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Blithe
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Joyous, Merry, or cheerful.
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Austere
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Severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding:
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Quell
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To suppress; put an end to; extinguish:
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Draconian
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rigorous; unusually severe or cruel:
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Repudiating
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To reject with disapproval or condemnation: to repudiate a new doctrine.
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Epitomized
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To make an epitome of; sum up; To be a
typical example of.
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Augment
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to make larger;
enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase.
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Repudiate
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to reject with disapproval or condemnation
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Deliquesce
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to dissolve gradually
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Tenacious
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holding fast;
characterized by keeping a firm hold
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Telltale
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a person who heedlessly or maliciously reveals private or confidential
matters; tattler;...
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Indolent
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having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful:
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Terminus
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the end or extremity of anything.
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Tilth
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land that is tilled or
cultivated.
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Prattle
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to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
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Precipitate
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to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or
suddenly:
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Precocious
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of or pertaining to premature development.
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Profligate
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utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute; wasteful.
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Propensity
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favorable disposition or partiality.
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Proscribe
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to denounce or condemn
(a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
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Provincial
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having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered
characteristic of unsophisticated...
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Remonstrate
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to say or plead in
protest, objection, or disapproval.
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Sagacious
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having or showing acute
mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd:
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Scrupulous
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having scruples; having or showing a strict regard for what one
considers right; principled....
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Supercilious
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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial
expression.
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