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a false, empty, manipulative compliment
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to make critical or explanatory notes
annotation (n.) a brief note or summary |
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to combine into a single, unified entity
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| careful considerations before a decision is made |
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| serving to declare, make known, or explain |
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| being great and indefinite in number; innumerable |
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| the original pattern or model after which others are fashioned |
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| severity of manner, strictness, or sternness; harshness |
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| belonging to the polite or refined class; persons of good breeding or upper class |
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| expressed in few words, concise, terse |
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| to reduce to an infantile state; to treat or disregard as infantile or immature |
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| having prolonged effect, as in a lasting vibration or sound |
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| to make an exact written copy |
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| to summarize or condense; to make smaller as if to contain in a small capsule |
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| considering oneself the center of all things; having little regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than one's own |
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| unyielding, unalterable, can't be changed or persuaded |
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| to cut out completely (such as a tumor or passage form a book); expunge |
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| to form a picture in one's mind |
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| indirect, not explicit, not following a logical path |
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| a person hostile or indifferent to cultural values |
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| distant, reserved, detached |
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| possessing conflicting, simultaneous emotions (being excited but nervous about something at the same time) |
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| pretentious, inflated, pompous; speech that is too florid for the occasion |
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| authoritarian, arrogant, stubborn |
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| intended to teach, especially when intended for moral instruction |
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| excessively ornate; flowery |
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| chatty, habitually talkative; personable and informal |
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| full of emotion; passionate |
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| disrespectful; impious; profane |
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| bittersweet longing for the past |
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| unaffected by emotion or personal beliefs; factual |
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| hardened against influence; unyielding; can't be swayed |
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| pretentious, self-important, grandiose |
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| full of complaint; peevish, annoyed |
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| scornful, mocking; sarcastic |
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| forceful, effective, incisive |
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| extraordinary in size, amount, degree, or force |
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| to physically grasp or take into custody or to understand, grasp in meaning |
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the mere beginning, the basic elements (such as the rudiments for a plan that needs much further development)
rudimentary (adj.) undeveloped; in the fundamental stages |
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| anything that provides nourishment |
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meat browned, stewed, and served in a sauce
fricassee (v.) to prepare a stew |
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| to fret or worry; complain |
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| having high morals, principles, or scruples; punctilious and exact, paying attention to detail |
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to criticize in a harsh manner, to vehemently reproach
censure (n.) official reprimand; strong expression of disapproval |
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something burdensome and useless, a superfluous hindrance
encumber (v.) to burden or hinder |
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supports a desired goal or outcome
expedient (n.) a means to an end; an object that makes reaching a goal easier |
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| extreme frugality; stinginess |
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| an opening gesture, an introduction to negotiations or discussions |
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an ugly, contorted facial expression that expresses disapproval or pain
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| to gather, summon, or assemble (such as troops for battle) |
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| of little or no importance |
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| an unexpected, highly successful strike or action; a clever action or accomplishment (such as a political upheaval) |
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| mental or emotional strength for facing physical danger, adversity, or temptation courageously |
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| to associate on friendly terms (especially with famous or influential people) |
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| to refrain or stay away from |
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| deviation from the normal |
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| contemptible, miserable, wretched |
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| a washing away, a cleansing |
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| to leave secretly and hide |
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| a short saying or proverb |
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| highly skilled, inclined toward |
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| steadily attached to a rule |
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| to infinity, without limits |
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| to settle with judicial procedure (to go to court) |
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| something that eats dead flesh |
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| black magic, raising the dead by hand |
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| a list of the dead; an obituary |
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| able to use both hands with equal proficiency |
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| equally clumsy in both hands |
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| feeling of uncertainty; presence of opposing ideas or attitudes |
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| enormous, immense in strength and power, from biblical sea monster (connotation: sea creature) |
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| huge, giant (from Jonathon Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver visits Brobdingnag, the land of giants) |
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| small (from Jonathon Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver visits Lilliput, the land of little people) |
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| characterized by expediency (easiest, most efficient), cunning, and deceit; "The end justifies the means" |
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| a way of speaking around a topic; indirect speech |
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| to confine within boundaries |
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| discrete, suspicious, "looking around" |
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| find a way around a law or plan |
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| something that is highly caustic, such as anger or criticism |
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| shrewish woman; predatory person |
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| quick and changeable in character |
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| forcing arbitrary conformity |
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| difficult, endless, futile (task) |
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| a state of noisy confusion; insanity |
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| bright, showy; lacking in good taste |
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| a ludicrous misuse of words, especially due to confusion (used humorously) |
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| "before the war;" describes the historical period in the US before the Civil War |
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| that which comes before (in grammar, the noun that precedes the pronoun which replaces it later in the sentence. In the previous sentence, the antecedent is the word "noun.") |
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| "before the flood;" ancient |
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| an introduction to a document or speech |
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| something that serves as an example when consider subsequent legal cases |
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| acting in haste, rash, too quick |
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| one who is advanced for his/her age |
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| "after that;" logical fallacy of faulty cause and effect; assumes that something that happened previously caused something that happened afterwards |
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| occurring or continuing after one's death; published after the author's death (often an adverb in relation to artists or authors) |
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| occurring or done after death; informally, short for post mortem examination to determin the cause of death (synonym for autopsy) |
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