persisting, chronic, dyed-in-the-wool

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to suppress, pacify, squelch, quash, crush

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a holocaust, wildfire

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to ponder, reflect, mull over, muse

(a)  

lenient, permissive, tolerant, liberal

(a)  

stately, dignified, exalted, venerable

(a)  

covert, furtive, surreptitious, stealthy

(a)  

lasting, permanent; unforgettable

(a)  

irritating, stinging, bitter, caustic

(a)  

perceptible, actual, evident, palpable

(a)  

a scruple, qualm, misgiving, contrition

(a)  

penetrating, cutting, telling, acute

(a)  

unexpressed, unvoiced, understood, implicit

(a)  

to forswear, retract, recant; to abstain from

(a)  

a cliché, truism, bromide

(a)  

inapplicable, immaterial, beside the point

(a)  

nighttime, under cover of darkness

(a)  

still, inert, motionless, dormant, tranquil

(a)  

insensitive, unsympathetic, thick-skinned

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