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week 8
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04/11/2004
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affray
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public fight or riot
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apothegm
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short, pithy saying, terse remarks
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decrement
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loss, amount lost, decrease
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incongruous
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lacking harmony or agreement
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salacious
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lustful, lecherous, obscene
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sartorial
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of or about tailors or tailoring
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soliloquy
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talking as if alone; utterance by a person talking to himself
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sordid
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dirty, squalid, vile
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stringent
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strict, severe, exacting
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supplant
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remove, replace, overthrow
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taciturn
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uncommunicative, habitually silent
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tepid
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lukewarm, moderately warm
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truculent
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savage, cruel, fierce
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unctuous
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suave, smug, excessively pious
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venal
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mercenary, corruptable, able to be bribed
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verbose
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wordy, loquacious
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vernacular
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common, native language
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virago
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a shrew; ill-tempered woman
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voracious
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greedy, immoderate, insatiable
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tedium
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boredom, ennui
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