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| following or in agreement with accepted traditional standards |
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| to deliberately avoid the truth, to mislead |
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| to equivocate, to change one's position |
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| a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
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| harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
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| intentional breach of faith; treachery |
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| conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
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| to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
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| disposition in favor of something |
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| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| excessive praise, intense adoration |
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| to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| sociable, outgoing, enjoying the company of other people |
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| a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead |
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| deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness |
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| greatly emotional or zealous |
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| tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| departing from norms or conventions |
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| characterized by bitter, long lasting resentment |
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| occurring or recurring daily, commonplace |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting |
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| to increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige |
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| a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals (esp. base metals into gold) |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on the tissue |
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| generally agreed upon practice or attitude |
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| an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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| scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
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| to flatter or praise excessively |
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| to illegally use or reproduce |
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| unfortunate, inappropriate |
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| seeming true but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive, plausible, but false |
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| to state as a fact, to declare, to assert |
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| to undeceive, to set right |
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| taken as a given, possessing self-evident truth |
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| Intended to teach or instruct |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| to take place of; supersede |
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| dealing with/appreciative of/responsive to art or the beautiful |
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| Expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles |
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| associated with the war and the armed forces |
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| urgent, pressing, requiring immediate action or attention |
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| inclined to change one's mind impulsively, erratic, unpredictable |
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| the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart |
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| to defame, to characterize harshly |
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| a universally recognized principle |
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| without adornment; bare, severely simple, ascetic |
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| accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness |
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| extreme boldness, presumptuousness |
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| dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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| An expression of approval or praise |
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| quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| sophisticated, refined, elegant |
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| to anticipate and make unnecessary |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| to weaken, to reduce in vitality |
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| to disguise or conceal, to mislead |
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| to slander or make a false accusation |
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| the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
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| noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
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| to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| insubordinate, rebellious |
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| to appease, to conciliate |
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| pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
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| critical examination, explication |
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| reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking in self-confidence |
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| hidden, concealed, difficult to understand, obscure |
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| extremely loud and powerful |
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| to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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| remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed thing |
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| one who abandons long held religious or political convictions |
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| soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| extremely harmful, potentially causing death |
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| sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating |
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| to tolerate, endure, countenance |
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| to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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| to make something less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe/intense |
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| disgrace, contempt, scorn |
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| biased, showing marked tendencies |
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| aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively |
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| to discriminate or discern |
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| an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
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| a song of grief or lamentation |
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| difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability |
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| deep-rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| courage, spunk, fortitude |
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| to find fault without good reason |
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| disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| obstinately defiant of authority, difficult to manage |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false, counterfit |
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| pointlessly talkative, talking too much |
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| excessively wasteful, recklessly extravagant |
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| to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| damaging, harmful, injurious |
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| formal praise, eulogy, encomiom |
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| multicolored, usually in blotches |
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| cheap, gawdy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show |
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| baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think |
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| toady, servile, self-seeking, flatterer, parasite |
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| to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind |
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| novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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| transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| improvised, done without preparation |
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| to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| a tool used for shaping, as in a tool and die shop |
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| to change as if by dyeing; i.e. to distort, gloss, or affect |
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| a blindly devoted patriot |
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| deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection |
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| an illusion; originally an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| pompous speech or expression |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with, to disown |
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| adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity, uprightness |
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| calm, sluggish, unemotional |
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| indefensible, not viable, uninhabitable |
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| radiant, shiny, brilliant |
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| diligent, persistent, hard-working |
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| to publicly praise or promote |
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| to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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| torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such |
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| to pry or press or force with a lever, something taken by force, spoils |
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| commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
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| exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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| severe criticism or punishment |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| unyielding, hard hearted, intractable |
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| Arrest, arresting (verb/adj) |
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| to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention; as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait |
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| a rope/cord/cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy |
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| sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant |
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| to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline |
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| tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally turned into bone |
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| childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| having sound judgment, perceptive, wise, like a sage |
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| gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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| denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| to atone or make amends for |
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| lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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| unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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| glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| random, aimless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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| to tilt or lean to one side |
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| pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully, to take tiny steps, tiptoe |
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| hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
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| belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
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| lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| to lose courage, turn frightened |
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| beginning to come into being or becoming apparent |
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| to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate |
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| recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish |
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| to test or try, attempt, experiment |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling |
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