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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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| to state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| to provide support or reinforcement |
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| pompous, grandiloquent (noun form: bombast) |
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| to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| departing from norms or conventions |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region or people |
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| tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| to make worse or more severe |
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| greatly emotional or zealous (noun form: fervor) |
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| happening by accident or chance |
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| relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| pompous speech or expression (adj. form: grandiloquent) |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses (a hedonist is someone who pursues pleasure) |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something (noun form: idolatry) |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| extremely talkative (noun form: loquacity) |
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| characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| having or showing often vicious ill will, spite or hatred (noun form: malevolence) |
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| capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
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| the condition of being untruthful, dishonesty (adj. form: mendacious) |
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| characterized by extreme care and attention and precision; attentive to detail |
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| one who hates all other humans (adj. form: misanthropic) |
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| to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing |
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| overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge |
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| having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| to illegally use or reproduce |
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| the essential or central part |
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| to appease; to calm by making concessions |
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| a superficial remark; esp. one offered as meaningful |
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| to plunge or drop straight down |
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| controversial; argumentative |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment (noun form: rancor) |
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| obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
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| to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect (noun form: reverence) |
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| the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| promoting health or well-being |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination (adj. form: tenacious) |
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| having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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| fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause (a zealot is a zealous person) |
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