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candid, sincere, familiar, and ingenuous captious, petulant, peevish, and splenetic [captious = point out trivial faults] cautious, discreet, considerate, and provident certain, confident, positive, and unquestionable chagrin, vexation, irritation, and mortification character, disposition, temperament, and reputation charm, fascinate, bewitch, and captivate cheap, inexpensive, inferior, and common cheer, animate, vivify, and exhilarate [vivify = bring life to] chiefly, particularly, principally, and especially childhood, youth, manhood, and age circumstance, condition, environment, and surroundings claim, grab, trick, and compel clean, fastidious, frugal, and refined clear, distinct, obvious, and intelligible clumsy, crawling, snobbish, and comfort-loving coarse, gross, offensive, and nauseous coax, flatter, wheedle, and persuade cogitate, contemplate, meditate, and ponder cold, frigid, unfeeling, and stoical commanding, authoritative, imperative, and peremptory [peremptory = ending all debate or action] compassion, goodwill, admiration, and enthusiasm confirm, establish, sustain, and strengthen conform, submit, obey, and satisfy confuse, distort, involve, and misinterpret consistent, congruous, firm, and harmonious cool, collected, calm, and self-possessed copious, commanding, sonorous, and emotional cowardly, timid, shrinking, and timorous crazy, absurd, nonsensical, and preposterous crude, rough, jagged, and pitiless <h4 id="id05623" style="margin-top: 2em">D</h4> daring, cordial, discerning, and optimistic darkness, dimness, dulness, and blackness deadly, destructive, fatal, and implacable deceit, delusion, treachery, and sham deep, abstruse, learned, and profound deficient, inadequate, scanty, and incomplete define, explain, determine, and circumscribe degrade, defame, humble, and debase delicacy, daintiness, tact, and refinement delicious, sweet, palatable, and delightful democracy, equality, justice, and freedom deny, dismiss, exclude, and repudiate deprive, dispossess, divest, and despoil describe, delineate, depict, and characterize designed, contrived, planned, and executed desperate, extreme, wreckless, and irremediable despicable, abject, servile, and worthless destructive, detrimental, deleterious, and subversive desultory, discursive, loose, and unmethodical [desultory = disconnected: haphazard] detestable, abominable, horrible, and hideous developed, revealed, measured, and tested difference, disagreement, discord, and estrangement difficult, arduous, intricate, and perplexing diffuse, discursive, rambling, and wordy diligence, attention, industry, and assiduity [assiduity = persistent application] disagreement, discrepancy, difference, and divergence disconsolate, desolate, pessimistic, and impossible discrimination, acuteness, insight, and judgment disgust, distaste, loathing, and abhorrence dissatisfied, rebellious, unsettled, and satirical distinct, definite, clear, and obvious distinguished, glorious, illustrious, and eminent disturbed, shaken, distressed, and bewildered docile, tractable, compliant, and teachable dogmatic, bigoted, libelous, and unsympathizing doubt, indecision, suspense, and perplexity dread, disgust, repugnance, and dreariness dreary, dispirited, unhappy, and peevish dry, lifeless, tiresome, and uninteresting dubious, equivocal, fluctuating, and uncertain dull, heavy, painstaking, and conscientious <h4 id="id05665" style="margin-top: 2em">E</h4> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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