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| take away by force; kidnap |
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| harsh, sharp, offensive; pungent |
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| created on the spot; temporary |
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| stubborn; completely inflexible; unyielding |
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| follower; believer; disciple |
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| to soil; to contaminate; to taint |
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| friendly; open; easygoing |
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| without any sense of right or wrong |
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| something incongruous, out of place in time or with its surroundings |
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| to assign wrong-doing yet to be proven; accuse |
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| an angry dispute; quarrel |
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| ease a situation; bring relief |
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| comparison of one thing to another, similarity |
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| a short, entertaining story about a real incident or person |
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| before the war (esp. the US Civil War) |
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| assigning human traits to objects, gods and animals |
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| the very opposite; completely against |
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| without authority; doubtful authenticity |
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| power to review and reverse (a court power) |
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| mysterious; secretly known by a select group |
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| original model; example followed by all who follow |
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| clever trick; cunning device |
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| diligent, hardworking; done with devotion |
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| increase; add or make bigger |
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| new, innovative; experimental |
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| threatening; sinister; deadly |
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| deadly poison; cause of harm; torment |
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| to surround, besiege; to relentlessly harass |
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| left alone and desolate, especially by the death of a loved one |
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| foul-tempered; bitter; irritable |
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| the removal of a piece of tissue from a living body for examination |
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| sudden source of wealth; discovery of gold |
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| a display of daring; a brilliant performance |
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| rustic, pastoral, charmingly rural |
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| a small group joined in a secret intrigue; a conspiracy |
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| a code of laws; a basis for judgment |
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| economic system of free enterprise; businesses are owned by individuals, not the government |
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| critical, fault-finding; argumentative, quibbling |
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| an agent that starts a reaction without being changed itself (science); something which causes change |
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| acidic; severe, sarcastic; corrosive |
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| to condemn severely, judge, punish |
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| a powerful and irresistible personality; an extraordinary ability to attract followers |
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| trickery, deceitfulness, especially legal or political |
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| a trite expression; overused sayings |
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| convincing; compelling; valid |
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| smug and uncritically satisfied with one's self or achievements |
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| to confuse, puzzle, perplex |
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| coming together, parallel; in harmony |
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| to make, or declare, holy |
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| decide on the meaning of something; interpret |
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| depending on something; conditional |
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| an unanswerable question; a mystery |
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| substantiate; back up, confirm |
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| cancel or override a former command |
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| to desire; to long for something |
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| eager to believe; gullible |
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| ill-tempered, twisted, eccentric |
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| reach the fullest point; climax |
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| a violent disruption; breakdown, collapse |
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| to destroy in large measure |
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| conforming to accepted standards |
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| to yield in honor of, or respect for |
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| damaging, hurtful; harmful |
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| a false belief; misconception |
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| dweller; inhabitant; citizen |
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| the unfolding of a plot or situation |
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| to speak against; criticize |
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| coming from something else; not original; derived |
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| make unresponsive (insensitive) to |
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| out of course; aimless; random |
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| extremely or unusual small |
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| very dissimilar; different in character |
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| break up; scatter; squander |
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| beset with conflict; upset; crazed |
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| sleeping, inactive, latent |
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| ill-tempered, petulant, having indigestion |
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| a level of authority or rank; a step-like military formation |
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| enlighten, instruct by good example |
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| to erase, to obliterate by rubbing out |
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| based on the equality of all people |
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| evasive, baffling, hard to pin down |
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| based on experience and observation, not theory |
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| to strive to equal or excel; to rival |
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| passionately in love; fascinated, absorbed |
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| native to a particular people or region, indigenous |
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| something inexplicable; a mystery |
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| composure, self-possession, calm |
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| totally wipe out; exterminate |
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| take up a cause; embrace, promote |
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| an inoffensive expression substituted for one that might offend or upset |
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| fleeting, tending to vanish; transient |
