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Aberration
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(n.) Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course
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Ad hoc
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(adj.) Improvised or impromptu, for or concerned with one specific purpose; (adv.) For one specific case, with respect to this
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Bane
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(n.) Fatal injury or ruin
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Bathos
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(n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax
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Cantankerous
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(adj.) Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable
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Casuistry
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(n.) False or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead
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De facto
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(adj.) Existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not; (adv.) in reality or fact, actually
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Depredation
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(n.) An act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
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Empathy
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(n.) Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives
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Harbinger
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(n.) One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come, a forerunner; (v.) To signal the approach of, to presage
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Hedonism
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(n.) Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses
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Lackluster
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(adj.) Lacking brightness or vitality; dull
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Malcontent
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(n.) One who is not satisfied or content with currently prevailing
conditions or circumstances; (adj.) Not satisfied or content with
currently prevailing conditions or circumstances
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Mellifluous
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(adj.) flowing sweetly or smoothly
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Nepotism
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(n.) favoritism shown to members of one's family
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