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Nebulous

cloudy, vague or unclear

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Formidable

impressive because of size, intimidating

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Oxymoron

contradictory terms

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Odious

detestable hated

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Dissemble

hiding yourself, make belief with the intent to deceive

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Infallibility

never wrong or never failing cannot fall

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Specious

superficially plausible but actually wrong

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Contrive

plan with ingenuity, devise, invent

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Quivocal

deliberately ambiguous cryptic obscure

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Subjection

when someone or group forces another person to be controlled

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Inscruitble

anything hard to read or interpret

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12

Repudiate

reject or refuse to support

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Debauchery

wild gathering

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Indoctrination

teach somebody to accept a set of beliefs without questioning

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Pugnacious

ready and able to resort to force or violence

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Abject

To the extreme

Negative connotation

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Furtive

Something done in a secretive manner

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Incongruity

Out of place given its surroundings

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Prevaricate

To deliberately lie or mislead

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Vapid

Without liveliness or spirit

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Emaciated

Wasting away

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Equivocal

Can be interpreted in multiple ways

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Archetype

A typical example of a person or thing

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Deride

Express contempt for, to ridicule

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Sinecure

Without care, a job the requires little to no responsibility

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Spurious

Plausible in false, intended to deceive

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Futile

Incapable or producing any useful results, pointless

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