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| nearsightedness; lack of long-range perspective in thinking or planning |
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| having superior weight, force, importance, or influence |
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| an original draft of a document or the code of ceremonial forms accepted as correct in official dealings, as between heads of state or diplomatic officials |
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| smelling or tasting of stale fats or oils |
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| to express disappointment in or displeasure with (a person) for conduct that is blameworthy or in need of amendment |
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| a preparation of lac dissolved usually in alcohol and used chiefly as a wood filler and finish |
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| resembling the sound of the s or the sh in sash |
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| to smile in a silly matter; to say with a simper |
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1. tendon, nerve;
2. solid resilient strength; the chief supporting force |
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| to perform or attend to carelessly and inadequately |
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| to cast with a sudden and usually sweeping or swirling motion |
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| a trap; something by which one is entangled, involved in difficulties, or impeded; something deceptively attractive |
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| outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having its genuine qualities; false; forged |
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| to be sparing or frugal; to limit within certain boundaries |
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| moving in a slow plodding way especially as a result of physical bulkiness; boring dull |
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| having or expressing little or no sensibility; unemotional |
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| to form a notion of from scanty evidence; imagine, infer |
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| to delay or be tardy in acting or doing; to abide or stay in or at a place |
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| a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility; apathy, dullness |
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| to talk in a jesting or mocking manner or with intent to delude or mislead; to handle something idly |
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| commonplace, ordinary; of little worth or importance |
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| feeling or displaying ferocity; cruel, savage; aggressively self-assertive |
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| the troops moving at the head of an army; the forefront of an action or movement |
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| containing more words than necessary; wordiness |
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| hard to control; playfully mean or cruel; causing sexual excitement; being without check or limitation |
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| to sing in a trilling manner or with many turns and variations |
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| marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
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| vagabond; one who expends resources foolishly and self-indulgently |
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| to leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution |
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| to touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent |
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| prosperous or rich; plentiful, abundant |
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| limit, boundary, or circumference |
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| the point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited; the farthest or highest point |
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| a medieval missile launcher designed on the principle of the crossbow |
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| known or understood by only a few; mysterious |
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| a moderate reddish brown to brown |
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| drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite |
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| inflammation of mucous membranes, especially of the nose and throat |
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| to reprimand; to express disproval |
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| to catch fire; to cause to become angry or violent |
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| involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or a crime |
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| to twist, wrench, or bend severely out of shape |
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| to mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive |
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| strong desire, especially for possessions or money; greed |
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| having a harmful effect; injurious |
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| characteristic of delirium; marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; ecstatic |
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| to search deeply and laboriously |
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| a bitter, abusive denunciation |
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| causing gloom or depression; dreary |
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| faded and dull in appearance or character; dreary |
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| to become gradually less until little remains |
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| to attempt to equal or surpass, especially by imitation |
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| intended for or understood by only a particular group; confidential |
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| unsightly or unwanted fat on the body |
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| overcome with astonishment; amazed; astounded |
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| unworthy of serious attention, trivial; inappropriately silly |
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| having no useful result; pointless; foolish |
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| a remark intended to open a conversation |
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| to feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction |
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| N: any of various large spiral-shelled marine gastropod mollusks |
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| N: a loud continued noise |
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| A: incapable of being subdued |
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| A: marked by a menacing wildness, extravagance, or absence of restraint |
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| N: a division of society based on differences of wealth, inherited rank or privilege, profession, occupation, or race |
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| N: the quality or state of being lacking in power, strength, or vigor |
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| V: to become diffused throughout every part of |
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| N: the pure and formless ground of being from which creation and manifestation arise, the unmanifested is free from change |
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| V: to utter false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another's reputation |
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| A: uncertain how to act or proceed |
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| N: a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
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| V: devise, plan; to bring about by stratagem or with difficulty |
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| N: evenness of mind especially under stress; balance |
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| N: a mature man of sound judgment; one distinguished for wisdom |
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| N: something that is destructive or pernicious |
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| N: an evergreen shrub or tree; used by the ancient Greeks to crown victors in the Pythian games |
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| N: the act of making atonement (reconciliation) |
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| A: marked by contemptuous boldness; made of brass |
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| V: to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
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| V: to stop short and refuse to proceed |
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| V: to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
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| N: someone involved with plot or conspiracy |
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| N: the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation |
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| N: the act of contriving (devising, planning) |
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| A: crafty (skillful, clever) |
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| V: to gather information or material bit by bit |
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| N: unyielding or stubborn adherence to one's purpose, opinion, etc |
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| A: autocratic (absolute), tyrannical |
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| V: to infatuate, obsess; to make stupid or foolish |
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| N: a man of humble position; an unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest person |
