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| cleasing with water or other liquid, especially as a religious ritual; the liquid used in such an act |
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| sharpness, keenness of perception, deftness |
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| wise saying or proverb; an old familiar saying that expresses folk wisdom |
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| hormone produced by theadrenal gland, stimulation of energy and strength |
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| to sketch, to outline, to give a hint of things to come |
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| unfavorable; antagonistic |
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| one who supports a cause; one who defends or pleads on behalf of another |
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| to cause to become part of or to form a close relationship with; to associate or connect with |
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| natural attraction; kinship; similarity |
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| to declare something to be true, to confirm or ratify |
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| to allow to have; to provide; to have enough money to buy; to confer upon |
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| an action intended to insult or affent someone;an injury to one's dignity |
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| exaggeration, an apearance of greater power or influence |
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| total; collection of different things |
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| one who believes it is impossible to know whether God exists |
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| related to farming and land |
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| malarial fever characterized by drastic changes or hot and cold body temperature |
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| magical power or process or transmutation; a medieval study and practice of chemistry |
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| nook, corner, any recessed space |
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| an excuse to avoid blame, a credible excuse or explanation of innocence |
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| to make hostile; to cause to feel unwelcome or estranged |
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| devotion or loyalty to a person, country, or cause |
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| to make less severe; to relieve, to lessen |
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| repeating of initial consonant sounds in language |
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| to unite formally by treaty or league; a friend or close associate in a common cause |
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| money or goods given as charity to the poor |
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| one who is defeated in a race, election, or other competition; a loser |
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| elevated structure, as a mound or platform where religious rites are performed |
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| choice between two possibilities; asituation presenting such a choice |
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| devotion to helping others; selflessness |
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| fusion; compound; a blend of different things |
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| comfortable, pleasang feature |
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| incongruity; something out of time or place in history |
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| helping; providing assistance; subordinate |
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| strong anxiety and unhappiness; a feelign of dread |
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| descriptive record; history |
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| explanatory note added to a text |
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| free from germs; exceptionally clean |
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| narrow opening; usually a hole; esp. one that controls the amount of light reaching an optical instrument |
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| sudden loss of bodily functions caused by the rupture of a blood vessel |
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| ghostly image; phantom; specter |
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| to soothe; to pacify or relieve by giving in to |
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| to inform; to tell; to make aware of |
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| additional feature; something that supplements a more important thing; an accessory |
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| judge; one who makes decisions |
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| covered area or passageway in which there are shops; archways connected by pillars or columns |
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| to bring before a court of law; to respond to a charge; to accuse |
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| complete; unmitigated; downright; total |
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| building where weapons and military equipment are stored; a collection of weapons; armory; any supply or store |
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| any drunken party or riotous celebration |
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| to trade;to toss back and fforth; to exchange |
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| triteness or triviatlity in style; overly sentimental, mawkish writing or emotion |
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| act of beating or pounding; an emplacement for one or more pieces of artillery; an object designed to produce electric enerty |
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| to complain about; to grieve over; lament |
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| point of reference; standard by which to measure; criterion |
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| blessing; prayer asking for help and protection; utterance of good wishes |
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| groupd of animals; an assemblage |
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| lowest point of a ship's inner hull; nonsense, rubbish |
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| removal of a sample of human body tissue for the purpose of examination |
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| temporary shelter or encampment, especially for military purposes |
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| extremely unconventional or farfetched |
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| to place a person on a list under suspicion, disfavor, censure |
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| to remove color from; bleach; to make pale, as from illness or fear |
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| insult to anything sacred; profanity |
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| offensively noisy; totally obtrusive |
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| anything that injures, destroys or prevents growth |
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| coalition of factions; parties with a common interest or purpose |
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| thick club; coerce, bully |
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| plain- spoken with lack of feeling; abrupt |
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| to act in a loud, boastful, or threatening way |
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| not genuine;; counterfeit |
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| to support, as in a group |
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| high sounding use of language without much real meaning |
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| witticism or a clever reply |
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| person who enjoys life, esp. food and drink |
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| not counterfeit or phony; genuine; real |
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| good natured; easy friendly disposition |
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| rude person someone who is unrefined |
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| to smuggle; to make, sell, or transport for sale illegally |
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| loot; the spoils of war; goods or property seized by force; a valuable prize |
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| covered with an abundance of trees or shrubs; wooded |
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| bungle; to spoil something by doing it badly |
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| stew made with several kinds of fish and shellfish; mixture of things |
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| conventional; boringly middle class |
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| of, relating to, or resembling an animal such as an ox, cow or buffalo,; solid; dull |
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| to omit, abridge, or modify a work of literature that is considered offensive |
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| invigorating; energizing; stimulating; healthy and fresh |
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| to wave or shake something in a threatening agitated, or exciting manner; to flaunt |
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| hasty and reckless; impetuous; unthinking |
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| false, exaggerated, or boastful display of courage |
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| large, solid muscles; great muscular strength |
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| bold, shameless; impudent; also like brass |
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| pan for holding burning coals |
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| act of breaking a law, promise, agreement or relationship; violation |
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| distance from side to side, width; freedom from restraint |
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| bandit or robber, usually one of an outlaw band |
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| to respond with anger; to be ready to fight back |
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| to bring up a subject for discussion |
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| dull, over familiar saying; cliche; a chemical compound used as a sedative |
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| to bear or tolerate; to put up with |
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| quick and rude in manner or speech; impolitely abrupt; curt |
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| rural or rustic in nature, country- like |
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| person who behaves comically; clown |
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| defensive wall; something serving as aprincipal defense |
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| to polish or rub to a high gloss |
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| isolated hill or mountain with steep sides on a large plain |
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| support for a wall; encouragement or support for a person |
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| difficult to understand and complicated; characterizzed by the architectural style of the Byzantine Empire |
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| small group of people who plan a secret plot, especially political |
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| hiding place, or the objects hidden in a hiding place |
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| mark of prestige; mark of approval |
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| harsh sounds; jarring discordant sounds, dissonance |
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| to wheedle, coax, or persuade someone to do something |
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| event causing extreme harm, suffering, or destruction; disaster |
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| immature and inexperienced |
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| harmful statement, known by the maker to be false |
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| false story with the intention of misleading or doing harm |
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| truthfulness, sincere honesty |
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| principle, decree, law or body of laws, especially in religion |
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| covering from the weather; natural or man- made |
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| insincere statements made to give one the appearance of goodness |
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| difficult, ill tempere, and irritating to deal with |
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| to conduct a survey or poll ; to make a survey |
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| spacious; roomy; able to hold much |
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| location of the center of government; money used to make more money |
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| economic system of free enterprise |
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| building where a state legislature or U.S. Congress meets |
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| to surrender under certain conditions; to give in |
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| quick to point out faults; critical |
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| hold the attention of someone by being interesting or charming |
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| protective covering; shell |
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| able or likely to cause cancer |
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| relating to or affecting the heart |
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| of great importance; chief |
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| to move fast and imsteado;u' tp ;ircj wjo;e om ,ptopm |
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| exaggerated portrait or description |
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| bloody and massive slaughter, especially in battle; a massacre |
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| to complain and find fault about unimportant things |
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| art or technique of producing maps and charts |
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| waterfall; anything resembling a waterfall |
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| to criticize harshly, usually with the intention of correcting wrongdoing |
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| violent upheaval or change |
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| underground cemetery, esp. one with tunnels and tombs |
