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| lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow: a languid manner. |
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| noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level. |
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| a moderate yellow-orange to orange colour |
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| to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble. |
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| an elevated tract of open country. |
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| a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion ofthe body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with theclavicles and the true ribs; breastbone. |
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| a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for longperiods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate. |
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| a point, directly above the true center of disturbance, from which the shock waves of an earthquake apparently radiate. |
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| to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment. |
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| a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means ofsupport; vagrant; bum. |
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| to thrust out; force or press out; expel |
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| that with which to do something; means or supplies for the purpose or need, especially money |
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| a large mollusk of the genus Haliotis, having a bowllike shell bearing a row of respiratory holes, the fleshof which is used for food and the shell for ornament and as a source of mother-of-pearl. |
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| mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium |
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| a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain. |
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| act of peristalsis:the progressive wave of contraction and relaxation of a tubular muscular system, especially the alimentary canal, by which the contents are forced through the system. |
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| a person or thing that lags; lingerer; loiterer |
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| anything extravagantly ornamented, especially something so ornate as to be in bad taste. |
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| agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition of being parallel. |
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| unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice |
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the act of inhibiting:to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.)
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| the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everydaylife. |
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| an event, conclusion, statement, etc., that is far less important, powerful, or striking than expected |
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| any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones. |
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| a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter. |
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| an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of oroblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character'sinnermost thoughts): Hamlet's soliloquy begins with “To be or not to be.” |
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| absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave. |
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| obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
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of the nature of or involving antithesis.
directly opposed or contrasted; opposite
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| a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literallyapplicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God. |
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| (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken |
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| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
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| surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged: a stealth hiring of the competitor's CEO; the stealth issue of the presidential race. |
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| a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. |
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| to chew the cud, as a ruminant. |
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| the act of being omniscient:having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things. God. |
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The state of being subjective:existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought - opposed to objective
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| something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health |
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| a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in“cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.” |
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| not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral. |
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| Passive:influenced, acted upon, or affected by some external force, cause, or agency; being the object of action rather than causing action ( opposed to active |
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| rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue: the rectitude of her motives. |
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| the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry. |
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| an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
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| an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent. |
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| characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. |
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| the person used by a speaker in referring to the one or ones to whom he or she is speaking: in English you is a second person pronoun. |
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| the person that is used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anything or to anyone other than the speaker or the one or ones being addressed. |
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| ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum. |
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| the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
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| the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, asin o'er for over, or pronounced, as in gov't for government; to indicate the possessive case, as in man's; orto indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols, as in several M.D.'s, 3's. |
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