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::: shirk - avoid (responsibility, work, etc.); malinger
::: irascible - irritable; easily angered
::: expunge - cancel; remove a word or name (from a book or list); erase
::: audit - examination of accounts of a business; official examination; V.
::: taciturn - habitually silent; talking little
::: canvass - determine or seek opinions, votes, etc.; go through (a region) to solicit votes or orders; conduct a survey; N.
::: paltry - insignificant; petty; trifling; contemptible; Ex. paltry sum; CF. trash
::: epitaph - inscription in memory of a dead person (as on a tombstone)
::: instigate - start; urge; provoke; incite; Ex. instigate a search/quarrel
::: cull - pick out from others (to kill the weakest members); reject; select; collect (information); N.