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Ingenuous
lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness
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Subterfuge
a deceptive stratagem or device
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Surreptitious
secretive, sneaky
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Dearth
scarce supply, lack
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Modicum
a small, moderate, or token amount
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Paucity
smallness in number, scarcity
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Squander
to spend wastefully
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Temperate
moderate, restrained
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Tenuous
having little substance or strength, shaky
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Diligent
marked by painstaking effort, hardworking
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Maverick
one who is independent and resists adherence to a group
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Mercenary
motivated solely by a desire for money or material gain
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Obstinate
stubbornly attached to an opinion or a course of action
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Proliferate
to grow or increase rapidly
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Vigilant
on the alert, watchful
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Extraneous
irrelevant, inessential
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Juxtapose
to place side by side, esp for comparison or contrast
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Superfluous
extra, unnecessary
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Synergy
combined action or operation
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Tangential
merely touching or slightly connected, only superficially relevant
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Aesthetic
having to do with the appreciation of beauty
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Aural
of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
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Cacophony
discordant, unpleasant noise
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Dirge
a funeral hymn or lament
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Eclectic
made up of a variety of sources or styles
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Incongruous
lacking in harmony, incompatible
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Sonorous
producing a deep or full sound
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Strident
loud, harsh, grating, or shrill
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Debacle
disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure, fiasco
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Debilitate
impair the strength of, weaken
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Tumultuous
noisy and disorderly
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Anachronistic
the representation of something as existing or happening in the wrong time period
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Archaic
characteristic of an earlier time, antiquated, old
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Ephemeral
lasting for only a brief time
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Redolent
fragrant, aromatic, suggestive
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Temporal
of, relating to, or limited by time
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Onerous
troublesome or oppressive, burdensome
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Portent
indication of something important or calamitous about to occur, omen
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Prescience
knowledge of actions or events before they occur, foreknowledge, foresight
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Austere
without decoration, strict
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Banal
drearily commonplace, predictable, trite
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Hackneyed
worn out through overuse, trite
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Insipid
uninteresting, unchallenging, lacking taste or savor
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Prosaic
unimaginative, dull
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Soporific
inducing or tending to induce sleep
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Vapid
lacking liveliness, animation, or interest, dull
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