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  1. Acerbic: Sharp, biting, sarcastic, caustic, trenchant

  2. Animosity: Hostility, hatred, antipathy, enmity, resentment

  3. Beleaguer: Harass, plague, beset, trouble, badger

  4. Contempt: Scorn, disdain, derision, disrespect, antipathy

  5. Cynical: Skeptical, distrustful, pessimistic, mocking, scornful

  6. Discrepant: Different, inconsistent, contradictory, varying, divergent

  7. Edifying: Instructive, educational, enlightening, uplifting, moralizing

  8. Espousing: Supporting, advocating, embracing, adopting, championing

  9. Galvanize: Stir, rouse, excite, stimulate, motivate

  10. Jurisprudence: Law, legal system, body of law, legal philosophy

  11. Mendacious: Lying, dishonest, untruthful, deceptive, false

  12. Naïve: Innocent, unsophisticated, ingenuous, gullible, artless

  13. Parochial: Narrow-minded, provincial, insular, limited, local

  14. Peripheral: Outer, marginal, secondary, minor, incidental

  15. Portent: Omen, sign, forewarning, indication, presage

  16. Profundity: Depth, insight, wisdom, sagacity, significance

  17. Respite: Rest, break, pause, relief, lull

  18. Spurn: Reject, scorn, disdain, refuse, dismiss

  19. Treachery: Betrayal, disloyalty, perfidy, deceit, infidelity

  20. Vulgarity: Coarseness, crudeness, indecency, offensiveness, tastelessness

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