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| adj.- (old) noble; honorable; candid; also (more current) naive, simple, artless, without guile |
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| adj.- lacking in seriousness; silly and pointless |
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| n.- an exaggeration, not to be taken seriously |
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| adj.- exceptional; tremendous |
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| adj.- respectful; feeling or showing deep love, respect, awe |
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| adj.- commonplace; overused |
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| n.- wanderer; one without a fixed place |
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| adj.- attractively unusual or old-fashioned |
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| adj.- poor; poverty-stricken |
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| n.- one who smashes revered images; an attacker of cherished beliefs |
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| adj.- hard to understand; concealed; characterized by profound scholarship |
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| n.- the art of lending money at illegal rates of interest |
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| adj.- silliness; lack of seriousness |
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| n.- insolent or impertinent behavior |
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| adj.- worthless or contemptible |
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| v.- state or assert to be the case |
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| adj.- failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence |
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| adj.- pertinent; related; to the point |
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| adj.- unreal; false; deceptive |
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| n.- extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| v.- to defame; to blacken or sully; to belittle |
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