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| soothing, something that assuages |
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| farthest or highest point; culmination |
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| one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| deification; a model of excellence or perfection |
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| belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| to find fault without good reason |
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| speed, alacrity (THINK "ACCELERATE") |
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| insubordinate, rebellious |
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| an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
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| to discriminate or discern |
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| random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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| reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
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| glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| to denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| critical examination, explication |
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| to atone or make amends for |
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| to destroy, exterminate, cut out, excind |
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| quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| unorthodox, heretical, iconclastic |
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| difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile |
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| lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy |
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| menacing, threatening (THINK "MINOTAUR") |
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| noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
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| to make something seem less serious |
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| formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
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| the concluding part of a speech; flowery speech |
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| pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| to appease; to conciliate |
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| childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| power, strength (PUISSANT=POWERFUL) |
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| lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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| aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| extremely loud and powerful |
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| toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer |
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| biased; showing marked tendencies or purpose ("a tendentious novel") |
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| timid, fearful, diffident |
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| novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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| to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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| fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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