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| Transparent, can be seen through. |
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| somebody who servilely or obsequiously flatters a powerful person for personal gain. |
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| Too willing to agree with somebody or to do whatever demeaning thing somebody wants; dirty degrading work. |
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| Occurring occasionally, Irregularly. |
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| An unpleasant combination of loud, often jarring, sounds. |
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Division within a religious denomination or a breaking away from it, usually on the grounds of differing beliefs or practices.
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Belonging to all the world.
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| Hidden, secret, mysterious |
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| Prolonged discussion or abusive speech. |
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Injurious to health.
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Burning by chemical action.
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Asserting opinions in a dictatorial manner.
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| The characteristics of a human population or part of it, especially its size, growth, density, distribution, and statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death. |
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A breif summary.
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| To become irrational. The study of the motion of projectiles. |
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| A popular leader. A political leader who gains power by appealing to people’s emotions and prejudices rather than their rationality. |
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| A redundant repetition of a meaning in a sentence or idea using different words. |
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Bitterly scornful, sneering.
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Existing in the form of a widespread epidemic that affects people in many different countries.
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The ability to identify with and understand another person’s feelings or difficulties.
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| Something that can cause disease, such as a bacterium or a virus. |
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| The quality of being deathless; immortality. |
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| An educator or schoolteacher. |
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| Something that is out of the ordinary and excites people’s interest and curiosity. |
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| Desire to benefit humanity. Good hearted person. |
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| The scientific study of the relationship of languages to one another, and their history, especially based on the analysis of texts. |
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| A very large amount or number of something, especially an excessive amount. |
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| A society that is ruled by its wealthiest members. |
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| Ideal model, finest example of. |
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Speaking several languages.
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A supposed cure for all diseases or problems.
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The quality in something that makes people feel pity or sadness.
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An offspring of a person, animal, or plant.
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To predict or foretell future events.
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An original figure inwhich later forms are modeled.
syn: model |
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| A direct ancestor of somebody or something. |
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a false name, especially one used by an author in publications.
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| The uncontrollable urge to set fire to things. |
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| A physical illness that is caused by mental factors such as stress, or the effects related to such illnesses. |
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| Excessive talkativeness, especially when the words are uncontrolled or incoherent. |
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Using very few words.
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| Somebody who challenges or overturns traditional beliefs, customs, and values. |
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| A peculiarity, an eccentricity. |
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| A psychiatric disorder in which the patient experiences delusions of great power and importance. |
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| a harmful or poisonous atomsphere, especially one caused by burning or decaying organic matter. |
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| The practice of being married to only one person at a time. |
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| Nearsighted vision, narrow-mindedness |
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| Countless. A very large number. |
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A novice or beginner.
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| Somebody who follows traditional or established beliefs or rules of behavior, or is a member of an orthodox religion. |
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Consisting of parts or individual elements that are unrelated or unlike each other.
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| A picture or symbol that is universally recognized to be representative of something. |
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| The extremely dislike or hatred towards homosexuals. |
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| Any system of persons or things ranked one above another. |
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The time or circumstances of something’s coming into being.
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| Mass destruction of any kind. |
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| Large enough to be seen and examined without the aid of magnifying equipment. |
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The elevationof a person to the rank of God. The ideal example.
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| A curse. Somebody or something that is greatly disliked or detested and is therefore shunned. |
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| Self-governing, independent. |
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| Absolute ruler who has unlimited power. |
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| Wasting away of the body. |
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| Somebody who believes that it is impossible to know whether or not God exists. |
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| A mixture of combination. |
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| Shapless with no definate form. |
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| Something out of place by time. |
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| A situation in which there is a total lack of control or government. |
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Having both masculine and feminine characteristics.
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Something that deviates from the norm or from expectations.
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Anger, hostility, fixed opposition, or disgust directed toward a particular person or thing.
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| Somebody who is unconventional, especially in a quirky way. |
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| A word based on or derived from a person's name. |
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| A speech of praise for someone who has died. |
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| Improvement of the human species by encouraging reproduction of only those individuals with genetic characteristics judged desirable. |
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| The belief in the inherent superiority of ones own ethnic group or culture. |
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| Characteristic of a particular place, people, etc... |
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A mass departure.
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| Made up of elements from various sources. Not following any one system. |
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Intended for or understood by only an select few.
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A highly representative example of a type, class, or characteristic.
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| The study of the origins of words or parts of words. |
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| Very delicate or highly refined. |
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Extremely happy or excited.
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| Substitution of a mild or more pleasent word for a seemingly offensive one. |
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Lasting for only a short period of time.
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