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| Humerous; playfully joking |
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| Meant to impress others; flashy |
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| Best possible; most favorable; most desirable |
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| Something that causes damage, harm, or loss |
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| Experienced through the imagination; not experienced directly |
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| Careful about moral standards; coscientious |
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| Sociable; enjoying and seeking he company of others |
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| Good judgement or tact in actions or speaking |
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| Having to do with seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling |
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| Skillful in using the hands or body |
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| To bring about by moving others to action; stir up |
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| Fundamental; necessary to learn first |
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| Able to recover quickly from harm, illness, or misfortune |
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| To work together on a project; cooperate in an effor |
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| A person totally devoted to a purpose or cause |
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| To silence or suppress; crush |
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| To respect deeply; revere |
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| Downhearted; hopeless; overwhelmed with sadness |
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| Reviewing the past; considering past events |
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| To make fun of; mock; refuse to take seriously |
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| To place close together, especially in order to compare or contrast |
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| A great lack of energy; inactivity due to laziness; sluggishness |
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| Able to be interpreted in more than one way; not clear |
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| Without sense or meaning; foolish |
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| A person apposed to established ideas or beliefs, especially in politics or religion |
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| To decorate, beautify by adding details |
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| To support financially; provide a grant of contribution |
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| To spend or waste a little at a time |
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| Happening now and then; occasional |
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| Done or acting in a hurry, with little thought; impulsive |
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| Tearfully sentimental; overly emotional |
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| To criticize or scold harshly |
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| Existing or seeming to exist everywhere at the same time |
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| The highest point or condition; peak |
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| To make unsympathetic or unfriendly; alienate |
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| Not capable of error or failure; unable to make a mistake |
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| Overjoyed; having an intense feeling of well-being |
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| To return to an earlier, generally worse, condition or behavior |
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| Inactive; alive but not actively growing, as if asleep |
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| To spread or scatter widely; distrubute |
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| Not able to be canceled or undone; irreversible |
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| A rapid spread or increase |
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| To confirm; strengthen with further evidence; provide proof of |
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| To cause to happen quickly, suddenly, or sooner than expected |
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| To list, especially with some mechanical means, like a cable |
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| A fake; a person who falsely claims to have some special skill or knowledge |
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| To branch off in different directions from the same starting point; to become different |
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| A natural preference or tendency |
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| Deserving of blame, criticism, or disapproval |
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| Happening by chance, by accident, or at random; lucky |
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| Comfort in sorrow or misfortune; consolation |
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| A person who serves as a connection between individuals or groups; a go-between |
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| To be deliberately vague in order to mislead |
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| Showing or expressing concern, care, or attention |
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| Tending toward or open to something beforehand |
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| A pretense or counterfeit; something meant to deceive |
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| To authorize, allow, or approve |
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| To cover, as by flooding; overwhelm with a large number or amount |
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| To avoid by going around or as if by going around; to escape from, prevent, or stop through cleverness |
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| Quiet or uncommunicative; relunctant to speak out |
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| Healthy and strong; vigorous |
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| Sticking or holding together; unified |
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| Noisy; expressing feelings loudly and intensely |
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| A gradual natural decrease in number; becoming fewer in number |
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| Causing grief or pain; very serious or severe |
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| Unaware; failing to notice |
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| To fall or decrease in value or price; to lower the value of |
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| Not chosen carefully; not based on careful selection |
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| Marked by much sitting; requiring or taking little exercise |
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| A belief or principle held to be true by an individual or group |
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| Brief and clear; effectively concise |
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| To hold up, strengthen, or reinforce; support with a rigid object |
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| Plentifully supplied; well-filled |
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| To assign to a less important or less satisfying position, place, or condition |
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| An ideal or perfect place or state; a place achieving social or political perfection |
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| Noisy and disorderly; boisterous |
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| A source of help, security, or strength; something to turn to; option |
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| Insisting on strict rules and routine, often to the point of hindering effectiveness |
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| To state again or repeatedly |
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| Independence; self-government |
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| A group's expressed wishes; clear signal to act; vote of confidence |
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| To expel or excluse from a group; shun |
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| Equal in effect or value; the same as |
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| Holding firmly; persistent; stubborn |
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| Something that acts as a disadvantage; a drawback |
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| Done in secret; kept hidden |
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| Out of place; having parts that are not in harmony or that are inconsistent |
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| Living, growing, or produced naturally in particular place; native |
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| Beyond what is needed, wanted, or useful; extra |
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| Producing many works, results, or offspring; fertile |
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| To clear of an accusation or charge; prove innocent |
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| Self-centered; seeing everything in terms of oneself |
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| To restore to a previous position or condition; bring back into being or use |
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| To delay or slow; get in the way |
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| Including much of everything; broad or complete in courage |
