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| Heavy and bulky or labored and dull |
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| To speak in a pompous and dogmatic style. |
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| To avoid telling the truth, to equivocate, to be evasive. |
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| Shows disrespect for sacred things |
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| Like prose and hence, lacking the imagination of poetry |
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| A person that acts silly, immature, and childish |
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| To steal, but has the added connotation of breaking faith in the act of stealing |
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| To tremble from fear or anxiety and can also be used to describe one who speaks in a trembling voice |
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| To evade the main point by emphasizing some petty detail |
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| Extravagantly chivalrous or impractical |
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| Can mean stinking, flagrant, absolute or growing excessively |
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| Person who habitually relapes into former criminal or antisocial behavior |
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| To make counter-accusations when confronted with someone accusing you |
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| To make a promise and then back out |
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| Someone who is either habitually silent or unwilling to talk |
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| Like a rogue; dishonest or playfully mischievous |
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| To be disrespectful to anything sacred |
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| Someone who struts around with a hypocritical show of piety |
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| Mischievous, puckish, or impish |
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| To save money to try to make ends meet |
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| A group that is narrow minded |
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| Anyone who doesn't budge and is always sitting |
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| To move about in a sneaking or cowardly way, or to hide and wait for some evil purpose |
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| A person that is either lazy or slow |
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| A person that waxes philosophical about how only the self exists |
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| Anything that looks good but is actually false, deceptive |
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| Anyone who is excessively loud, speaking with a deafening roar |
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| To impose rigorous standards and rigid control |
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| Excessive and needless to what is required |
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| To act in a secret, stealthy way |
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| To be redundant or needlessly repeat an idea using different words |
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| A person whom is irritably impatient and touchy |
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| To tremble, to be fearful, to be tentative |
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| Means swollen and can also be used metaphorically, being 'swollen' as in bombastic and pompous |
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| Means oily or smooth and deceitful |
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| Uncoordinated and unattractive |
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| A person without morals or conscience |
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| A person who is high and mighty, boastful and conceited |
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| Anyone who is capable of being bribed and corrupted |
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| A person who is thrilled by imagined participation watching another's experience, as when a fan gets a thrill watching a sports team win a game. |
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| Someone or something that is posionous or infectious; can also be used to describe one who is spiteful |
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| Anyone who is sharp, bitter and biting; oil of vitriol is sulfuric acid |
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| One given to droll, roguish humor |
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| To influence by flattery or guile |
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| Fearful of strangers or contamination from the outside, or they have contempt for foreigners |
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