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annoying(adjective, painful)
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arbitrary
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arduous(adjective, painful)
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attenuation
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austere
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battered
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besetting(adjective, painful)
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bleak
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blot on the landscape(noun, expression, idiom, stain, decay)
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blotting(verb, drying)
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bothersome(adjective, painful)
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breaking down(expression, decline, collapse, deterioration, impairment)
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bumptious
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calumniatory
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caries(noun, decline, ruin, collapse, failing)
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cataclysmal
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cataclysmic
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catastrophic
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catheterizing(verb, drying)
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cavalier
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