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Completley honest, straightforward |
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a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive one |
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to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information |
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lacking cohession or connection |
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to introduce or communicate stealthily |
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easily understood; clear |
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the art of using language effectively and persuasively |
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quickness, accuracy, and keeness of jugdement or insight. |
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to find out, as through investigation or experimentation |
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careful; prudent; discret |
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to scatter widely, as in sowing seed |
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deep extensive learning |
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the application of scientific principles to agriculture, espically to animal breeding |
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excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules |
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exhibiting unusually early intellectual aptitude or maturity |
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basic; elementary; in the earliest stage of developement |
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difficult to understand |
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emotionally hardened; unfeeling |
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difficult to fathom or understand; impentrable |
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inclined to keep silent; reserved |
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known or understoood by only a few |
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independence; self-detemination |
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intended for or understood by only a small group |
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a clumsy error; a faux pas |
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characteristic peculiar to an indvidual or group |
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one who has the power and position to rule over others; monarch |
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to scold, rebuke, or harshly critize |
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to issue official blame |
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marked by harshly abusive condemnation |
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to draw a circle around; to restrict |
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appeading; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile |
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prone to engage in lawsuits |
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equality, as in amount, status, or value |
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moral uprightness; righteousness |
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to reject the validity or authority of |
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feigning piety or righteousness |
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plausible but misleading or fallacious argument |
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to support with proof or evidence; verify |
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adherence to the truth; truthfulness |
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adherence to the truth; truthfulness |
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adherence to the truth; truthfulness |
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to urge with repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery |
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insincere, obsequious flatter |
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distinguished; prominent |
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courageously or generously noble in mind and heart |
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to mutually take or give; to respond in kindness |
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no longer existing or functioning |
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to get rid of ad if by tearing it up by the roots; abolish |
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to remove objectionable content before publication or release |
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to level to the ground; demolish |
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to crush as if by trampling; squash |
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to unsurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tatics |
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to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem |
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to speak of negatively; to belittle |
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brazen boldness; presumptuousness |
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to attack as false or questionable |
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to damage, espically in a disfiguring way |
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disparging, belittling, insulting |
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disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful |
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given to pompous speech or writing |
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exceeding all bound, as of custom or fairness |
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full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy |
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extremely or deliberately shocking or noticible |
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mournful, disma, or gloomy, espcially to an exaggerated or ludricous degree |
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a strong inclination or liking |
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being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent |
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felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experince of feeelings of another |
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a combination of diverse elements; a mixture |
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to overwhelm as if with a flood; to swamp |
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state of being various or manifold; a great number |
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to make something better; improve |
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relieving or sootghing the symptome of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure |
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admirably suitble; apt |
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deliberately decceptive |
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deliberately decceptive |
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having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false |
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simultaneously feeling opposing feelings; uncertain |
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feeling or showing little emotion |
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impulsive and unpredictible |
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open to 2 or more interppertations and often intended to mislead; ambigous |
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to sway from one side to the other |
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to decline in vigor or strength; to tire; to droop |
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