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acumen
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quick or accurate knowledge
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dissemble
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to disguise or mislead
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evanescent
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vanishing
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exacerbate
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to make worse
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grandiloquence
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pompous speech
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iconoclast
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one who undermines tradition and convention
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impassive
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revealing no emotion
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impunity
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immunity from punishment
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inchoate
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not fully formed
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infelicitous
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unfortunate
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insipid
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bland
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mitigate
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to make less severe
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occlude
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to block
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pedagogy
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the art of teaching
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penury
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poverty
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pith
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the central part
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placate
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to calm or appease
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platitutde
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a superficial remark
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prodigal
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wasteful or extravagant
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recalcitrant
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difficult to manage
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repudiate
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to disown
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rescind
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to invalidate
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specious
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seeming true, but actually false; misleadingly attractive
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spurious
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false
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succinct
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brief
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surfeit
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excess
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tenacity
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pesistance to something valued
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tirade
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a long and harsh speech
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runic
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mysterious
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sagacious
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wise
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salacious
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obscene
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salient
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relevant
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salutary
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wholesome; causing improvement
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sanctimony
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self-righteousness
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sanguine
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cheerful
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saturnine
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gloomy
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seine
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a large net used to catch fish
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seminal
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like a seed; originative
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sententious
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moralistic
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sidereal
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relating to the stars
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simper
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to smirk
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sinecure
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position requiring little work
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sinuous
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winding
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solder
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to fuse
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sophistry
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faulty logic
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sophomoric
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immatture
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splenetic
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irritable
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stanch
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to stop the flow of liquid
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stentorian
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extremely loud and powerful
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stygian
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gloomy
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