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a deviation from the norm
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| accord, conformity, consensus, harmony, unanimity, compact, treaty, covenant, truce, pact |
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detestable, loathsome
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to recant; to give up,
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acquit; to free from blame
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| the act of voluntarily doing without pleasures |
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difficult to understand
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to greet with loud applause
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| asperity; bitterness or harshness of temper, manner or speech, animosity, acerbity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, malevolence, rancor, vindictiveness, enmity, malice, acidity, churlishness, irascibility |
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| hrewd; keen or quick of mind |
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| plentiful; abundant; bountiful, copious, luxuriant, rampant; exuberant, profuse, prolific, lavish |
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| an angry or heated argument, bickering, clash, dispute, feud, squabble, wrangle, quibble, carp, cavil |
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| unite; combine, alloy, knead |
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| good-natured, affable, genial |
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unreasonable, autocratic, despotic, imperious, tyrannical, totalitarian
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| passion; emotional warmth, zealous, fervent, impassioned, passionate |
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| slander, libel, calumny, demotion, denigration, misrepresentation, obloquy, vilification, malign, traduce, smear, besmirch, tarnish, imputation, vituperation, defile |
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| assault, execration, invective, vituperation, affront, berate, castigate, inveigh, odium |
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| practicing self denial; austere; self denying |
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| lassitude; lethargy, debility, languor, lack of interest, emotion |
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| apposite, apropos, apt, befitting, felicitous, opportune, pertinent, seasonable, seemly |
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| tale, epic, fable, allegory, parable |
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| literary work that criticizes a human vice thorugh humor or derision |
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stubborn
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to cause happen before anticipated
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| treachery; intentional breach of faith |
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to disprove;
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| discordant; hard sound; dissonance |
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