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| having a difficult, uncooperative, or stubborn disposition |
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| not rigid, loose, negligent |
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| an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance. |
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| extremely liberal in giving; very generous. |
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| not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable. |
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| any system of persons or things ranked one above another. |
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| to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately: |
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| to disappear; vanish; fade: |
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| to expose to the action or effect of air or to cause air to circulate through: |
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| small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set. |
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| to exercise (power, authority, influence, etc.), as in ruling or dominating. |
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| of or pertaining to spring: |
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| an obsequious flatterer; sycophant. |
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| to give way to superior force; yield: |
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| held in good repute; honorable; respectable |
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| the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. |
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| strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt. |
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| an act or instance of exasperating; provocation. |
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| to draw away or divert; distract: |
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| clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity. |
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| quick and well-coordinated in movement |
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| not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish. |
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| the act of requiring or demanding. |
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| characterized by the use of many or too many words; |
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| providing an advantage; furnishing convenience or opportunity; favorable; profitable; useful; beneficial: |
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| a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary. |
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| to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at ) |
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| having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc. |
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| to lower in dignity, honor, or standing; debase: |
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| a superficial appearance or illusion of something: |
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| preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values. |
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| confusion; turmoil; jumble: |
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| to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: |
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