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| To persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance |
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| A false or baseless, usually derogatory, story, report, or rumor |
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| A line of police, sentinels, military posts, warships, etc., enclosing or guarding an area |
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| Having the power to produce a desired effect |
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| A member of a class of similar troops, usually with striking or flamboyant uniforms, in European armies |
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| Causing horror or revulsion |
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| A chiefly coarse herb armed with stinging hairs |
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| Deviating from a square, circular, or spherical form by elongation in one dimension |
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| Bus (public transportation) |
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| A ccase or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves |
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| A person who fights with the fist |
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| A feeling of extreme repugnance (distateful, offensive) or aversion |
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| Forgiveness in judging or punishing; leniency; mercy |
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| A funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead |
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| Surrounding parts or districts, such as a city; outskirts |
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| The state of being gay or cheerful |
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| Desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse |
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| Deserving or causing hatred |
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| Pale; faint or deficient in color |
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| Dreamily or wistfully thoughtful |
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| A narrow steep-sided valley commonly eroded by running water |
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| Satisfied, as one's appetite or desire, to the point of boredom |
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| A violent downpour of rain |
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| Wandering from place to place without any settled home |
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| Lawfully and reasonably sufficient |
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| A stupid, incompetent, or detestable person |
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| A unit of computer information equivalent to the result of a choice between two alternatives (as yes or no, on or off) |
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| Showing or characterized by a patronizing or superior attitude toward others |
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| To produce (as something useful) for the first time through the use of imagination or of ingenious thinking and experiment |
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| Something one is bound to do |
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| The act of the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath |
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| A sequency of coded instructions that can be inserted into a mechanism (as a computer) |
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| To urge on; to accelerate |
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| The production of offspring; action or practice of causing people to continue in being by procreation |
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| A person not subscribint to any major or recognized religion |
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| Profane speaking of God or sacred things |
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| Stone reputed among Greeks used as coffins |
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| The inducement or gradual approach of sleep |
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| A stately or imposing edifice erected as a commemorative burial place for or by a person of distinction |
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| Full of care or concern; anxious, apprehensive, disquiet |
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| A rounded vault or dome forming the roof of any building or part of a building, or supported upon columns over a tomb |
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| To come forward, approach, or arrive (at a place or state) |
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| The communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognized channels of sense |
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| Any disease or disorder characterized by abnormal nervous or mental function |
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| An open-air structure used for entertainment and performances |
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| And unduly involved piece of speech regarded as unintelligible or incoherent |
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| Loud noise or clamorous confusion |
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| Of or belonging to the planet of Jupiter |
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| A point of high land that juts out into a large body of water; a headland |
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| A tiny tracce or spark of a specified quality or feeling |
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| Light emitted by a substance without combustion or perceptible heat |
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| Having a jellylike consistency |
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| A vagrant who makes a living by searching beaches for articles of value and selling them |
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| Irregularly torn pieces of cloth, paper, or other material |
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| To grind (one's teeth) together, typically as a sign of anger |
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| Swollen and distended or congested |
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| A stone pillar, typically having a square or rectangular cross section and a pyramidal top, set up as a monument or landmark |
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| An upright structure that is used for support or for navigational guidance, in particular |
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| A solution of merbromin, used as a topical antibacterial agent (an iridescent green, water-soluble powder) |
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| (Of a sound) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy |
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| The owner of a buiness, or a holder of property |
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| Plates, dishes, cups, and other similar items, esp. ones made of earthenware or china |
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| Excessive bureaucracy or adherence to rules and formalities, esp. in public business |
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| The protective care of God or of nature as a spritual power |
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| A loud, confused noise, especially one caused by a large mass of people, confusion, or disorder |
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| Move with a smooth wavelike motion |
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| Mark with spots or rounded patches |
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| (Of a person or their manner) Unwilling or unable to believe something |
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| To wail in grief for a dead person |
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| Any of numerous weedy plants, having prickly leaves and variously colored flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts |
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| Flashing; sparkling, brilliant or striking in content or style |
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| A horizontal bar fitted to the head of a boat's rudder post and used for steering |
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| With speed; quickly; swiftly |
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| (Of animals, birds) to trim or dress (feathers, fur, etc.) with the beak or tongue |
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| To spread or shake out from a furled state, as a sail or a flag; unfold |
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| A large, long, or conspicuous feather |
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| Moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc. |
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| A store selling foods already prepared or requiring little preparation for serving (cooked meats, cheese, salads, and the like) |
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| A drawer, box, or the like, as in a shop or bank, in which money is kept |
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| A man's felt hat with a soft crown dented lengthwise and a slightly rolled brim |
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| Without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable; characterized by or causing dejection; cheerless; gloomy |
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| A tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or roof-like construction upon a tower, roof, etc.; a similar construction forming the upper part of a steeple |
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| Any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic people, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshipped with much sensuality |
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| A toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain, a chain wheel |
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| A track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game |
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| An African mammal closely related to and resembling the giraffe, but smaller and with a much shorter neck |
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| A hollow projectile containing bullets or the like and a bursting charge, designed to explode before reaching the target, and to set free a shower of missiles |
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| To shake or jolt or cause to shake or jolt; bounce |
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| Urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so |
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| A subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response |
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| Something that cannot be precisely determined or evaluated |
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| Dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition |
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| Gloomy, pessimistic, irritable |
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| Agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance |
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| To pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter |
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| Anything of immense size and power |
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| To deprive of calmness, equanimity, or peace; disturb; make uneasy |
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| The property of being luminous at temperatures below incandescence, as from slow oxidation in the case of phosphorus or after exposure to light or other radiation |
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| Lying face down on the ground, as in token of humility, submission, or adoration |
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| A passage, hall or antechamber between the outer door and interior parts of a building |
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| Conductive to good health; healthful; sanitary |
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| Moral improvement or guidance |
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| To act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition |
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| To put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet |
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| A figure of speech; A comparison between two things without using "like" or "as." You are establishing a relationship of resemblance and describing one thing by pointing to its similarities with another thing. |
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| A figure of speech; Describe a thing by referencing to something associated with or contiguous with it |
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| A figure of speech; Describe a whole thing by referencing to a part of it or what it is made of |
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| The belief of the sci-fi scenario that robots or aliens will take over human civilization in a sudden, systematic, violent attack |
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| The belief or the sci-fi scenario that robots or aliens or simply a mechanized bureaucracy will take over human civilization with a gradual, barely perceptible, perhaps enjoyable fashion. |
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| Refers to an idealized depiction of nature; values the simplicities of rural life over the complexities, dangers, and violence of urban life; celebrates traditional modes of work, travel and social arrangements, praising a life lived according to natural rhythms; often opposes itself to modernity |
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| The view that the modern scientific method, based on empirical observation, holds the best hope for getting at the true nature of things; Optimism about the scope of science and the benefits for a truly scientific sociology |
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| A design feature in which a new design has a feature that resembles something old (internet-pages, computer/phones-notepad, station wagons-wood) |
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