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  1. Adulation       excessive or slavish flattery                                                                       
  2. Animosity       Ill will or resentment tending toward hostility                                                     
  3. avarice         passion for acquiring and hoarding riches; greed                                                    
  4. candor          honest and sincere expression; fairness                                                             
  5. Commissary      A store for equipment and provisions, esp.        for military personnel                            
  6. Dichotomy       A division into two esp. mutually or              contradictory groups                              
  7. Encomium        Glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise                                                              
  8. Gamut           An entire range or series                                                                           
  9. Husbandry       The control or judicious use of resources                                                           
  10. introvert       one who is reserved and withdrawn; one whose in-  terest is primarily with himself                  
  11. lassitude       a state of being fatigued; weary                                                                    
  12. Metamorphosis   A change in physical form, structure or           substance                                         
  13. nostrum         a quack medication or remedy                                                                        
  14. paragon         a model or pattern of excellence                                                                    
  15. Precursor       something that comes before, especially when it   suggests future events                            
  16. Recluse         one who lives in retirement or seclusion                                                            
  17. savoir-faire    ability to know how to act                                                                          
  18. symmetry        balanced proportion, especially from side to side                                                   
  19. utopia          any state, condition, or place of ideal           perfection                                        
  20. Votary          one bound by a vow or promise; one devoted to a   pursuit, study, etc.                              
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