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12/17/2009

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Abhor
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To regard with disgust
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Abominable
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Throughly destestable
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appease
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To bring peace, quiet or calm
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Ascribe
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To attribute to a specified cause
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Deliverance
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Rescue from danger
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Incense
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To cause to be extremly angry
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Inconceivable
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Not able to to be understood or imagined
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Loathsome
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Arrousing great dislike
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Mitigation
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lessening of something that causes suffering
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Wrath
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Fierce anger
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Edifice
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A large, imposing building
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Arduous
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Very difficult to accomplish or achieve
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Obtuse
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Dull of mind, insensitive, stupid
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Furrow
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To make Wrinkles or grooves
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sagacious
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Wise, Shrewd, very discerning
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Alacrity
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Prompt and cheerful response
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Alacrity
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Promt and cheerful response
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Euology
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Praise or tribute
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Fervent
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Ardent, showing great emotion, impassioned
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Torpid
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Sluggish, inactive, dull
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Witticism
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A clever and witty remark
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Mirth
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Gladdness and merriment, usually accompanied by laughter
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Florid
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Flowery, Flushed with color
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Potent
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Powerful, having a strong effect
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Palpable
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tangible, perceptible, easily noticeable
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vitiate
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To impair, corrupt, or make ineffective
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Inveterate
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Firmly established, habitual, deep rooted
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Peal
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A loud, ringing-- usually bells
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malleable
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Capable of being shaped, influenced, or altered; tractable
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Benevolence
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Kindness, generosity, charity
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Evanescent
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fleeting
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Stalwart
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Firm and resolute; stout
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forbearence
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patience, lenience
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Esoteric
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Understood only by a small group or a select few
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impunity
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exemption from punishment, penalty or harm
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oblivion
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state of being forgotten
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magnate
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person of power and influence
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petty
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small land insignificant
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obscure
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difficult to see, vague
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dearth
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a lack, a scarcity
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Venerate
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to honor, to revere
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Propensity
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A natrual inclination
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opaque
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Dark, will not allow the passage of light, not transparent, hard to understand
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male factor
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A criminal
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portal
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a doorway, especially a large one
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inauspicious
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unfavorable
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Augury
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an omen or prophecy
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betoken
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to give a sign of
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vagrant
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a wanderer who does not have a home
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impropriety
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incorrect conduct
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rotund
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very plump, round
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amenable
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open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion; tractable; malleable
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infamous
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having a reputation of the worst, kind, disgraceful, vicious, notoriously bad
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Inscrutable
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difficult to understand; mysterious
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requite
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make return for (a service)
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alchemist
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one who practices medieval chemistry, attempting to change metals into gold
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ascetic
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austere, absence of luxury, self-denial
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superfluous
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beyond what is needed or required, an overflow
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voluptuous
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pleasurable to the senses, sensuous
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penitent
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showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant
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Discern
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to differentiate differences in two or more things, to detect something obscure
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imbibe
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to absorb or drink in
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insidious
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treacherous or dangerous in a secret sort of way
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inopprutune
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inconvenient, poorly timed
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piety
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devotion and reverence to god
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prolific
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abundantly fruitful, marked by great productivity
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regimen
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the regular process, procedure, or system of doing something
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malicious
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activity motivated by hate or deliberate intent to harm
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inviolable
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secure from violation or from being frofaned
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placid
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peaceful, calm
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enmity
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absolute hatred
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tome
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a book that is a large volume
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gaunt
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very thin, emaciated, angular
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burnish
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to make shiny or to polish by rubbing
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exigent
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urgent, requiring immediate attention
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vista
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a distant view seen through an opening
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depravity
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moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act
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unobstrusive
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not readily noticeable, inconspicuous
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tarry
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to delay in coming or going, linger
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affinity
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likeness, a natrual relationship, kinship
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