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| Learned person, scholar, someone admitted to membership in a scholarly field; a person with amazing mental abilities despite having a cognitive difference or disability |
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| Lucky, fortunate, or relating to divine care (the idea that a deity has helped or cared for a person) |
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| The character, personality, or moral values specific to a person, group, time period, etc. |
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| Domination, authority; influence by one country over others socially, culturally, economically, etc. |
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| Happening or continuing after death |
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| Sacred, inviolable, not to be trespassed on or violated; above any criticism |
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| Farming tool that breaks up soil (noun); painfully disturb or distress (verb) |
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| Crush, squash; suppress or silence; walk through ooze or in wet shoes, making a smacking or sucking sound |
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| Person who lives in seclusion |
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| Using language in a clear, fluent way (adj); speak distinctly or give clarity to an idea (verb) |
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| To fork into two branches or divide into two halves |
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| Pioneer of a reform movement (originally, an early follower of Jesus) |
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| Grumpy, pessimistic, irritable; suffering from dyspepsia (indigestion) |
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| Find fault with, criticize or scold severely |
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| Liking or inclination (usually penchant for) |
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| Lessen the suffering or grief of (verb); a control panel, or small table or cabinet (noun) |
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| Lofty or elevated, inspiring reverence or awe; excellent, majestic; complete, utter |
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| Entice, lure; get something by flattery, cleverness, or offering incentives |
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| Substitution of a mild, inoffensive, or indirect expression for one that is considered offensive or too direct |
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| While on the contrary, considering that |
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| Presenting a positive, peaceful view of rural life (as poetry or prose); pleasant in a natural, simple way |
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| Relating to or resembling a monastery (where monks or nuns live), esp. by being quiet, secluded, contemplative, strict, and/or lacking luxuries |
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| Morally low, mean, dishonorable; of little or no value; crude and unrefined; counterfeit |
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| Very loud and powerful (generally of a human voice) |
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| Fragment of some brittle substance, esp. a sharp fragment of pottery, glass, etc. |
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| Formal or lofty expression of praise |
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| Loose, negligent, lazy, weak (adj); neglect to do one's duties; loosen up, relax (verb); period of little work (noun) |
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| Temporary suspension, inactivity |
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| Shy, fickle, uncertain, or prone to act suddenly due to nervousness; lively in a restless or excessive way |
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| nevertheless or nonetheless |
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| However, even so, despite that |
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| Relating to or caused by disease; relating to compulsive bad behavior |
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| Difficult to control, manage, or manipulate; hard to cure; stubborn |
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| Speak in an impassioned, pompous, or oratorical manner; give a formal speech |
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| Incapable of error; certain |
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| Decorate, add ornamentation; enhance (a story) with fictional or fanciful details |
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| Rude, ill-mannered, or insensitive person; a peasant or country bumpkin |
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| Selecting the best of everything or from many diverse sources |
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| Untiring, not able to become fatigued |
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| Relating to prophesy, predicting, ominous |
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| Slanting or sloping; indirect, misleading, or evasive |
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| Person who deserts a party, cause, religion, etc. |
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| Self-governing, independent |
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| Formally give up the throne (or some other power or responsibility) |
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| Not religious, lacking reverence, ungodly |
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| Professed, evident, or pretended; outwardly appearing in a certain way |
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| Excessively long and wordy (of a person, piece of writing, etc.) |
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| Fixed, not moving or changing, lacking vitality |
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| Admirably appropriate, very well-suited for the occasion; pleasant, fortunate, marked by happiness |
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| Rigor, severity; harshness or sharpness of tone; roughness of surface |
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| New word or phrase (or a new meaning applied to an existing word or phrase) |
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| Greed, great or excessive desire |
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| Irrelevant; foreign, coming from without, not belonging |
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| Former, previous (adj); in the past, formerly (adv) |
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| Given to complaining, grumbling |
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| Lazy, drowsy, or sluggish |
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| Artificial, synthetic; being an inferior substitute |
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| Charming, engaging, esp. in a sweet and innocent way |
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| Wise; showing good judgment and foresight |
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| Marked or motivated by whims (odd, fanciful ideas); erratic, unpredictable |
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| A burden or something that oppresses; a frame for attaching animals (such as oxen) to each other and to a plow or other equipment to be pulled, or a bar across a person's shoulders to help carry buckets of water, etc. (noun); to unite together or to burden (verb) |
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| Happening by chance; lucky |
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| Government characterized by many bureaus and petty administrators or by excessive, seemingly meaningless requirements |
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| Person who pays excessive attention to book learning and rules, or who uses his or her learning to show off |
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| Not fixed or determined, indefinite; vague |
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| Customs, manners, or morals of a particular group |
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| Severe in manner or appearance; very self-disciplined, ascetic; without luxury or ease; sober or serious |
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| Remaining after expenses or other factors have been deducted; ultimate (adj); to bring in as profit, or to catch as in a net (verb) |
