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ulterior
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(s) coming at a subsequent time or stage; "the future president entered college at the age of 16"; "awaiting future actions on the bill"; "later developments"; "without ulterior argument"

(s) beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote; "a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion"; "without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"- G.B.Shaw

(s) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed); "subterranean motives for murder"; "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell

equable
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(s) not easily irritated; "an equable temper"; "not everyone shared his placid temperament"; "remained placid despite the repeated delays"

(s) not varying; "an equable climate"

inured
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(s) made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett

invidious
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(s) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons"

unmitigated
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(a) not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie"

concomitant
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(n) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

(s) following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management"

cozen
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(v) cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"

(v) act with artful deceit

(v) be false to; be dishonest with

phlegmatic
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(s) showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"

dormer
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(n) a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window

pontifical
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(s) puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

(a) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops

(a) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation"

disport
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(v) play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

(v) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies"

apologist
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(n) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment"

abeyance
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(n) temporary cessation or suspension

enclave
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(n) an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it

improvident
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(a) not provident; not providing for the future

(s) not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt"

disquisition
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(n) an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion

categorical
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(s) not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"

(a) relating to or included in a category

placate
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(v) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

redolent
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(s) having a strong distinctive fragrance; "the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford

(s) serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics"

felicitous
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(a) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style; "a felicitous speaker"

(s) marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome"

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