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compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
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1. To walk with short steps that tilt the body from side to side.
2. To walk heavily and clumsily with a pronounced sway.
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| Evasive or vague speech or writing. |
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| a neglected ownerless child |
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| pale and sickly; faint;gloomy |
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| to sing sweetly, to make sweet quavering sound |
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| outward appearance; face; features |
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| the act of willing or choosing |
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| to feed quickly, greedily |
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| to revoke a former declaration |
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| to wheedle, to persude by cajolery |
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| To serve as master of ceremonies for. |
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| To reprove sharply; reproach. |
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| The final result; the outcome. |
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| a person, group, etc., that has risen suddenly to a position of power or wealth |
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| Of or characteristic of bears or a bear. |
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| One who lends money at interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawfully high rate |
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| Excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife |
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| Characterized by or exhibiting excessive vanity; boastful. |
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| One who is excessively concerned with being or appearing to be proper, modest, or righteous. |
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| Wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense |
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| Characterized by an inordinate interest in sex |
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| Any of some 25 Native American peoples, including the Hopi, Zuñi, and Taos, living in established villages in northern and western New Mexico and northeast Arizona. The Pueblo are considered to be descendants of the cliff-dwelling Anasazi peoples and are noted for their skilled craft in pottery, basketry, weaving, and metalworking. |
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| Belonging to childhood; juvenile |
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| An authoritative order or decree; an edict. |
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| Lying beyond what is evident, revealed, or avowed, especially being concealed intentionally so as to deceive |
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| Committing no mistakes; consistently accurate. |
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| Exhibiting no pretensions, boastfulness, or ostentation; modest |
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| The act of anointing as part of a religious, ceremonial, or healing ritual |
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| Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness; Having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment; slippery. |
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| A small glass bottle for holding a condiment, such as vinegar or oil. |
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To pick out from others; select.
To gather; collect. |
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| Performed with haste and scant attention to detail |
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| To descend to the level of one considered inferior; lower oneself. |
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| A pipe or channel for conveying fluids, such as water |
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| To solidify by or as if by freezing |
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| Given to the use of vulgar, coarse, or abusive language; foul-mouthed. |
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| A small opening or hatch with a movable lid in the deck or hull of a ship or in the roof, wall, or floor of a building |
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| To withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance. |
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| Persisting in a continuous intellectual or stylistic direction |
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| To cause to withdraw into seclusion. |
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| Of or relating to a governor. |
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| Of or relating to the sense of taste. |
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The god of the netherworld and dispenser of earthly riches.
This netherworld kingdom, the abode of the shades of the dead |
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| The attitude, state of mind, or behavior characteristic of a bigot; intolerance. |
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| To defraud, cheat, or swindle |
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| To coax by flattery or wheedling; cajole |
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| Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; used up. |
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| To conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation. |
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| To be responsible for; commit: perpetrate a crime; perpetrate a practical joke. |
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| A payment or profit received in addition to a regular wage or salary, especially a benefit expected as one's due |
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| Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted. |
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| Trim and stylish in appearance; jaunty |
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| Holding tenaciously to a purpose, belief, opinion, or course of action. |
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| To read or examine, typically with great care |
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| Directed away from what is right or good; perverted |
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| help or assistance, esp in time of difficulty |
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| The right or privilege of voting; franchise. |
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| Feeling or showing haughty disdain; proud |
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| Exceeding a fixed, prescribed, or standard number; extra. |
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| Anger aroused by something unjust, mean, or unworthy. |
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| to refer indirectly, briefly, or implicitly |
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| To attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin: "Other people ascribe his exclusion from the canon to an unsubtle form of racism" (Daniel Pinchbeck). |
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| Qualitative or quantitative analysis of a metal or ore to determine its components. |
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| To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest |
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| To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly |
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| Intensely painful; agonizing. |
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| Crudely or loudly assertive; pushy. |
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| To strip off the skin or outer covering of; To strip of money or goods; fleece; To whip or lash; To assail with stinging criticism; excoriate |
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| To work or act ineptly or inefficiently. |
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| A strip of decorative, usually gathered or pleated material attached by one edge, as on a garment or curtain |
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| To show contempt for; scorn |
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| A person from whom one is descended; an ancestor. |
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| A short trip taken to perform a specified task, usually for another |
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| Law An article of movable personal property; A slave. |
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| Experiencing want or need; impoverished |
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| Empty or insincere talk; claptrap. |
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| A contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term |
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| Heavy, strong, and muscular; husky. |
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| A foot and leg covering reaching halfway to the knee, resembling a laced half boot |
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| Sudden impairment of neurological function, especially that resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage; a stroke. |
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| Completely such; thoroughgoing: an arrant fool; the arrant luxury of the ocean liner. |
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| To take or claim for oneself without right; appropriate: |
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| A deep gully cut by an intermittent stream; a dry gulch |
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| Superiority or decisive advantage; domination |
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| To protect against damage, loss, or injury; insure. |
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| A fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. |
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| A person who has suddenly risen to a higher social and economic class and has not yet gained social acceptance by others in that class. |
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| A wide, low-pitched gable surmounting the façade of a building in the Grecian style. |
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| Official approval; sanction. |
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| Not providing for the future; thriftless. Rash; incautious. |
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| To attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument |
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| Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm. |
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| To relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the fault or responsibility to |
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| To beat, as with the fists; pommel: |
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| Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct. |
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| Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak: |
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| To have or present the often false appearance of being or intending; profess: selfish behavior that purports to be altruistic, To have the intention of doing; purpose |
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| One that furnishes provisions, especially food. |
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| The extent or range of function, power, or competence; scope |
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| purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; |
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| Of or relating to actors or acting. |
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| To accuse of a crime or other wrongful act. |
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| Imposed as an obligation or duty; obligatory |
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| An aggressive entrance into foreign territory; a raid or invasion |
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