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05/30/2013
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bestial
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beastlike
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allay
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to ease as in emotions
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indigent
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poor moneywise
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misanthrope
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a person who hates people
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inordinate
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grossly large
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jettish
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to throw overbaord
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ephemeral
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shortlived
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convival
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happy
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embellish
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to decorate
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illusory
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deceptive like
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effortney
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the nerve
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demur
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to disagree
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abject
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the lowest level
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agnostic
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not knowing
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complicity
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involved in wrongdoing
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derelict
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slack
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diatribe
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loud angry speech
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intermittent
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starting and stopping
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inane
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crazy
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neophyte
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newbie
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perspicacity
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sharpness
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sylvan
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pretty ; woodlike
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moot
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debatable
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concilitate
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to win over friendliness
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echelon
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higher level
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exacerbate
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to aggrivate
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fatous
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foolish
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juggernaut
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a large force like an unstoppable army
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lackadiscal
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lazy
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zitany
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a list or prayers
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macabre
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causing fear
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paucity
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lack of something
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portend
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to foreshadow
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raze
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to destroy
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recant
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to take backwards
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saturnine
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dark ;quiet ; gloomy
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slough
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to shed
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countermand
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to replace one command with
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felicitous
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good fortune
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coterie
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group of friends
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