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| something which causes reactions in other things without being affected itself |
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| device for hurtling things; to slingshot |
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| large waterfall; deluge; eye abnormality |
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| emotional or psychological cleasnin that brings relief or renewal |
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| flexible tube inserted into a bodily channel to permit injection or withdrawal of fluids |
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| universal; embracing everything |
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| meeting of leaders; esp. a local political group |
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| showing arrogant disregard; a gallant gentleman; casual |
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| to quibble; to engage in trivial bickering |
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| to strut; frolic; to prance |
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| to withdraw; to give up, as by treaty |
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| swiftness of action or motion; speed |
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| of or pertaining to heaven or the sky above |
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| one who examines material to as ascertain whether it is objectionable |
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| to condemn severely for misconduct |
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| part of the brain, between the cerebrum and brain stem, that controls muscle coordination and equilibrium |
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| of or relating to the brain; describing an intellectual person |
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| to confirm formally; verify |
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| stopping or ceasing, coming to an end |
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| to create friction; irritate; to rub |
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| anything worthless; the husks separated from grain |
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| humiliation; disappointment |
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| kind of Swiss farmhouse with overhanging eaves |
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| lizard that chages colors; highly changeable person |
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| to defend or fight for; advocate; to support |
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| to direct into a particular place or situation |
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| female singer in cabarets and night clubs |
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| ability to attract followers |
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| vigilant, careful, cautious, wary |
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| morally pure; without obscenity |
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| a French estate, manor, castle or large house in the country |
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| an item of personal, movable property; slave |
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| bring to a standstill, to stop to hold back, to block |
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| use of chemical agents in the treatment of disease, esp. cancer |
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| angel represented in art as a beautiful, chubby child with small wings |
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| fanciful; imaginary; absurd |
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| colorless, volatile, toxic liquid that produces anesthesia |
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| hot- tempered; quick to anger |
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| three or four musical notes played together |
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| to express with a snorting chuckle; to laugh with pleasure and glee |
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| continuing for a long time; continuous |
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| history; record of events |
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| order of events from the earliest to the latest |
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| rude or vulgar person; crude or illiterate peasant or yokel |
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| brazen, audacious behavior that is sometimes admired but often rude |
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| related to making motion pictures |
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| zero; thing that has no value; code; solution to a code |
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| about; at an estimated historical time period |
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| not following a direct path; roundabout |
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| indirect speech; talking around the facts |
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| to travel all the way around |
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| to set the limits; to restrict |
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| cautiou; heedful of situations and potential consequences |
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| to surround; enclose; bypass |
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| fortress overlooking a city; stronghold |
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| quote by way example, call to attention |
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| courteous; polite; civilized |
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| having the ability to foresee things; having exceptional insight |
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| planned or occuring in a secret manner, especially for subversive or illicit purposes; done in secret |
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| group hired to applaud at an performance; anyone who bestows approval motivated by self- interest |
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| to make clear, refine, elucidate |
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| to adhere to; fasten tightly; split or divide |
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| overused expression or idea; commonplace |
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| pertaining to the highest or most intense point |
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| to make final; to settle; embrace |
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| group bound together by a common interest |
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| covered walk; tranquil, secluded place |
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| person or thing very much like another |
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| power and influence over other people or events; powerful blow or stroke |
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| to become weary with an excess of something |
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| to cause to become thickened, to form a solid mass |
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| to grow together; to unite; to fuse |
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| to overprotect someone or something; to pamper |
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| mildly eccentric and usually elderly man |
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| to force someone by threatening or physically overpowering him |
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| to think very carefully; to give careful consideration to |
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| dealing with our senses; cognition is knowing |
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| making sense; holding together |
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| hairdo; arrangement of hair |
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| to assemble in proper order; to combine printed sheets to assemble in proper order |
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| security offered for payment of a debt |
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| informality of language; street language |
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| secret agreement; conspiracy |
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| capable of burning; easy to excite |
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| social harmony, mutual courtesy |
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| to honor a memory in a special way; to serve as a reminder of or memorial to |
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| to feel or express sympathy for someone' suffering or unhappiness |
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| thing, something bought and sold |
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| deep sorrow for the suffering of another along with an urge to help; pity |
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| able to function in harmony with others |
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| forceful; urgently needing attention |
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| pay to in return for services rendered; offset; be equivalent to |
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| having the skills or knowledge to do something well enough to meet a basic standard; qualified; capable |
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| to collect from a variety of sources and arrange together |
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| self- satisfied; overly pleased with oneself |
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| cordial, amenable, eager to please |
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| to complete; be the perfect counterpart |
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| willingness to adhere, acting in accordance |
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| admiring remark or the act of congratulating someone |
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| to obey and order, rule, or request; to act in agreement with a with, or requirement |
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| a part of; an element or ingredient |
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| in a calm and collected state; serene; controlled; tranquil |
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| dessert of fruit cooked in syrup, also the dish in which it is served |
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| to mix or combine so as to make a whole |
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| settlement of differences in which each side makes concessions |
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| slight feeling of guilt for something one has done; remorse |
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| to admit, often unwillingly, that something is true; to yield, as in a game or contest |
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| sharded purpose; togetherness or cooperation; agreement |
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| to make by adding several different parts together; invent; contrive |
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| accompanying; happening together and connected with; going along with |
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| to coincide; to act together; cooperative |
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| parallel; happening at the same time |
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| shortened, reduced, compact |
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| patronize; to lower oneself |
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| to allow to happen; to purposely overlook |
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| person with whom one can share feelings and secrets |
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| particular arrangement or pattern of a group of related things |
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| flowing together; place where rivers begin to flow together |
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| to bring into harmony; to make the same |
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| to confuse and surprise; to perplex or bewilder; to amaze |
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| fraternal union; brotherhood |
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| to change from a liquid or soft state to a thick or solid state; to coagulate; to jell |
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| god or goddess; someone or something worshipped as a god |
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| not paid on time; neglectful of a duty failing to do what the law requires; a person who is delinquent |
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| classification or category; religious group or sect composed of a number of congretations |
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| someone who assumes the financial risk of beginning and operating one or more businesses; an independent business person |
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| person who enjoys food and drink of a high quality, often having great knowledge of the subject |
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| brief and usually witty saying |
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| quotation set at the start of a literary writing; en engraved inscription |
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| to avoid giving a direct answer; to deceive; to be shifty |
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| unstable; inconsistent; unpredictable |
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| important; vital; absolutely necessary |
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| an easy and painless sdeath; the act or practice of causing death painlessly to end suffering |
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| model or original; an example |
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| detailed statement intended to explain something difficult; a public exhibition |
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| to express disagreement or complaint; to argue earnestly with someone |
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| especially beautiful; delicately or finely made; keenly felt; intense |
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| anything delicate or fanciful |
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| obtain by trickery; to use devious or dishonest methods |
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| foist, to force another to accept, esp. by deceit or stealth; a pocket watch |
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| lack of common sense or of good judgment; foolishness, or a foolish action or belief; rash behavior |
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| gaudy; ornate; overly dressed |
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| quick raid or sudden advance; new venture |
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| to refrain from; to abstain; to be patient or tolerant |
