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shortage, scarcity
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| violent breakdown; severe overthrow |
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| wild living; corruption by sensuality |
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| to weaken (ant. 'invigorate') |
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| suave; courteous; sophisticated |
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| falling off or shedding at a certain season; ephemeral; not permanent |
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| to make a bombastic speech |
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| proper; in good taste; correct |
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| to embezzle; to abscond with money |
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| harmful (ant. beneficial, salubrious, salutary) |
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| to describe; to portray; to sketch |
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| to melt away or dissolve; to become soft, esp. with age |
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| a deception; a false psychotic belief regarding oneself or others |
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| to object; to take exception |
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| the unfolding or outcome of a series of events |
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| to express strong disapproval, esp. publicly |
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| a ruler with absolute power |
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| lacking plan, regularity, or purpose; random |
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| mentally skillful; artful; clever |
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| completely opposed; at opposite extremes |
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| sheer; extremely delicate |
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| a bitter denunciation (ant. panegyric) |
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| division, esp. into two contradictory groups |
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| intended to teach, moralize, or preach |
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| shy; lacking in self-confidence |
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| tending to cause delay (ant. expeditious) |
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| one who is involved in a variety of things, none of them seriously; dabbler |
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| to confuse, to deject; to frustrate; to deceive |
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| to converse; discuss formally |
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| one who goes against an opinion; nonconformist |
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| to persuade someone not to do something |
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| loose-fitting gown worn in N. Africa |
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| stubbornly unyielding; uninviting |
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| sever (as a code of laws); cruel |
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| a vehicle used to haul goods |
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| a person who drives a truck as an occupation |
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| concealment of one's true intentions by misleading words or actions; deception |
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| lively; enthusiastic; boiling up |
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| selecting from many sources what seems to be the best; catholic |
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| having to do with a body of churches |
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| instruction; improvement; enlightenment |
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| to make indistinct by wearing away; to erase or remove |
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| lively; bubbly (ant. effete) |
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| exhausted; worn out (ant. effervescent) |
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| a disagreeable or noxious vapor; escaping gas |
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| overflowing; very demonstrative |
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| conspicuously bad; flagrant |
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| n. exit ; v. to go out from |
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| to shed light upon; to make clear |
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| prominent; famous; standing above others in some quality or position |
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| formal expression of praise |
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| to exhaust, weaken or unnerve (ant. invigorate) |
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| to bring into being; to produce |
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| a baffling situation; something that is hard to explain or solve |
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| lasting a short time; transient |
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| a sudden and often divine enlightenment or realization |
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a typical or ideal example
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| ambiguous; deliberately confusing able to be interpreted in more than one way |
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| unpredictable; wandering; arbitrary (ant. static; stable) |
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| formal expression of praise |
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| substitution or a positive expression for something that may be interpreted as negative or distasteful; the expression that is substituted |
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| fleeting; hardly visible; ephemeral |
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| to make more violent or more severe (ant. assuage; appease) |
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| to exonerate; to clear of guilt or blame |
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| urgent; requiring prompt action; taxing |
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| a word that fills a vacancy but does not add to the sense of what was said |
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| to strike out; to obliterate or erase |
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| Great wickedness, vicious, immoral act |
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| a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought; a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying. |
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| to leave one's place of residence or country to live elsewhere. |
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| capable of being steered; airship |
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| based on expertise, observation, or experimental evidence |
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