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Idolatry

excessive or blind adoration

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Hoarse

sounding rough

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Dexterity

Cleverness

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Boisterous

Rowdy

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Chide

To express disapproval of

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Rancor

Bitter resentment

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Lamentable

Regrettable

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Vex

To make someone feel annoyed

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Addle

To make or become confused

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Fray

Fight

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Strife

Angry or bitter disagreement

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Valiant

Possesing or showing courage

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Tyrant

Cruel oppressive leader

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Posterity

All future generations of people

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Gallant

Brave and heroic

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Visage

Face usually reference to shape, features, expression

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Profane

To treat with disrespect

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Mutiny

Rebellion attack against authority

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Assail

To attack violently

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Mar

To damage to a certain extent

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Semblance

Outward appearance of aspect

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Trifle

A thing of very little value

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Inconstant

Non constant

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Temper

Softening

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Consort

to associate

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Calamity

A great misfortune or disaster

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Perjury

The willful giving of false testimony under oath

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Sojourn

A temporary stay

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Beseech

To implore urgently, to beg eagerly for

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Fickle

Likely to change, especially due to instability

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Prate

To talk excessively and pointlessly; to babble

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Vile

Highly offensive, unpleasant, or objectionable

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Fiend

A diabolically cruel or wicked person

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Beguile

To charm or enchant someone, sometimes in a deceptive way

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Dote

To be extremely fond and uncritical of

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Woe

A great sorrow or distress

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Tedious

Too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous

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Contrary

Opposite in nature, direction, or meaning

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Adversity

Difficulties or misfortune

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Ebb and flow

A recurrent or rhythmical pattern of coming and going or decline and regrowth

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Acrid

Having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant smell or taste

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Ruse

An action intended to deceive someone

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Vehemence

Display of strong feeling

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Forage

A person or animal search widely for food

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Covenant

Agreement usually formal between two or more persons

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Revere

To regard with respect tinged with awe

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Insolent

Rude or disrespectful

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Chasm

Deep cleft in the earth’s surface

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Engulf

Sweep over something so as to surround or cover it completely

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Regal

Of, resembling, or fit for a monarch, especially in being magnificent or dignified

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Vain

having or showing an excessively high opinion of oneself

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Relevant

closely connect or appropriate to what is being done or considered

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Cunning

having or showing skill in achieving one’s ends by deceit or evasion

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Shabby

in poor condition through long or hard use or lack of care

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Smirk

to smile in an irritably smug, conceited, or silly way

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Taut

Stretched or pulled tight

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Devious

showing a skillful use of underhanded tactics to achieve goals

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Inevitable

certain to happen, unavoidable

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Benevolent

well meaning and kindly

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Uncanny

strange or mysterious

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Trivial

of little value or importance

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Extravagant

exceeding what is reasonable or appropriate, often connected with cost

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Wane

decrease in vigor, power, or extent, become weaker

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Somber

darker or dull in color or tone; gloomy

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Adversary

an enemy or opponent

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Taciturn

reserved or uncommunicative speech, saying little

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Specious

superficial, plausible but actually wrong

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Vicissitudes

ups and downs of life

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Contrite

feeling or showing remorse affected by guilt

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Torrid

very hot and dry or full of passion

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Prodigal

wastefully extravagant

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Impervious

unable to be affected by

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Bravado

a bold manner to impress or intimidate

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Callow

Inexperienced and immature

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Imprudent

not caring about the consequences of an action

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Oblige

to do as someone asks or desires in order to help or please them

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Implore

to beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something

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Frivolity

Lack of seriousness

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Assent

to agree

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Contrived

artificial, unnatural

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Trite

Overused; lacking originality or freshness

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Minutiae

Small, precise, trivial details of something

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Al fresco

Out in the open air

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Intrepid

Fearless, adventurous

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Non sequitur

A statement that doesn’t follow logically front what came before

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Faux pas

An embarrassing or tactless remark or act in a social situation

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Raison d’être

The most important reason or purpose for someone o something’s existence

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Grapple

To engage in a cose fight or struggle without weapons

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Joie de vivre

Exuberant, enjoyment of life

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Gravitate

To move toward or be attracted to. person, place, thing

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Enervate

Go cause(someone) to feel drained of energy; to weaken

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Vanity

inflated pride in oneself or one’s appearance

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Deplore

To feel or express strong disapproval of something

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Luminous

Bright and shining; especially in the dark

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Curt

rudely brief

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Gail

Bold and impudent behavior

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Acquiesce

to accept something reluctantly, but without protest

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Buffet

To strike repeatedly and violently

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Incarnate

embodied in flesh, in human form

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Divine

to discover by guesswork or intuition; to have supernatural or magic insight

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