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• aversion:

  a) a strong dislike

  b) something strongly disliked
• condone: to regard or treat (something bad) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless; to excuse
• placid: peacefully free of interruption or disturbance; peaceful, calm
• overt: open to view, NOT secret
• juncture:

  a) an instance of joining; union

  b) joint, connection

  c) an important point of time
• feasible: possible or capable of being done
• hue: color or shade
• speculatively: in a way that is based on opinion or guessing WITHOUT all the facts
• futile: producing no results, useless, unsuccessful, unproductive
• acute:

  a) keen, sensitive, sharp, perceptive

  b) needing immediate attention, critical, urgent, dire, pressing

  c) causing intense mental or physical distress

  d) ending in a sharp point, such as angle less than 90 degrees
• furtive: acting in secret or concealing one's intentions, stealthy, surreptitious
• Mutual: a situation, feeling, or action that is experienced by two or more people or groups
• reproach:

  cause of shame, disgrace, disapproval

  to criticize severely or angrily; to express disapproval of
• Encase: to close or shut in as if by barriers; to enclose
• sheer:

  a) very thin and easy to see through, gauzy, transparent

  b) to intrude; interrupt
• succinctly: brief, precise expresssion without wasted words
• Noncommital: giving NO clear indication of feeling, opinion, attitude or decision
• oblique: neither perpendicular or nor parallel, slanting, sloping
• brazen: shameless, disrespectful, rude boldness
• idiosyncrasy: a strange, peculiar, or unusual way of behaving or habit
• Recrimination: an accusation in response to one from someone else
• ferret:

  to search for something that is lost or hidden among a lot of things

  a small, domesticated polecat, usually albino, brown, or silver-gray animal
• oblivion: the state of being unaware or unconscious; being completing forgotten or unknown
• clamber: to climb somewhere with difficulty or awkwardly using both hands and feet
• enticing: attractive, tempting, alluring, intriguing