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| Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others |
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| The utterance of criticism or censure |
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| Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah. |
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| Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like |
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| To soothe by quieting anger or indignation |
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| to give notice to, to inform |
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| intensity of passion or affection |
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| A specialized vocabulary peculiar to a particular group |
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| To assign as a quality or attribute |
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| extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia) |
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| peculiar; unique, contrary to the norm (n: anomaly) |
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| extremely bold; fearless, especially said of human behavior (n: audacity) |
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| speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something |
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| pompous speech (adj: bombastic) |
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| a lapse, gap or break, as in a fortress wall. To break or break through. |
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| to grow or flourish; a bud or new growth (adj: burgeoning ) |
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| impulse (adj: capricious) |
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| to chastise or criticize severely |
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| an agent of change (adj: catalytic; v. catalyze) |
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| willingly compliant or accepting of the status quo (n: complaisance) |
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| of the body: "corporal punishment." a non-commissioned officer ranked between a sergeant and a private. |
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| submission or courteous yielding |
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| to show, create a picture of |
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| the act of preying upon or plundering |
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| to dry out thoroughly (adj: desiccated) |
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| a bitter abusive denunciation. |
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| a bitter abusive denunciation. |
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| lacking self-confidence, modest (n: diffidence) |
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| to free a person from falsehood or error |
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| calm; objective; unbiased |
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| to conceal one's real motive, to feign |
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| relying upon doctrine or dogma, as opposed to evidence |
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| selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources |
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| effectiveness; capability to produce a desired effect |
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| the quality of flowing out. something that flows out, such as a stream from a river (n: effluence) |
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| softening; something that softens |
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| to strive to equal or excel (n: emulation) |
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| a formal eulogy or speech of praise |
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| prevalent in or native to a certain region, locality, or people |
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| to give rise to, to propagate, to cause |
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| ambiguous; unclear; subject to more than one interpretation -- often intentionally so |
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| scholarly; displaying deep intensive learning. (n: erudition) |
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| a spoken or written tribute to the deceased (v. eulogize) |
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| to increase the bitterness or violence of; to aggravate |
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| to demonstrate or prove to be blameless |
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| exceeding customary or normal limits, esp. in quantity or price |
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| fully and clearly expressed |
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| in existence, still existing |
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| a measure of length (six feet) used in nautical settings. to penetrate to the depths of something in order to understand it |
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| to seek favor or attention; to act subserviantly |
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| to give false appearance or impression |
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| a baby bird; an inexperienced person; inexperienced. |
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| flushed with a rosy color, as in complexion; very ornate and flowery |
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| verbose; talkative; rambling |
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| fine cobweb on foliage; fine gauzy fabric; very fine |
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| honest; straightforward (n: guilelessness) |
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| headfirst; impulsive; hasty. impulsively; hastily; without forethought |
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| one who attacks traditional ideas or institutions or one who destroys sacred images (adj: iconoclastic) |
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| insinuation or connotation (v. implicate) |
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| undescribable; inexpressible in words; unspeakable |
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| to hold back, prohibit, forbid, or restrain (n: inhibition, adj: inhibited) |
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| harmless; having no adverse affect; not likely to provoke strong emotion |
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| present or potential but not evident or active (n: latency) |
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| praiseworthy; commendable (v. laud) |
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| incorrect name or word for something |
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| a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing |
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| showing a narrow concern for rules or formal book learning; making an excessive display of one's own learning |
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| tendency or action for the benefit of others, as in donating money or property to a charitible organization |
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| cliff with a vertical or nearly vertical face; a dangerous place from which one is likely to fall; metaphorically, a very risky circumstance |
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| beautiful (n: pulchritude) |
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| great respect or reverence |
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| craving or devouring large quantities of food, drink, or other things |
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| (n) a confused mass; a jumble or muddle (v) to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea; to lie bathed in or be drenched in something, esp. blood |
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| lacking in vigor, unable to produce, sterile |
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