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| "keen, accurate judgment or insight" |
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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| to combine several elements into a whole |
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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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| "to disguise or conceal, to mislead" |
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| "characteristic of or often found in a particulary 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 |
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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 |
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| rendered trite or commonplate by frequent usage |
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| "devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses" |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideiology 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 |
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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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| characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| "having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred" |
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| "capable of being shaped or formed, tractable, pliable" |
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| "the condition of being untruthful, dishonesty" |
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| "characterized by extreme care and precision, attentive to detail" |
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| one who hates all other humans |
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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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| "disgrace, contempt, scorn" |
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| the profession or principles of teaching or instruction |
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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, especially 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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| to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| "questions, inquiries, doubts in the mind" |
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| "prone to complaining or grumbling, peevish" |
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| "characterized by bitter, long lasting resentment" |
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| "to refuse to have anything to do with, to 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" |
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| the art of 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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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| "an overabundant supply, excess" |
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| "the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued, persistent determination" |
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| "having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak" |
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| a long and extremely critical speech |
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| "fleeting, passing quickly, brief" |
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| "fervent, ardent, impassioned, devoted to a cause" |
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