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| having enthusiasm or intense feelings |
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| strong feelings of greed or materialism |
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| underestimate, decrease, downplay |
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| not easily excited; cool; sluggish |
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| deliberately treacherous; dishonest |
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| deviating from normal or correct |
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| to leave secretly and hide, often to avoid the law |
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| to grow or flourish; a bud or new growth |
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| a baby bird; an inexperienced person; inexperienced |
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| in an initial or early stage; incomplete; disorganized: "The act of writing forces one to clarify incohate thoughts." |
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| permanent; unerasable; strong: "The Queen made an indelible impression on her subjects." |
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| undescribable; inexpressible in words; unspeakable |
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| appearing honest and direct |
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| harmless; having no adverse affect; not likely to provoke strong emotion |
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| malicious; evil; having or showing ill will |
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| of motives or facts that are apparent but not necessarily real or true |
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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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| to stray away from or evade the truth |
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| inactivity; stillness; dormancy |
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| a very knowledgable person; a genious |
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| seemingly true but really false; deceptively convincing or attractive |
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| unspoken: "Katie and carmella had a tacit agreement that they would not mention the dented fender to their parents." |
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| empty; without contents; without ideas or intelligence; like a vacuum |
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great respect or reverence
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| ability to be easily managed or controlled |
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| enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal |
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| the act of censuring, scolding, or rebuking |
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| make less dense: to rarefy a gas |
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| speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something |
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| to deteriorate; decline, decay |
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| said in a clear short way |
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| deceptive outward appearance |
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| break up the flow of something |
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| disagreement within an organization |
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| without having made a will |
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| (seeming to be) present everywhere |
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| comedy that makes a mockery of something |
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| cheating or deception, fraud |
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| someone who is excessively eager to please in order to get something |
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| covered with green plants |
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| surrender under agreed conditions |
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| have the essential qualities of |
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| troops arranged in a line |
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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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| of the body: "corporal punishment." a non-commissioned officer ranked between a sergeant and a private. |
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| something designed to deceive: a plan, action, or device designed to hide a real objective, or the process of hiding |
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| difficult and tiring: requiring hard work or continuous physical effort |
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| cheating or deception: deception or trickery, especially by the clever manipulation of language |
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| approval: a favorable opinion about something or somebody |
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| self-evident: self-evidently true, or universally accepted as being true |
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| particularly appropriate: especially well suited to the circumstances |
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| excessively admiring behavior: excessive flattery or admiration |
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| blissful: expressing or radiating great happiness and serenity |
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| away from center: acting, moving, or pulling away from a center or axis |
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| disapproval: severe criticism |
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| warlike: ready or inclined to quarrel, fight, or go to war |
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| event seen as a sign of thing to come |
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| future generations of people |
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| force that keeps something moving |
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| a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class: He is the epitome of goodness. |
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| abusive language used to express blame |
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| expression of a general truth in a short witty saying |
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| educate, enlighten, inform |
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real*, genuine, absolute
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| declare something officially |
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| irritable and complaining |
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| lacking: lacking in something desirable or necessary |
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| effectiveness; capability to produce a desired effect |
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| a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing |
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| to make oneself guilty by deliberately testifying falsely under oath |
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quick to understand, analyze, or act
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poor: having very little money
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| abusive language: abusive or violent language used to attack, blame, or denounce somebody |
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| persuasive speech or writing: speech or writing that communicates its point persuasively |
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impossible to escape from: impossible to get free from
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| control or dominating influence by one person or group, especially by one political group over society or one nation over others |
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