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| to take ontrol of property beause te buyers did not pay bak te money borrowed to pay for it; to bar or rule out |
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| using te metods of science to provide information; pertaining to or sued in legal proeedings |
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| determined in advance; fated; predestined |
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| delicate floating cobwebs; a sheer gauzy fabric; something delicate, light |
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| rate of inclination; slope |
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| shockingly repellent, ghastly, horrid, macabre |
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| to beg persistently, be servile, fawn |
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| group of people united with a common goal |
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| enthusiastic enjoyment; zest |
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| to prevent the free movement, action, or progress of; to hinder or impede |
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| lacking order or purpose; not planned; random |
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| to lecture, berate; a long bombastic speech |
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| to annoy or trouble repeatedly or persistently; to hinder or exhaust by repeated attacks |
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| something that shows what will happen in the future; an indication; an omen |
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| buffoon, in comedy, wearing masked face and variegated tights |
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| friendship, accord, pleasant agreement, like- mindedness |
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| to repeat or complain about something repeatedly in an annoying way; to go on and on |
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| extremely distressing; disturbing ot frightening |
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| to attack or annoy repeatedly or constantly; harass |
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| discordant, unpleasant, severe, demanding, caustic, abusive |
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| overly convinced of one's importance and superiority; arrogant |
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| tackle or rope used on a ship to hoist and lower |
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| any shelter of safe place; refuge |
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| disorder or chaos; great destruction |
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| to give strength, courage, or hope; to encourage |
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| one who lives by the belief that pleasure- seeking is the primary goal of life |
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| pay careful attention, notice, observe |
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| leadership of one nation or group over another |
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| extremely bad or evil; despicable; atrocious |
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| family possession handed down from generation to generation |
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| tumultuously, disorderly, haphazardly, in a confused manner |
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| person who conveys or announces official news; messenger; person or thing that signals the beginning or approach of something |
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| substance used to destroy plants, especially weeds |
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| one who maintains unorthodox religious opinions or beliefs; one who dissents from official church doctrines |
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| unconventionality; unorthodox |
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| having dissimilar parts or elements |
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| small Japanese style charcoal brazier, outdoor grill |
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| categorization of a group according to ability or status |
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| illegible or incomprehensible symbols, illegible writing |
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| person of superior intellectual interest and taste |
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| obstruction, an annoying interference or delay |
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| remote or lesser developed areas of any country |
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| any structure or arena for equestrian and other spectacles |
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| overly dramatic, theatrical |
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| three- dimensional image created by laser beams |
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| expression of great respect and honor |
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| consisting entirely of one thing or quality |
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| having or showing ill will |
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| small, miserable dwelling; an open, low shed |
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| very great pride and belief in one's own importance; arrogance; excessive pride considered as sin |
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| pretending to be what you are not, or pretending to believe something that you do not; insincerity |
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| proposition assumed as a premise in research, argument, or conversation |
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| one who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions |
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| to fill with a certain quality or feeling; to inspire or permeate, as with an idea or emotion; deeply influence |
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| to cause to diminish, as in strength, value, or quality |
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| to formally accuse of a serious crime in connection with one's job; to accuse of or charge with misconduct of public office; to cast doubt or discredit |
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| porr; having very little money; lacking funds; penniless |
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| about to happen soon; about to occur or appear |
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| impossible to enter or go through; impossible to influence; immovable; impervious |
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| to beg or appeal for; to urge |
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| to make repeated forceful requests for something, usually in a way that is annoying or inconvenient; to pesterwith insistent demands or requests; to trouble |
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| person who arranges public entertainment; any manger or producer |
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| done or said without earlier planning or preparation; spontaneous or improvised |
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| to invent or provide something at the time when it is needed without previous planning; to construct or compose from whatever materials are available or handy |
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| bold, impertinent, rude, insolent |
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| freedom from punishment; immunity from harm, punishment or retribution |
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| done or happening unintentionally; not planned; inattentive, or resulting from inattention |
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| embodiment, as of a god, idea, or quality; the human form of a spirit, or the human representation of a principle or idea |
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| of or relating to objects that produce intese heat and fire when ignited; inflammatory; likely to cause violence or strong feelings of anger and strife |
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| to cause someone to have particular beliefs or values by repeating them frequently; to implant in someone's mind by earnest and frequent repetition; instill |
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| presently holding a particular office or position; required or obligatory; necessary to do something |
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| suddent and unwanted entrance to a place or orea; a raid or sudden invasion |
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| someone who becomes involved without being asked ot wanted; someone who enters a place without being allowed; meddler |
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| period between two successive governments |
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| inherent; part of the essential nature of something |
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| examining one's own feelings |
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| to overwhelm with abundance or excess; flood |
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| insulting or abusive speech |
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| to tempt or persuade by using deception or flattery |
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| likely to cause unhappiness or offense; tending to arouse feelins of resentment or animosity; offensive or discriminatory |
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| not violated, injured, disturbed, or profaned; pure or intact |
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| to ask for help; to call out to for help, support, protection, or inspiration; to ask for earnestly, as in prayer; solicit |
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| impossible to refute or disprove; indisputable |
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| detailed plan, a list of places to visit |
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| words and phrases used by particular groups of people, in their work or trade, that are not generally understood; any confusing, pretentious, or meaningless words or language; gibberish |
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| prejudiced view; yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes |
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| to put into hazard, risk, or imperil |
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| cargo or equipment thrown overboard to lighten an imperiled vessel; discarded odds and ends |
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| to throw overboard in order to lighten a ship or airplane, usually in an emergency |
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| aggressive nationalism and patriotism, especially as directed against foreign countries; belligerent bigoted patriotism; warmongering |
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| inclined to joke; jovial; merry; amusing or intended to cause amusement |
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| to bump, push, or shove roughtly |
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| combat with lances between two knights, a tilting match; any combat suggestive of a joust |
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| joyfully exuberant, with a spirit of good fellowship |
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| feeling of great happiness; exultation |
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| exhibiting sound judgement |
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| place where things meet or join; the act of joining or state of being joined; connection |
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| decisive or crucial point |
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| dessert, an excurion by officials to gather facts |
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| small group that rules a country after taking power by force; small legislative body or deliberative council |
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| extent of authority or legal power |
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| fate, destiny; good or bad vibrations from something or someone |
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| good working condition; sound of readiness |
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| family relationship; relative |
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| to cause to burn or ignite; to arouse or inspire |
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| natural connection or family relationship |
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| small structure with one or more sides open |
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| clear resonant sound; a bell esp. at a funeral |
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| lacking energy and vitality |
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| lacking energy and effort; lacking brilliance; dull |
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| to give a thrashing; scold |
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| to express sorrow or regret; to mourn |
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| to attack or ridicule someone in a satirical way |
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| any prominent feature of a landscape; an event; of critical importance |
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| lacking energy; weak; showing little interest in anything |
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| to become weak or feeble; sag with loss of strength |
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| crime of taking something that does not belong to you; theft |
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| feeling, expressing, or causing sexual desire; exciting or expressing lust; obscene; lewd |
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| listlessness; torpor, weariness |
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| lying hidden or undeveloped; potential |
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| scope, freedom, range, leeway; the distance north or south of the equator |
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| to give a lot or too much to; to expend or give abundantly or limitlessly; to squander |
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| irresponsible, not diligent, relaxed |
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| person who is not trained in or does not have a detailed knowledge of a particular subject; man who is not a member of the clergy |
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| refusing ro reluctant to believe |
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| something handed down from one who has gone before or from the past; bequest |
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| sleight of hand, trickery, deception, illusion |
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| wound, injury, especially one created by a disease |
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| capable of causing death; fatal or deadly |
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| lacking in energy; feeling unwilling or unable to do anything |
