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| Scholarly, extremely learned, intellectual |
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| unchangeable, permanent, steadfast |
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| to supercede, to replace by prior arrangement |
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| Urgent, pressing, requiring immediate action |
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| promising, boding well, heartening, encouraging |
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| harmony, agreement, a peaceful similarity of attitudes |
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| informal, conversational, common |
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| praise, approval, admiration |
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| to experience prolonged inactivity in a way that weakens or depresses |
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| uncertain, skeptical, doubtful, questionable |
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| to bring about, to set off, to cause to happen |
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| refers to animals, often heard together with 'flora' which means plants |
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| frantic or frenzied, it describes how one acts when both desperately rushed and deisorganized |
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| airtight or tightly sealed, unaffected by anything outside itself |
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| a tyrant, a king or a dictator with absolute powe who uses it oppressively |
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| to merge, to fuse, to blend together, to combine |
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| gullible, eager to believe |
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| to make unclearm, to darken or confuse, to muddle |
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| to surrender, cave in to pressure, to collapse |
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| means proper,dignified, in good taste, well-behaved, not offensive |
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| natrual attraction or proclivity, a sense of kinship with something or someone, a storng sense of liking |
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| phony holy, exaggerated religious feeling, hypocritical devotion or piousness, often "holier than thou" |
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| forerunner, something that precedes something else and lets us know it is coming |
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| rigid policy of racial segregation |
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| easily done, glib, lacking depth |
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| caustious, gaurded, vigilant |
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| to deplore, to express strong disapproval of |
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| forbidden, illegal, improper, taboo |
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| to destroy most of, to annihilate |
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| persuasive, convincing, pertinent |
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| practice of showing favortism to relatives or close friends in business or politics |
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| to violate a law, to offend, to sin |
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| to distinguish, to differentiate from something else |
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| to dry out, to remove the moisture from |
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| a platitude is a trite, overused saying usually offered as advice or wisdom. Ex: "All's well that ends well" |
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| burdensome, oppressive, distasteful |
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| hopeless, wrtched, miserable |
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| to honor, to deeply respect, to treat with reverence, as though sacred |
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| absurd, having the characteristics of a farce |
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| a minor offense, a meaningless fault, a petty violation |
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| caustic, full of bitterness, extremely nasty |
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| to be besieged, surrounded on all sides, attacked by |
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| excessive praise, adoration, or hero worship |
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| a rabble-rouser, a leader who tries to stir up others by playing on their emotions, someone who uses peoples prejudices and fears to move them to action |
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| immature, unsophisticated due to youthfulness, inexperienced |
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| expresses both the idea of massiveness adn the idea of being all of one piece |
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| to pollute, to spoil, to impari, corrupt, or pervert |
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| sense of lethargy and unease, a feeling of being run down, a feeling of being depressed |
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| to be doctrinaire is to be dogmatic, to espouse a theory, doctrine, or belief system whether or not it is practical, to be inflexible |
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| concise, short, and to the point |
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| to be dense, slow to catch on, unobservant, not tuned in |
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| to enroll, especially in a college or univeristy |
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| extremely skillful, complete, perfect |
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| festive, friendly, good natured, jovial |
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| unfair, determiend by impulse or individual will, having no particular rhyme or reason |
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| unconditional, absolute, without exception |
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| trickery, deceitfulness, underhanded sneakiness, deception by clever means |
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| to strongly urge, to seriously warn, to seriously advise |
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| generosity or philanthropy |
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| friendly, plesent, agreeable |
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| to scatter, to spread around to distribute |
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| refers to the quality of truthfullness |
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| refers to short-sightedness, lacking foresight |
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| ox-like or cow-like, same way that canine means dog-like |
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| unemotional, to appear indiffernet to pleasure or pain |
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| superficial, hasty, brief and haphazard |
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| a witty statement, short, polished, pithy saysing, usually in verse, and often having a satiric or paradoxical twist at the end |
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| to be guilty, to be to blame for something |
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| refers to the relinquishment of normal comforts, to self-denial, and reununciation of worldy pleasures |
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| a statement that is widely accepted as true. Ex: "What goes up must come down." |
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| includes the belief taht morality is relative and there is no such thing as righ and wrong |
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| to decieve, to mislead, to cause to hold a false belief |
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| Nonconformist, a rebel, a freethinker, a groundbreaker |
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| to swell, to bloat, to extend outward |
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| hard to understand, over ones head |
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| refers to treason or to actions or speech designed to create rebeelion against a government |
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| is an excess, an over-indulgence |
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| means verified by experience or observation, not merely theoretical |
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| to wave one's arms or hands, to make gestures |
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| insignificant, rediculously or insultingly small |
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| haughty, patronizing, contemptuous |
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| someone with mastery, who excels or has special knowledge of a field |
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| to mourn, to feel or express sorrow over, to greieve |
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| to incite, to provoke, ot initiate |
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| to strive to equal or surpas, usually through imitation |
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| to concluded without being directly told |
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| refers to being habitually silent, to having a quiet nature, to being uncommunicative |