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| N: a playfully mischievous person; scoundrel; vagabond |
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| N: a very small part or quantity; a particle, jot, or whit |
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| N: an opinion or theory so formed or expressed; guess; speculation |
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| V: to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful |
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| N: anything that pricks or wounds like such a stick |
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| A: disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately |
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| N: contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech |
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| N: excess; an excessive amount |
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| N: the central point or middle of any thing or place |
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| N: a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work |
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| N: a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover |
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| V: to confine or restrain with a chain or shackle placed on the feet |
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| A: doing good or causing good to be done, conferring benefits, kindly in action or purpose |
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| N: a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead |
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| N: curse; act of cursing or calling down a curse |
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| N: a being believed to come from the spirit world |
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| N: a person who kills one's father, mother, or other close relative |
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| A: promising success, opportune, favorable |
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| A: that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased; unforgettable |
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| N: characteristic peculiarity (as of temperament); eccentricity |
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| N: any man ordained to the ministry or the service of the Church; because few except the clergy could read and write, the term also applied to anyone who could do so, especially one who worked as a scribe, secretary, or keeper of accounts; education at Oxford or Cambridge was generally intended for those entering the clergy |
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| A: lacking desirable qualities (as richness or strength) |
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| N: session held in county courts that heard all manner of civil cases; only sergeants of law could preside over them, appointed by the king |
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| N: the act of piloting; the compensation given to a pilot |
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| N: a written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought |
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| N: a strong inclination or interest |
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| N: a servant or officer charged with provisioning a college, an inn of court, or a monastery |
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| N: the overseer or steward of an estate |
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| N: a petty court officer who summoned for court appearances and kept track of them |
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| A: given to or suggestive of lechery (inordinate indulgence in sexual activity) |
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| N: company, group of people |
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| N: a crude or offensive quality or humor |
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| N: a man whose wife is unfaithful |
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| V: to sprinkle (esp. with holy water); to attack with evil reports or false or injurious charges |
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| A: vulgar; marked by a lack of civility or graciousness |
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| V: to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service |
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| A: excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please |
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| A: detestable; utterly opposed; aversion |
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| N: insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth |
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| A: inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy |
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| V: to scatter or disperse; to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly |
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| A: causing a shudder or feeling of horror; horrible; gruesome |
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| N: a woman who maintains a brothel; prostitute |
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| A: sexually unrestrained; disregarding rules |
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| A: exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason, especially in amount or extent; highly excessive |
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| N: a tomb, grave, or burial place |
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| V: to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner |
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| N: a set of steps or rungs in a wall or fence to allow people, but not animals, to pass over |
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| N: a rooster castrated to improve the flesh for use as food |
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| N: a large bottle for liquors |
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| V: to put before a person for acceptance; offer |
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| N: a trace; a smack or smattering; tinge |
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| V: to overcome the distrust or hostility of; to win over |
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| N: a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another |
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| N: a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character |
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| A: equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification |
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| A: inclined to lustfulness; arousing sexual desire |
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| N: royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty |
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| V: to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority |
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| V: to foreshadow; to divine or predict, as from omens |
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| N: an idea or thought of something as being possible or likely |
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| N: something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice |
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| N: an offense to one's dignity or self-respect; insult |
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| N: a false show of something |
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| N: a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign |
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| N: a person given to droll, roguish, or mischievous humor |
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| A: characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable |
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| A: passionate; intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic |
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| A: unwarrantedly or impertinently bold; forward |
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| N: an opening or initiating move toward negotiations, a new relationship, an agreement; a formal or informal proposal or offer |
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| N: inflammation of a mucous membrane, especially of the respiratory tract, accompanied by excessive secretions |
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| A: uncompromising, strict; grave, sober; without excess |
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| V: to give way to superior force; yield |
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| N: a blunt or abrupt rejection, as of a person making advances |
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| V: to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding; prevent, check |
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| A: of or pertaining to conflict or struggle within a group; mutually destructive |
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| A: intended for instruction; instructive |
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| A: hard to understand; secret, hidden |
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| N: turning the heart to stone, being hard-hearted, or impenitent |
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| one of the earliest forms of written expression; emerged in Mesopotamia, it began as a series of pictographs; written on clay tablets with a reed leaving "wedge-shaped" impressions |
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| hieroglyphs in more of an alphabet style |
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| pour out a liquid as an offering to the gods |
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| a story told to explain something |
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| ranch-type home in Greece |
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| faun, goat from the waist down (like from Hercules) |
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| eagles with women's heads and necks, obscene, furies, vengeances |
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