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| hostile, argumentative, and fighting |
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| A person of few words - not talkative. |
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| Something tricky or confusing |
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| Over-flatterers, kiss-ups and yes-men |
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| Over-flatterers, kiss-ups and yes-men |
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| One who pretends to be sick to get out of work. |
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| adj. deviating from normal or correct |
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| v. to leave secretly and hide, often to avoid the law. |
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| v., n. to speak, plead, or argue for a cause, or in another's behalf. |
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| v. to make greater, to increase, this to exaggerate |
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| adj. vague; subject to more than one interpretation |
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| adj. extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia) |
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| n. a person or artifact appearing after its own time or out of chronological order (adj. anachronistic) |
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| adj. peculiar; unique, contrary to the norm (n: anomaly). |
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| adj. ancient; outmoded; (literally, before the flood). |
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| n. hostility toward, objection, or aversion to |
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| v. to settle a dispute by impulse (n:arbitration) |
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| v. to make less severe; to appease or satisfy |
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| v. weaken (adj. attenuated) |
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| adj. extremely bold; fearless, especially said of human behavior (n:audacity) |
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| adj. commonplace or trite (n:banality) |
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| adj. unconcealed, shameless, or brazen |
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| n. speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something |
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| n. pompous speech (adj. bombastic) |
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| v.,n. to grow or flourish; a bud or new growth (adj. burgeoning) |
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| v., n., to support or a support |
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| v. to get something by taking advantage of someone |
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| n. impulse (adj. capricious) |
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| v. to chastise or criticize severely |
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| adj. willingly compliant or accepting of the status quo (n.complaisance) |
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| adj. of or having to do with materials, as opposed to spiritual; tangible |
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| v. to strengthen or support (n. corroboration) |
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| adj., n. cowardly; a coward |
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| adj. deserving of blame (n. culpability) |
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| n. submission or courteous yielding (n. deferential; v. defer) |
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| n. the act of preying upon or plundering |
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| v. to make clear or to say |
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| n. a bitter, abusive denunciation or criticism. |
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| adj. lacking self-confidence, modest (n. diffidence) |
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| adj. to free someone of a falsehood or error. |
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| adj. belittling (n. disparagement; v. disparage) |
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| adj. calm; objective; unbiased |
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| v. to conceal one's real motive, to feign |
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| adj. stubborn or determined |
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| adj. relying upon doctrine or dogma, as opposed to evidence |
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| adj. selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources. |
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| n. effectiveness; capability to produce a desired effect |
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| adj., n. softening; something that softens |
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| v. to strive to equal or excel (n. emulation) |
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| n. a formal eulogy or speech of praise |
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| adj. prevalent in or native to a certain region, locality or people. |
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| v. to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of. (adj. enervating) |
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| v. to give rise to, to propagate, to cause |
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| n. puzzle, mystery (adj. enigmatic) |
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| adj. lasting only for a brief time; fleeting (n. ephemera) |
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| adj. ambiguous; unclear; subject to more than one interpretation - often intentionally (v. equivocate) |
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| adj. scholarly; displaying deep intensive learning (n. erudition) |
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| adj. intended for or understood by only few (n. esoterica) |
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| v. to increase the bitterness or violence of; to aggravate |
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| v. to demonstrate or prove to be blameless (adj. exculpatory) |
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| adj. exceeding customary or normal limits, especially in quantity or price |
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| adj. in existence, still existing |
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| n., v. a nautical measure of length (6 feet); or to penetrate to the depths of something in order to understand |
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| v. to seek favor or attention; to act subserviently (n. adj. fawning) |
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| v. to give false appearance or impression (adj. feigned) |
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| adj. highly emotional; hot (n. fervor) |
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| n. adj. a baby bird; an inexperienced person; inexperienced |
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| adj. flushed with a rosy color, as in complexion, a very ornate and flowery |
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| adj. verbose; talkative; rambling |
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| n. adj. fine cobweb on foliage; fine gauzy fabric; very fine |
