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N. a shallow place in a body of water
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| ADJ. capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable |
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| ADJ. nearsighted; lacking foresight |
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| n. place of refuge or shelter; protection |
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n. severe poverty; stinginess
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n. a person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.
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n. one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life
Also n. hedonism
ADJ. hedonistic: devoted to pleasure |
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ADJ. cowardly; fainthearted
n. pusillanimity |
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ADJ. lying; habitually dishonest
n. mendacity |
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ADJ. cowardly
n. cravenness |
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ADJ. naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated
n. ingenue |
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n. extreme corruption; wickedness
v. deprave |
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| n. a naive, innocent young girl or woman |
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| ADJ. deserving high respect |
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ADJ. suave; refined; elegant
N. urbanity |
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n. self satisfaction; smugness
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| n. any of various plants of the genus Aster |
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| n. tall column tapering and ending in a pyramid |
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ADJ. teaching; instructional
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| ADJ. immature; half-baked; like a sophomore |
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ADJ. reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
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ADJ. not frank; eluding
v. evade |
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ADJ. evasive; baffling; hard to grasp
v. elude |
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| n. any of various hand tools used by a carpenter |
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| n. pointed tool used for piercing by a cobbler |
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| n. inhabitant or resident; regular visitor |
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ADJ. having absolute, unchecked power; dictatorial
n. autocrats; autocracy |
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ADJ. easily approachable; warmly friendly
n. affability |
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ADJ. mentally quick and observant; having insight
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n. discernment |
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n. impudent disrespect; haughtiness
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| n. courteous regard for another's wish |
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n. one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs
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n. expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death
v. eulogize |
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n. poem or song expressing lamentation
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| ADJ. unreasonable or capricious; tyrannical |
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n. beggar
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| n. short account of an amusing or interesting event. |
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N. story in which characters are used as symbols; fable
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| n. extended scolding; denunciation; harangue |
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n. pithy maxim or saying; "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."
ADJ. aphoristic |
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v. praise
n. laudable
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ADJ. silly; senseless
n. inanity |
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| ADJ. fluent; facile; slick |
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| n. omission of a final or initial sound in pronunciation |
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| n. loose fragments or grains that have been worn away from rock. |
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| ADJ. conspicuously wicked; blatant; outrageous |
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| n. a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams" |
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| ADJ. habitually silent; talking little |
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