absolute, imperious, or overbearing power or control.
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Imperious
Adj
Domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing.
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Haughty
Adj
Disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious.
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Paleontology
Noun
The science of the forms of life existing in former geologic periods, as represented by their fossils.
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Stymie
Verb
To hinder, block, or thwart.
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Spurious
Adj
Not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
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Dogma
Noun
A settled or established opinion, belief, or principle.
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Sanguine
Adj
Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident. Reddish; ruddy.
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Autonomous
Adj
Self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only.
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Intransigent
Adj
Refusing to agree or compromise; inflexible.
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Ambiguous
Adj
Open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal.
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Equivocal
Adj
Allowing the possiblity of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, especially with intent to deceive or misguide; susceptible of double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous.
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Feasible
Adj
Capable of being done, effected, or accomplished.
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