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| to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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act of cutting off or removing
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| to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide |
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| to refrain from an activity |
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| marked by moderation, particularly where food and drink are concerned |
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| an expression of praise; an award |
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growth, increase by successive addition, building up
stalagmites and stalactites grow through accretion |
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| having a sour or bitter taste or character |
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| quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight |
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| to reprove; to express warning or disapproval |
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| excessive praise, intense adoration |
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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| to forshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily |
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| to argue for or support a cause |
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| dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to the art or the beautiful |
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| to increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater |
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| eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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| magical or wonderful transformation |
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| to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
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| to combine several elements into a whole |
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| the quality of having opposing ideas or feelings |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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soothing
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| deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality |
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| diametrically opposed, as in antithesis |
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| lack of interest or feeling |
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| of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious |
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| farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
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| one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause |
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| deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example |
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| appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos |
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| an expression of approval or praise |
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| to take for one's own use, confiscate |
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| mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only by initiates |
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| outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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| strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort |
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| impudent; in every way, being completely such, bare-faced, utter |
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| to enunciate or pronounce clearly; to express oneself clearly |
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| completely without guile; natural, without artificiality |
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| one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion |
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| severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
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| an act of defamation or maligning |
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| to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe |
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| to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen |
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| daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
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| omen, portent, the reading of omens |
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protection or support, patronage
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| favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous |
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| without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
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| greed, especially for wealth |
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| to state as a fact; to confirm or support |
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| a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying |
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