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| financial term related to keeping the books balanced. insolvent means no money |
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| not to be confused with ingenious (dexter is clever). ingenuous means naive or silly (like dee-dee) |
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| the one who wants to take advantage of the ingenuous ones. Like mojo-jojo. Clever or crafty; a lawyer |
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| to weaken. see also: attenuate, ameliorate, alleviate, abnegate, vitiate |
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| the sort of attention you want to pay to the SAT reading. weigh out the tougher questions before selecting your answer |
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| hidden, like the correct SAT reading answer when you look for it. wishy-washy wins |
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| a nearness. like marco in marco-polo |
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| to make a lot of. pro-life. like bunnies. bunnies proliferate. so do good ideas |
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| one who is very good at something.. usually a violin or a piano |
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| related to old term for sulfuric acid: oil of vitriol. hence vitriolic means acidic, caustic, harmful |
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| war-like. common vernacular for drunk |
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| a set of speech or unique phrase. often regional or vocationally-oriented. as in: I pwned that guy. |
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| studying where words come from/ how they evolve |
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| false-holyness. like worshipping a god of donuts |
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| friendly. all gregs are friendly, at least in my experience |
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| to soothe/ calm. anybody named Molly is supposed to be calm |
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| a talking head, like any authority cited on television |
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| a powerful person. potent means powerful |
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| the best example of. the ultimate model |
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| an overarching principle. the scientific method is a paradigm of modern society |
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| a member of a specific party. usually political |
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| a member of a group. a citizen of a den (like in cub scouts) |
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| an angry rant. a jeremiad |
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| one debuting her/himself to society. debut means to introduce |
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| french word for style/ flair. kinda like the dude in the artist. all panache |
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| having or showing a certain tendency |
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| practicing abstinence. not giving into |
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| moderate. lessened. somehow made stronger by the lessening. as in: tempered steel has less flexibility but more strength |
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| cruel/ savage. like those dudes who drive F-150 trucks on the freeway |
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| unrestrained, like syrup. trickling out. connotation: too much emotion. as in a treacly chick-flick |
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| one able to see the future |
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| great fire. what happens to Malibu every now and then |
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| perambulate means to traverse/ walk over. usually in order to examine/ inspect |
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| spectating around something. suspicious/ cautious |
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| to talk around something. to use too many words and not hit the center of the argument |
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| a cool bit of jargon. meaning unknown |
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| to make clear. to shed light on. luc means light |
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| stubborn. old western slang for how certain varmints act |
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| combative/ tenacious. not giving up. like a pug who walks up to a bigger dog |
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| pungent/ sharp/ interesting. worth a peek, it would seem |
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| the pace of how one walks/ runs/ canters |
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| to make stronger (thanks AM) |
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| stuck up. literally, having eyes (cilium) above or over (super) all others |
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| looking down on others. dissing them |
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| peaceful like the ocean in the morning. a mellow sea-bird |
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