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| To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| Outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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| To state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| To provide support or reinforcement |
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| To disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| Departing from norms or convention |
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| Characteristic of or often found in a partcular locality, region, or people |
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| Tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| To make worse or more severe |
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| Greatly emotional or zealous |
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| Happening by accident or chance |
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| Pompous sppech or expression |
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| Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| Devotion to pleasuable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses |
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| The consistent dominance or one state or ideology over others |
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| One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| Given to intense or excessive devotion to comething |
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| Marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| Immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| In an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| Unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| Characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| Having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
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| Capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
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| The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
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| One who hates all other humans |
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| To make or become less sever or intense; to moderate |
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| Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| To profession or principles of teaching, or instructing |
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| Overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge |
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| Having the tendency to permeate or spead throughout |
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| To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| To illegally use or reproduce |
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| The essential or central part |
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| To appease; to calm by making concessions |
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| A superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
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| To plunge or drop straight down |
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| Controversial; argumentative |
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| Reclessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| Questions; inqueries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
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| Prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| Characterized by bitter, lomg-lasting resentment |
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| Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| To refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
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| To invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| Marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| The art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| Promoting health or well-being |
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| Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| Seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
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| Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| An overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess |
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| The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination |
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| Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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| Fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| Fervent; ardent; impassioned; devoted to a cause |
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