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calm and peaceful, prosperous
"I always hated it when the halcyon days of summer were interrupted by the start of school." |
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to distress, create stress or torment
"The sadistic professor loved to harrow his students with harrowing tales of the upcoming final." |
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hairy,shaggy
"My hirsuite dog sheds life-size replicas of himself and still has hair left over." |
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a sermon or morally instructive lecture, a platitude
"Spare me the homilies; I already know why I should do the right thing." |
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arrogand presumption or pride
"As punishment for his hubris, Icarus was destroyed." |
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one who attacks traditional beliefs
"Although Luther is now praised as a reformer, he is and was an iconoclast." |
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dishonorable, not noble in character
"The ignoble thief will continue to steal." |
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disgraceful and dishonorable
"It was an ignominious end … as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt" |
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an ignorant person
"The ignoramus refused to listen to the evidence." |
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type or kind
"You can't trust people of tha ilk." |
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illegal, improper
"Illicit drug use." |
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to infuse; dye; wet, moisten
"Work imbued with a revolutionary spirit." |
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extraneous, inconsequential, nonessential; non consisting of matter
"The immaterial evidence is not relevant to this case." |
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relating to the immune system
"The immunological system protects me from illness." |
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to imprision
"They all agreed that they should immure the convicted criminal." |
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