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| excessive praise; intense adoration |
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| dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art of the beautiful |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion |
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| a universally recognized principle |
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| to grow rapidly or flourish |
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| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| established set of principles or code of laws |
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| severe criticism or punishment |
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| burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principles |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| soothing; making less harsh; mollifying |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
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| intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| an exagerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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| lacking funds; without money |
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| beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
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| harmless; causing no damage |
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| to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| penny pinching; excessively thrifty |
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| extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
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| extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion |
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| one that precedes and indicates or announces another |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| producing large volumes or amounts |
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| stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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| awe-inpiring; worthy of honor |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penatly intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| to take the place of; supersede |
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| lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
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| existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| sohpisticated; refined; elegant |
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| to defame; to characterize harshly |
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