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2. having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty.
3. pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality.
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| uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things. |
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| ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: |
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| to give encouragement or support to (a person, plan, etc.). |
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1. the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness:
freedom from bias; fairness; impartiality:
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| agreement between things; mutual fitness; harmony. |
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| causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy: |
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| mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: |
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| to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: |
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| to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: |
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| asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated. |
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| understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite |
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| to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause. |
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| capable of being done, effected, or accomplished |
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| frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: |
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| happening or produced by chance; accidental: |
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| to hold back; hinder; impede: |
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| very slight, gradual, or subtle |
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| without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; |
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1. liable or subject to change or alteration.
2. given to changing; constantly changing; fickle or inconstant:
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| a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: |
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| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
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| moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance |
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1. to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
2. to prove (a person) to be in error.
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| to reject as having no authority or binding force: |
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disposed to be silent or not to speak freely;
restrained |
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| to attack or ridicule with satire. |
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| inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation. |
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| unsteady movement; fluctuation. |
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