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n. false rumor, damaging report, slander; the act of defaming or slandering; calumny, defamation, obloquy.
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n. the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language; evasion in speech or writing; a roundabout expression; euphemistic, indirectness, periphrasis; prolixity; discursive.
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adj. secretive; concealed for a darker purpose; kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose; surreptitious
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v. To grow together or cause to unite as one, conjoin, integrate.
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n. departure from the norm; an exception; anomaly.
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adj. Creating disunity or conflict; creating dissension or discord; contentious, contumacious; seditious, trouble-making, tumultuous.
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adj. acting as if things are centered around oneself; caring only about oneself
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v. To produce; to cause; to bring about; to bring into existence; give rise to.
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n. concluding section of a literary work often dealing with the future of its characters; a short poem or speech spoken directly to the audience following the conclusion of a play
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n. The name o fa person for whom something is supposedly named.
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adj. Worn out by over-use; trite, cliched; pedestrian; quotidian.
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adj. arrogantly self-assured; domineering; overbearing; arrogant, authoritative, autocratic; tyrannical; dictatorial
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adj. Imperfectly formed or formulated; in an initial or early stage; incipient; embryonic; nascent.
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n. Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism; bellicosity
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v. to place side-by-side, especially for comparison or contrast.
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n. a whirlpool; turmoil; agitated sense of mind, a violent or turbulent situation.
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n. the act of plotting or scheming; subterfuge; chicanery.
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n. The doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine hat regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
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adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; idiomatic (N.) a characteristic language of a particular group; the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished form literary language.
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adj. thick-skinned, insensitive; emotionally hardened; unfeeling; cold-blooded
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v. to catch sight of (something difficult to discern); to discover by careful observation or scrutiny; to detect or perceive.
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n. A particular period of history, specially one considered remarkable or noteworthy; a notable event that marks the beginning of such a period
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adj. Related to motion, characterized by movement.
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n. fame, glory, honor; a praising remark; an accolade or compliment; laudation.
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v. to attack with satire; a written attack ridiculing a person, group or institution; pastiche.
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n. Generosity of spirit or attitude; liberality in bestowing gifts, especially in a lofty or condescending manner.
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n. a dictionary, use of words.
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