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- miser
- someone who hoards money; one who saves greedily
- mitigate
- to make milder; to make less severe
- monotonous
- without variety; tiresome; uniform
- negligence
- carelessness; neglect; indifference
- neutral
- unbiased; not taking sides; objective
- nostalgic
- yearning for the good old days
- novel
- new; unusual
- nullify
- to negate, to make unimportant
- oblivious
- unaware; unconscious
- objective
- without bias
- obscure
- unclear; clouded; partially hidden; hard to understand
- orthodox
- standard; commonly accented; conventional
- ostentatious
-
showy display, as of wealth, knowledge;
pretentious - pedestrian
- common; ordinary; banal
- perceptive
- having keen understanding; discerning
- peripheral
- on the edge; unimportant
- pessimism
- gloominess; a belief that bad guys always win
- phenomenon
- an observable fact or occurrence
- philanthropy
- a desire to help mankind
- pious (piety)
- deeply religious
- pivotal
- important; critical; crucial
- pragmatic
- practical
- precarious
- dangerously unstable
- prelude
- to prevent; to make, impossible
- predecessor
- the person who came before another
- pretentious
- pompous; self important
- prodigal
- extravagant; wasteful
- prodigious
- of enormous quantity of size
- profligate
- extremely wasteful; wildly extravagant
- profound
- deep; insightful
- profuse
- flowing freely; generous; excessive
- prosaic
- uninspired; dull; banal
- provincial
- narrow-minded; unsophisticated
- provocative
- exciting; attracting attention
- prudent
- careful; cautious
- refute
- to disprove
- rejuvenate
- to make young again
- relegate
- to dismiss to an inferior position
- relevant
- pertinent; important to know
- remorse
- sadness; regret