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| to seep forth (as smells or ideas); to emit |
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| importance or prominence; lofty station |
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| salary, wages; compensation for work; literally "the miller's fee" |
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| experimental (as data from experience or observation) |
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| to try to equal (or exceed) an example; to imitate |
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| to diminish the strength of (either mind or body) ; to rob of energy |
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| to cause to exist, sponsor; to beget (a child or an idea)); to produce, originate |
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| to make better or more desirable in some way ; to intensify |
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| a thing hard to understand or fathom; conundrum, riddle, mystery |
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| to order or direct officially; to prohibit, forbid (with "from") |
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| charming; entrancing or spellbinding |
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| of brief duration, fleeting, transient, short-lived |
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| person of discriminating taste; a perfectionist regarding food and drink; gourmet |
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| writing on a tomb, or at the gravesite (in commemoration) |
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| an expression representative of a person or place; a disparaging phrase about someone or something |
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| summary; a typical example representative of a type |
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| open to two interpretations, unclear and often misleading; undecided, obscure, evasive |
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| to wipe out, exterminate; to pull up as if by the roots |
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| on no set course; wandering or nomadic; devious |
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| possessing great knowledge, learned |
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| of knowledge belonging to certain initiated people only |
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| the very core or most ital aspect of a thing; its very nature; essential, basic thing |
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| to set apart or at odds that which had been closely attuned; to alienate |
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| great praise (often in a formal way as at a funeral) ; encomium; literally "good words" |
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| use of carefully chosen acceptable words in place of those that may insult, offend, or be too honest; literally "good speech" |
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| pleasing, agreeable sound; literally "good sound' |
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| swear or curse; the thing cursed or reviled |
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| an urgently demanding time or state of affairs; what is absolutely needed for a particular circumstance (usually used in the plural) |
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| to free from blame or guilt; to exculpate, absolve |
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| to get rid of something terrible (as an evil spirit) by formal prayer, order, etc. |
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| foreign, strange, different |
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| to write or speak lengthily, with detail; to expound |
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| one living outside his or her native country, often voluntarily |
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| to order out of the country; to leave one's native country or renounce it; literally "out of the fatherland" |
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| suitable, practical; advisable, opportunistic |
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| to cause to move along at a desirable rate; facilitate |
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| to make up for, in the sense of atoning; to make amends |
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| absolutely clear and definite; precise; specific, express |
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| to obliterate, erase, efface totally; to destroy |
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| in actual experience; intact (as opposed to lost or ruined) |
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| to speak without formal preparation; to improvise on the spur of the moment |
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| to reduce the severity or importance of; to mitigate (a crime, an illness, etc.) |
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| of extra, nonessential parts; irrelevant; extrinsic as opposed to intrinsic |
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