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9th Grade
05/25/2010

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pernicious
Definition
causing injury or ruin; extremely destructive or harmful
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augment
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increase; enlarge
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grievance
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injustice; complaint; an expression of dissatisfaction
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transgression
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wrongdoing; sin; and act or instance of breaking a law of regulation; non-fulfillment of an obligation or promise
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heretics
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those who hold to a belief opposed to the established teaching of a church; a person who dissents from the doctrine of an established church
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portentous
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promising bad fortune or future disaster
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importuned
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questioned deeply; to trouble persistently from all sides
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fray
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noisy fight; quarrel or disturbance marked by disorderly and often violent behavior
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chastity
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the state or quality of being caste; purity
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reckoning
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a good reputation; regarded highly; looked up to
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anguish
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excruciating mental or physical pain or suffering; agony; torture
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fortnight
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two weeks
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beseech
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to make an urgent or earnest request
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solemnity
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high seriousness of manner or bearing; a celebration or observance marked with gravity and dignity
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choler
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anger or hastiness of temper
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purge
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purify; to cleanse of what is impure or extraneous; to free from sin or guilt
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loathe
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to regard with extreme dislike or hostility
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kinsmen
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a blood relation (can also be connected by marriage)
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cunning
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deceitful cleverness; slyness
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variable
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capable or liable to change
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solace
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to comfort or share in trouble
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vile
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morally base, despicable or loathsome
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sallow
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of an unhealthy color; lacking color
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anon
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in a little while; soon; presently
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demesnes
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property; domain
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idolatry
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the worship of idols; idolatrous admiration
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impute
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to attribute as a fault or crime to a person; ascribe
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lamentable
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distressing; sad; causing sorrow or regret
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unwieldy
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difficult to handle or manage
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perjuries
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the willful giving of false testimony; untruths; lying
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consort
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to join; associate with; to be with as a companion
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gallant
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brave; chivalrous; noble
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martial
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of relating to, or inclined toward war
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exile
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to force to leave a country or place by official decree
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eloquence
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speech that is vivid, forceful, graceful and persuasive
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fickle
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following no predictable pattern
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discords
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harsh sounds
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appertaining
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appropriate, concerning, pertaining, referring to
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devise
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understand; imagine; to form a strategy for
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procure
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to obtain by some effort or means; acquire
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entertain(d)
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condsider; contemplate
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strange
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unfamiliar, unknown, foreign
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contrary
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in opposite directions, contradictory, incompatible
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dissemblers
dissemble
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hypocrites
hide mask, disguise
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unseemly
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inappropriate (due to unnatural aspect); improper
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blaze
Definition
announce publicly
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chide
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rebuke, admonish, reprimand
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discourses
Definition
conversations, talk, converse
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asunder
Definition
apart
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wreak
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avenge; express
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stratagems
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tricks; plots
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absolved
Definition
receive forgiveness for a sin
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pensive
Definition
thinking deeply or seriously
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vial
Definition
small bottle containing medicine or other liquids
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enjoined
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order, command
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wayward
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headstrong, disobedient, incorrigible
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dismal
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causing gloom or misery
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loathsome
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disgusting, detestable, despicable
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pilgrimage
Definition
long journey, often for religious purposes
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inundate
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flood (literal or figurative)
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presage
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foreshadow; foretell
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remnants
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remaining persons or things; left-over; relic
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penury
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extreme poverty; impoverishment; want; indigence
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haughty
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arrogant; scornful; disdainful
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sepulcher
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tomb, crypt, vault
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ambiguities
Definition
statements or events whose meanings are unclear
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scourge
Definition
whip or other instrument for inflicting punishment
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inexorable
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uncontrollable; unyielding; relentless
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apprehend
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seize; arrest
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conjurations
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solemn appeals
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peruse
Definition
look over; examine; review; look for a long time
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amorous
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full of love; enamored; ardent; passionate
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inauspicious
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promising misfortune; ill chosen; badly timed
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engrossing
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all-encompassing; occupy; involve; immerse
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restorative
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medicine; something that can restore health
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dire
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terrible; dreadful; awful; woeful
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privy
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secretly informed of/about
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enmity
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hostility; hatred; rancor; acrimony
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ensign
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banner; flag
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glooming
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cloudy; gloomy
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surname
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family name; last name
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encumbered
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to obstruct or hinder in movement; burden put a heavy load on
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insignificant
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not significant; unimportant; petty; trifling; trivial
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profoundly
Definition
penetrating or entering deeply in to subjectsor thought of knowledge; deep insight
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deportee
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a person expelled from a country as undesirableor as having entered illegally
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emigrate
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to leave one country or region and settle in another; immigrate
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treatise
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a formal, lengthy exposition of a topic
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anecdote
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a short account of an incident (interesting or entertaining)
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melancholy
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morbidly gloomy; sad; dejected
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constraint
constrain
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the act of constraining
to compell, confine, restrain
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provision
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supplies of food; victuals
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hermetic
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made airtight; impervious to air and liquid
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pestilence
pestilential
Definition
any wide-spread and fatal infection or contagious malady
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notorious
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famous for an unfavorable reason
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devoid
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not possessing; destitute
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monocle
Definition
lens/eyeglass for one eye
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lucid
lucidity
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mentally sound; sane; clear; obvious; plain; understandable
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convalescence
Definition
gradual recovery from an illness
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blandish
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flatter; cajole
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convoy
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a protecting force accompanying property in course of transportatio; accompany or escort
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frenzy
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violent agitation; madness; delirium
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torment
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to afflict with intense bodily or mental suffering or pain
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thrash
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to beat with a whip; to move about with flailing, violent motions
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latter
Definition
the second of two mentioned person or things
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raucous
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rough in sound; hoarse; rash
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sabotage
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an act of malicious damage; to inquire or attack
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lament
Definition
to feel or express sorrow for; grief
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void
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not occupied by matter; empty; destitute; useless
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emaciated
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very thin; wasted away
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elapsed
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to slip by; pass away (the time)
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feeble
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lacking muscular power; weak; frail; infirm
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evacuation
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the act of evcuating; or making empty
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relentless
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indifferent to the pain of others; pitiless; unremitting; continuous
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deprive
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to take something away from; to disposses; remove and/or withhold something
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bereave
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to deprive f ope or happiness; to leave desolate or saddened through loss
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apathy
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lack of feeling; emotion; or sensation; indensibility; indeifference; lack of interest
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livid
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lacking color; ashen, ashy, bloodless, cadaverous
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vitality
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the state of being vital; animation; life
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tether
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something used to confine; as a ope for fastening
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contagion
Definition
the communication of disease by contact, direct or indirect, or figuratively, of mental states by suggestion or association; plague
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