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  1. bellicose       warlike; pugnacious                                                                                 
  2. circumspect     watchful on all sides; cautious; prudent                                                            
  3. covert          covered; sheltered; secret or hidden                                                                
  4. dogmatic        asserting opinions in an authoritative manner;    opinionated                                       
  5. esoteric        understood only by a few; confidential; secret                                                      
  6. flagrant        openly disgraceful; notorious; shameful                                                             
  7. haughty         disdainfully proud of oneself                                                                       
  8. incipient       coming into existence; just beginning to appear                                                     
  9. intangible      not able to be touched; indefinite or vague                                                         
  10. livid           abnormally discolored, as in skin; flushed as     from extreme anger                                
  11. nocturnal       of or pertaining to the night; happening at night                                                   
  12. parsimonious    very sparing in the spending of money; miserly                                                      
  13. portly          stout or overweight; having impressive bearing                                                      
  14. quixotic        ridiculously chivalrous or romantic; having high  but impractical schemes or ideas                  
  15. sagacious       characterized by shrewdness and wisdom                                                              
  16. squalid         dirty and wretched of appearance; filthy                                                            
  17. tenacious       holding on strongly; persistent                                                                     
  18. unbridled       without restraint; unruly                                                                           
  19. vicarious       something done in substitution; done in place of  another                                           
  20. wizened         old and shrunken; dried up                                                                          
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