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| Vocabulary specific to a group or occupation; convoluted or unintelligible language |
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| Inactive; having little or no power to move |
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| Common, ordinary, everyday |
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| Defeating the purpose; preventing the intended goal |
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| Swell, expand, stretch, bloat |
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| Wise in practical matters, carefully providing for the future |
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| Extreme delicacy, subtlety, or diplomacy in handling a sensitive situation or in a performance or skill (noun); use tact or diplomacy; employ a deceptive strategy (verb) |
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| Scarcity, the state of being small in number |
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| Things that are opposing; either of two opposite things |
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| Prominent, distinguished, of high rank |
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| Friendliness, open and simple good heartedness |
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| Relating to the Earth or to land; worldly |
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| Knowledgeable about or experienced with |
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| Exaggerated, debased, or grotesque imitation |
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| Fellowship in interests, feelings, responsibilities, etc., such as among a group of people or among classes, nations, etc. |
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| Faithfulness, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound or image |
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| Sameness or repetitiousness to the point of being boring; lack of variation, uniformity, esp. repetition in sound |
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| Practical; dealing with actual facts and reality |
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| Replace, take the position of, cause to be disregarded as void or obsolete |
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| Generous, lavish (as in not sparing any help or gifts to others); unmerciful, harsh (as in not sparing any criticism) |
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| High-minded, noble, lofty; generous in forgiving others, free of resentment |
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| Against what one would intuitively expect |
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| On the margin, periphery (adj); the people in a group who hold the most extreme views (noun) |
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| Clear from guilt or blame |
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| Implying or attempting to establish a norm; expressing value judgments or telling people what to do (rather than merely describing that which is happening) |
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| Mix of incongruous parts; artistic work imitating the work of other artists, often satirically |
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| Not easily understood, hidden, dealing with an obscure topic |
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| Immersed (in), saturated (with) |
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| Get tired, lose enthusiasm; hang limply or droop |
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| Judge, umpire, person empowered to decide matters at hand |
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| Stubborn, hardhearted, hardened in wrongdoing |
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| Unbiased, impartial; not interested |
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| Scornfully or ironically mocking, cynically derisive |
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| Make void or null, cancel, abolish (usually of laws or other established rules) |
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| Spiritless, lacking interest or energy |
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| Pep, enthusiasm, vitality, lively spirit |
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| Improve; make better or more bearable |
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| Strong disapproval or official reprimand (noun); to issue such disapproval or reprimand (verb) |
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| Having a sharp taste or smell; biting, stimulating, sharp |
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| Expert, especially in the fine arts; person of educated, refined tastes |
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| Conforming to good manners or appropriate behavior; justness |
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| Stinking; having an offensive smell |
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| Keep a record of, write down; travel for or at a certain distance or speed (verb); a written record (noun) |
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| Harsh, discordant, or meaningless mixture of sounds |
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| Violent whirlpool; any chaotic, turbulent situation |
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| Spread widely, disseminate (verb); dispersed, widely spread out, or wordy and going off-topic (adj) |
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| Expose, ridicule, or disprove false or exaggerated claims |
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| Justified, authorized (warrant can mean to justify or a justification, but can also mean to vouch for or guarantee) |
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| Self-satisfied, smug; overly content (and therefore lazy, neglectful, or some other bad quality) |
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| Causing grief or suffering; very serious, grave; flagrant, outrageous |
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| Outer part of a shadow from an eclipse; any surrounding region, fringe, periphery; any area where something "sort of" exists |
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| Using good judgment; wise, sensible |
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| Very happy, in high spirits |
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| Belonging to the essential nature of a thing |
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| Wasteful, extravagant; giving abundantly, lavish |
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| The rules governing grammar and how words join to make sentences (or how words and symbols join in writing computer code), the study of these rules, or any system or orderly arrangement |
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| Toughen up; accustom or habituate to pain, hardship, etc. |
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| Commanding, domineering; acting like a high-ranking person; urgent |
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| A harsh satire (noun); ridicule or satirize (verb) |
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| Implied, not stated directly; involved in the very essence of something, unquestionable |
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| Deviation from what is common; inconsistency |
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| Rebellion or revolt against a government or similarly established authority |
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| A meal (noun); to eat or feast (verb) |
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| Incite, instigate, stir up, promote the growth of; apply medicated liquid to a body part |
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| Concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste, pertaining to the science of what is beautiful (adj); a sense of beauty and taste of a particular time and place (noun) |
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| Fruitful, fertile; capable of abundantly producing offspring, vegetation, or creative or intellectual work |
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| (Of speech or writing) far too showy or dramatic than is appropriate; pretentious |
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| Someone who flatters or acts in a servile manner for self-serving reasons |
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| Allow to disperse or leave; fire from a job; put aside or reject, especially after only a brief consideration |
