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accolade
Praise
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assuage
To relieve; lessen
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cacophony
Harsh, discordant sounds
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censure
Blame; a rebuke
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diatribe
A bitter, abusively critical speech or piece of writing; denunciation
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edifice
a building, especially of large, imposing size
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gravity
Severity; weighty importance
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infraction
A breaking of a law or rule
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profane
showing disrespect or contempt for sacred things; irreverent
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somber
Solemn; sad and depressing; melancholy
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obtuse
slow to understand; dull
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affable
friendly; easy to get along with
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apocryphal
of doubtful authenticity; not genuine
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desultory
moving from one thing to another in an unplanned way
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recapitulate
to summarize; to repeat briefly
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irascible
easily angered, irritable
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loquacious
very talkative
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opaque
difficult to understand or explain; obscure; incomprehensible
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paucity
a scarcity; an insufficiency
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garbled
mixed up to such an extent as to be misleading or incomprehensible