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| Sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone |
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| to evade, to bypass, to get around, to sidestep, to avoid by artful deception |
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| threat, pressure, constraint, coercion |
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lucky, accidental but happily so, unplanned but beneficially so
fortuitism = concept of darwinian adaptation |
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| an increase, a growth, an addition, a profit, a gain, a beneficial addition |
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+ misanthrope (n)
misanthropist, misanthropic, misanthropy |
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a hater of people
opposite: philanthropy |
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| out in the open, unconcealed, public |
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- proscribe (v)
proscription, proscribable, proscribed |
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| to write against; prohibit, forbid, outlaw, condemn, banish, exile |
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+ risible (adj)
risibility, risibley |
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| causing laughter or willing to laugh |
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- temporize (v)
temporizingly, temporizer, temporization |
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to procrastinate, to stall, to put off, to delay, to parlay/barter (as in time) aka to buy time
temporal: worldly, secular.
temporal considerations are worldly considerations |
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- acquiesce (n)
acquiescence, acquiescent |
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to ascent tacitly, to submit or comply quietly, to give in without making a fuss but you dont want to do it.
to agree without problem yet unwillingly; to sell out |
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clear sighted, a clear seer
discerning, perspective, intuitive, being able to see beyond the range of vision, aka someone who has ESP |
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| inactive, sleeping, latent, not erupting |
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- equivocate (v)
equivocation |
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| to double talk, to speak out of both sides of our mouth, to mislead, to seem to have it both ways |
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homogeneous (adj)
homogeneity, -ly, homogenized |
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| of the same kind/type, grouped according to similarity |
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| deep seated, chronic, long established, hardened, deeply rooted, veteran |
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- noisome (adj)
-ly, -ness |
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| disgusting, offensive, foul, noxious, injurious, especially of odors. |
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pithy (adj)
pithier, pithiest |
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pith = the heart/substance of something
full of vigor, succinct, pointed, sayings, proverbs, |
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| playfully, course, vulgar, offensive, indecent, gross |
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to aide, relieve, or assist
relief |
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