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| Swell or puff out; increase rapidly |
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| Derived from something else; not original |
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| Revere, regard with deep respect and awe |
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| Person devoted to pleasure |
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| Give in, admit, yield; acknowledge reluctantly; grant or give up (such as giving up land after losing a war) |
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| Send or commit to an inferior place, rank, condition, etc.; exile, banish; assign (a task) to someone else |
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| Pertaining to an island; detached, standing alone; narrow-minded, provincial |
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| Contemplate; make a guess or educated guess about; engage in a risky business transaction, gamble |
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| Introductory statement, preface |
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| Not noble; having mean, base, low motives; low quality |
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| The obscuring of one thing by another, such as the sun by the moon or a person by a more famous or talented person (noun); to obscure, darken, make less important (verb) |
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| Direct, clear, fully revealed; clearly depicting sex or nudity |
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| Very hot, parching, burning; passionate |
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| Lying, habitually dishonest |
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| Turn over in the mind, reflect on; chew cud (as a cow) |
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| Using or relating to obscene or vulgar humor |
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| Speak or argue in favor of (verb); a person who pleads for a cause or on behalf of another person (noun) |
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| Prevent; take the place of, supplant; take before someone else can |
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| Well-timed, happening at a suitable time |
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| Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral lesson |
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| Believability, trustworthiness |
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| Betraying trust, not faithful or trustworthy; not dependable; dangerous or deceptive |
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| Efforts to improve the well-being of humankind, generally through giving money |
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| Simple and unsophisticated, unsuspecting, lacking worldly experience and critical judgment |
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| Gather and store; amass, collect |
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| abstinent or austere in lifestyle (adj); a person who leads an austere and simple life without material pleasures, esp. someone who does this for religious reasons |
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| Containing a fallacy, or mistake in logic; logically unsound; deceptive |
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| Mislead, conceal the truth, put on a false appearance of |
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| Gruesome or excessively vivid; sensational, shocking, unrestrained |
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| A shallow, overused statement; cliche |
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| Strictly limit a role, range of activity, or area; in math, to be constructed around so as to touch as many points as possible |
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| Leading units at the front of an army; leaders in a trend or movement, people on the "cutting edge"; the forefront of a trend or movement |
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| Person who expounds or explains; champion, advocate, or representative |
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| Dissolving, the state of having been dissolved; breaking bonds or breaking up of a group of people; death, disintegration; sinking into extreme hedonism, vice, and degradation |
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| Speaking or composed of many languages (of a person, book, etc.); a person who knows several languages |
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| most favorable condition or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances |
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| Critical point in time, such as a crisis or a time when a decision is necessary; a place where two things are joined together |
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| Scooping or digging tool, like a chisel, or a hole made with such a tool (noun); cut or scoop out; force out a person's eye with one's thumb; swindle, extort money from (verb) |
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| Permission or approval, something that gives support or authority to something else (noun); to allow, confirm, ratify (verb); OR a legal action by one or more countries against another country to get it to comply (noun); to place sanctions or penalties on (verb) |
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| The sound made by a bell for a funeral, or any sad sound or signal of a failure, death, ending, etc. (noun); to make such a sound (verb) |
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| Indicate or suggest beforehand, presage |
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| Speech of praise or written work of praise, esp. a speech given at a funeral |
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| Related to items of high quality from a previous era, old-fashioned, antique (adj); the wine of a particular year (noun) |
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| Grasping, squeezing, etc. of the hands as an expression of nervousness, guilt, etc.; extend debate over what to do about an issue |
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| Make less serious or severe; relieve symptoms of an illness |
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| A complete change or transformation (in biology, a change such as a caterpillar becoming a pupa and then a butterfly) |
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| Dwelling or fortress built on a high place; the nest of a bird of prey, such as an eagle or hawk, built on a mountain or cliff |
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| Produce, give rise to, cause to exist; procreate |
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| Show affection or try to please in the manner of a dog; try to win favor through flattery and submissive behavior |
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| Injustice, wickedness, sin |
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| Period of time spent doing something, or a specific, limited amount of work (noun); to be frugal, to get by on little (verb) |
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| Make trivial arguments or criticisms, find faults in a petty way, esp. to evade something more important |
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| Deceit, double-dealing, acting in two different ways for the purpose of deception |
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| Not obedient, resisting authority, hard to manage |
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| Urge on (as cattle) with a pointed or electrically charged stick; spur on, stimulate, encourage |
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| Extremely infectious, poisonous, etc.; hateful, bitterly hostile |
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| Declare false, deny; oppose |
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| The act or state of resting; peacefulness, tranquility; lying dead in a grave |
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| Confuse, frustrate; mix up or make worse |
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| Concise but complete summary; a list or collection |
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| Very enthusiastic, lively, excited; bubbling as though being boiled |
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| Obvious, apparent, plain to see (adj); a letter from a government guaranteeing an inventor the rights to his or her invention (noun) |
