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| (v.) to assert without proof or confirmation, claim |
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| (adj.) thoroughgoing, out and out; shameless, blatant, egregious |
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| (n.) light and playful conversation, banter, persiflage |
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| (v.) to overcome the distrust of, win over; to appease pacify; to reconcile, make consistent |
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| (v.) to cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first, recall, revoke |
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| (n.) one of a series or grades in an organization; an organized military unit; a steplike formation or arrangement; level, rank |
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| (v.) to make more violent, severe, bitter or painful, aggravate, intensiry, worsen |
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| (adj.) stupid or foolish in a self satisfied way, silly, vapid, inane, doltish |
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| (adj.) impossible to disprove; beyond argument, indisputable, incontrovertible |
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| (n.) a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
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| (adj.) lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted |
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| (n.) prayer consisting of short appeals to God; any repetitve chant; a long list, rigmarole, catalog, megillah |
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| (adj.) grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing, having death as a subject, grotesque |
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| (n.) an inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth, lack |
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| (v.) to indicate beforehand that something is going to happen; to give advance warning of, bode, foreshadow |
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| (v.) to tear down, destroy completely; to cut or scrape off or out, demolish |
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| (v.) to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract, repudiate, disavow |
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| (v.) to soak through thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully |
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| (adj.) of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in mood, sullen, morose |
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| (v.) to cast off, discard; to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary (n.) a mire, a state of depression |
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