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| fixed customs or manners; moral attitudes |
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| lacking foresight; having a narrow view or long-range perspective |
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| novice, beginner; a recent convert |
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| showing favoritism toward relatives |
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| belief that morality is relative and there is no such thing as right or wrong; also implies rejection of established laws and values |
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| offensive or disgusting; harmful to health |
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| existing in name only; negligible |
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| hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
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| to render indistinct or dim; to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy |
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| indirect, evasive; misleading, devious |
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| overly submissive and eager to please |
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| not sharp, pointed, or acute; not quick or alert in perception |
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| to prevent; to make unnecessary |
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| to stop up; to prevent the passage of |
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| troublesome and oppressive; burdensome |
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agitated, overdone
(to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality) |
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| relating to a palace; magnificent |
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| to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; allleviate |
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| lacking color or liveliness |
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| insignificant, ridiculously small |
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| flamboyance or dash in style and action; verve |
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| formal or elaborate praise; eulogy |
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| a wide-ranging and impressive array or display |
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| model of excellence or perfection |
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| to trim off excess; to reduce |
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| discussion, usually between enemies |
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| to ward off or deflect, especially by a quick-witted answer |
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| pertaining to a recent rise in wealth or position |
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| piece of literature or music imitating other works |
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| smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness |
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| someone who shows off learning; marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects |
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| having bad connotations; disparaging |
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| extreme poverty, scarcity |
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| having perception; discerning; discriminating |
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| to wander from place to place; to travel, especially on foot |
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| leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative; imperative, dictatorial |
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