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| To speak or write in favor of; support |
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| The authority to administer justice; power; range or extent of authority |
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| A strong dislike or distaste; hatred |
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| To set free from slavery, captivity, or oppression |
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| Contrary to nature or reason and thus laughable; absurd |
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| A personal peculiarity; quirk |
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| Dangerous; risky; dangerously uncertain |
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| To hypnotize or fascinate; hold spellbound |
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| A great or complete change; transformation |
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| A crudge, exaggerated, or ridiculous representation; mockery |
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| Done only as a routine, with little care or interest; performed with no interest or enthusiasm |
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| Known widely but unfavorably; having a bad reputation |
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| Tending to arouse interest or curiosity |
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| An exact copy or reproduction |
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| Intended for or understood by only a certain group; beyond the understanding of most people |
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| Without decoration or luxury; severly simple |
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| Distorted or strikingly inconsistent in shape, apperance, or manner |
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| Very troubled; distressed |
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| Using or containing too many words |
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| In an on-the-surface manner; not thoroughly |
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| Having to do with the issue at hand; relevant |
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| Clearly expressed; easily understood |
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| Truly sorry for having done wrong; repentant |
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| Well proportioned; balanced; the same on both sides |
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| An expert in fine art or in matters of taste |
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| A situation marked by difficulty, hardship, or misfortune |
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| A secret plot by two or more people, especially for a harmful or illegal purpose |
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| A person who organizes, manages, and takes the risk of a business undertaking |
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| A specific period of work or service; amount of time spent |
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| Too bold; overly confident |
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| To get rid of altogether; wipe out |
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| Strictly controlled or enforced; strit; severe |
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| To make consistent; cause to conform to a model |
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| Made up of similar or identical parts; unvarying throughout |
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| Idecent; morally low; corrupt |
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| Intense hatred or ill will; long-lasting resentment |
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| Offensive; distasteful; repulsive |
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| A person who gains satisfaction from suffering physical or psychological pain |
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| Very showy; strikingly bold |
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| A minor weakness or character flow; a minor fault in behavior |
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| An accusation made in response to an accuser; countercharge |
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| To urge with argument or strong advice; plead earnestly |
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| Noble in mind and spirit; especially generous in forgiving |
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| Extremely careful and exact; showing great attention to details |
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| Harmfu to life or health; poisonous |
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| A sequence of events that is imagined, assumed, or suggested |
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| Very cruel; wicked; demonic |
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| To scold midly or express disapproval |
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| Necessary to the whole; belonging to the whole |
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| A union of individuals, groups, or nations for some specific purpose |
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| Corresponding in degree, number, or size; in proportion |
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| A secondary meaning suggested by a word, in addition to the word's dictionary definition |
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| Fallen into a state in which repairs are badly needed; broken down |
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| To aggravate; make more severe |
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| To make less severe or less intense; relieve |
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| Being the first instance of something; never having occurred before |
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| Something supposed to cure all diseases, evils, or difficulties; cure-all |
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| To wear down, lose strength, or become weak, as from disuse, disease, or injury; to wither away |
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| Lack or shortage of one or more basic necessities |
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| Not influenced by emotion or personal prejudice; based only on what can be observed |
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| Made or intended for practical use; stressing usefulness over beauty or other considerations |
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| To feel or express disapproval of |
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| Cheerfulness; high spirits |
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| To free from a tangled situation or a difficulty |
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| Having little substance or basis; weak; poorly supported |
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| Correctness in behavior and manners; standards or conventions of socially acceptable behavior |
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| To make feel or seem young again; to make seem fresh or new again |
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| To support, argue for, or adopt |
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| To cause to occur at exactly the same time; to cause to agree in time |
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| To make easier to do or to get |
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| Following established, traditional rules or beliefs, especially in religion; following what is customary or commonly accepted |
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| Excessive, especially in amount, cost, or price; beyond what is reasonable or appropriate |
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| Conduct; outward behavior; manner |
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| Lazy; avoiding or disliking work |
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| Modest; not boastful or arrogant |
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| To thin out or scatter and gradually vanish; drive away |
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| Calm, carefree, and casually unconcerned |
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| To become more similar to a larger whole; especially, to blend into or adjust to a main culture |
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| Involving or done by only one side |
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| Existing as a natural or essential quality of a person or thing; built-in |
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| Quick or eager to argue or fight; hostile; aggressive |
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| A strong expression of disapproval; in act of condemning, especially publicly |
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| To clear from blame or suspicion; justify or prove right |
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| A substance which contains no medicine, but which the receiver believes is a medicine |
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| To flow or come out from a source; come forth |
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| A comparison between two things in order to clarify or dramatize a point |
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| To destroy completely; reduce to nothingness |
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| A standard by which something is or can be judged |
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| Acting or intending to undermine or overthrow something established |
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| Firm; loyal; strong in support |
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| Emphasizing the whole and the interdependence of its parts, rather than the parts separately |
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| Skilled; highly competent |
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