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| lack of energy; laziness; sluggishness; torpor |
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| embankment designed to prevent flooding of a river |
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| positional advantage, power, clout, influence |
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| to rise or float in the air |
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| writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries |
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| dictionary; vocabulary terms used in or of a particular profession, subject, or style |
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| communication link between groups or persons; connection; alliance; unpermitted secret love affair |
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| written falsehood that injures another's reputation |
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| favoring civil liberties and social programs, unbiased, generous |
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| immoral or licentious man |
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| acting in a promiscuour, uncontrolled and socially unacceptable manner; not within the bounds of morality or propriety; immoral |
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| perfectly clear; transparent; lucid |
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| descendants of a particular ancestor or family |
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| to treat a person as a celebrity, to idolize |
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| closing of one's business by collecting assets and settling all debts |
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| tired and weak, lacking energy or interest; lethargic |
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| long list; recital that involves repetition or incantation; tedious recounting |
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| true to fact, not exaggerated, actual or factual |
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| bending easily and gracefully |
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| person involved in a lawsuit |
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| of a purple or dark blue color, usually caused by an injurty; blck and blue, as from a bruise; extremely angry; full of rage; furious |
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| to feel intense dislike, to hate or detest |
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| to try to prompt legislative action; to exert influence |
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| management of the details of an operation |
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| to recline in a relaxed manner, to hang loose, droop, dangle |
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| great span of life or time |
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| steady, easy gait faster than walking; to move with such a gait |
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| rude, stupid, or awkward person; someone who is clumsy or unmannered; oaf |
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| monetary reward or gain, money |
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| ridiculous or foolish; laughable because unreasonable or unsuitable |
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| celestial body; person attaining eminence |
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| glowing; giving off light |
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| large, ungainly, and dull witted person |
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| decoy, snare, an attraction, enticement, allure |
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| deathly pale or glowing through a haze |
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| luxuriant; characterized by richness or abundance |
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| expressive of emotions, and often having the quality of a song; shwoing sincere emotion and strong feeling; songlike; poetic |
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| dissolve; to soften by soaking; to emaciate; to wither |
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| scheming activity for an evil purpose |
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| generous; noble in spirit |
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| powerful business- person |
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| great extent, amount or dimension, enormity |
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| ruling Indian Prince, esp. one of the major states |
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| to disable or disfigure; to cripple |
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| poorly adjusted; unable to adjust properly to the stresses of daily life |
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| illness; sickness; disease |
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| vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness |
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| wrong use of one word instead of another because they sound similar to each other, and which is amusing as a result; humorous or ridiculous misuse of a word |
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| one who is dissatisfied with existing conditions |
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| wishing or shwoing evil or harm to others |
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| illegal act by a public official |
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| desire or intention to harm others or see them suffer |
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| intending to cause harm; spiteful |
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| to pretend to be ill to avoid doing work |
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| capable of being shaped, easily altered or influenced, flexible |
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| authoritatively ordered or commanded; necessary |
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| unusually strong and continuing interest in an activity or subject; extremem desire or enthusiasm; psychological disorder characterized by excitability |
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| clearly apparent to the sight or understanding; obvious |
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| public declaration of beliefs |
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| having many forms, features, or parts |
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| render less perfect, impair, spoil |
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| small in amount or effect; barely above a minimum standard of quality; insignificant; in the margin |
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| near the sea; concerned with shipping or navigation |
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| to make imperfect, less attractive; spoil; disfigure |
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| soft, fatty vascular tissue in the bones |
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| to assemble for the purpose of doing something; also an officer in the police or military |
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| warlike; having to do with combat |
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| very strict disciplinarian |
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| someone willing to sacrifice and even give his/ her life for a cause; also, one who pretendes suffering to gain sympathy |
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| mature looking married woman or widow; mature woman in charge |
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| average, midpoint between extremes |
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| to wind in broad curves; to wander aimlessly in speech or movement; to ramble |
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| street beggar, alms seeker |
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| unimpressive, ordinary, average, passable |
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| instrument, means, or agency; method or way of expressing or accomplishing something; material used by an artist |
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| collection of various things |
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| personality trait characterized by delusions of grandeur, power, and wealth |
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| situation that is confused and not under control; a confused mingling or turmoil; free- for- all |
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| sweet sounding, musical, harmonious, sweet flowing |
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| remebrance; keepsake; souvenir |
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| narrative of expericence happening to the writer |
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| collection of animals on exhibit |
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| deceitful, dishonest, lying |
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| servile, low; fit for servants |
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| teacher, tutor, counselor, esp. in business, an experienced person |
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| hired soldier; someone who will do anything for money |
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| following no predictable pattern |
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| alliance, fusion, consolidation, unification |
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| system of rule in which leaders are chosen based on ability and talent instead of wealth and position |
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| deserving praise, reward, esteem |
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| transformation, change of form, mutation |
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| study of what exists, the study of ultimate reality |
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| to distribute by or as if by measure; allot |
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| shooting star, transient fiery streak in the sky |
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| carefully attentive to every small detail; painstaking; precise and careful; fussy |
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| little world, could be in miniature |
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| middle area of the torso, the siaphragm, in the human body |
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| air, bearing, character, demeanor |
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| roving, wandering, nomadic |
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| environment or surroundings |
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| unreal reflection; an optical illusion |
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| area of deep, wet, sticky earth; swampy area filled with such soil; bog; marsh |
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| person expecting the worst from people, hater of mankind |
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| collection of various things |
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| to take in the wrong sense, misunderstand, or misinterpret |
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| stingy person; tightwad; hoarder |
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| incorrect or inappropriate name |
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| moderate in severity, alleviate, soften |
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| way or method of doing something; type, manner, fashion |
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| shy, reserved, unassuming, unshowy, demure |
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| to vary the loudness, pitch, intensity, or tone of; to adjust a particular measure or proportion |
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| manner in which something is done |
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| customary cultural standards; moral attitudes, manners, habits |
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| pattern or design; similar dominant or recurring element or theme |
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| consisting of many different types, parts, or colors that do not seem to belong together; variegated; extremely varied or diverse |
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| charlatan, one who claims to be who he is not |
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| material used in war, ammunition |
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| undertone, mumble, a low, unclear sound |
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| to ponder; meditate; think about at length |
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| nearsightedness, narrow mindedness, intolerance, lack of foresight |
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| inordinate fascination with oneself |
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| beginning to form, grow, develop |
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| extremely wicked, villainous, openly evil |
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| to deny, refuse to admit the truth, to end formally and with authority |
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| carelessness, inconsideration, indifference |
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| opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome |
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| someone who has recently become involved in an activity and is still learning about it; a beginner or novice at any activity |
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| new, untested, fond or given to novelty |
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| petty, trivial, inconsequential, annoying |
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| total rejection of established laws and institutions |
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| halo, clous, aura, atmosphere surrounding a person |
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| having an unpleasant odor; harmful, or injurious to health |
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| one without a permanent domicile, one who moves from place to place |
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| specialized system or set of names and terms used in a particular science, art, or other field of study or training; system for naming things; terminology |
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| so- called; minimal; insignificant |
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| cool confidence and unconcern; casual indifference |
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| behaving in a calm manner, showing that you are not worried or frightened; not showing excitement or anxiety; coolly confident, unflustered, or unworried; casually indifferent |
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| of no recognized, definite type; ordinary |
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| something that exists only in the imagination |
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| not supporting or controlled by any group, unbiased |
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| to baffle, to confuse, disconcert, bewilder |
