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Macabre

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

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Machination

a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends

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Magnanimous

noble and generous in spirit

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4

Magnitude

the property of relative size or extent

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Malaise

a feeling of mild sickness or depression

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Malingerer

someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity

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Malleable

easily influenced

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Maudlin

very sentimental or emotional (mau…)

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Mawkish

very sentimental or emotional (maw…)

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Mellifluous

pleasing to the ear

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Mendacious

intentionally untrue

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Meretricious

tastelessly showy

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Mien

a person's appearance, manner, or demeanor

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Mollify

cause to be more favorably inclined

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Moratorium

suspension of an ongoing activity

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Munificent

very generous

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Nadir

the lowest point of anything

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Nascent

being born or beginning

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Nefarious

extremely wicked

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Nonplussed

filled with bewilderment

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Nostrum

medicine whose efficacy is questionable

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Obdurate

showing unfeeling resistance to feelings; remorseless

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Obeisance

bending the head or body in reverence or submission

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Obfuscate

make obscure or unclear

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Obsequious

attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner

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Obtrusive

undesirably noticeable

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Occlude

block passage or sight through

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Odious

extremely repulsive or unpleasant

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Onerous

burdensome or difficult to endure

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Opprobrium

state of disgrace resulting from public abuse

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Ossify

make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

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Ostensible

appearing as such but not necessarily so

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Ostentatious

tawdry or vulgar, showy, overdone

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Overweening

presumptuously arrogant

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Palliative

moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

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Panacea

hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases

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Parsimonious

excessively unwilling to spend

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Patrician

befitting a person of noble origin

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Paucity

an insufficient quantity or number

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Pecuniary

relating to or involving money

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Pedantic

marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning

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Perfidious

tending to betray

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Pernicious

exceedingly harmful

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Pithy

concise and full of meaning

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Portentous

of momentous or ominous significance

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Prescience

the power to foresee the future

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Prevaricate

be deliberately ambiguous or unclear

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Prodigious

great in size, force, extent, or degree

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Puerile

displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

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Pugnacious

ready and able to resort to force or violence

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