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| noun: leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency: He had a naturally artistic bent. |
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| verb: to tolerate, endure, countenance |
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| adj: major, as in cardinal sin |
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| verb: to change as if by dyeing; to distort, gloss or affect |
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| adj: pompous, self-important |
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| verb: to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound |
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| noun: a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop |
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| verb: to test or try; attempt, experiment; The newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps. |
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| verb: to demand, call for, require, take; Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price. |
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| verb: to cause to fall by striking; The lumberjack felled many trees. |
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| adj: inhumanly cruel; Fell beasts surrounded the explorers. |
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| verb: to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline; her flagging spirits |
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| adj: sarcastic, impertinent (flippant); a flip remark |
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| verb: to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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| verb: to complain or grumble |
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| noun/verb: a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy |
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| verb: to imply, suggest, or insinuate; Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted? |
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| verb: to tilt or lean to ones side |
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| verb: to move heavily and clumsily |
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| verb: to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
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| verb: pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully; to take tiny steps |
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| adj: exacting, fastidious, extremely precise; He made a nice distinction between the two cases. |
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| adj: to be established, accepted, or customary; Those standards are no longer obtain. |
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| adj: hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
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| adj: commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
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| adj: multicolored, usually in blotches |
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| verb: to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
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| adj: moldable, pliable, not rigid |
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| noun: courage, spunk, fortitude |
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| verb: to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils |
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| verb: to complain about bitterly |
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| verb/noun: torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such |
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| verb: to lose courage; turn frightened |
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| verb: to limit; Let me qualify that statement. |
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| verb/noun: to enervate or weaken the vitality of; a fool or nitwit |
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| adj: contemptible, despicable |
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| adj: exceptional, unusual, odd |
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| verb: to saturate or completely soak |
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| noun: the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
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| verb: to remove from consideration; Parliament tabled the motion and will consider it again later. |
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| verb: to proffer an offer; He tendered his resignation. |
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| verb: to equivocate; to change one's position |
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| noun: wit, joker; Groucho Marx was a well-known wag. |
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| verb: to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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| verb: to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
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| noun: a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| adj/noun: soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| noun: farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
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| noun: one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| noun: deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection |
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| noun: severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
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| verb: to aver, allege, assert |
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| adj: diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
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| adj: belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| verb: to slander, make a false accusation (calumny=slander) |
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| adj: disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| verb: to find fault without good reason |
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| noun: speed, alacrity (think accelerate) |
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| noun: an illusion; originally and imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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| adj: insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion |
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| noun: rout, fiasco, complete failure |
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| noun: an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
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| verb: to discriminate or discern |
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| adj: reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
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| noun: a song of grief or lamentation |
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| noun: glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| verb: to censure scathingly; to upbraid |
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| verb: denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| noun: critical examination, explication |
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| verb: to atone or make amends for |
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| verb: to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind |
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| adj: silly, inanely foolish |
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| adj: quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| verb: to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| adj: unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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| noun: difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged |
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| adj: one of a kind, peerless |
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| adj: deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| adj: vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, peurile |
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| adj: lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| adj: cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show |
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| adj; noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
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| adj: tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally turned into bone |
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| verb: to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
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| noun: formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
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| noun: the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| adj: pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| adj: long-winded, verbose (prolixity=verbosity) |
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| verb: to appease; to conciliate (propitious = auspicious, favorable) |
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| adj: having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage |
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| adj: lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| adj: remedial, wholesome, causing imprvement |
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| adj: cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| adj: aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| noun: novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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