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| remembrance, longing for the past, homesickness |
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| elixir, potion, remedy, patent medicine, panacea |
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| unfavorable, usually unsavory renown, widely recognized infamy |
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| known for something bad; infamous; blatant |
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| innovative, unusual, original, new |
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| one who is starting to learn a profession, trade, or sport |
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| physically or mentally destructive, harmful to human beings |
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| subtle change, variation, finesse |
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| to make usuless; cancel; undo |
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| coin collector or specialist |
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| to nourish, to feed; to educate; to train; to foster |
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| having to do with promoting nutrition |
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| fertile spot in a desert or barren place, an enjoyable place, haven, sanctum |
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| callous, headstrong, stubborn, insensitive |
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| gesture of the body, such as a bow, made to indicate respect or submission; obediecne and respect; reverence |
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| extremely fat; grossly overweight |
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| to obscure, vlur, complicate, confuse |
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| not influenced by personal prejudice or feelins; unbiased; fair or real; impartial |
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| at an angle; indirect or evasive |
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| to destroy entirely; to remove all signs of |
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| nothingness, total forgetfulness |
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| verbal widespread abuse of a person or thing |
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| unclear; confusing; unknown; hard to understand |
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| ingratiating, fawning, subservient |
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| to haunt the mind to an abnormal degree |
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| no longer in style; no longer useful or needed; outmoded |
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| stubborn, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, self- willed |
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| not submitting to discipline or control; boisterous; vociferous |
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| to impose oneself or one's ideas on others; to stick out |
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| noticeablt in a way that is un pleasant or unwanted; aggressive and self- assertive; having a tendency to butt in where not welcome; meddlesome |
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| insensitive; block- headed, slow in comprehension |
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| to prevent or eliminate in advance; render unnecessary or irrelevant; to avert |
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| relating to mysterious or supernatural powers and activities; mysterious; known or available only to the initiated; secret; mystical |
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| any of a class of natural earths, ranging in color from pale yellow to reddish yellow |
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| series of group of eight, series of musical tones |
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| between the ages of 80 and 90 years old |
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| extremely unpleasant; causing and deserving hate; loathsomeor repellent; vile; evil |
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| long trip or period involving many different and exciting activities and changes; extended, wandering journey of adventure or quest |
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| waste parts, especially of a butchered animal; rubbish |
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| ready to serve; eager in offering unwanted services or advice |
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| to gaze with an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent look |
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| perversely bad, wicked person; monster in fairy tales |
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| of, concerning, or stimulating the perception of smells; connected with the ability to smell |
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| government or state in which a few people or a family rule; small group of powerful people |
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| suggesting something unpleasant will happen; indicating or threatening future evil or unpleasantness; of or serving as an omen |
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| volumes of a single author or works; a bus |
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| sending or receiving signals in all directions |
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| having unlimited power or authority |
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| having or seeming to have unlimited knowledge; all- knowing |
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| medicinal study of tumors and cancer |
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| hard to endure; burdensome; oppressive |
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| state of quality of being opaque, degree of light transmission to nonpenetration |
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| unable to transmit light, impossible to understand |
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| relating to opera; melodramatic |
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| light, opera- like theater work |
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| occuring or coming at a good time |
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| one who takes advantage of every opportunity without regard for moral values |
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| action of opposing, resisting, disagreement, hostility, those who oppose |
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| expressing condemnation or score; accusing of shameful behavior; worthy of scorn or shame; disgraceful |
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| encouragement. happy expectancy, hope, a positive outlook |
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| most advantageous; best in condition, degree, or amount |
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| affluent, wealthy, luxurious |
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| public speaker, esp. one of great eloquence |
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| law or rule made by a government or authority; regulation, law, decree, or rule, especially one issued by a city or town |
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| cannon, artillery, military supplies |
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| opening or aperture, mouth |
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| to create or bring into being |
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| ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper; stubborn |
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| branch of zoology dealing with birds |
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| having strength, richness, fullness and clarity of sound |
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| conventional, going by the book, sticking to established principles |
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| to move repeatedly from side to side or up and down between two points; to vary between two feelings or opinions; to waver; vacillate |
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| process by which something passes gradually from one part to another through a membrane; gradual, subtle, and usually unconscious absorption, as of ideals or mannerisms |
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| fossilize, to convert into bone, to become rigid |
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| appearing as such; offered as genuine or real |
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| flaunting wealth, pretentious, showing off |
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| disorder caused by calcium loss, brittle bones, fracture, mainly in women |
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| to exclude from a group; to shun |
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| to eject; to force out; to banish |
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| result, a part growing out of something; a consequence; conclusion |
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| to ignore or refuse to accept that which already exists or operates; to prevail over; to overrule |
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| not hidden or secret; openly apparent |
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| approach made to someone in order to discuss or establish something; an opening gesture, as for initiating a relationship or other interaction; an intro to a musical work |
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| overexcited, agitated, riled, greatly disturbed, nervous |
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| figure of speech in which two contradictory words are used together in a phrase; two words used together which have, or seem to have, opposite meanings |
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| one who is in opposition to war or violence |
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| to calm, appease, soothe, placate |
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| covenant, compact, formal written agreement; promise |
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| extremely careful, thorough, meticulous |
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| delicious, appetizing, tasty, easily accepted |
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| ostentatiously magnificent, extravagant, opulent |
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| fortification of timbers set in the ground; an extended cliff |
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| to make less serious or severe; to mitigate |
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| pale, faint or deficient in color |
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| capable of being touched or felt |
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| to pulsate with unusual repidity from stress, disease, or emotion |
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| of little value, trivial, inconsequential |
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| put down, censure, to criticize harshly |
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| cure- all, solution for all problems |
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| dashing elegance of manner or style |
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| place or scene of wild disorder, chaos |
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| tribute, made orally or in writing |
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| self- important or pretentious person, a bigwig |
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| unbroken view of a wide area |
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| art of conveying emotions by gesture, without speech |
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| simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson |
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| pattern that serves as a model or example |
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| two apparently contradictory statemetns that nevertheless are true |
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| model or pattern of excellence |
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| comparison between two things; extending in the same direction and at the same distance apart at every point |
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| most important, influential, significant, superior |
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| mental illness of unreasonable anxiety, especially believing someone is out to get you, or that you are an important person |
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| equipment, apparatus or furnishing needed for a task |
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| to restate a text or passage which make it more clear |
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| outcast, socially, despised or avoided, member of the low cast |
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| conference, especially between enemies |
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| narrow or confined in point of view; restricted |
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| humorous or satirical imitation of serious writing |
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| sudden outburst or attack |
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| wooden floor forming a pattern, part of an area in a theater |
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| to ward off a blow; to turn aside; to avoid skillfully, to evade |
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| sparing, miserly, frugal, stingy |
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| supporter of a person, group or cause; showing bias |
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| dividing of something into parts; an interior structure dividing a larger area |
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| out of date, no longer chic |
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| copyrighted; obvious; apparent |
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| patriarchal, father- like |
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| science or study of the origin, cause, and nature of disease |
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| pitifully unsuccessful; ineffective; expressing or arousing pity |
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| leader of a family or tribe |
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| blue blood, one of noble birth, an aristocrat |
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| inheritance from a father or an ancestor; anything inherited |
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| to do business with; to be client of, to treat as an inferior |
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| scarcity; shortage; poverty; deficiency |
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| slight or trifling sin; minor offense |
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| consisting of or relating to money |
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| teacher; one devoted to study |
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| person making excessive or inappropriate display of learning |
