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| indicators; bringers of warnings |
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| complicated; highly convoluted |
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| statement giving strong praise |
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| pardon, forgiveness, release |
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| to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid |
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| to cause bitterness or a bad feeling |
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| self indulgence; pleasure-seeking |
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| using few words; brief; to the point |
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| someone who appreciates good food and drink |
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| deviating from the norm (noun: aberration) |
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| eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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| an expression of approval or praise |
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| fearless, daring, recklessly bold |
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| without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
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| one who practices rigid self-denial, especially in a religious capacity |
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| following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
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| to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
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| an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc. |
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| fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
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| extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| to weaken, reduce in vitality |
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| dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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| to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent (adj: equivocal) |
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| improvised; done without preparation |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
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| accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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| clear, easy to understand |
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| the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart; forgiving (adj: magnanimous) |
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| a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses |
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| to anticipate and make unnecessary |
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| a hymn or song of praise and thanksgiving |
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| intentional breach of faith; treachery |
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| going rapidly over something without noticing the details; hasty; superficial |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment (adj: perspicacity) |
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| to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring (adj: prescient) |
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| to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position |
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| characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| the combination of parts to make a whole |
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| a force that causes rotation |
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| winding, twisting; excessively complicated |
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| fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile and antagonistic |
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| to lessen in intensity or degree |
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| excessive praise; intense adoration |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| a universally recognized principle |
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| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change |
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| burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
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| argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness (noun: contrition) |
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| deserving blame (noun: culpability) |
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| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principles (noun: dogma) |
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| a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead |
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| soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smooths the skin |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
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| an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech |
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| lacking funds; without money |
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| beginning to come into being or beginning to become apparent |
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| refusing to compromise (noun: intransigence) |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| the act of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| to examine with great care (noun: perusal) |
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| one that precedes or indicates or announces another |
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| to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to |
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| a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| to take the place of; supersede |
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| existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant (noun: urbanity) |
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| keen, accurate judgment or insight |
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| to state as fact, to declare or assert |
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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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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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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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