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Quagmire

Marsh, pocosin

Sapped

Reduced, wore down

Adjacent

Nearby, conjoining

Latticed

Decorated in diagonal pattern

Prodigious

Astounding, monumental

Fiend

Incubus, devil

Precedent

Exemplar, standard

Dexterity

Acumen, efficiency

Remonstrate

To present reasons

Boudoir

Woman's private room

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