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dotage
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senility
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felicitous
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apt
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gregarious
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outgoing, socialable
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prognosticate
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to predict
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roseate
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rosy; optimistic
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ersatz
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inferior imitation
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ligneous
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like wood
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collogue
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confer secretly
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tommyrot
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nonsense; foolishness
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undergird
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support; strengthen
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arrant
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wandering; errant.
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Lachrymose
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tearful, teary, weeping
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Wizened
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shriveled, withered, wrinkled
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complaisant
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trying to please
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vicissitude
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change of fortune
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dissipation
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wasteful spending, squandering
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crepuscular
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pertaining to twilight.
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dote
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shower with love
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dither
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a trembling; vibration.
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callow
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immature or inexperienced:
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Soporific
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causing sleep or lethargy
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sententious
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self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages
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unqualified
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absolute, complete, without limit
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aestival
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related to the summer
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surly
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churlishly rude or bad-tempered:
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commodious
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spacious and convenient; roomy:
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Satiate
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to satisfy fully or overindulge
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hermetic
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completely sealed airtight, like hermetic jar
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protean
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readily changing form or character
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provender
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dry food for livestock; fodder
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winsome
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sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging:
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exscind
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to cut out or off.
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supercilious
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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
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circumspect
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watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent:
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sanguine
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cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident, reddish or ruddy, such as a complexion
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gainsay
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to deny, dispute, or contradict.
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effete
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lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent:
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apostate
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one who renounces a religious faith
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homiletics
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art of preaching and giving sermons
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atelier
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an artist's or a designer's studio
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inveigh
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speak against in an impassioned manner
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spume
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foam or froth on the sea
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canard
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a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
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deference
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respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.
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pithy
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brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible:
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vagary
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an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance:
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expostulate
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to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate:
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conflagration
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a destructive fire, usually an extensive one.
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mendacity
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the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
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sedulous
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diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.
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asperity
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harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony:
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nonplus
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to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
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Sinecure
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A well-paying job or office that requires little or no work
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reconstitute
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to restore (a dehydrated or condensed substance) to its full liquid form by adding water; to reorganize or reconstruct
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phlegmatic
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not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
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implacable
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not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable:
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inveigle
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to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually fol. by into):
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forbear
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to be patient or self-controlled when subject to annoyance or provocation.
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insouciant
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free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.
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promulgate
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to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
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sinuous
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having many curves, bends, or turns; winding:
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fatuous
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foolish or inane, esp. in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.
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libel
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anything that is defamatory or that maliciously or damagingly misrepresents.
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ignominious
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marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating:
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hawser
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large rope for mooring or towing a ship
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dupe
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a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull.
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convoke
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to call together; summon to meet or assemble.
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venal
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able to be purchased, as by a bribe:
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natty
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neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce:
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parse
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to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
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parochial
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very limited or narrow in scope or outlook; provincial:
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foyer
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an entrance hall or lobby, esp. in a theater, hotel, or apartment house
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peccadillo
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a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
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rebuff
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a blunt or abrupt rejection, as of a person making advances.
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exculpate
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to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
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carom
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a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
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