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Acuity

(noun) - sharpness; acuteness; keenness

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Braggart

(noun) - a person who does a lot of bragging

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Debunking

(verb) - to expose or excoriate as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated

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Epitomized

(verb) - to contain or represent in small compass; serve as a typical example of

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Hidebound

(adj) - narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible

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Languish

(verb) - to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade

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Obsequious

(adj) - characterized by or showing servile obedience and excessive eagerness to please; fawning; ingratiating

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Polemical

(noun) - a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.

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Restorative

(adj) - serving to restore; pertaining to restoration

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Thwart

(verb) - to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose

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Adamant

(adj) - utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc.

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Brawny

(adj) - muscular; strong

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Decathlon

(noun) - an athletic contest comprising ten different track-and-field events and won by the contestant amassing the highest total score

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Equivocate

(verb) - to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge

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Hieroglyphics

(noun) - a form of writing, esp as used in ancient Egypt, in which pictures or symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds

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Larceny

(noun) - the wrongful taking of someone’s property or goods, removing them from their owner’s possession with intent to convert them to the taker’s own use.

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Obsession(I have no idea if this is the word)

(noun) - the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.

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Ponderous

(adj) - of great weight; heavy; massive

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Retention

(noun) - the act of retaining

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Timorous

(adj) - full of fear; fearful

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