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| Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| Lack; smallness of quantity or number |
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| Expressing rigid opinion based on unproven or improvable principles |
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| The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| A mournful poem esp one lamenting the dead |
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| Soothing, esp to skin; making less harsh; mollifying |
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| A speech honoring the dead |
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| Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| Violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| Lacking funds; without money |
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| Beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| Harmless; causing no damage |
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| To obtain by trickery or flattery |
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| Evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light |
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| Act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rate |
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| Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| Extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
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| To examine with great care |
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| One that precedes and indicates or announces another |
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| To dress up; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| Abundant in size, force or extent; extraordinary |
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| Producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
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| Stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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| Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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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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| Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
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| Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain;stead-fast |
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| To take place of; to supersede |
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| Lethargic, sluggish; dormant |
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| Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| Sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| To defame, to characterize harshly |
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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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| Outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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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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| Departing from norms or conventions |
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| Characteristic of or often found in a particular 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 commonplace by frequent usage |
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| Devotion to pleasurable pursuits esp to the pleasures of the senses |
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| The consistent dominance of one state or ideology 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; dishonesty |
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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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| Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| Disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| Disgrace; Contempt; Scorn |
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| The profession or principles of teaching, or instructing |
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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, esp 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; reservations |
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| Prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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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 or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| Promoting health and 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; misleading attractive; plausible but false |
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| Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| An overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply by 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; a harsh denunciation |
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| Fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| Fervent; ardent; impassioned; devoted to a cause |
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| To give up right or responsibility esp formally |
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| A temporary state of inactivity |
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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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| Agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
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| Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue |
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| Sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| Tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated or selfishness |
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| Polite or appropriate conduct or behavior |
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| Scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
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| To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| To disclose something secret |
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| To flatter or praise excessively |
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| To show contempt for, as in a rule or convection |
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| Pointless talkative; talking too much |
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| Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| Overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
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| About to happen; impeding |
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| Having no interest or concern; Showing no bias or prejudice |
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| Damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| To calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
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| A recent convert; a beginner, novice |
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| To deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| Stubborn; hard-headed; uncompromising |
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| Characterized by or given to pretentious display; showy |
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| Calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| An overabundance; a surplus |
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| Practical rather than idealistic |
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| Overstepping due bounds(as of properties or courtesy); taking liberties |
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| Adherence to highest principle; complete and confirmed integrity; upbrightness |
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| A natural predisposition or inclination |
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| Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| A natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
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| Dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
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| Characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste |
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| Foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| To make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
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| Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| Radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| To fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
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| Diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| A piece of broken pottery or glass |
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| Causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep |
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| Thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals |
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| One who spends money wastefully |
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| Not obvious; elusive;difficult to discern |
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| Implied; Not explicitly stated |
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| Brief and concise in wording |
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| To publicly praise or promote |
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| Sharply perceptive; Ken; Penetrating |
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| Genuine; not false or hypocritical |
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| Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| To waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another |
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| Multicolored; Characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
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| To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate |
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