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| (noun) a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses |
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| (adj.) harmful, injurious |
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| (adj.) lacking sharpeness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression |
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| (verb) to anticipate and make unnecessry |
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| (adj.) troubling; burdensome |
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| (noun) a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| (noun) a humourous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art |
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| (adj) recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
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| (noun) intentional breach of faith; treachery (adj. form: perfidious) |
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| (adj.) cursory;done without care or interest |
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| (adj.) acutely perceptive; having keen discernment (noun form: perspicacity) |
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| (verb) to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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| (adj.) acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| (verb) to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| (noun) a disposition in favor of something preference |
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| (noun) foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring (adj. form: prescient) |
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| (verb) to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| (noun) misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
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| (verb) to retract, esp. a previously held belief |
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| (verb) to disprove; to successfully argue against |
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| (verb) to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position |
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| (adj.) quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| (adj.) concerned and attentive; eager |
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| (adj.) characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| (adj.) occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances |
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| (verb) to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| (adj.) not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
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| (verb) to stun, baffle, or amaze |
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| (noun) the combination of parts to make a whole (verb form: synthesize) |
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| (noun) a force that causes rotation |
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| (adj.) winding, twisting; excessively complicated |
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| (adj.) fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| (noun) truthfulness, honesty |
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| (adj.) extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| (adj.) having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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| (verb) to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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