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tete-a-tete
- n
- private conversation between two people
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petulance
- n
- peevishness, irritability, ill temper
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acrimony
- n
- harshness/sharpness of speech
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palliate
- v
- to make less serious; to ease
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engross
- v
- to take the full attention of; to completely occupy
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profligate
- adj
- sinfully pleasure-seeking; recklessly wasteful
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- a self-indulgent person who spends recklessly
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insufferable
- adj
- intolerable, unbearable
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dilatory
- adj
- intended to delay
- tending to procrastinate
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premeditation
- n
- planning beforehand to commit an act
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divert
- v
- to amuse (esp. as relief from worry)
- to distract
- to turn aside
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arrears
- n
- tardiness in meeting obligations
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pleasantry
- n
- a joke; playful conversation
- a polite social remark
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