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lacking a strong taste or character, or lacking interest or energy |
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refusing to be persuaded, especially refusing to change opinions that are strongly believed in |
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1 to give someone so much work or so many things that they cannot deal with them all
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to express sadness and regret about
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a song, poem or other piece of writing which expresses sadness about someone's death |
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more than enough, especially if expensive; very generous
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to give unsparingly |
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producing or reflecting bright light (especially in the dark) |
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to pretend to be ill in order to avoid having to work |
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an expression which describes a person or object in a literary way by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics to the person or object you are trying to describe |
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very careful and with great attention to every detail |
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to make someone less angry or upset |
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lack of variation
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too willing to believe that someone is telling the truth, that people's intentions in general are good, or that life is simple and fair; people are often naive because they are young and/or have not had much experience of life |
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too eager to praise or obey someone |
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1 unreasonably determined, especially to act in a particular way and not to change at all, despite argument or persuasion
2 [before noun] describes a problem, situation or thing that is difficult to deal with |
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to remove a difficulty, especially so that action to deal with it becomes unnecessary |
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1 to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.)
2 to shut in, out, or off |
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difficult to do or needing a lot of effort |
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severe criticism and blame; public disgrace |
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a person or thing that is perfect or has an unusually large amount of a particular good characteristic |
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unable to be trusted, or showing a lack of loyalty |
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done quickly, without taking care or interest |
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to spread through something and be present in every part of it; to penetrate |
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1 made of plastic
2 (disapproving) artificial or false
3 soft enough to be changed into a new shape |
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a very large amount of something, especially a larger amount than you need, want or can deal with |
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new or almost new, and in very good condition |
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to increase greatly and suddenly in number |
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to please and make calm a god or person who is annoyed with you |
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avoidance of risks and uncertainties; wisdom, caution, restraint |
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1 describes a very strong smell or taste, sometimes one that is unpleasantly strong
2 (literary) describes speech or writing that is very strongly felt |
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temporarily quiet and not active |
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1 to make rare or rarer; make less dense: to rarefy a gas
2 to make more refined, spiritual, or exalted
3 to become rare or less dense; become thinned |
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unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings |
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1 speech or writing which is intended to be effective and persuasive
2 (specialized) the study of the ways of using language effectively
3 (disapproving) clever language which sounds good but is not sincere or has no real meaning
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to completely satisfy yourself or a need, especially with food or pleasure, so that you could not have any more |
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causing sleep or making a person want to sleep |
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seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false; deceptively attractive |
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when people disapprove of something, especially when this is unfair |
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(of a person) calm and not showing emotion or excitement, or (of a thing) not interesting or attractive |
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1 extremely good, beautiful or enjoyable
2 very great |
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understood without being expressed directly |
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saying little, especially habitually |
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a long angry speech expressing strong disapproval |
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lack of activity; extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
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temporary, lasting for only a short time |
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the quality of being true, honest or accurate |
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using or containing more words than are necessary |
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to cause difficulty to someone, or to cause someone to feel angry, annoyed or upset |
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unusual and strange in a way that might be amusing or annoying |
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