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| better than all others; unmatched in excellence |
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| belittling, uncomplimentary, ridiculing, disparaging |
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| act done in repentance for a wrongdoing |
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| strong inclination, taste, or liking for something |
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| sorrowful and remorseful for past misdeeds |
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| expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, or sometimes sadness, dreamy |
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| destitution; indigence; insufficiency |
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| to understand; grasp mentally |
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| having keen insight, or intuitive understanding |
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| to cause a liquid to pass through a porous body, to filter |
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| irrevocable, decisive, final, dictatorial |
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| perpetual, everlasting, enduring, continual |
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| treachery, treason, disloyalty, faithlessness |
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| to make a hold by boring, punching, or piercing |
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| indifferent, apathetic, unenthusiastic, careless |
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| wandering, traveling continually, roving |
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| not central or of main importance; not essential; external |
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| outermost part within a boundary, the outside edge |
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| false testimony under oath |
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| to flow or spread through; penetrate |
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| extremely destructive or harmful, deadly; fatal |
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| to lecture, give a sermon, to speak formally |
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| upright or vertical; being at right angles to the plane of the horizon |
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| to be responsible for or guilty of a misdeed |
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| to cause to continue or to be remembered |
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| to bewilder; to confuse, mystify |
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| material favor or gift, usually money for service |
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| to continue in spite of difficulty |
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| to think of or represent as having human qualities; to typify |
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| relevant, of concern, to the point |
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| to disturb greatly, disquiet, upset |
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| scrutinize, read carefully, review |
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| saturate, penetrate, to spread throughout |
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| stubborn; contrary; intractable |
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| conver into stone; numb with astonishment and horror |
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| ill- humored, irritable, cranky |
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| illusion of perceiving something that does not exist |
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| extremely unusual or extraordinary thing or occurrence |
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| of or showing love of mankind, especially through charitable gifts and deeds |
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| verbal denunciation characterized by harsh, insulting language; tirade |
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| person laacking in or smugly indifferent to cultural, intellectual pursuits |
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| not easily excited to display emotion, apathetic, sluggish |
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| persistent, illogical fear |
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| method of teaching based on the sound of each word |
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| suitable, especially attractive for photography |
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| choice of words, the way words are used |
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| graphic, represented by drawing or picture |
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| multi- colored, especially of more than one color in patches |
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| worshipful devotion to God or family; reverence |
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| coloring matter or substance |
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| to take another's property without permission |
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| to rob of goods by violent seizure, plunder; to take as spoils |
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| bind the wings so as not to fly; confine |
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| highest point; culmination |
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| pungent or sharp in taste or flavor, tart |
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| irritate; also to arouse curiosity |
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| brief, forceful and meaningful in expression; concise |
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| small amount or share; scanty income or remuneration |
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| decisive, critical, vital |
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| paperboard sign or notice posted in a public place |
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| to win over, conciliate, mollify, appease, soothe |
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| calm and peaceful; smooth or tranquil |
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| to use another's idea or work and claim it as your own |
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| person who brings a complaint into a court of law |
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| full of an expression of sorrow |
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| braided, esp. of hair or straw |
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| victimizing or destroying others for one's own gain; pillaging |
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| person who had a job or position before someone else; thing that comes before another in time or in a series |
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| to govern and decide by, or as if by, fate |
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| having greater importance or influence; most common |
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| filled with meaning that has not been expressed; significant; having young developing in the uterus |
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| thought of or planned before being done; prearranged or plotted |
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| something to be taken as truth without proof |
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| largest part or greatest amount; majority; superiority in weight, quantity, size, etc. |
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| to possess or dominate beforehand as a prejudice |
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| senseless, absurd, ridiculous |
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| right, privilege, exercise, by virtue of rank |
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| to portend, forecast or predict; prophesy |
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| sense that something is about to occur; premonition |
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| highly esteemed; having an illustrious name or reputation |
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| to think that something is true in advance; to assume beforehand |
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| giving the appearance of great importance in an obvious way; showy; self- important |
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| false reason put forth to hide the real one |
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| widespread, in general use or acceptance |
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| to lie, perjure, fib, deceive, falsify |
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| being first in time; original; of importance |
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| the main performer in any production, first or highest in rank |
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| broad or basic rule or truth |
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| extremely pure; untouched |
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| morality, integrity, uprightness, honesty |
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| unsettled, doubtful or questionable |
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| to announce publicly or officially; to declare |
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| to obtain or acquire something by special means; secure something with an effort |
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| recklessly extravagant; unrestrained |
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| enormous in size, quantity, degree; marvelous; amazing |
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| gifted child, great talent, expert, wonder, phenomenon |
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| irreligious, agnostic, atheistic, sacrilegious, secular |
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| to lay calim to, often insincerely, pass oneself off |
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| to put before a person for acceptance, offer |
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| skillful; very good at something |
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| recklessly prodigal and extravagant |
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| intellectually deep or penetrating; reaching to, rising from, or affecting the depths of one's nature; far- reaching |
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| extravagant expense; an abundant supply or display |
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| offspring or descendant; product of creative effort |
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| moving forward, dynamic, advancing, ongoing |
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| the act of prohibiting; law that forbids |
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| class of wage earners, those who do manual labor |
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| to increase in number and spread rapidly, regenerate |
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| producing offspring, producing abundantly, yielding propagating |
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| elongate, perpetuate, to lengthen in extent or duration |
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| to inspire, strongly encourage, incite |
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| to proclaim; to publicly or formally declare something; set forth |
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| to reproduce, breed, multiply; to spread or circulate |
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| natural inclination or tendency; predilection, preference |
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| proximity, nearness; kinship |
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| marked by favorable signs or conditions, opportune, well- timed |
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| enthusiast, supporter, advocate |
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| to offer for consideration; to propose or suggest |
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| belonging to a proprietor; characteristic of an owner of property |
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| correctness, decorum, dignity, good manners |
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| propelling; having a propelling force |
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| unimaginative, dull, common, ordinary |
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| ordinary speech or writing, (as opposed to poetry) |
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| thriving, opulent, affluent, wealthy, well- off |
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| device external or implanted, supplement for a missing part |
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| leading character in a novel, play, or other work; hero |
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| having many aspects, uses or abilities; very changeable |
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| someone whose welfare, training or career is promoted by an influential person; person under the care or guidance of another interested in his welfare |
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| rules of etiquette and ceremony observed by heads of state, diplomats; an original or preliminary draft or copy of an agreement |
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| to push outward, swell, project, jut out |
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| having foresight, prudent, parsimonious, frugal |
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| parochial, limited to one's amll outlook of the world, narrow |
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| tentative, stopgap, transitional, conditional |
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| something that causes anger or irritation; incitement or cause |
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| exciting, attracting attention, provoking, irritating |
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| exceptional skill and bravery |
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| nearness in place or time, order |
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| written authority allowing another to act |
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| sensible, discerning, levelheaded |
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| overly concerned with being modest or proper |
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| having lewd or indecent thoughts; characterized by an extreme interest in sex |
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| alias or false name; assumed name |
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| contract, crease, shrink, to gather into wrinkles |
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| ready or eager to fight; overly aggressive or quarrelsome |
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| to hit or pound repeatedly with the fist |
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| conscientious and precise; extremely attentive to detail |
