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Adjectives
1. (adj.) puerile;
  - of or characteristic of a child;
  - “puerile breathing”;

2. (adj.) adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile;
  - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity;
  - “adolescent insecurity”; “jejune responses to our problems”; “their behavior was juvenile”; “puerile jokes”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) assuming, assumptive, presumptuous;
  - excessively forward;
  - “an assumptive person”; “on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide”; “the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy;
  - of the most contemptible kind;
  - “abject cowardice”; “a low stunt to pull”; “a low-down sneak”; “his miserable treatment of his family”; “You miserable skunk!”; “a scummy rabble”; “a scurvy trick”;

2. (adj.) abject;
  - most unfortunate or miserable;
  - “the most abject slaves joined in the revolt”; “abject poverty”;

3. (adj.) abject, unhopeful;
  - showing utter resignation or hopelessness;
  - “abject surrender”;

4. (adj.) abject;
  - showing humiliation or submissiveness;
  - “an abject apology”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter;
  - someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication;

Verbs
1. (verb) cast, couch, frame, put, redact;
  - formulate in a particular style or language;
  - “I wouldn’t put it that way”; “She cast her request in very polite language”;

2. (verb) edit, redact;
  - prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting;
  - “Edit a book on lexical semantics”; “she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) zeitgeist;
  - the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation;

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