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  1. acquiesce: to agree or express agreement
  2. animosity: a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
  3. assiduity: great and constant diligence and attention
  4. avaricious: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
  5. averse: Reluctant.
  6. commiseration: an expression of sympathy with another's grief
  7. composure: steadiness of mind under stress
  8. deferential: showing deference
  9. expatriate: voluntarily absent from home or country
  10. extenuate: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  11. extort: get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
  12. felonious: involving or being or having the nature of a crime
  13. forbearance: a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges
  14. forfeiture: the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
  15. lament: a mournful poem
  16. molestation: the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism
  17. obdurate: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
  18. pernicious: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  19. persevere: be persistent, refuse to stop
  20. pervade: spread or diffuse through
  21. repudiate: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  22. repugnance: intense aversion
  23. solvency: the ability to meet maturing obligations as they come due
  24. vestige: an indication that something has been present
  25. vicarious: suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another