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| having a sour or bitter taste or character |
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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, especially base metals into gold |
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| deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality |
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| one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe |
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| daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
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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; taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
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| self-evident or pompous writing or speech; pompous; grandiloquent |
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| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| following or in agreement with orthodox requirements |
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| severe criticism or punishment |
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| to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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| polite or appropriate conduct or behavior |
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| to question or oppose; to take exception |
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| scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
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| to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| to undeceive; to set right |
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| conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
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| indifferent; free from self-interest |
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| fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
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| to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| to disclose something secret |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead |
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| well-spoken; expressive; articulate |
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| soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
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| dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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| to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
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| intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| a speech honoring the dead |
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| tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| exonerate; to clear of blame |
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| urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
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| to flatter or praise excessively |
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| intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
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| to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| happening by fortunate accident or chance |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| pointlessly talkative, talking too much |
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| relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| pompous speech or expression |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade |
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| devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| arrogant presumption or pride |
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| an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| about to happen; impending |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice |
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| unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| damaging; harmful; malevolent |
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| without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn, obstinate |
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| to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
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| characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving |
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| capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
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| associated with war and the armed forces |
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| an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
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| coming into being; in early developmental stages |
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| a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses |
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| a recent convert; a beginner; novice |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression |
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| to anticipate and make unnecessary |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| impenetrable by light; not reflecting light |
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| disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm |
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| a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| to examine with great care |
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| having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion |
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| to illegally use or reproduce |
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| the essential or central part; precise and brief |
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| to appease; to calm by making concessions |
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| a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful |
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| an overabundance; a surplus |
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| to plunge or drop straight down |
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| to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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| to cause or to happen before anticipated or required; acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| a disposition in favor of something; preference |
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| to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring |
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| overstepping due bonds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties |
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| to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| adherence to highest principles; uprightness |
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| a natural predisposition or inclination |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
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| characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste |
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| to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
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| misgiving; reservation; cause for hesitancy |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome |
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| question; inquiry; doubt in the mind; reservation |
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| occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| to make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
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| obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| to retract, especially a previously held belief |
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| hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position |
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| to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
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| to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| promoting health or well-being |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance |
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| a piece of broken pottery or glass |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
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| characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| thin, not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
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| one who spends money wastefully |
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| occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances |
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| sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| to stun, baffle, or amaze |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| the combination of parts to make a whole |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued |
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| having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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| lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
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| a force that causes rotation |
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| winding; twisting; excessively complicated |
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| to publicly praise or promote |
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| sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| genuine; not false or hypocritical |
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| indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another |
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| multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
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| to defame; to characterize harshly |
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| extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severly or abusively; berate |
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| fervent; ardent; impassioned |
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