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| person who knows a great deal about a particular subject; an expert |
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| porous form of volcanic glass used as an abrasive |
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| having poor vision; nearly or partly blind |
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| to free from guit, to clean out |
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| someone who strictly observes traditions or conventions |
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| having very strict standards of moral behavior; rigid; prudish |
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| to claim or profess, to declare, to give the appearance, often falsely |
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| to provide, furnish, supply items as a business or service |
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| person easily influenced or exploited |
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| lacking courage or resolution, cowardly |
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| taint, deteriorate, to rot, decompose |
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| person with a compulsion to set things on fire |
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| to shrink with fear; to cower; to lose heart and courage |
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| agreeably old- fashioned or curious; picturesque |
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| to make eligible, adapt, make competent, or capable |
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| feeling of uneasiness, doubt, or sickness |
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| strict isolation imposed to prevent spread of disease |
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| animal that is being hunted down, especially with dogs |
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| to a degree but not completely; resembling but not being |
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| structure beside the water to which boats can be tied; wharf, pier, landing |
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| to extinguish; to put down or suppress by force |
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| complaining, grumbling, whining, disagreeable |
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| question or inquiry; request for information |
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| to form or to wait in line |
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| one thing in return for another |
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| at rest, inactive; dormant |
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| being the most perfect or typical example of something |
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| peculiarity of behavior; unaccountable act or event |
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| person betraying one's own country, helping an invading enemy |
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| idealistic and totally impractical |
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| questioning; teasing, mocking; expressing puzzlement |
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| commonplace; ordinary; everyday |
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| disorderly crowd or mob, lower- class |
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| one who is talented in storytelling |
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| cheaply vulgar in appearance or nature; tawdry; disreputable |
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| to speak bitterly; to complain violently |
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| appearing fast, neat appearance; dashing, casual look |
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| clothing; wearing apparel |
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| difficult to control, handle, turbulent |
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| branching out; development growing out of and often complicating a problem or pain |
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| uncontrolled self- indulgence, furious or violent act |
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| happening often or becoming worse, usually in an uncontrolled way; widespread |
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| fortification, bulwark, or defense |
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| bitter resentment or ill will, hatred, malice |
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| to search thoroughly; pillage |
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| covetous, mecenary, insatiable, greedy, plundering, avaricious |
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| harmonious mutual understanding, fellowship, camaraderie |
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| extreme pleasure and happiness; bliss; ecstasy |
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| not ordinary; interesting to a select group only |
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| characterized by speaking or acting too quickly; reckless |
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| to officially approve; endorse; agree to |
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| reasons or intentions for something; basis |
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| to explain in a reasonable way |
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| loud, excited, and not controlled; rowdy and wild |
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| to destroy completely; to knock down completely; to level |
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| opposing political or social change; opposing liberalism; ultraconservative |
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| to refuse to accept; to snub or reject |
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| take to task, scold, reprimand |
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| refute evidence or argument, to contradict, to prove to be false |
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| showing strong objection, obstinate, unwilling, stubbornly defiant |
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| to take back, retract, repudiate, disavow |
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| to move back or away from a point, limit or ebb |
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| favorable, openminded, willing to accept |
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| repeated relapse into past condition or behavior; tendency to return to criminal ways |
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| showing mutual respect; characterized by mutual give and take |
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| to take back; to claim again |
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| person who lives in voluntary isolation from others |
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| to reunite, conciliate, to settle a dispute; to make up |
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| countercharge against an accuser |
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| to correct, to straighten, amend, revise, set right |
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| to buy back; exchange something for money or for goods; to make up for |
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| fragrant, aromatic, savory |
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| widely- known and esteemed, eminent |
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| to correct a wrong; to make amends for |
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| vote in which all the people in a country or an area decide on an important question |
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| to improve, to change for the better, rehabilitate, restore |
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| disobedient; hard to manage; headstrong |
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| shining brightly, gleaming, radiant |
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| to make clean, fresh, and attractive again |
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| rebut, invalidate, challenge, prove to be false |
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| particular government; system or method of government |
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| set of rules; regulated course |
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| to cause to surge or rush back, vomit |
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| exercise or possession of supreme power |
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| to restore the vigot, health, or appearance of youth; to make young again |
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| assign to an inferior position, place, exile |
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| unyielding, severe, strict, harsh, uncompromising |
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| something that has survived from an earlier time; something kept sacred because it was associated with a saint |
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| to give up doing, professing, or intending; to surrender, give in |
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| to take pleasure in; pleasurable appreciation; appetizer |
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| to remit, send back or consign again |
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| guilty of neglect, lacking due care, lax |
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| period of time when an illness in less severe; release from an obligation |
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| to say or plead in protest, object, or disapprove |
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| strong feeling of sadness or guilt for having done something wrong |
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| period from the 14th to 17th century in Europe, rebirth or revival, reawakening |
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| to cause to be; to give or provide; to represent |
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| pre- arranged meeting at a certain time and place |
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| to give up voluntarily by formal declaration, cast aside |
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| celebrated; famous; notable; eminent, distinguished |
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| amends, restitution, compensation |
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| quick, witty reply; witty and spirited conversation |
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| to feel sorrow for having done wrong |
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| effect or result of some event or action, often negative |
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| stock of specials kills a person is able to perform |
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| replace, renew, restock, fill again |
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| full or supplied to the utmost |
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| copy, exact copy of a reproduction, facsimile |
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| rest; tranquillity; relaxation |
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| deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure |
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| to prevent from being expressed; to hold back |
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| formal admonishment or censure; official rebuke |
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| revenge; retaliation; vendetta; vengeance |
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| to express disapproval of |
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| morally unprincipled person; degenerate |
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| to criticize or correct gently; reproach; chide, scold |
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| disavow, revoke annul, nullify |
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| causing feeling of strong dislike or disgust; offensive; distasteful |
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| to send back, to reject, rebuff, ignore, avoid |
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| compulsory, essential, mandatory; requirement |
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| delay; postponement; brief interval of rest |
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| brilliant; filled with splendor; radiant; shining |
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| owner of manager of a restaurant |
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| rising from the dead; revival |
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| to reply in a sharp fashion; biting remark |
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| to pull back in; to take back, cancel or revoke |
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| formal statement renouncing an inaccurate or unjustified comment, abjuration |
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| hindsight; looking backward |
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| to renovate; to revise or reconstruct |
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| to take great pleasure or delight; to celebrate; to take part in uproarious activities |
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| something revealed, insight, exposure prophesy |
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| uninhibited celebration; joyful, exuberant activity |
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| to cause a sound to re- echo |
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| to regard with great devotion or respect, to honor |
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| feeling of deep awe, respect and love |
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| to go back in thought, action, or speech |
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| to criticize strongly; to berate |
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| to reawaken, to bring back to life, recovery |
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| stron, often sudden feeling of dislike or disgust; feeling of loathing |
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| to express oneself in an enthusiastic manner; to gush |
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| art or study using language effectively and persuasively; over- elaborate language |
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| rude; vulgar, lewd, off- color |
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| abundant; great in number or amount |
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| fracture, narrow crack, a split, a break in friendship |
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| stiffness, unwillingness to change, lack of pliancy |
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| strict, harsh, severe, exacting, austere |
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| tough outer covering, esp. of a fruit, bark of a tree |
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| quick sharp return in speech or action, counterstroke |
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| something that fastens two parts together; also to hold the attention of |