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| Deflect or avoid (esp. a blow or attack); skillfully evade (a question) |
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| Related to belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social spheres |
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| Complain or grumble (verb); a reason for complaint (noun) |
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| An exit or the action of exiting |
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| Varied in color, having multicolored patches or spots; diverse |
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| The inner fluid of a plant or any essential body fluid; energy, vitality; a person taken advantage of (noun); undermine, weaken, tire out (verb) |
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| Passionately impulsive, marked by sudden, hasty emotion; forceful, violent |
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| Having penetrating insight or good discernment |
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| Object (such as a building) that stands out and can be used to navigate by; a very important place, event, etc. |
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| Reduce or lessen; shorten by omitting parts throughout while retaining the main idea |
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| Unnaturally pale, or showing some other indication of sickness, unhappiness, etc.; weak, lacking forcefulness |
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| Mark of disgrace, a figurative stain or mark on someone's reputation |
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| Honor or respect demonstrated publicly |
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| Riotous, violently agitated, marked by disturbance or uproar; noisy, chaotic |
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| To fully satisfy; to go beyond satisfying to the point of excess (possibly inducing disgust, tiredness, etc.) |
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| Coming after or following |
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| Environment, atmosphere; the environmental setting in which something happens or develops |
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| Existing only in the mind or by means of a computer network; existing in results or in essence but not officially or in name |
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| In an intense, fiery, or heated way |
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| Failure to act, neglect (noun); fail to fulfill an obligation, especially a financial one (verb) |
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| Passing quickly, transitory |
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| Take the place of, displace, especially through sneaky tactics |
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| Representation or image of a person, esp. a crude facsimile used to mock a hated person |
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| Female, esp. relating to the maternal side of the family; women or women's work; a staff that holds wool or flax for spinning |
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| Frolic; skip or leap playfully |
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| Calm or soothe (an angry person); lessen or soften |
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| Revival, breaking out into renewed activity |
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| Existing everywhere at the same time |
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| Uncertain; unable to decide, or wanting to do two contradictory things at once |
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| Withdraw, retract, or disavow something one has previously said, esp. formally |
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| Remorseful; feeling sorry for one's offenses or sins |
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| Cast a shadow over, darken; dominate, make to seem less important |
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| Moderation, self-control, esp. regarding alcohol or other desires or pleasures; total abstinence from alcohol |
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| Obeying, submissive; following the requirements |
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| Hold back, refrain (especially from something bad or unhealthy); decline to vote |
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| Legal or judicial inquiry, especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone's death; the results of such an inquiry |
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| A temporary, often improvised, substitute (noun); improvised for temporary use (adj) |
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| Chest for storing valuables; financial resources, a treasury |
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| Guess, infer, think, or make an opinion with incomplete information |
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| A subtle difference in tone, meaning, expression, etc. |
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| Enthusiastic, dedicated, passionate; excessively desirous |
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| Disreputable, unprincipled, or damned person (noun); shameless, depraved (adj) |
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| Bold, brave, capable of withstanding hardship, fatigue, cold, etc. |
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| Formal or authoritative pronouncement; saying or proverb |
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| Disagree or take an opposing view, esp. in relation to a formal body such as a government, political party, or church; such a view |
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| Count or list; specify one-by-one |
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| Slightly acid or sour; sharp or caustic |
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| Mutually dependent relationship between two organisms, people, groups, etc. |
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| Cutting off; sudden termination; the separation of leaves, petals, or other parts from a plant or animal |
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| Model of excellence, perfect example |
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| Core, essence; significance or weight |
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| Existing state or condition |
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| Attack, overwhelm, crowd in on or surround |
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| Give, submit, surrender; translate; declare formally; cause to become |
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| Delay, hinder, prevent by taking action beforehand |
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| Equilibrium, a state of balance or inactivity, esp. caused by equal but opposing forces |
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| Abnormally pale (as skin); lacking color or vitality |
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| Difference or inconsistency |
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| Discover through divination or supernatural means; perceive by insight |
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| The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations |
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| Increase or spread rapidly or excessively |
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| Person who applies doctrine in an impractical or rigid and close-minded way (noun); merely theoretical, impractical, or fanatical about other people accepting one's ideas (adj) |
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| Discussion, negotiation, esp. between enemies (noun); to have such a discussion (verb) |
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| Degrade; lower in quality, value, rank, etc.; lower in moral quality |
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| Move towards one another or towards a point; unite |
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| Trivial, not very important; so small as to be unimportant; frivolous, shallow |
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| Having good judgment or insight; able to distinguish mentally |
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| Flair, style, swagger; a flamboyant or grand way of acting |
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| Irritate, sting, or annoy |
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| Having high moral standards |
