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| to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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| one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion |
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| a universally recognized principle |
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| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| to undeceive; to set right |
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| composed of elements drawn from various sources |
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| extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| a speech honoring the dead |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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| the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm |
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| a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| intentional breach of faith; treachery |
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| extremely armful; potentially causing death |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse; also: to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| a disposition in favor of soemthing; preference |
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| misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
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| stillness; motionlessness; the quality of being at rest |
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| to retract, especially a previously held belief |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
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| to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| to take the place of; supersede |
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| to defame; to characterize harshly |
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| extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| to lessen in intensity or degree |
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| excessive praise; intense adoration |
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| dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful |
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| greed, especially for wealth |
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| to grow rapidly or flourish |
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| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without changing itself: OR: a person or thing that causes change |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| cautious reserve in speech; the ability to make responsible decisions |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings |
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| a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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| marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade |
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| violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| lacking funds; without money |
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| beginning to come into being, or to become apparent |
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| unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
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| harmless; causing no damage |
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| to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| impenetrable by light; not reflecting light |
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| to examine with great care |
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| to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| to combine several elements into a whole |
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| agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| self-important or pompous writing or speech |
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| tending to believe to readily; gullible |
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| to flatter or praise excessively |
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| greatly emotional or zealous |
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| to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| happening by fortunate accident or chance |
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| pointlessly talkative; talking too much |
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| relevant to the subject matter at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| arrogant presumption or pride |
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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| about to happen; impending |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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| having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice |
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| an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
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| characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
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| to calm or sooth; to reduce in emotional intensity |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising |
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| disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| characterized by or given to pretentiousness |
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| the parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules. |
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| having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| to illegally use or reproduce |
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| an overabundance; a surplus |
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| controversial; argumentative |
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| practical rather than idealistic |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
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| to increase in intensity, power, or prestige |
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| a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, especially into gold |
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| something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe |
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| sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| polite or appropriate conduct or behavior |
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| scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment |
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| to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| buffalo wings and beer [[the food of the gods]] |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| a recent convert; a beginner; a novice |
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| overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties |
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| adherence to the highest principles; uprightness |
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| a natural predisposition or inclination |
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| a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
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| characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste |
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| foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| to make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
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| hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
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| a piece of broken pottery or glass |
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| thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals |
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| one who spends money wastefully |
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| not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern |
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| implied; not explicitly stated |
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| brief and concise in wording |
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| to publicly praise or promote |
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| sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| genuine; not false or hypocritical |
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| indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; to waver |
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| to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate |
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| readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive |
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| quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight |
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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time |
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| to state as fact; to confirm or support |
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| to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| departing from norms or convention |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| to make worse or more severe |
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| pompous speech or expression |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or hatred see: girlfriend |
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| one who hates all other humans |
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| to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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| the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing |
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| to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| the essential or central part |
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| to appease; to calm by making concessions |
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| a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful |
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| a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful |
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| to plunge or drop straight down |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
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| obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown |
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| to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued |
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| having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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| fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| fervent; ardent; impassioned |
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| to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
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| to take for one's own use; confiscate |
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| to pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefuly; also, to take tiny s teps or tiptoe |
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| to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
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| to reprove; to express warning or disapproval |
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| of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious |
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| farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (anonym: perigee) |
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| one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| deification; glorification to godliness |
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| appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos |
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| to give notice to; to inform |
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| a complex, ornate design; also to a dance position |
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| mysterious; abstruse; esoteric; knowable only to intimates |
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| completely without guile; natural; without artificiality |
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| someone practicing self-denial; austere stark |
