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| intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action. |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
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| to weaken; reduce in vitality |
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| fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| concerned and attentive; eager |
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| to deliver a pompous speech |
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| to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| intended for or understood by only a select few |
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| stillness, motionlessness |
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| cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| aphoristic or moralistic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| gloomy or dark; infernal or hellish |
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| biased or showing marked tendencies |
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| to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective |
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| fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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