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| Unintentional; characterized by a lack of attention, careless |
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| Drooping from exhaustion, sluggish, slow; lacking in spirit |
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| Rumor, a false or baseless story |
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| Make impure by adding inappropriate or inferior ingredients |
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| Position or road from which there is no escape; deadlock |
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| Person who adheres to rules extremely closely; strict disciplinarian |
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| Something that encourages greater action or effort, such as a reward |
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| In harmony; in sympathetic relationship |
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| To become wider or make wider, cause to expand; to speak or write at length, elaborate upon |
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| Done without preparation (esp. of a speech), or with some preparation but no notes; improvised, done on the spur of the moment |
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| Praise or approval, especially formal approval |
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| Side-by-side. The more common "abreast of" means keeping up with, staying aware of, or remaining equal in progress with. |
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| Excessively particular, difficult to please; painstaking, meticulous, requiring excessive attention to detail |
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| Bitter, abusive criticism or verbal attack |
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| Injure the reputation of, destroy credibility of or confidence in |
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| The supernatural (noun); pertaining to magic, astrology, etc.; mysterious, secret or hidden (adj); to hide, to shut off from view (verb) |
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| Behaving with propriety and good taste; polite |
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| Pregnancy; the period from conception until birth of an animal or (metaphorically) of an idea or plan |
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| Avoid commitment by leaving provisions for withdrawal or changing one's mind; protect a bet by also betting on the other side |
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| Not enough or barely enough |
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| Relating to lofty speech, esp. to the point of being pompous, overblown, bombastic |
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| Not having or not showing physical feeling or emotion |
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| Potential; existing but not visible or active |
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| Through, by means of, by way of (by a route that goes through or touches) |
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| Praise, honor, congratulations |
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| Unite, combine, solidify, make coherent |
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| Gather together, amount to (verb); constituting a whole made up of constituent parts (adj) |
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| Idol worship; excessive or unthinking devotion or adoration |
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| Lightness (of mind, spirit, or mood) or lack of seriousness, sometimes in an inappropriate way |
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| Disease that kills plants rapidly, or any cause of decay or destruction (noun); ruin or cause to wither (verb) |
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| Stroke of luck, something accidentally successful |
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| Have a great effect, weigh heavily (often as militate against) |
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| Condescending, having a superior manner, treating as an inferior |
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| Understood without being said; implied, not stated directly; silent |
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| Great fervor or enthusiasm for a cause, person, etc.; tireless diligence in furthering that cause; passion, ardor |
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| Ready to occur, impending |
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| Formation of soldiers carrying shields close together for defense; any very close group of people |
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| Mark the outline of; sketch; describe in detail |
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| A broad range of nevertheless related qualities or ideas, esp. those that overlap to create a continuous series (as in a color spectrum, where each color blends into the next in a continuous way) |
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| Generosity, the giving of money or gifts (esp. with the implication that the giver is a bit superior to the recipient) |
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| Person devoted to pleasure and luxury |
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| Authorized, recognized; pertaining to the canon, or body of accepted rules, standards or artistic works |
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| Differ, deviate; branch off or turn aside, as from a path |
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| Devoted to a particular group, cause, etc. (adj.); fervent supporter of a group, party, idea, etc.; guerilla fighter (noun) |
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| Disgrace and disapproval that result from outrageously shameful actions |
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| Favorable to progress or reform; believing in maximum possible individual freedom; tolerant, open-minded; generous (adj); a person with such beliefs or practices (noun) |
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| Setting something right after a misdeed, compensation or relief for injury or wrongdoing (noun); correct, set right, remedy (verb) |
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| Clever deceit, cunning, craftiness |
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| Asleep, inactive, on a break |
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| Mildly scold; caution, advise, or remind to do something |
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| Refusing to compromise, inflexible, having extreme attitudes |
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| Uncertainty or confusion about what to do, dilemma |
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| Trickery, deception by knowingly false arguments |
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| Something that restrains or discourages |
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| Having the right to certain privileges; believing, sometimes without cause, that one deserves or has a right to certain privileges |
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| A ranked series; a classification of people according to rank, ability, etc.; a ruling body |
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| Pleasing or sweet sound, especially as formed by a harmonious use of words |
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| Something that ruins or spoils |
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| Claiming or demanding a position of importance or dignity, esp. when unjustified; showing off, creating a deceptive, false show of worth |
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| Excessively eager in giving unwanted advice or intruding where one is not wanted; meddlesome, pushy |
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| Metaphorical, based on figures of speech; containing many figures of speech (as fancy-sounding writing); related to portraying human or animal figures |
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| Slight-of-hand (magic as performed by a magician); trickery or deception |
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| A gap or fissure (such as in rock), a break in friendly relations |
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| Conjecture about an unknown by projecting information about something known; predict by projecting past experience |
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| Confused mass or pile, jumble; confusion or turmoil (noun); roll around, wallow, toss about, writhe (verb) |
