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aghast: horrified
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apex: tip; peak; summit; highest point
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Arduous: hard, difficult, tiresome
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askew: to one side; crooked
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atrophy: to wither away
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austere: stern in mannor, without excess, unadorned, severly simple and plain
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awry: twisted, crooked, out of whack, askew, wrong
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cerebral: of or relating to the brain; intellectual by nature
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Chronic: continuing for a long time; continuous
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concurrent: at the same time; acting in conjunction
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congenial: pleasant to be around; social, agreeable
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emaciated: to be thin or weak
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evade: to elude or avoid by cunning; to flee from a pursuer
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fallacious: false; wrong; incorrect
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fraught: teaming with; laden; full; causing emotional distress
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garrulous: very talkative; loquacious
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harangue: mean, nasty, angry language
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harried: to be troubled or bothered
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impasse: dead end (impassable)
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incommodious: lacking space; uncomfortable
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incongruous: not appropriate; unsuited to surroundings; not fitting in
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irascible: easily angered, irritable
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laconic: not saying much, brief or concise
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lassitude: listlessness; torpor; wariness; fatigue
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masticate: to chew
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milieu: environment or surroundings
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nadir: absolute lowest point
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noxious: physically or mentally destructive, or harmful to human beings
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nuance: subtle variation in color, meaning, or some other quality
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ornate: elaborately or excessively decorated
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oust: to eject; to force out; to banish
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puissant: powerful; mighty
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queue: to form or waiting in line; a waiting line
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somber: dark; dull; gloomy; grave; serious
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table: to remove from consideration; postpone
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tact: skill with dealing in peaple in difficult situations
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temerity: recklessness; wild craziness; disregard for danger
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unawares: by surprise; unexpectedly
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vacillation: to swing from one course of action or opinion to another
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verbatim: using exactly the same words, word for word
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zeal: enthusiasm