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| (adj) well mannered; proper |
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| (adj) pleasant to the senses |
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| (noun) an ideally perferct place |
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| (noun) betrayal of one's country/state etc. |
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| (noun) sexual intercourse |
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| (adj) very strict in moral or religious matters |
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| (adj) generous in forgiving |
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| (adj) generous in forgiving |
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| (adj) friendly; good-natured and likable |
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| (adj) unpleasant; disgusting |
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| (adj) lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; dull |
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| (noun) a short story meant to teach a moral or lesson |
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| (noun) a church official in charge of maintaining the church and/or ringing the bells |
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| (noun) a crowd; large group of people |
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(noun) and agreement
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| (verb) to wrap, bind, with bands of some material |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being different |
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| (verb) to lie or be at rest |
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| (adj) commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity |
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| (noun) appearance, especially the expression of the face |
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| (noun) something that fuctions as a symbol |
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| (noun) skill in public speaking |
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| (noun) a quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow |
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| (noun) gross injustice or wickedness |
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| (noun) the act of agitating |
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| (adj) showy, intended to attract notice |
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| (adj) vulgar; irreligious; unholy |
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| (adj) having sound judgement; wise |
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| (noun) the residence or a member of the clergy as provided by the church |
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| (verb) to inspire or influence thoroughly |
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| (noun) one's usual mood; temperament |
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(adj) intrusive; rude
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(adj) irrelevant |
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(noun) an expression of strondisapproval
(verb) to criticize severely |
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| (noun) the act of protesting, complaining |
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| (noun) the face or facial expression of a person |
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| (verb) to lessen in force or intensity |
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| (noun) an unpredictable action or occurrence |
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| (adj) inclined; prone; likely |
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| (noun) conscious knowledge; the range of one's knowledge |
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| (adj) done maliciously or unjustifiably |
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| (noun) a severe test or trial |
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| (noun) a release of emotional tension |
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| (noun) the final resolution of a plot |
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| (noun) a formal statement of religious belief; a system of belief |
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| (adj) existing in one from birth; inborn |
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| (noun) excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance |
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| (verb) to waste time; loiter; delay |
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| (noun) one who opposed against another; principal character in opposition to the protagonist |
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| (verb) to cause persistent irratation or resentment |
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| (noun) an irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized person |
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| (noun) a group of military officers who have taken control of a country |
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| (adj) of or pertaining to a parish; narrow-minded |
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| (noun) the act of impressing upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition |
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| (adj) broad-minded; liberal |
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| (verb) to soil, stain or dirty |
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| (noun) a false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation |
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| (noun) and abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation |
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| (verb) to put up with; tolerate |
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| (verb) to conceal or disguise behind a false appearance |
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| (verb) to raid for plunder |
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| (verb) to speak harmful untruths |
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| (adj) sexually unrestrained |
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| (adj) harsh and inharmonious in sound |
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| (noun) the act of looking within oneself |
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| (noun) a representation of an abstract meaning through a concrete form |
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| (noun) a comparison between two unlike objects wihtout using like or and |
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| (noun) something used for representing something else |
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| (noun) figure of speech in which a part of soemthing is used for the whole or the whole for a part |
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| (noun) richness or significance |
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| (adj) having keen mental perception and understanding |
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| (noun) in literature, a reference to something well-known |
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| (noun) literary technique of giving inanimate objects human-like characteristics |
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| (noun) restraint or lack of emphasis, as for rhetorical or ironic effect |
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| (adj) attended by favorable circumstances; promising success |
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| (noun) obvious and intentional exaggeration |
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| (noun) a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
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(noun) a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related
ex. "count heads" for "count people" |
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| (adj) easy to notice; obvious |
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| (adj) marked by shame or disgrace; humiliating |
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| (noun) the meaning that a word suggests or implies |
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| (noun) the dictionary definition of a word |
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| (noun) the order of words |
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| (noun) the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words |
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| (noun) the formation of a word, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with it |
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| (noun) the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
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| (noun) a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length |
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| (noun) any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed; a short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought |
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| (noun) a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter |
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| (noun) a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes. |
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| (noun) rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry |
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| (noun) an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. |
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| (noun) a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter |
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| (noun) poetry that tells a story |
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| (noun) a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
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| (noun) a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing |
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| (noun) a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables,often on the subject of nature |
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| (noun) the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break |
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| (noun) unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse |
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| (noun) a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry |
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| (noun) a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead |
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| (noun) a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion |
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| (noun) a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse |
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| (noun) Ending in a syntactic and rhythmic pause. Used of a line of verse or a couplet |
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| (noun) Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern |
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| (noun) a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
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| (noun) irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play |
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| (noun) an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does |
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| (verb) to cry with low, plaintive, broken sounds |
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| (verb) to dig or force out |
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| (adj) light, airy, or tenuous; heavenly or celestial |
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| (noun) a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania |
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| (noun) waste matter; refuse |
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| (verb) to grumble; complain |
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| (noun) a slender stick of a dried, fragrant paste, burned by the Chinese as incense before a joss |
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| (verb) to irritate, annoy, or exasperate |
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| (noun) fortification; anything serving as a bulwark or defense |
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| (verb) to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right |
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| (noun) elaboration or embellishment |
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| (verb) to burrow or root with the nose, snout; to thrust the nose, muzzle, etc |
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| (verb) to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess |
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| (verb) ponder; to think about carefully; consider |
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| (noun) the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or involving both the mind and the body |
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| (verb)to reject bluntly or abruptly |
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| (noun) the science of language |
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| (adjective) not open to attack or assault, as by military force or argument |
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| (noun) a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air |
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| (adj.) disordered; disarranged |
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| (verb) to divide or fork into two branches |
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| (noun) a stone coffin, esp. one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument |
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| (noun) the ability to speak or write several languages; multilingual |
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| (noun) a tremor; earthquake |
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| (adj) calm; peaceful; tranquil |
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| (noun) an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish |
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| (adj) ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper |
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| (adj) before or exsisting before the war |
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| (noun) the predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others |
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| (noun) form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons; government by the few |
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| (adj) inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile |
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| (verb) to give up or renounce (a throne) |
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| (noun) the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt |
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| (adj) of long duration; continuing |
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| (noun) a society governed by women |
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| (adj) having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy |
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| (adj) of or pertaining to money |
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| (adj) unusually advanced or mature in development, esp. mental development |
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| (verb) to complain naggingly or constantly |
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| (adj) widely and unfavorably known |
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| (noun) bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion |
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| (noun) a flat or dull remark, esp. one expressed as if it were original or profound |
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| (noun) a person who is fearful of foreign people and customs |
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| (adj) lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid |
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| (noun) a small, miserable dwelling |
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| (noun) surgical incision into the frontal lobe of the brain to treat certain mental disorders |
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| (adj) caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc. |
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| (adj) of or relating to a church |
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| (adj) existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild |
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| (adj) not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; unrelieved |
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| (noun) agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance |
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| (verb) to make more certain; confirm |
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