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| to humble, disgrace, demean, humiliate |
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| to reduce in amount, degree, or severity |
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| temporary suppression or suspension |
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| discrimination against disabled people |
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| to abolish by formal means |
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| moderate in appetite; abstinent; continent |
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| to boldly confront, to approach, often aggressively and to speak to first |
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| an increase by natural growth |
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| sour or astringent in taste; harsh in temper |
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| highest point; summit; the highest level or degree attainable |
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| sharp or biting to the taste or smell |
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| caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature |
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| neutral, doing neither harm nor good |
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| to be close or in contact with |
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| to counsel against something; caution |
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| a nest high in the air; an elevated, often secluded, dwelling |
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| to increase in power, influence, and reputation |
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| promptness, cheerful readiness |
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| of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking |
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| friendship; peaceful harmony |
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| to diminish by installment payments |
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| a lessening of pain without loss of consciousness |
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| any substance that promotes masculine characteristics |
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| hostile feeling or attitude |
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| something that calms or soothes pain; opiate |
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| any system or caste that separates people according to race; racism |
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| of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious |
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| the highest or most distant point |
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| a total desertion of one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc.; defect; desert |
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| glorification, glorified ideal; the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god; the ideal example, epitome, quintessence |
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| determined by individual will; having no particular rhyme or reason; unfair |
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| to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously |
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| a person who leads an austerely simple life, esp. one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or denies himself or herself material satisfaction |
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| to reduce in force or degree; weaken |
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dignified, grandiose; admirable; awesome; grand; majestic
(The august view of the Grand Tetons took my break away.) |
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| to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner; to declare to be true |
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| something one does in addition to a principle occupation esp. for pleasure or hobby |
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| a universally accepted principle or rule; premise; postulate; self-evident truth; adage; apothegm; aphorism; maxim; rule |
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| a short, pithy, instructive saying; a terse remark or aphorism |
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to go over repeatedly, to persist beyond the point of reason
(Will you stop belaboring the point? I agreed with you ten minutes ago.) |
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