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Anshul S. (India)
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  1. canard
    a deliberately misleading fabrication
  2. erroneous
    containing or characterized by mistakes
  3. ersatz
    an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
  4. feigned
    not genuine
  5. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  6. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  7. mendacious
    given to lying
  8. mendacity
    the tendency to be untruthful
  9. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  10. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  11. specious
    plausible but false
  12. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  13. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  14. apocryphal
    being of questionable authenticity
  15. consanguine
    related by blood
  16. consanguinity
    relation by blood
  17. filial
    designating the generation following the parental generation
  18. fratricide
    the murder of your sibling
  19. progenitor
    an ancestor in the direct line
  20. scion
    a descendent or heir
  21. progeny
    the immediate descendants of a person
  22. conjugal
    relating to the relationship between a wife and husband
  23. ardor
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  24. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  25. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  26. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  27. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  28. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  29. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  30. partisan
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  31. tendentious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  32. tendentious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  33. zealot
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  34. solace
    comfort offered to one who is disappointed or miserable
  35. foreboding
    a feeling of evil to come
  36. pedigree
    the ancestry or lineage of an individual
  37. proliferation
    a rapid increase in number
  38. shenanigan
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  39. Schadenfreude
    delight in another person's misfortune
  40. coddle
    cook in nearly boiling water
  41. allay
    lessen the intensity of or calm
  42. abrogate
    revoke formally
  43. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
  44. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
  45. recant
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  46. recidivism
    habitual relapse into crime
  47. remission
    an abatement in intensity or degree
  48. retrograde
    moving or directed or tending in a backward direction
  49. affront
    a deliberately offensive act
  50. remission
    an abatement in intensity or degree
  51. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  52. astute
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  53. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  54. apothegm
    a short pithy instructive saying
  55. axiom
    a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof
  56. bromide
    a trite or obvious remark
  57. dictum
    an authoritative declaration
  58. epigram
    a witty saying
  59. exacerbate
    make worse
  60. undermine
    weaken or impair, especially gradually
  61. vitiate
    make imperfect
  62. render
    give or supply
  63. expatiate
    add details to clarify an idea
  64. forage
    collect or look around for, as food
  65. sojourn
    a temporary stay
  66. peripatetic
    traveling especially on foot
  67. itinerant
    traveling from place to place to work
  68. sacrilegious
    grossly irreverent toward what is considered holy
  69. subvert
    overthrow or destroy completely
  70. profane
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
  71. maven
    one who is very skilled in or knowledgeable about a field
  72. entrenched
    dug in
Created on Mon Sep 23 05:13:37 EDT 2013 (updated Thu Oct 10 05:32:19 EDT 2013)

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