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Shrewd
clever or sharp in practical affairs; astute
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Tangential
- touching upon but generally unrelated;
- only superficially related to the matter at hand; peripheral; not essentially
- relevant
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Diatribe
a bitter, abusive denunciation
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Assuage
- to lessen (pain, distress); to calm (anger,
- fear); to satisfy or slake (thirst)
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Gentility
- politeness; the quality of being
- well-bred; having proper decorum
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Avarice
greed for money; excessive love of riches
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Disingenuous
insincere; not candid or frank
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Rapt
carried away with emotion; completely engrossed
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Querulous
- quarrelsome; inclined to find fault;
- peevish
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Pithy
terse and full of meaning
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Fodder
- : (noun) coarse food for cattle or horses;
- idiomatically, bulk and common material
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Concomitant
accompanying; attendant
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Nubile
- : (adj.) sexually attractive; marriageable (said of a
- female)
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Putative
- generally considered or deemed to be;
- reputed
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Discrete
separate and distinct
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Parity
equality in power or value
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Rebuke
to scold in a sharp way; to reprimand
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Prate
to talk idly or foolishly at great length
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Palpable
capable of being touched; obvious; tangible
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