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1 a : to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing b : POLISH 3
2 : to rub (a material) with a tool for compacting or smoothing or for turning an edge
: LUSTER, GLOSS |
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: to raise trivial and frivolous objection
: to raise trivial objections to |
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1 : deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : TRICKERY
2 : a piece of sharp practice (as at law) : TRICK |
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1 a : interpretation of omens b : SUPPOSITION
2 a : inference from defective or presumptive evidence b : a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork c : a proposition (as in mathematics) before it has been proved or disproved
1 : to arrive at by conjecture
2 : to make conjectures as to
: to form conjectures |
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1 : grieving and penitent for sin or shortcoming
2 : proceeding from contrition |
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1 a : GRANARY b : a grain bin
2 : something that is collected : ACCUMULATION
1 a : to gather into storage b : to deposit as if in a granary
2 a : to acquire by effort : EARN b : ACCUMULATE, COLLECT |
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1 : gross injustice : WICKEDNESS
2 : a wicked act or thing : SIN |
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1 a : refusing to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude : UNCOMPROMISING b : IRRECONCILABLE
2 : characteristic of an intransigent person |
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1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the world
2 : characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary : COMMONPLACE |
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1 : prone to change : INCONSTANT
2 a : capable of change or of being changed b : capable of or liable to mutation |
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1 : any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs
2 : any of various prickly or stinging plants other than the true nettles (genus Urtica)
1 : to strike or sting with or as if with nettles
2 : to arouse to sharp but transitory annoyance or anger |
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: feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : REPENTANT
1 : a person who repents of sin
2 : a person under church censure but admitted to penance or reconciliation especially under the direction of a confessor |
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| : a small portion, amount, or allowance: a meager wage or remuneration |
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1: of, relating to, or marked by illusion, conjuring, or trickery
2 : having prestige : HONORED |
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: BELIEVE, CONSIDER
1 : having a good repute : REPUTABLE
2 : being such according to reputation or popular belief |
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1 a : a place of deep mud or mire b (1) : SWAMP (2) : an inlet on a river: BACKWATER (3) : a creek in a marsh or tide flat
2 : a state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection
: to engulf in a slough
: to plod through or as if through mud : SLOG
1 : the cast-off skin of a snake
2 : a mass of dead tissue separating from an ulcer
3 : something that may be shed or cast off
1 a : to become shed or cast off b : to cast off one's skin c : to separate in the form of dead tissue from living tissue
2 : to crumble slowly and fall away
1 : to cast off
2 a : to get rid of or discard as irksome, objectionable, or disadvantageous b : to dispose of (a losing card in bridge) by discarding |
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| : temperamentally disinclined to talk |
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1 : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a utopia : having impossibly ideal conditions especially of social organization
2 : proposing or advocating impractically ideal social and political schemes 3 : impossibly ideal : VISIONARY 4 : believing in, advocating, or having the characteristics of utopian socialism
1 : one that believes in the perfectibility of human society
2 : one that proposes or advocates utopian schemes |
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1 a : the exact likeness of a living person seen usually just before death as an apparition b : GHOST, SPECTER
2 : an insubstantial form or semblance : SHADOW
3 : a barely visible gaseous or vaporous column |
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