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| to confirm, to back up with evidence, to validate |
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| is an order, especially a court order to refrain from doing something |
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required or necessary
Ex: Pre-requisite for calc is pre-calc |
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| means relating to the land, to agriculture, to farming in particular |
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| means plundering, voraciuos, having predatory hunger |
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| a fortress, a stronghold, a fortified place |
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| is a sudden downfall or collapse |
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| fleeting, happening for only briefest period of time |
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| narrow, provincial, or having a confined point of view |
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| is to instigate, to stir up, to promote |
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| unavoidable, inevitable, relentless, unyeilding |
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| to draw forth, to bring out, to evoke |
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| stubborn, insensitive, unyielding, not moved by persuassion |
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| a person who is smugly ignorant, who has no appreciation of intellecutal or artistic matters, who is contentedly commonplace in his tastes and idesas, who is smuggly conventional |
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a traditional saying
Ex:"A women's work is never done" |
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| an illusion, a fleeting foolish fancy |
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| stingy, extremely frugal, miserly |
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| unlucky, unfortunate, not favored by chance |
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| lacking in livelness, dull, spiritless |
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| a rule to live by, a principle tjat giudes behavior |
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| poor, needy, barly scraping by |
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| brilliant, often unexpected, victory |
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| ambiguous, intentionally confusing or unclear, capable of being interpreted in more than one way |
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| to refrain from, to abstain, to hold oneself back |
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| an award, honor, or expression of praise |
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| a natural inclination, a tendency, a leaning or aptitude |
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| to prohibit, to outlaw, to forbid, to condem as harmful or dangerous |
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| refers to a scheming activity, a devious plotting, a manipulation |
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| is to enslave, to subdue and dominate, to bring under control, conquer |
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| refers to the appearance of or similarity to truth or reality |
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| to go over repeatedly, to persist beyond the point of reason |
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| the breaking up or dissolving into parts; disintigration |
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| silly, nonsensical, devoid of signficance |
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| deadly, extremely evil, having a harmful or fatel effect |
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| referes to disease, is the study of disease |
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| to cut short, to reduce, diminish, or abridge |
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| reckless, malicious, unjustifiable, without regard to what is right |
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| obvious, evident, tangible |
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| wise, discerning, keen in judgement |
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| blameworthy, disgraceful, condemnable |
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| to be indecisive, to waver |
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| refers to a misdeed or illegal act, especially on the part of a public official |
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| the considerate honoring of or respectul submission ot another's wishes or will, an attituted of motivation or consideration |
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| to be reserved in speech, restrained, disposed to silence |
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| prosperous, wealthy, rich |
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| constant, unending, continual, ceaseless |
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| looking ahead, preparing for the future, being frugal today in order to have something tomorrow. |
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| refers to a method of reasoning |
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| Expressing of sadness or sorrow |
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| vague, hazy, indistinct, confused |
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| to be pretentious, pompous, to speak in a bombastic or extremely flowerly style |
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| to be abrupt, to use no unnecessary words, to be succinct |
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| practical, down to earth, based on experiecnce rather than theory |
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| a cure-all, something that cures anything |
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| warlike, relating to combat or to war |
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| to banish or consign to an inferior condition |
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| light and airy, heavenly, extremely delicate or refined |
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| conspiracy, secret operation |
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| refers to a pouring forth, an unrestrained expression |
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| to bring together for the purpose of side-by-side comparision or contrast |
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in name only
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| secret, concealed, done covertly in order to avoid detection |
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| done routinely with indifference, hasty and superficial |
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| prominent, conspicuous, obious, striking |
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| boringly academic, scholarly, overly formal, pompous and dry |
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| when you speak in the VERNACULAR you are using the speech common to where you live, including contractions, slang, and idioms that you would not use in formal writing |
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| strong inclination towards, a liking for something |
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| to wrongfully seize, to take and hold by force |
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to be a customer or client
OR to treat in a condescending manner
OR to serve as a sponser or suppoert of something/someone |
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| changes in fortune or circumstances, uncertainties, ups and downs |
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to be banished from ones country
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| unsuccessful, ended before completeion |
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| blindly committed to a belief system or doctrine and usually asserting that belief in an arrogant, opinionated manner that refuses to consider other points of view |
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| a rebel, someone who revolts against established authority |
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| fawning, showing servile deference, polite or obedient from hope of gain or from fear |
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| to be cranky, peevishly rude, iritated over something trivial |
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| relating to existence, concerning or based on obective experience |
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| believes what happens is inevitable, pretdestined, determined by fate |
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| impulsive, given to sudden or rash action or emotion |
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the combined sum
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| minute, inconceivably small, microscopic |
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| understood by only a select few with special knowledge, hidden from the masses |
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| belonging to the common class, vulgar, non-aristocratic |
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| neither moral nor immoral, not involving questions of right or wrong |
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| 2(lenght*width + lenght*height + width*height) |
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| Volume of a right cylindar |
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