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| Having existed from the begining. |
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| to accustom oneself to an environment or situation. |
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| Relating too the appreciation of beauty |
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Easy and pleasant to talk to; approachable
Her affable demeanor made it easy for her new students to ask her questions about things they didnt understand. |
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| A natural attraction or feeling of kinship |
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| total; condensed in a dense mass or cluster. |
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| To make unfriendly; to isolate emotionally |
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| to make more bearable; to lighten |
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| selfless benevolence or generosity. |
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| open to more than one interpreation; uncertain. |
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| Feeling the coexistance of opposing emotions or attitudes. |
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| Responsive to advice, authority or suggestion |
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| Similar in such a way as to permit the comparison to something otherwise disimilar. |
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| Absence of government; chaos or lawlessness. |
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| Deviating from the usual or common order, form or rule. |
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| Strong feelings of aversion. |
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| A lack of interest or concern; indifference. |
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| to make similar or cause to resemble. to grow accustom to. |
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| Daring; bold recklessness. |
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| Attended by favorable circumstances. |
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Severe or stern in character; bare or simple; somber or grave.
John's grandfather's austere personality was never very inviting to his grandchildren. |
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A self evident truth
One of the key axioms of government is that people need order. |
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| Drearily commonplace; trite |
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| To disparage; to make someone feel small or unimportant. |
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| One that gives aid (esp. financial) |
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| Loud and noisy (oft. in rough manner) |
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| Rude; possessed of little refinement. |
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| A member of the middle class; typical of the middle class. |
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A law or code of laws
He lived is life to obey the canon laid out in the bible. |
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| A purifying or figurative cleansing of emotions. |
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| Corrosive; a biting remark. |
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| to harden into a semi-solid. |
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| Appealing to the intellect; compelling. |
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| A secret agreement with deceitful intent |
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| Willing to agree or obey. |
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| to overlook, forgive or tolerate an offense without protest. |
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| A person with expert knowledge or training (esp. in the fine arts.) |
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| An agreement between all parties. |
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| Intricate or complicated. |
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| Not openly practiced, engaged in or shown. |
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| Claim to legitimacy or trustworthiness. |
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Gulliable.
The young girl's credulous nature worried her mother especially upon her desecion to move to NYC by herself. |
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| Enclined to believe the worst; skeptical. |
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| To damage someone's or something's reputation. |
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To sketch out or depict.
He quickly delineated his idea of how the new library system would work on campus. |
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| A ruler with absolute power. |
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| Lacking or devoid of; poor. |
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| Somthing that discourages. |
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| To turn away from (esp. main subject) |
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| To free from misconception. |
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| Exhibiting good judgement; perceptive. |
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| Strife; lack of agreement. |
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| Ability to act sensibly; freedom to act on one's own. |
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| Not straightforward; crafty. |
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| To scatter widely; to promulgate. |
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| Decomposition into fragments or parts; debauchery. |
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| to make known (esp. a secret) |
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| Characterized by an authoritative, arrogant, assertion of principles that are unproved or can't be proofed. |
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| Made up from a variety of sources; unusual |
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| to make beautiful by decoration; to add fictitious details to a story. |
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Meant for or understood by only a small group of people; particular to a small group; confidential.
The esoteric language of the policy paper made it nearly unintelligible to people outside of the education policy world. |
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| A mild substitute for an unpleasant or offensive term. |
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| a feeling of great happiness or well-being. |
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| to increase the severity, violence or bitterness of; to aggravate. |
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| To make angry or annoy greatly. |
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| Someone who deliberatly behaves to attract attention. |
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| to praise highly or exalt. |
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playfully jocular; humorous
The professors facetious nature put his students at ease. |
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| to assist or make easier. |
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| to comprehend; a measure of marine depth. |
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| great warmth and intensity of emotion; intense heat or passion. |
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| marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
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| Prolonged speech making to delay legislative action. |
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| an inexperienced person; a young bird. |
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| to show contempt for; to scorn. |
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unearned or unjustified; unnecessary; free
He gave a quite gratuitous discount to the pretty young lady. |
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| to hinder or prevent; a large basket. |
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| speaking contrary to one's true beliefs or actions. |
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| a command or order; extremely necessary. |
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| unshakably calm and collected. |
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| Implied though not plainly expressed |
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| rash; acting on impulse rather than thought. |
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| exempt from penalty, punishment, or harm. |
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| marked by unintentional lack of care. |
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| tending to inflame; an agitator. |
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| begining to exist or to appear. |
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| undeniable or impossible to dispute. |
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| incapable of being corrected or informed; difficult to inform. |
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| unable to move or act; sluggish or lethargic. |
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| naturally a part of; intrinsic |
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| harmful in effect; hostile. |
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deceitfully harmful; treacherous.
