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| acrimony (noun) | bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility |
| acrimonious (adj) | hostile; bitter |
| affinity (noun) | attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship |
| ambivalent (adj) | having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive |
| ambivalence (noun) | indecisiveness; mixed feelings |
| cessation (noun) | a stopping, either final or temporary |
| emaciated (adj) | very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny |
| enclave (noun) | a distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory |
| engender (verb) | to bring into being, to produce |
| exacerbate (verb) | to make more severe, bitter or violent |
| illicit (adj) | not allowed, improper, or unlawful |
| indigenous (adj) | naturally living or growing in a certain area; native |
| inexorable (adj) | not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless |
| infatuated (adj) | filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire |
| infatuation (noun) | feeling of shallow love or desire |
| insatiable (adj) | never satisfied; greedy |
| poignant (adj) | painfully moving, affecting, or touching |
| proselytize (verb) | to convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause |
| elicit (verb) | to bring or draw out |
