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Blithe
adj- joyous; sprightly; mirthful; merry;cheerful; buoyant; vivacious
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(In)temperate
adj-exercising moderation and self-restraint; restrained moderate in degree, as in climate
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Abate-
v- to lessen or decrease (something negative); to wane or subside
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Abatement
-n- a decrease or reduction of something undesirable
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Unabated
-adj- continued, prologue, without a let up
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Minion-
n- an obsequious follower or dependent; a sycophant; a yes man a subordinate officials
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Solicit-
v- to ask or seek earnestly or pleadingly; to beg; to entreat; to implore
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Solicitous
-adj- expressing anxious care or concern; thoughtful, attentive
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Sundry
-adj- various, miscellaneous
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Sundries (pl)-
n- articles too small or numerous to be specified
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Reconcile
-v- to make friendly again or settle a quarrel; to bring into harmony; to make content or accepting towards something difficult (followed by to)
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Conciliatory
-adj- tending to make peace between disagreeing persons
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Intermittent-
adj- stopping and staring at intervals; sporadic
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Breach
-n- an opening, tear, or rupture; a gap or rift; a violation or infraction, as of a law, a legal obligation, or a promise a breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement a leap of a whale from the water -v- to make hole or gap in; breakthrough to break or violate (the agreement)vivacious
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Weal-
n- prosperity; happiness; the general good or welfare of the community a ridge on the flesh raised by a blow; a welt
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Purge
-v- to free from impurities; to purify; to cleanse; to remove or get rid of something considered undesirable; to eliminate purgative-n-/-adj-
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Stultify
-v- to cause to appear foolish, stupid, inconsistent to cause to be of no effect; to muse to be of no effect; to make worthless or useless stultifying-adj-
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Empathy
-n- the ability to feel and understand what someone is going through; sympathy; compassion empathetic-adj- empathize-v-
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Contrive
-v- to plan with cleverness or ingenuity; to devise; to intent or fabricate, esp. by improvisation; to plan with evil intent; to scheme
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Contrived
-adj- obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous or natural; labored (a contrived ending to a story or an excuse)
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Contrivance
-n- something contrived (a mechanical device or a clever plan)
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Diminutive
-adj- extremely small in size, tiny, small -n- as a suffix that indicates smallness or familiarity (booklet, lambkin)
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Epicure
-n-a person with refined taste, esp. in food and wine; a gourmet a person devoted to sensuous pleasure and luxurious living
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Epicurean
-adj- devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure and luxury
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Arbitrate-
v- to decide in a dispute; to submit to settlement or judgment
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Arbitration
-n- the process by which the parties to a dispute submit their differences to the judgment of an impartial person or group
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Wrought
-v- a past tense and a past participle of “work”’ put together; created; shaped by hammering tools; made delicately or elaborately
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Divulge
-v- to make public; to make known something that is private; to reveal; to disclose; to betray divulgence-n-
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