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| Suitable, proper; effective, often at the expense of ethics or other considerations |
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| Venerable, majestic; inspiring admiration |
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| Wander in search of; rummage, hunt, make a raid |
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| Steady increase in force, intensity, or the loudness of a musical passage; a climactic moment or peak |
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| Treat with disdain, contempt, or scorn (usually of rules) |
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| Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period |
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| Known or understood by only a few; obscure, secret |
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| Relating to country life, unsophisticated; primitive; made of rough wood (adj); a rural or uncultured person (noun) |
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| Pretend to be sick, esp. to get out of work, duties, etc. |
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| Fierce, cruel, savage; belligerent |
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| Impartial, disinterested; unconcerned, distant, aloof |
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| Combine, unite; form a legal corporation; embody, give physical form to |
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| Pray humbly; ask, beg, or seek in a humble way |
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| Truthfulness, accuracy; habitual adherence to the truth |
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| Summarize, repeat in a concise way |
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| Speed, promptness; send off or deal with in a speedy way |
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| Excess, excessive amount, overindulgence |
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| Malicious lie intended to hurt someone's reputation; the act of telling such lies |
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| Warm, glowing praise, esp. a formal expression of praise |
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| Worthy of esteem, admirable; able to be estimated |
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| Noisy uproar or protest, as from a crowd; a loud, continuous noise |
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| Lessen, make easier to endure |
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| Setting on fire, pertaining to arson; arousing strife, rebellion, etc.; "inflaming" the senses |
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| Measure the depth of (usually of water) as with a sounding line; penetrate and discover the meaning of, understand (usually as sound the depths) |
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| In like manner, considering that (contraction of "in as much," generally followed by "as") |
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| Obvious, apparent, perceptible to the eye (adj); to show, make clear, or prove (verb) |
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| A leader who lies and gains power by arousing the passions and especially prejudices of the people |
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| Damaging remarks, defamation, slander |
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| Conspire; cooperate for illegal or fraudulent purposes |
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| Deny or refute; make void or cause to be ineffective |
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| A system of principles laid down by an authority; established belief |
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| Division into two parts or into two contradictory groups |
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| Refuse to proceed or to do something |
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| So commonplace as to be stale; not fresh or original |
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| Harsh or inharmonious in sound; disagreeing, incongruous |
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| The art or study of persuasion through speaking or writing; language that is elaborate or pretentious but actually empty, meaning little |
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| Become bone or become hard like bone; become inflexible in attitudes, opinions, etc. |
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| Burdensome, oppressive, hard to endure |
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| Belonging to the entire world, at home globally; free from local or national prejudices or attachments |
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| Degrade or humble; to lower in rank, status, or esteem |
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| Assign or credit to a certain cause or source |
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| Detest, regard with disgust |
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| Excessive, not within proper limits, unrestrained |
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| Scholarly, knowledgeable; possessing deep, often systematic, knowledge |
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| Disconnected, not coherent, jerky; having the joints separated |
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| Easily fluent in regards to speech |
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| Slow, late; procrastinating or stalling for time |
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| Response or reply, esp. a witty comeback |
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| Excessive, loud patriotism and aggressive, warlike foreign policy |
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| Weaken, cause to collapse by digging away at the foundation (of a building or an argument); injure or attack in a secretive or underhanded way |
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| Fanatical patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory; undue or biased devotion to any group, cause, etc. |
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| Directly opposed, opposite; involving antithesis (the rhetorical act of placing two phrases opposite one another for contrast, as in love me or hate me) |
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| A funeral or mourning song or poem |
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| Person with cultivated, refined tastes, esp. in food and wine |
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| machination or machinations |
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| Concerned or anxious (about another person), expressing care; eager or desirous; very careful |
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| Interaction, reciprocal relationship or influence |
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| Free of deceit or craftiness, natural, genuine; lacking skill or knowledge, crude, uncultured |
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| Divided into sharply opposed groups |
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| Understood by or intended for only a few; secret |
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| Person inclined to doubting or questioning generally accepted beliefs |
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| Pretentious, boastful showiness |
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| Noisily crying out, as in protest |
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| Adhering to a traditional, established faith, or to anything customary or commonly accepted |
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| Copy in an attempt to equal or be better than |
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| Unambiguous, clear, absolute; having only one possible meaning |
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| Harmless; favorable; kindly, gentle, or beneficial; not cancerous |
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| Servile flatterer, parasitic person who fawns in order to get ahead |
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| Discard, cast off; throw items overboard in order to lighten a ship in an emergency |
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| Absence of law or government; chaos, disorder |
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| Important or big enough to matter |
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| Biased, prejudiced, favoring one over others; having a special liking for something or someone (usually partial to) |
