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| cheerful promptness or speed |
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| one who leads a simple life of self-denial; adj.- rigorously abstinent |
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| slanderous statement; a damaging or derogatory criticism |
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| carefully attentive; industrious |
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| n. a substance that contracts bodily tissues adj. causing contraction; tightening; stern; austere |
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| to make thin or slender; to weaken or dilute |
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| an absolute monarcy; government where one person holds powre |
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| harmful, malign, detrimental |
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| trite; without freshness or originality |
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| insincere or hypocritical statement of high ideals; the jargon of a particular group or occupation |
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| a sudden, unpredictable, or whimsical change |
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| crude; surly; behaving like a peasant |
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| a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; not to the point |
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| too sugar; too sentimental or flattering |
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| beauty, attractiveness in appearance of behavior |
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| the quality of being agreeable or eager to please |
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| to act contrary to; to oppose or contradict |
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| a clique; a group who meet frequently, usually socially |
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| to laught at with contempt; to mock |
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| timid; lacking self-confidence |
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| to pretend; to feign; to conceal by pretense |
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| an overflowing of high sprits; efervescence |
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| omission of words that would make the meaning clear |
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| softening or soothing to the skin; having power to soften or relax living tissues |
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| native to a particular area or peole |
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| to weaken; to deprive of nerve or strength |
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| to bring about; beget; to bring forth |
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| very short-lived; lasting only a short time |
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| vanishing quickly; dissipating like a vapor |
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| requiring immediate action; urgent, pressing |
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| to improvise; to make it up as you go along |
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| to speak against; to contradict; to deny |
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| impenetrable; not allowing anything to pass through; unaffected |
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| not yet fully formed; rudimentary |
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| getting to the heart of things; to the point |
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| sparing of worse; terse, pithy, concise |
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| to soften by steeping in a liquid |
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| overly concerned with minute details, especially in teaching |
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| done in a routine, mechanical way, without interest |
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| to speak equivocally or evasively |
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| a smelly mass that is the decomposition of organic matter |
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| ste of being at rest or without motion |
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| hard to understand; concealed; characterized by profound scholarship |
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| full of curves; twisting and turning |
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| plausible, but deceptive; apparently, but not actually true |
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| not genuine; false; bogus |
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| inclined to silence; speaking little; dour, stern |
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| thin, slim, delicate; weak |
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| full of twists and turns; not straightforward, possibly deceitful |
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