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to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone)
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| he act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility |
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| a style of writing characteristic of poor novels |
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women's hats and other articles made or sold by milliners.
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| addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate |
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a student who stays away from school without permission.
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| a person with an irresistible craving for alcoholic drink |
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| minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread |
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| Cartilage in butchered meat |
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| leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: |
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a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct. |
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| a kitchen on the deck of a ship; galley. |
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| suggestive of a tomb OR gloomy |
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| the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor. |
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| a male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass. |
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| a close-fisted or stingy person. |
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| violating a rule, principle, or established practice; faulty; wrong |
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| to wade across a shallow part of a river |
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| pronounce or speak affectedly OR tiptoe |
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| to be established, accepted. |
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| to pry, press or force with a level |
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| exceptional, unusual, odd |
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| to put before a person for acceptance; offer |
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| an effort to perform or accomplish something; attempt. |
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| to Pry OR the act of taking or capturing, esp. a ship at sea. |
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| to throw with a swift, sudden movement |
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| anything mysterious, recondite OR air tight |
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| to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer. |
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| an untrained or inexperienced person. |
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| hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. |
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| a poem intended to be sung. |
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| a combination of several photographs joined together for artistic effect or to show more of the subject than can be shown in a single photograph. |
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| a long, noosed rope used to catch horses, cattle, or other livestock; lasso |
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| to argue, dispute, OR to tend or round up (cattle, horses, or other livestock). |
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| the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition. |
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