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| Sociable, pertaining to a flock or crowd |
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| Daily; everyday, ordinary |
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| Highly appropriate, suitable, or relevant |
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| Reddish or rosy; flowery, showy, or excessively fancy |
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| Inspire, animate; give substance, essence, or context to; be the characteristic quality of |
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| Relating to the different meanings of words or other symbols |
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| Very disciplined and stern; frugal, living simply, austere; suggestive of the ancient Spartans |
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| Natural inclination or tendency |
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| Loud, confused noise, esp. for a long period of time |
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| Surpass, exceed; be larger or better than; leave behind |
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| Spread or penetrate throughout |
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| Raise to a higher value, desirability, etc. |
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| Creep or crawl with one's face to the ground, prostrate oneself as a token of subservience, degrade or abase oneself |
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| Clear, transparent; completely calm |
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| Collect tax from, wage war on, or enlist for military service; (verb); act of colleting tax or amount owed, or the drafting of troops into military service (noun) |
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| Mourn; express grief, sorrow, or regret (verb); an expression of grief, esp. as a song or poem (noun) |
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| In a searching or penetrating manner; while examining closely or probing for answers |
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| Measure the depth of (usually of water) as with a sounding line; penetrate and discover the meaning of, understand |
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| Give up, renounce; repudiate, recant, or shun (especially formally or under oath) |
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| Elementary, relating to the basics; undeveloped, primitive |
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| Suitable for or resembling a palace, magnificent |
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| Counteract, compensate for (verb); a counterbalance (noun) |
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| Introductory part to a book, play, etc. |
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| misanthrope or misanthropist |
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| Devout; religiously reverent and dutiful |
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| Model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc. |
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| Scatter, spread about, broadcast |
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| Requiring immediate attention, action, or aid; excessively demanding |
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| Impenetrable, not able to be harmed or emotionally disturbed |
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| Shining, radiant, well-lit; brilliant or enlightening |
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| Disparaging, derogatory, belittling (adj); a name or word that is disparaging (noun) |
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| Reckless, vicious, without regard for what is right; unjustifiable, deliberately done for no reason at all; sexually unrestrained or excessively luxurious |
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| Fickleness, unreliability; the state of changing without good reason |
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| Best, most desirable or favorable |
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| Curse; prayer for harm to come to someone |
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| Favorable, giving good signs for the future, likely to work out; kind or forgiving |
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| Contradiction, or seeming contradiction that is actually true |
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| Mistaken, in error; improper, morally incorrect |
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| Comparable, corresponding in some particular way (making a good analogy) |
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| Beggar, or religious follower who lives by begging |
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| Contrasting item, opposite; a complement; the use of contrast or interplay in a work of art |
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| Out of date, no longer in use |
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| Peel or cut off the outer layer (such as peeling fruit with a knife), reduce or trim as if cutting off the outer parts |
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| Fear or hatred of foreigners or that which is foreign |
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| Sign, symbol, mark, badge; souvenir, memento; coin-like disk used as currency for subways, arcade games, etc.; sample, or person, thing, idea taken to represent an entire group (noun); of very little or merely symbolic value (adj) |
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| Not clear, hard to understand, open to having several meanings or interpretations |
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| Twisted; very complicated |
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| Coming into existence, still developing |
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| Near-sighted; lacking long-term thinking, short-sighted |
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| Very severe in making demands; requiring precise attention |
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| Permeate or saturate, as dye in a fabric; influence throughout |
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| Casual, informal; done without preparation or forethought; rude in a short way, brusque |
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| A progression, a process taking place gradually, in stages; one of these stages |
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| Occurring every day; happening in the daytime (rather than at night) |
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| Call together, as to a meeting |
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| Lasting only a short time, fleeting |
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| Offense or annoyance (usually as take umbrage, meaning become offended or annoyed) |
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| Blame, disgrace (noun); criticize, express disappointment in (verb) |
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| Declare or affirm with confidence |
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| Modified, limited, conditional on something else |
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| Very bold or brave, often in a rude or reckless way; extremely original |
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| Attempt to reconcile with, satisfy, or reduce the animosity of (a person who is angry, offended, etc.) |
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| Satisfy (esp. thirst), cool, or refresh; make less active |
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| Cunning, skillful in deception or underhanded schemes |
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| Substitute, person who acts for another (noun); acting as a replacement (adj) |
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| A job or position that pays while requiring little or no work |
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| A little bit or limited quantity |
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| A person who is not a member of the clergy or not a member of a particular profession (such as medicine, law, etc.) |
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| Make less severe; lessen or moderate (damage, grief, pain, etc.) |
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| The quality of being firmly determined; resolving to do something; a formal judgment, esp. decided by a vote |