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| severity; rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability |
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| an act of defamation or maligning; animadversion |
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| an analysis; examination; test; to put to a test |
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| to aver; to allege; to assert |
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| diligent; hard-working; sedulous |
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| to rarefy; to weaken or make thinner |
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| protection or support; patronage |
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| favorable; propitious; successful; prosperous |
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| to affirm; to assert; to prove; to justify; to asseverate |
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| sinister; pernicious; ominous |
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| cause of injury; poison; source of harm |
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| to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly |
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| belligerent; pugnacious; warlike |
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| a rude or insensitive person; lout |
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| to polish; to rub to a shine |
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| to inveigle, coax, or wheedle |
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| to slander; to make a false accusation |
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| calculated to confuse or entrap in argument; hypercritical; caviling |
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| an insertion mark (^) used by editors and proof-readers |
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| an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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| to come together; to fuse; to unite |
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| matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree, size, or amount |
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| to approve of or tolerate; face; composure |
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| contemptible fainthearted; lacking any courage |
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| a crusty, ill-tempered coot; a misanthrope |
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| rout; fiasco; complete failure |
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| correct; formal; marked by decorum |
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| to embezzle or misappropriate |
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| to blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to disparage |
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| an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
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| accretion; depositing; building up layer by layer; official testimony |
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| to plunder, pillage, ravage, or destroy; or exploit in a predatory manner |
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| to discriminate or discern |
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| random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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| slandering; verbal attack; aspersion |
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| reserved, shy, or unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
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| to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent |
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| causing delay; procrastinating |
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| a song of grief or lamentation |
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| to estrange or alienate the affection of |
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| digressive; passing from one topic to another |
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| disintegration; looseness in morals |
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| the state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape |
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| distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety |
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| trivial, poorly constructed verse |
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| slag, waste, or foreign matter; impurity; surface scum |
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| melodious;harmonious; mellifluous |
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| outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor |
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| boldness; impudence; arrogance |
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| gushing; excessively demonstrative |
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| glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric; tribute; eulogy |
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| restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous |
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| to cause; to produce; to give rise to |
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| excessive wickedness; evilness (do not confuse with enormousness) |
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| one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand; sybarite |
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| disparaging word or phrase |
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| composure; self-possession |
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| equal distribution of weight; equilibrium |
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| to show clearly; to indicate |
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| to censure scathingly; to upbraid |
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| critical examination; explication |
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| typical or standard specimen; paradigm; model |
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| to descant; to discourse; to discuss or write about at length |
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| to argue earnestly in order to dissuade, correct, or protest |
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| to remove obscenity; to purify; to censor |
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| to shackle; to put in chains |
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| an ornamental work, especially of delicate lacelike patterns |
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| patience; willingness to wait |
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| to act in a way to hinder; to exclude or prevent an action; to avert |
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| to renounce; to disallow; to repudiate |
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| noisy quarrel; imbroglio; brawl |
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| quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly; refractory; irritable |
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| a semi-sculptural, raised-surface ornamental facade to a building |
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| intractable; not willing to yield or comply; recalcitrant |
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| crude; awkward; tasteless |
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| delicate; insubstantial or tenuous; insincere |
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| artfulness; trickery; chicanery; duplicity |
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| to make holy; to consecrate |
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| unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma |
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| a sermon or morally instructive lecture |
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| attacking cherished beliefs; heretical; heretodox |
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| a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode; a literary or musical piece describing such |
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| shameful; dishonorable; ignoble; undignified |
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| difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| expressionless; stoic; stolid; insusceptible to emotion; apathetic; plegmatic |
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| commanding; masterful; arrogant; domineering; haughty |
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| to ask incessantly; to beg; to nag |
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| to attack or assail verbally; to censure; to execrate |
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| guileless; trusting; naive; credulous |
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| ingrained within one's nature; intrinsic; innate; firmly established |
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| gross injustice; wickedness |
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| to supply with nerves; to embolden; to energize |
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| unconcerned; carefree; heedless |
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| to travel from place to place; to peregrinate |
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| listlessnses; languor; weariness |
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| someone unrestrained by morality or convention |
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| to waste away; to soften or wear away by excessive fasting or by excessive steeping |
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| marked with spots or blotches; besmirched; impure |
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| to feign illness so as to avoid work; to avoid work |
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| panacea; cure-all; placebo; questionable remedy; palliative |
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| abusively detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation; calumny |
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| to make something appear less serious; to gloss over |
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| formal praise; eulogy; encomium |
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| a model, example, or pattern; exemplar |
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| a strong inclination; a liking |
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| closest or lowest point in an orbit; nadir |
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| the concluding part of a speech; grandiloquent speech |
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| to punish; to hold up to public scorn |
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| agreeably pungent; stimulating |
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| resentment; to annoy; to irritate or offend; to excite, provoke, or arouse |
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| inactive pill prescribed for mental relief rather than for physical effect; something tending to soothe |
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| pounding; thundering; resounding |
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| to measure the depth; to examine critically |
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| distressing; pertinent; touching; stimulating; emotional |
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| affected or insincere person; literally, a poser |
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| to chatter; to babble, as in to to prattle |
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| uncertain; risky; dangerous |
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| rule establishing standards of conduct |
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| concise summary of essential opints |
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| to replace; to supersede; to appropriate |
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| perverse; unruly; unseemly |
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| to scold; to censure; to rebuke; to chastise |
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| the practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest |
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