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| strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort |
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| daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
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| without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
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| taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
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| following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
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| conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
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| fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
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| urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
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| improvised; done without preparation |
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| artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
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| accustomed to accepting something undersirable |
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| easily angered; prone to temperamental outburts |
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| associated with war and the armed forces |
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| of the world; typical or concerned with the ordinary |
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| coming into being; in early developmental stages |
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| cursory, done without care or interest |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| concerned and attentive; eager |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| argumentative, quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| free of bias or self-interest; impartial |
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| to make less harsh; mollify |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| lacking funds; without money |
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| beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| harmless; causing no damage |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| happening by accident or chance |
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| relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| having or showing often visious ill will, spite, or hatred |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge |
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| controversial; argumentative |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting |
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| sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| pointlessly talkative; talking too much |
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| hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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| damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtersy); taking liberties |
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| excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
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| occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| hidden, concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| diligent; persistant; hard-working |
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| causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
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| implied; not explicitly stated |
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| sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
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