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| Insert part of a plant into another plant, where it continues to grow; join living tissue (such as skin) to part of the body where it will continue to live and grow; attach as if by grafting (verb); the part so grafted (as in a graft of skin); the act of acquiring money or other benefits through illegal means, esp. by abusing one's power (noun) |
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| Relevant and appropriate, on-topic |
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| Arranged in or relating to time order |
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| One of many layers (such as in a rock formation or in the classes of a society) |
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| Just beginning; in a very early stage |
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| To have a good or bad effect, esp. as a result of a person's efforts or actions (usually used with to, on, or upon) |
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| Hint, suggest slyly; introduce (an idea) into someone's mind in a subtle, artful way |
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| Lacking freshness and originality, lacking effectiveness due to overuse, cliché |
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| Agent, substitute, person authorized to act on behalf of another |
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| Personnel; a group of people considered all together |
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| Taking extreme care in regards to details; precise, fussy |
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| Deprive or strip of a rank, title, etc., or of clothing or gear; to sell off holdings (opposite of invest) |
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| Appreciate fully, taste or smell with pleasure |
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| Lacking consistency or order, disconnected, sporadic; going off topic |
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| Consult, compare views; bestow or give |
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| Overly nervous, agitated, or excited; too ornate, elaborate, or fussy; overdone |
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| Not generous with money, reluctant to spend or give |
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| Crafty, cunning, characterized by tricks or artifice |
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| Talk in an idle, simple-minded, meaningless, or foolish way; chatter, babble |
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| Possible; logical or likely; suitable |
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| Humble; simple rather than showy; decent (esp. "covering up" in terms of dress); small, limited |
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| A substance used to whiten walls, wood, etc. (noun); deception, covering up of wrongs, errors, misdeeds, etc. (verb) |
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| Joking, humorous, esp. inappropriately; not serious, concerned with frivolous things |
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| Uplift, enlighten, instruct or improve in a spiritual or moral way |
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| Personal inclination or tendency |
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| Producing no useful result, ineffective; trivial or unimportant |
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| Attack the truth or integrity of |
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| Composure, evenness of mind; mental or emotional stability, esp. under stress |
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| Having a particular manner, esp. an artificial one |
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| Calm and peaceful, carefree; prosperous, successful, happy |
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| Servile, very compliant, fawning |
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| Not toned down; not moderated, controlled, or counterbalanced |
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| Scatter, spread widely, cause to vanish |
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| Social outcast, untouchable |
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| annoy or bother; puzzle or distress |
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| Long, intense verbal attack, esp. when delivered publicly |
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| Coming from, based on, or able to be verified by experience or experimentation; not purely based on theory |
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| Claim or take presumptuously or without the right to do so |
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| Find a solution to; firmly decide to do something; decide by formal vote (verb); firmness of purpose (noun) |
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| Indifferent to pleasure or pain, enduring without complaint; person indifferent to pleasure or pain (noun) |
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| The "bumps" created by hairs standing up on the skin in response to cold, fear, etc. |
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| Soothe or cause to fall asleep (as in a lullaby); quiet down; make to feel secure, sometimes falsely (verb); a period of calm or quiet (noun) |
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| Gaudy, cheap or cheap-looking; indecent |
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| Something highly caustic, such as criticism (literally, one of a number of chemicals including sulfuric acid) |
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| Use unclear language to deceive or avoid committing to a position |
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| Too bold or forward; going beyond that which is proper |
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| Based on inference or assumption; providing reasonable grounds for belief |
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| Not shiny; dull, mediocre; lacking brilliance or vitality |
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| Inclination, natural tendency |
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| Of questionable authenticity; false |
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| Sluggishness, lethargy, or apathy; a period of inactivity |
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| Believable; having the appearance of truth |
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| Abundant or giving in abundance; marked by excess (adj); give very generously (verb) |
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| Very old, gray or white as from old age |
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| Comprehensive, thorough, exhausting a topic or subject, accounting for all possibilities; draining, tending to exhaust |
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| Concise summary, abstract |
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| Song or poem of sorrow, esp. for a deceased person |
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| Credit, attribute; lay blame or responsibility for (sometimes falsely) |
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| Intrinsically; by itself; in itself |
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| Very insightful, penetrating deeply into a subject; pervasive, intense, "down to the very bottom"; at the very bottom |
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| Rub or sprinkle oil on; make sacred, such as by a ceremony that includes applying oil to someone |
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| A mark indicating quality, purity, genuineness, etc.; any distinguishing characteristic |
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| Regretful, feeling remorse for one's sins or misdeeds (adj); a person who feels this way (noun) |
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| Lofty, very high up or elevated (in a metaphorical way); exclusive, select; thin, pure, or less dense (as air at the top of a mountain) |
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| Looking to the past or backward; applying to the past, retroactive (adj); an art exhibit of an artist's work over a long period of time (noun) |
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| Any object made by humans, especially those from an earlier time, such as those excavated by archaeologists |
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| Censor; remove objectionable or offensive parts |
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