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with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval
askance
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to make thin or slender; to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value
attenuate
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gentle, kind, forgiving; having a beneficial effect
benign
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to find fault in a petty way
cavil
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one who feigns knowledge or ability; pretender, impostor
charlatan
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to kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
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a weak point; flaw
foible
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to do without; give up
forgo
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full of or loaded with
fraught
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to toughen, harden;
inure
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emitting or reflecting light
luminous
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marked by slavish attentiveness
obseqious
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blunt; greater than 90 degrees
obtuse
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to swing back and forth with a rhythm
oscillate
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regretful or one's sins
penitent
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determined, resolute
peremptory
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-
to engage in reconnaissance
reconnoiter
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slaughterhouse; place of bloodshed
shambles
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occurring at irregular intervals
sporadic
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