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| (n.) ignorant, stupid person;dunce; dolt; dullard; nincompoop |
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| (adj.)unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy; miserly; tightfisted |
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| (adj.)inclined to be silent or secretive; uncommunicative; reserved |
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| (n.) movies; motion-picture industry |
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| (n.) art of making motion pictures |
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| (adj.) overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberant; effervescent; highspirited; vivacious |
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| (v.)overstate; go beyond the limits of the actual truth; magnify |
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| (v.) arouse by words; advise strongly; urge |
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| (adj.) excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please;fusssy; particular; fastidious; persnickety |
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| (adj.)lacking significance or sense; pointless; silly; insipid; jejune; vapid |
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| (v.)compensate for loss, damage, or injury; reimburse; repay |
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| (n.)fixed pay for services; salary; regular allowance awarded a scholarship winner |
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| (adj.)moderately warm; lukewarm |
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| (adv.)unenthusiastically; lukewarmly |
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| (v.)risk(something) on the outcome of a contest or uncertain event; gamble; bet |
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| (adj.)in conflict; utterly opposed; loathsome; repugnant; odious; abominable |
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(v.) 1. plunge or place into a liquid; dip; duck
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| (n.)act or instance of snubbing; rebuff; slight; insult |
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| (n.)strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body; also, stitch made with such material |
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| (adj.)unintentionally; by accident; inadvertently; unknowingly |
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| (n.) give, transfer, or deliever, as if by signing over, hand over, commit |
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| (n.) shamless boldness; insolence; gall; temerity; nerve; chutzpah |
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| (n.)act of forbearing(refraining); abstaining; leniency; patience |
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| (v.)make young or youthful again; give new vigor to ; reinvigorate; refresh |
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| (n.)whatever is left after a part is taken, disposed if, or gone; remainder; rest |
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| (adj.)favorable to health; healthful; curative; beneficial; salubrious |
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| (adj.)having the characteristics of a clown; mildly insane; crazy; clownish; loony |
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| (adj.)in high spirits; joyful |
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| (adj.)full of merriment; playful |
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| (adj.)characterized by festivity |
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| (adj.)in bad humor; displeased; discontented |
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| (n.)quality in events or in art(literature, music, etc.) that arouses our pity |
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| (n.) word or deed of mild flattery; allurement; enticement |
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