Trouble deleting paragraph styles

I have a book with five documents in it. I am trying to delete some paragraph styles but they just don't want to go away. I keep deleting them from one of the documents, then I make that document the style source, synchronize the other documents with it, and the styles keep reappearing. I've tried doing it with different documents but I still get the same result.

Syncing book  doesn't delete styles only adds.
Just open each file (only 5 of them) and remover the styles...they are pobably used somewhere.

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