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| a failure to act; Law-failure to exercise the degree of care considered reasonable under the circumstances, resulting in an unintended injury to another party |
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| always the same, as in character or degree; unvarying; unvaried in texture, color, or design |
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| done in a quick or superficial way |
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| a disorderly confused fight or struggle at close quarters; a hoe that is used by pushing it back and forth |
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| projecting outward or upward from a line or surface; protuberant; immediately noticeable; conspicuous; widely known; eminent |
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| to be great in number or amount; to be fully supplied or filled; teem |
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| an introduction or preface, esp. a poem recited to introduce a play |
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| to cause persistent irritation or resentment |
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| something that lends pleasure or zest; a spicy or savory condiment |
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| a message appended at the end of a letter after the writer's signature; additional information at the end |
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| to discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome |
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| to arouse from slumber, apathy, or depression; to excite, as to anger or action; stir up |
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| the state of not having enough money to take care of basic needs such as food, clothing, and housing; a deficiency or lack of something; lack of soil fertility or nutrients |
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| a small object such as a bar or pin that supports a larger object and lets it turn or swing; crucial person or thing; turning movement; center point of wheeling movement; |
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| occurring by chance; without ceremony or formality; relaxed; suited for everyday wear or use; informal; not serious or thorough; superficial |
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| to retire from; give up or abandon; to put aside or desist from (something practiced, professed, or intended); to let go, surrender; to cease holding physically; release |
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| to impart flavor or scent to; to taste or smell, esp. with pleasure; to appreciate fully; enjoy or relish |
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| having component elements pleasingly or appropriately combined; characterized by harmony of sound; melodious |
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| marked by keen interest and enthusiasm |
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| an additional performance in response to the demand of an audience |
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| having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts |
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| to bend something, especially a joint of the body; to bend or be able to be bent; to move or tense a muscle, or become tense or constructed |
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| a natural talent or ability for something, especially one that is not yet fully developed; quickness and ease in learning |
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| measured by an angle or by degrees of an arc; bony and lean; gaunt |
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| slightly warm; showing little enthusiasm or warmth |
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| marked by or requiring great pains; very careful and diligent |
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| differing one from another; made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements |
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| a small amount, especially of something abstract, such as a particular quality |
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| a strategic or tactical military or naval movement; a large-scale tactical exercise carried out under simulated conditions of war; often used in the plural; a movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity |
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| a sign or expression of high praise and esteem for somebody; praise and public recognition of somebody's achievements; the ceremonial bestowal of a knighthood by somebody's shoulder with a sword |
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| to search deeply and laboriously;to dig the ground, as with a spade |
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| marked by elaborately complex detail |
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| praise somebidy lavishly; pronounce somebody to be something; shout enthusiastically; enthusiastic reception; |
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| a phrase or word that has lost its original effectiveness or power for overuse; an overused activity or notion |
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| occurring without restraint and frequently, widely, or menacingly; rife |
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| involved or intricate, as in structure; complicated; a whole composed of interconnected or interwoven parts |
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| overused and consequently lacking in interest or originality |
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| capable of existing or performing in harmonious, agreeable, or congenial combination with another or others |
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| to thrash or swing something around violently or uncontrollably, or move in this way; to strike or hit something |
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| vital to the outcome of something; very important or significant |
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| disagreement on a contentious topic, strongely felt or expressed by all those concerned |
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| to be great in number or amount; to be fully supplied or filled; teem |
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| to be full of things; abound or swarm |
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| marked by keen interest and enthusiasm |
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| to incite to anger or resentment |
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| having many colors; variegated; a heterogeneous, often incongruous mixture of elements |
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| to wear away or irritate by rubbing |
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| to impart flavor or scent to; to taste or smell, esp. with pleasure; to appreciate fully; enjoy or relish |
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| to treat with affection and tenderness; hold dear; to keep fondly in mind; entertain |
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| a sign or expression of high praise and asteem for somebody; praise |
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| something pleasing and appealing, esp.a choice food; fineness of appearance, construction, or execution; elegance; frailty of bodily constitution or health; sensitivity of perception, discrimination or taste; refinement |
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| to delve into; investigate |
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| to incur the dislike of; provoke hostility or enmity in |
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| a message appended at the end of a letter after the writer's signature; additional information at the end |
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| showing no care or concern for, or interest in, somebody or something; without bias or preference for one person, group or thing rather than another; lacking importance or significance |
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| something that represents, expresses, or is a symbol of something else; a disk of metal or plastic used instead of money; an object kept in memory of something |
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| flexible and easily bent; easily persuaded or influenced; adaptable to change |
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| the top, as of a hill or wave; a usually ornamental tuft, ridge, or similar projection on the head of a bird or other animal |
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| the practices and forms prescribed by social convention or by authority |
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| a small object such as a bar or pin that supports a larger object and lets it turn or swing; crucial person or thing; turning movement; center point of wheeling movement; |
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| unwilling to make the effort to be successful or do something properly; lacking the abilities or knowledge required to do something successfully or properly |
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| to cut off (a part), esp. from a tree or shrub |
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| taxation of or a tax imposed on goods for a domestic market only; to edit or delete a part of something, for example a text; to remove something surgically |
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| to refrain from something by one's own choice; to refrain from voting |
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| easy to notice; obvious; attracting attention, as by being unusual or remarkable; noticable |
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| an additional performance in response to the demand of an audience |
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| somebody who has extreme and sometimes irrational enthusiasms or beliefs, especially in religion or politics; somebody who is very enthusiastic about a pastime or hobby |
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| an associate in wrongdoing, esp. one who aids or abets another in a criminal act, either as a principal or an accessory |
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| metal in a thin flexible sheet; metal coating in mirror; good contrast; thwart somebody's success; obscure trail; sword for fencing |
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| to tread heavily on something or somebody so as to cause damage or injury; to behave in an insulting contemptious way or to treat somebody in a hurtful, insulting way |
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| projecting outward or upward from a line or surface; protuberant; immediately noticeable; conspicuous; widely known; eminent |
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| a space between two objects, points, or units; Music: the difference, usually expressed in the number of steps between two pitches |
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| careless, hasty, and unskillful |
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| a longtime close friend or companion |
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| a collection of live, wild animals on exhibition; a diverse or miscellaneous group |
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| change direction suddenly; change from one opinion to another; shift clockwise (in N. Hemisphere); sail away from wind; to let out a cable or chain or to make it go slack |
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| to urge on; goad; to stir up; foment |
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