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  1. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  2. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  3. moribund
    being on the point of death
  4. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  5. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  6. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  7. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  8. scanty
    lacking in extent or quantity
  9. erudition
    profound scholarly knowledge
  10. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  11. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
  12. mercenary
    a person hired to fight for another country than their own
  13. dilatory
    wasting time
  14. solvent
    capable of meeting financial obligations
  15. ebbing
    a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
  16. fervent
    characterized by intense emotion
  17. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  18. indigent
    poor enough to need help from others
  19. specious
    plausible but false
  20. specious
    deceptively pleasing
  21. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
Created on Sat Aug 04 13:05:40 EDT 2012 (updated Sat Aug 04 13:07:39 EDT 2012)

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