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| an emergency; urgent requirement |
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| the quick, but not always right, solution |
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| sing the praises of; laud |
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| not the essence; unnecessary, irrelevant |
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| person whose attention is centered outside of himself; an out-going, sociable person |
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| witty, humorous; intended to be funny |
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| a mistaken idea; a failure in reasoning which makes an argument invalid |
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| intensity in feeling or expression; passion |
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| flabby; lacking vigor or force |
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| having a red or flushed complexion; excessively ornate or intricate |
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| to treat with contemptuous disregard |
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| to withdraw from, leave behind, to renounce, to abandon |
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| contrary; willful; habitually inclined to disobedience |
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| a merging; into a unified whole |
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| tremendous in size or volume; gigantic |
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| a measuring instrument; to judge, take the measure of |
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| belonging to a particular style or sort; category of art |
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| having a hairless surface; smooth, bald |
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| like floating feathers; light, delicate, insubstantial |
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| the use of trickery to deceive someone, usually for money |
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| overused, trite, unoriginal |
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| to intimidate; to harass by bluster or personal pressure; to badger |
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| airtight; protected from external influence |
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| of the same kind; uniform |
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| an idea that dominates one's mind for a long time |
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| tremendous, deep distance |
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| about to occur; just about to happen |
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| to kill as a sacrificial victim; destroy, often by fire |
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| make a situation or condition worse; injure |
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| a hindrance or obstruction; a defect in a person's speech such as a lisp or stutter |
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| without patience; extremely impatient; impulsive |
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| lacking caution; careless |
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| non-stop; unceasing, unrelenting |
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| including all; broad in scope |
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| lack of harmony; discordant, not fitting with |
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| an increase; one in a series of additions |
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| not available, not inclined; slightly ill, averse |
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| unwillingness to move; lack of drive, compacency |
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| since birth; inherent, inborn |
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| way out of line; excessive, unreasonable |
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| light hearted lack of concern; nonchalance |
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| closed unto itself; isolated, narrow |
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| to put into the earth; bury |
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| understand through direct awareness |
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| characterized by insult or abuse |
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| cannot be taken back; unalterable, irreversible |
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| extreme nationalism, marked by belligerent foreign policy |
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| a trip made by an official at public expense |
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| lively; energetic; relating to motion and energy |
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| to become weak, depressed, listless |
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| interrelationship; communication; link; also - affair |
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| to try in court; enter into legal proceedings |
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| a man whose chief interest is in seducing women |
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| absurd, ridiculous, laughable |
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| sensational, shocking; gruesome |
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| person of wealth, influence, power, or distinction, most often in business |
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| a feeling of discomfort or uneasiness |
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| to pretend incapacity or illness to avoid responsibility |
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| effusively sentimental; drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
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| to wander slowly, like a winding river |
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| a magical or striking transformation; a sudden change |
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| a heavy vapor carrying contagion or pollution; an atmosphere that corrupts or obscures; a dense fog |
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| a period of 1,000 years; a 1,000-year anniversary |
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| hating and distrusting mankind |
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| alleviate, mollify; to moderate the effect |
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| of no practical significance; so hypothetical as to be meaningless |
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| a study of structure or form; of organisms, of languages, and of words |
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| egocentric quality; excessive love of oneself |
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| magic, sorcery; conjuring spirits of the dead to magically reveal the future |
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| favoritism to a friend or relative in business or in politics |
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| a remark or a conclusion which does not follow the conversation or reasoning which came before it |
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| widely and unfavorably known; famous, generally for something bad |
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| a subtle distinction or quality; delicate shades of meaning or feeling |
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| indirect; not straightforward; devious; at an angle |
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| subservient; fawningly attentive; sucking up to |
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| meddlesome; annoyingly eager to butt in or advise |
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| unlimited in creative powers |
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| knowing everything; compete and universal knowledge and awareness |
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| study or science of the nature of being |
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| like an oracle; uttered or delivered as though divinely inspired and infallible; can be dictatorial |
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| professed; apparent, but not necessarily so |
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| a combination of contradictory or incongruous words, for example, a smiling corpse, a cold fire |
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