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| deification; glorified ideal |
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to take into custody;
to grasp the meaning of; understand, esp. intuitively - perceive;
to expect with anxiety, suspicion, or fear - anticipate |
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| someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
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| a funeral hymn or mournful speech/poem |
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| to set right; to free from error |
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| to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character |
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| to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
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| strict disciplinarian; one who diligently follows rules |
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| to clear from blame; prove innocent |
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| urgent; requiring immediate action |
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| excessively decorated or embellished |
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| one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions |
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| a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke |
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| unable to be calmed down or made peaceful |
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| showing innocence or childlike simplicity (naive) |
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| uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled |
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| clear and easily understood |
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| to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
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| to calm or make less severe |
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| hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
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| model of excellence or perfection |
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| someone who is ostentatious in one's learning; overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching |
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| willing to betray one's trust |
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| done in a routine way; indifferent |
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| to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
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| to lie or deviate from the truth |
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| correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs |
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| making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking; having a shrill, irritating quality or character |
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| temporary; lasting a brief time |
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| to renounce or relinquish a throne |
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| sharp or biting to the taste or smell / in nature |
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| moving freely; circulating |
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| hostile feeling or attitude |
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| belonging to the period before the biblical flood; very old or old-fashioned |
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| one who carries on flirtations |
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to move or act confusedly or without clear purpose OR a trembling; vibration; a state of flustered excitement or fear |
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| of doubtful authorship or authenticity |
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| a total desertion of one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc. |
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| one who repeatedly relapses, as into crime |
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| having perception; discerning; discriminating |
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| a commandment or direction given as a rule of conduct |
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| to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily |
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| nook or nest built high in the air |
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| well deserved; fitting; adequate |
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| brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible |
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| insulting accusation; vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach |
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| too great for description in words; that which must not be uttered |
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| having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose |
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| to bend knee (like in worship) |
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| existing or as such from birth |
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1. utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
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| indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute |
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| indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated |
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| to allow, grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension |
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| a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor |
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allowing the possibility of several different meanings, esp. with intent to deceive or misguide
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| dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter |
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| cowardly or craven; unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous |
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| integrity and uprightness; honesty |
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| abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims |
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| greed or irresistible desire for material goods |
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| song of praise or thanksgiving |
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| well paying job that requires little work |
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