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| adj. honest; straightforward |
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| adj. adv. headfirst; impulsive, hasty, impulsively; without forethought |
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| n. one who attacks traditional ideas or institutions or one who destroys sacred images |
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| n. insinuation or connotation (v. implicate) |
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| n. an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events. |
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| adj. in an initial or early stage; incomplete; disorganized |
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| adj. not capable of being correct. |
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| adj. permanent; unerasable; strong |
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| adj. indescribable; inexpressible in words; unspeakable |
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| adj. unsophisticated; artless; straightforward; candid |
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| adj. harmless; having no adverse affect; not likely to provoke strong emotion |
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| adj. dull; lacking in zeal or excitment |
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| Excessively exclusive; of or pertaining to an island |
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| adj. stubborn; immovable; unwilling to change |
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| adj. prone to outburst of temper, easily angered |
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| adj. using few words, terse |
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| adj. present or potential but not evident or active (n. latency) |
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| adj. praiseworthy; commendable (v. laud) |
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| n. giant whale, therefore, something very large |
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| adj. clean or transparent |
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| adj. mournful or gloomy, especially to an excessive degree |
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| n. generosity and nobility (adj. magnanimous) |
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| adj. malicious; evil; having or showing ill will |
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| n. incorrect name or word for something |
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| adj. harmful; offensive; destructive |
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| adj. hardened against influence or feeling; intractable |
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| v. to prevent by anticipatory measures; to make unnecessary |
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| v. to close or shut off; to obstruct (n. occlusion) |
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| adj. not transparent ore translucent; dense; difficult to comprehend |
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| n. a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing |
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| adj. showing a narrow concern for rules or formal book learning; making an excessive display of one's own learning |
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| adj. deliberately treacherous; dishonest (n. perfidy) |
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| adj. easily or frequently annoyed, especially over trivial matters, childishly irritable |
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| n. tendency or action for the benefit or others, as in donating money or property to charity |
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| adj.not easily excited; cool; sluggish |
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| v. to calm or reduce anger by making concessions |
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| n. excessively large quantity; overabundance |
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| adj. dull, heavy, massive, awkward |
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| n. cliff with a vertical or nearly vertical face; a dangerous place likely to fall; a very risky circustance |
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| v.n. to fall, to bring about or hasten the occurrence of something |
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| v. to stray away from or evade the truth |
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| v. to appease; to conciliate |
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| adj. beautiful (n: pulchritude) |
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| adj. cowardly, timid or petty |
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| n. inactivity, stillness, dormancy |
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| v. to make or become thin; to purify or refine (n. rarefaction; adj. rarefied) |
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| n. the act of censuring, scolding, or rebuking (v. reprove) |
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| adj. having a sharp or powerful intellect or discernment (n. sagacity) |
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| v. to satisfy fully or to excess |
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| adj. having a gloomy or morose temperment |
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| n. a very knowledgeable person; a genious |
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| adj. diligent; persevering; persistent (n. sedulity; sedulousness; adv. sedulously |
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| adj. seemingly true but really false; deceptively convincing or attractive |
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| adj. unspoken - such as a tacit agreement |
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| adj. habitually untalkative or silent, (n. taciturnity) Person of few words |
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| adj. exercising moderation and self-denial; calm or mild (n. temperance) |
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| adj. twisted; excessively complicated |
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| adj. ability to be easily managed or controlled |
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| n. beginner; person lacking experience in specific endeavor. |
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| adj. empty; without contents; without ideas or intelligence |
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| v. great respect or reverence |
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| v. to annoy or bother; to perplex; to puzzle; to debate at length |
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| adj. slow moving; highly resistant to flow |
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| adj. explosive; fickle (n. volatility) |
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| adj. craving or devouring a large quantity to food, drink or other things |
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| v. to hesitate or to tremble |
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| adj. extremely pitiful or unfortunate (n. wretch) |
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| n. enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal or goal (n. zealot, zealoutry, adj. zealous |
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