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| (n)an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; (v) to create an opening, break through |
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| (n) a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman |
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| (adj) wary, prudent, guarded |
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| (v) to seize for military or official use |
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| (adj) clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving |
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| (n) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; (v) to bring to such a standstill |
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| (n) standoff, stalernate, impasse |
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| (n) agreement, accord, breakthrough |
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| (n) scattered fragments, wreckage |
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| (n) rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetsam |
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| (v) to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj) wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread |
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| (v) disperse; (adj) rambling, verbose, prolix |
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| (v) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |
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| (v) blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge |
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| (v) to make a mess of; muddle through; to get by; (n) a hopeless mess |
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| (n) orderliness, tidiness, neatness |
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| (adj) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind |
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| (adj) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n) a plant that lives for many years |
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| (v) hold on to, keep, retain, cling to |
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| (v) to save from fire or shipwreck; (n) property thus saved |
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| (adj) sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent |
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| (adj) not geniune, not true, not valid |
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| (adj)false, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus |
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| (adj) genuine, authentic, bonafide, valid |
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