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abstemious
sparing or moderate in eating and drinking
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accost
to approach and speak to someone
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antipathy
hatred, repulsion
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ascetic
self-denying: a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
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banal
devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite
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belittle
to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
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cachet
superior status; prestige: The job has a certain cachet.
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chagrin
embarrassment or humiliation
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charlatan
a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.
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commensurate
proportionate
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compensatory
serving to compensate, make amends, redeeming
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conciliatory
compromising: making or willing to make concessions
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condone
overlook wrong doing
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deference
courteously yielding to another
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delineate
draw a line around, describe
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desultory
without direction in life
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diatribe
long denunciation
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discerning
showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding
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discretion
the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment
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dissolution
disintegration
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dogmatic
certain, unchanging in opinion
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eclectic
from many sources
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effrontery
shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity
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endemic
peculiar to a particular region
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esoteric
known only by a few
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