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Askance
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With suspicion, distrust, or disapproval
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Attenuate
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To make thin or slender, to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value
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Benign
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Gentle, kind, forgiving, understanding, having a favorable or beenficial effect
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Cavil
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To find fault in a petty war, carp
a tricvial objection or criticizm
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Charlatan
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One who feigns knowledge or ability, a pretender, imposter, or quack
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Decimate
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To kill or destroy a large part of
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Foible
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A weak point, failing, or minor flaw
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Forgo
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To do without,abstain from, give up
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Fraught
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Full of or loaded with, accompanied by
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Inure
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To toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure
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Luminous
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Emitting or reflecting light, glowing, illuminating
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Obsequious
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Marked by lsavish attentiveness, excessively submissive, often for purely self-intereseted reasons
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Obtuse
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Blunt, slow ro dull in udnerstanding, not causing a sharp impression
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Oscillate
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To swing back and forth with a steady rhythm, to fluctuate or waver
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Penitent
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Regretful for one's sins or mistakes, one who is sorry for wrongdoing
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