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Prescient:
(adj.) having foreknowledge or foresight
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Contentious:
(adj.) marked by strife or dispute; marked by argument; tense
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Debilitating:
(adj.) weakening; enervating
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Heedless:
(adj.) oblivious; careless; inattentive
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Underscore:
(verb) to underline; to emphasize; to support
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Piecemeal:
(adj.) piece by piece, rather than wholistic
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Erudite:
(adj.) learned; scholarly
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Forthcoming:
(adj.) about to appear; approaching; ready when needed; friendly; outgoing; open; frank
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Ameliorate:
(verb) to make or become better; to improve
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Temporal:
(adj.) worldly, not spiritual; secular; of or limited by time
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Salutary:
(adj.) healthful; beneficial
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Ambivalent:
(adj.) holding simultaneous conflicting feelings; undecided
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Concession:
(noun) a thing admitted as right, true, or valid; a privilege granted by a government or company (as the right to sell food at a park)
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Reservation:
(noun) a reserving or withholding; a limiting condition
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Chutzpah:
(noun) impudence; brass; nerve
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Imperious:
(adj.) overbearing; arrogant
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Espouse:
(verb) to marry; to advocate (some cause, idea, etc.)
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Mollify:
(verb) to soothe; to appease; to make less severe or violent
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Acumen:
(noun) keenness of mind; shrewdness
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Perverse:
(adj.) deviating from what is considered right or good; stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient
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