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Stentorian
loud, powerful
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Pernicious
causing harm; ruinous
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Histrionic
deliberately emotional; overly dramatic
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Mordant
sharply caustic, biting
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Captious
faultfinding; difficult to please
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Ribald
vulgar or indecent language
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Circumspect
watchful and discreet; cautious
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Expropriate
take possession for public use
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Wizened
withered; shriveled
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Posit
assume as fact and principle; postulate
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Feckless
ineffective; futile
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Pique
affect with sharp irritation and resentment
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Malaise
general bodily weakness or discomfort
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Insouciance
nonchalance, lack of concern
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Draconian
excessively harsh
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Obstreperous
noisy; resisting control; unruly
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Protean
Taking varied shapes, forms and meanings.
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Quiescence
Quiet, inactive or motionless.
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Rife
Frequently occuring, widespread in existence
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Inchoate
Not yet completed, or just begun; unorganized.
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Quotidian
Happens customarily; daily basis
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Bilious
Peevish, irritable, cranky
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Jejune
Without interest or significance, dull, insipid
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Adumbrate
To darken or conceal, overshadow
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Raconteur
Skilled in relating stories or anecdotes
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Zephyr
gentle, mild breeze
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Coterie
exclusive group; clique
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Impugn
challenge as false; cast doubt
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Raffish
mildly or engagingly disreputable, nonconformist
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Bacchanal
drunken reveler
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Miasma
dangerous, foreboding influence or atmosphere
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Gauche
lacking social grace, awkward, crude, tactless
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Peccadillo
minor sin or offence
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Pejorative
disparaging, derogatory, belittling effect
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Unconscionable
unscrupulous
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Apotheosis
ideal example, epitome
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Unctuous
excessive piousness
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Sanction
authoritative permission or approval
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Genteel
Well bred, refined
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Saccharine
Sentimental, excessively sweet
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Largess
Generous gift-giving; condescending
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Lampoon
Sharp satire against and institution
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Rapacious
Greedy, Predatory
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Gimcrack
showy, but useless trifle
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Ablution
cleansing with water or liquid; religious ritual
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Gastronome
enjoying good food; epicurean
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Habitue
frequen or habitual visitor
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Monolithic
made of one piece (of stone); massiveness, uniformity, rigidty
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Contiguous
Touching, or close to
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Axiomatic
Obvious, self-evident
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Covetous
inordinately desirious of wealth; greedy
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Nihilistic
Rejection of established laws and institutions; rejection of reality
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Blatherskite
nonsense, blather
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Requital
Repayment; reward for kindness or punishment for wrong
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Inauspicious
not favorable
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Indubitable
unquestionable
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Capricious
impulsive, unpredictable
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Ignominy
Dishonor, humiliation; disgraceful
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Ascetic
self discipline, life without comfort
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Blasphemous
impiously irreverant
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Sycophant
win favour through flattery
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Perennial
active through the year(s)
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Duplicity
deceptive in behaviour or speech; deliberate
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Pathos
arouses pity, sympathy, sorrow; feeling of tenderness or pity
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Noisome
offensive, disgusting; harmful or dangerous
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Petulance
Unreasonably ill-tempered, contemptuous
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Languid
Weak, listless, lacking vigour, slow
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Transgression
exceeding bounds or limits
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Disapprobation
Moral disapproval
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Mirth
Gladness and gaiety
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Superfluous
Beyond required
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Quixotic
Idealistic, impractical, romantic
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Felicitous
Apt; Marked by happiness, good fortune
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Obfuscate
Confused, difficult to understand; darken
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Effrontery
boldness; presumptuousness
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Lugubrious
mournful, to exaggeration
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Odious
meriting strong dislike, aversion
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Jocund
lighthearted, merry
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Empathetic
Understanding another's situation or feelings
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Hegemony
Dominance of one state over others
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Abdicate
Relinquish power
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Incipient
Beginning to exsist
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Halcyon
Calm and Peaceful
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Anomaly
Deviation from norm; difficult to classify
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Circuitous
taking a roundabout course
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Sanguine
Ruddy, Optimistic
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Parity
Equal in amount/status
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Cursory
Little attention to detail, hastily
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Debauchery
Moral corruption
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Fledgling
Young, inexperienced
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Abstemious
self-restrained
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Dogmatic
stubbornly holding beliefs; opinions as facts
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Vapid
literally tasteless; boring
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Laconic
concise, few words
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Ennui
Boredom, listlessness
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Germane
Fitting, appropriate
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Ingenuous
Unsophisticated, honest
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Mercurial
volatile; changing tempermant
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Sedulous
perservering; busy
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Abscond
leave secretly; hide
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Endemic
prevalent in a peculiar area
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Sanctimonious
hypocritically pious
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Demagogue
leader through emotions
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Hedonist
pursuit and devotion to pleasure
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Insipid
lacking zest; lacking interest; dull
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Perfidious
Deliberately breaching faith
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Enervate
to weaken the strength or vitality
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Impassive
emotionless; unrevealing of emotion
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Renege
Fail to carry out a promise
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Surfeit
over-indulgence; excessive
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Phlegmatic
unemotional; calm
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Vituperate
berate abusively
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Platitude
trite remark; hackneyed
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Invidious
cause envy or ill will; implying a slight
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Sybarite
devoted to pleasure and luxury
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Incarnate
personified, bodily nature
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Beneficent
charitable; kind
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Licentious
lacking morals, restraint
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Prescient
having knowledge before something happens
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Perspicacious
clear-sighted, acute in understanding
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Insidious
working harmfully but subtly, treacherous, beguiling
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