His insidious comments hurt her deeply. |
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| tasteless; lacking stimulation or interest. |
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| of or relating to an island; narrow or provincial in outlook or perspective. |
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| incapable of being perceived by the senses. |
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| difficult to manage; stubborn. |
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| to cover; overwhelm or flood with water; to swamp. |
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| the route or proposed route of a journey. |
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having or exhibiting sound judgement; prudent
Uncharacteristically the teenager made a quite judicious decesion to attend college. |
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| lightness of manner; frivolity. |
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| easily understood; intelligible. |
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| courageously noble in mind and heart; generous or unselfish. |
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| a powerful or influential person (esp. business) |
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| one who hates or distrusts mankind. |
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| commonplace or ordinary; everyday. |
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| excessive love of oneself. |
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| in state of confusion, bewilderment or perplexity. |
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| harmful to one's health, mind, or morals. |
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burdensome.
The onerous nature of the request from her Mother stressed her out. |
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| to swing back and forth with a steady rhythm; to waver. |
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an example that serves as a model or pattern.
The paradigm for preparing for the LSAT presented by Sherpa GRE was helpful. |
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| a model of excellence; a peerless example. |
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| a literary work that mockingly mimics a well known story; a mocking imitation. |
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| excessively sparing or frugal. |
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| smallness of number; fewness. |
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| showing off one's book knowledge (in a negative manner) |
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a definite liking; a strong inclination.
She had a penchant for traveling in rural East Africa. |
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| chartiable aid; love of humankind. |
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| religious devotion; reverence. |
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| religiously devout; marked by false devoutness. |
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| spiritual love; love between friends. |
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| concerned with facts or actually occurences; practical. |
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| dangerously lacking in security or stability. |
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| one that indicates something to come; a forerunner or predecessor. |
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| superiority in weight, force, importance or influence. |
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beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward.
Her presumtuous behavior disgusted her new colleagues especially when she asked what their saleries were. |
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| believeing you are better than you are; showy or ostentatious. |
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| an excuse; an effort to conceal something. |
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| to stray from or evade the truth; to lie or equivocate. |
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| posing a problem; difficult to solve. |
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rashly or wastefully extravagant.
Her prodigal amount of clothes turned off her new hippie boyfriend. |
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| Impressively great in size, force, extent; enormous. |
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| coming as if from the depths of one's being; deep |
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| producing a lot of anything; producing alot of offspring. |
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| an innate inclination; a tendency. |
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| properly related in size. |
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| lacking in imagination; dull. |
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| a supposedly learned critic or expert |
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| sharp smelling or tasting; penetrating, biting or caustic. |
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| to withdraw formally a previously held belief. |
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to banish or exile.
Bubz was relegated to the basement by his sister because of his crack addiction. |
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| to fail or carry out a promise or commitment. |
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| to reject or disown (usually by formal announcement) |
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| to reject authority or validity of |
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| necessary; something that is required |
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| to make void; to repeal or annul. |
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| Restrained or reserved; reluctant or unwilling. |
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| the art of using language persuasively (or artistically); language that is insincere. |
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| to approve authoritatively; A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule |
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| a separation into factious. |
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| Not specifically related to religion. |
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| the act or condition of being severed; seperation. |
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having sufficient funds to pay all debts
Some the can disolve for disolve
The solvent to the problem proved to be a phone call the mayors office. |
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| beyond what is needed or required. |
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| the combining of seperate to form a coherent whole; the result of that combining. |
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| silent; unstated or implied. |
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| long and thin; slender or slight |
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| remaining in one place for only a brief time; one that does so |
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| lying beyond what is evident or revealed; often decietfully; occuring later or subsequent. |
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impossible to maintain or inhabit.
The harsh land of rural Siberia proved to be too untenable for the settlers. |
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| not favorable; troublesome or adverse |
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| polite; refined and often elegant in manner. |
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to sway between two sides, positions or opinions; to waver.
She often vacillated between opinions on abortion funding. |
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| commanding respect; worthy of reverence |
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the language of everyday people ( as opposed to that of literary works)
Ebonics is the politically incorrect term for African american vernacular. |
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to annoy, bother or harass
His voice was vexing to her ear. |
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| useable; able to survive; capable of success. |
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| to make vicious and defamatory statements about. |
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| lively or full of spirit. |
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| prone to quick and marked change |
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| having great size or volume |
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| fear of hate of anything foreign espeically people |
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