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| eager and cheerful readiness. A cheerleader is full of acrility |
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| recess/partially enclosed place |
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| fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer |
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| one who considers himself smarter than others |
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| mix combine unite societies |
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| having both of two contrary meanings |
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| extremely pleasing to taste |
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| end (a debt) by setting aside money |
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| deification glorification to godliness |
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| appropriate to the situation apt |
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| steep difficult ascent laborious |
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| downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious: an arrant fool |
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| practicing self-denial austere stark |
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consider to be the origin of or belonging to
The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians |
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roughness harshness ill temper irritability
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slander
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| diligent hard-working sedulous |
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| make something (pain desire) less |
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| satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends. |
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| daring foolishly bold impudent |
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majestic venerable.
an august personage. |
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| favorable successful prosperous |
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| severely moral and strict simple and plain |
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| affirm assert prove justify |
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harmful ominous causing evil
Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams |
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| He balked at making the speech. |
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| causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive |
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| artificial obstacle built across a river |
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| barrier in water or in military to protect troops. |
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| not good enough unable to have young ones without value |
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| in enjoy warmth and light |
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| to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to |
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| to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner |
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| to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary: He kept belaboring the point long after we had agreed. |
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| belligerent pugnacious warlike |
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| (person nation) waging war |
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| person who has given help |
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| desire to do good to others. |
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| rob or dispossess of something (material) |
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| stubborn narrow-minded person |
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| the bulge in the middle of a cask (barrel) |
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polite manner comforting uninteresting
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| noisy and rough. brazenly obvious; flagrant. |
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cheerful casual carefree
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| sham, counterfit, not genuine |
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loud noisy rough lacking restraint
the sound of boisterous laughter. |
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give greatly needed support.
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| hasty; rash; impetuous. A brash young man. |
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| Yellow metal, mix of copper and zinc |
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| shameless or impudent. Made of brass |
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| opening broken place breaking |
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| to mention or suggest for the first time: to broach a subject. |
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| to tolerate endure. I will brook no interference. |
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| grow forth, send out buds |
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| a scheme or plot a group of plotters. Judas had a cabal against Jesus. |
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| To take advantage of someone's generosity. to beg to get by begging |
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| use flattery or deceit to persuade |
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| an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale |
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| slander, aspersion (español: calumnia) |
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| discuss thoroughly sort of touting |
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| 1.zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory. |
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| legal trickery/false argument |
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| grouch, misanthrope, crank |
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| come to grips/settle conclusively |
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| a method of closing a debate and causing an immediate vote to be taken on the question. |
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| to change from a fluid into a thickened mass |
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| coming together and uniting into one substance |
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| get smb to do something by kindness |
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| passage that completes a piece of music |
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| treat with care and tenderness. pamper, spoil. Esmeralda gets coddled by her mother. |
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| strong convincing. Martin Luther King gave cogent speeches. |
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| a group or band of people |
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| bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water |
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| secret agreement for a deceitful purpose |
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| to caution, advise, or counsel against something. Martin was admonished to not hit anyone at school. |
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having plenty of space for what is needed.
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| tending to comply obliging willingness to please |
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| feeling of regret for one's action |
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| excessive pride of one self. |
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| reconciling soothing comforting mollifying |
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| agree in opinion happen together |
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| to excues, make allowances for, forgive |
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| to change from fluid to solid as by freezing. Coagulate (Español: congelo) |
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| an implied meaning or suggestion. |
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| self-important; pompous. This lady with a consequential attitude demanded to be serviced. |
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| Alarm, dismay. Alarming amazement or dread. When I heard the lion roar, I froze in consternation. |
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| to force, compel, or oblige: He was constrained to admit the offense. |
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| make tight or smaller, compress, stop the natural course of. In this desolate house, loneliness constricted me to desperation. |
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| perfect/make perfect/complete |
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| abundant, profuse. In the Amazons there is a cornucopia of animal species. |
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| to act or avail against with equal power, force, or effect; counteract, counterbalance. |
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| crouch, shrink back. When he threw the chair I cowered so he would not hit me. |
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| demure, timid. showing reluctance, esp. when insincere or affected, to reveal one's plans or opinions, make a commitment, or take a stand: I like to be coy and listen critically before I broach a subject. |
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| Rural people are often stereotyped as crass and even boorish. without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: |
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| neck wear similar to a tie. |
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| make shorter then was planned |
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| pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please |
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| to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries. |
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| person who is slow waste of time |
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| a formal and authoritative order, esp. one having the force of law: a presidential decree. |
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great flood heavy rush of water.
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| person appealing not to reasons. a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people. |
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| protest against express disapproval of |
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| deserting and leaving to fall into ruins |
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| ridicule mockery deriding |
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| substance that promotes drying. |
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| purposeless. The war in Iraq was desultory. |
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| slandering verbal attack aspersion |
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| diminishing or lessening of swelling. After hurting my finger, it took time to show tumescence. |
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| a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism: |
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