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| hale, hardy, energetic, able- bodied, vigorous |
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| mountebank, scoundrel, dishonest person |
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| list of names; especially of personnel available for duty |
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| memorizing process using routine or repetition, often withoutcomprehension |
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| round, corpulent, globular |
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| immoral man, libertine, wanton, profligate |
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| to defeat completely; to root, search, poke around; to drive or force out |
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| customary procedures; habitual, regular, ordinary, expected |
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| basic, crude, undeveloped; related to fundamental principles or skills |
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| to feel sorry about something; to regret; mourn |
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| to disturb the smoothness of, to upset mildly |
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| to ponder; to reflect upon |
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| countrified, unsophisticated, unpolished, rural |
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| without mercy or compassion; pitiless or cruel |
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| blindly accepted, unquestioned, sacred |
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| long story, often telling the history of a family |
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| discerning, shrewd, keen in judgment, wise; perceptive |
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| person of wisdom and prudence |
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| readily attracting notice, noticeable, important |
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| lacking color; pale; sickly- looking |
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| sudden onslaught; excursion or expedition; clever rejoinder |
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| favorable or promoting or contributing to good health |
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| wholesome, healthful, remedial |
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| greeting or welcome; words used at the beginning of a letter or speech |
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| person or thing that causes one to be saved from danger |
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| practicing hypocrisy; pretending to be sincere |
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| holy place or place of protection |
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| cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| state of being overly satisfied |
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| ability to say and do the right thing at the right time |
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| pleasing to the taste or smell |
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| something calibrated; device used to measure; series; to climb up |
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| very little or not much; barely sufficient; meager |
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| one who is made an object of blame for others |
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| division; discord or disharmony; separation |
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| minute amount, spark, trace |
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| to sparkle; dazzle; stimulate |
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| descendant directly from the same parents or ancestors |
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| to make fun of; to mock in disapproval |
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| to treat with a great lack of respect |
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| suppress, thwart, to put an end to |
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| careful of amll details; honest; conscientious |
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| to loock very carefully; to examine |
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| offensive to accepted standards; grossly abusive |
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| without noticeable change from one part to the next; smooth; without a seam |
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| to scorch or burn; to brand |
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| pertaining to or dependent on the seasons of the year, or a specific season |
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| to withdraw from a group or an alliance |
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| to place in or withdraw into solitude, sequester; cloister |
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| place away from people and busy activities; solitude; privacy |
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| group with a uniting theme; small religious group |
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| having nothing to do with religion, pertaining to worldly things |
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| not prone to exercise; of or marked by much sitting about |
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| willful violation of allegiance to one's country; treason |
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| chracterized by steady attention and effort; diligent |
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| to be agitated, as by rage; to churn and foam as if boiling |
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| to separate or keep apart from others |
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| belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest |
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| succeeding without help from others |
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| pertaining to the meaning of words |
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| school for religious training |
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| mentally confused usually associated with old age |
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| related to sensations; neurological |
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| self- righteous; given to arrogant moralizing; preachy |
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| able to perceive by the sense; consciou; cognizant |
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| following one after another, in an orderly pattern |
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| to set or keep apart; seclude; isolate; put aside |
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| accidental good fortune; finding something good accidentally |
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| snakelike in shape or movement; winding as a snake |
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| slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning |
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| to cut off; separate; divide |
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| breaking off; division into parts |
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| sternness; intensity; austerity |
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| restraint; handcuffs, chains, irons; manacle; act of restraining with such a device |
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| to strip or deprive; to clip or cut |
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| tranparently thin; unmixed with something else |
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| slogan, motto, catchword; any usage that distinguished one group from another |
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| sly; able to turn a situation to one's advantage |
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| holy site; sacred tomb; monument |
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| to slight deliberatelhy; take pains to avoid |
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| to move or turn aside; to evade by putting aside or ignoring |
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| smirk; giggle; snicker; smile foolishly |
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| any office or position providing an income but requiring little or no work |
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| unusual and easily noticed; remarkable; unique |
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| frightening; evil; malign; threatening |
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| having many curves, bends or turns; winding |
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| having or showing doubt; questioning; not easily persuaded |
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| small boat for sailing or rowing |
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| short fight that is usually not planned; brief conflict |
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| nervous and easily frightened; jumpy |
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| to lie or keep in hiding; move silently and furtively |
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| trickery; underhandedness |
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| to quench; to satisfy a craving |
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| to speak badly about someone in public; to defame, spread rumors |
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| insult; something negligible; smallish in size |
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| laziness; sluggishness; lethargy; idleness; lazy person |
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| untidy; careless in appearance, habits, or work |
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| lacking mental and physical alertness and activity |
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| excessively flattering; ingratiating; sevile |
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| agitated or irritated state; excited distress |
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| state of being sober; seriousness |
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| characterized by antisocial behavior lacking sense of moral responsibility |
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| help and comfort when one is feeling sad or worried; consolation; cheer |
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| zealous; thoughtful; anxiously caring or attentive |
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| agreement between and support for the members of a group; sense of unity |
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| person who performs alone |
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| longest and shortest days in any year; sun's greatest distance from the equator |
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| financially sound; able to pay all debts |
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| sleepy; drowsy; tending to cause sleep |
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| producing sound, especially deep and rich, resonant |
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| comfort; to calm, to ease pain |
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| unsound or misleading but clever argument |
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| childish and silly; juvenile; immature |
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| tending to cause sleep, inducing sleep |
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| morally vile; amoral; shameful; dirty and in bad condition |
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| king, queen; supreme ruler; monarch |
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| roomy; affording sizeable space; commodious |
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| pertaining to the nature of a spasm; intermittent; fleeting |
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| existing or occurring in space |
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| to give rise to; to produce in large numbers; to give birth |
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| seeming to be right or true but really wrong or false; deceptive; misleading |
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| range of objects; ideas or opinions |
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| person who is extravagant or wasteful, especially in money |
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| to cause to flow or to throw up; vomit |
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| high- flown speech or talk; especially for the purpose of persuasion |
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| sharp piece broken or slip off from something; sliver; fragment; to break into splinters |
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| happening without apparent cause; impromptu; voluntary; impetuous |
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| dirty and wretched, as from poverty or lack of care |
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| sudden disturbance; violent gust of wind followed by rain, snow or sleet; to make a sudden, loud noise |
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| to waste; misspend; fritter away |
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| easily shocked, offended, upset, or nauseated |
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| having abrupt disconnected elements; rapid fire |
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| to be or become motionless; to fail to grow or develop |
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| settled or sedated; marked by dignity and seriousness |
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| any position or situation where no action can be taken |
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| very loyal to someone or something; sturdily built; having physical strength |
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| to stop the flow of liquid, especially blood |
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| empty or bare; blunt; complete or utter; extreme |
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| shwoing little or any change; still; suspended |
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| standing still; not moving |
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| existing state or condition |
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| firm or steadfast in principle; loyal |
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| unfaltering; tenacious; unwavering |
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| to immerse, saturate, abosorb, or imbue |
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| to fix a conventional notion or concept; a fixed conventional notion, an oversimplified conception, opinion, or image of a person or group usually critical in judgment |
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| uncontaminated; pure; infertile |
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| person insisting on something; purist |
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| to mark with disgrace or infamy |
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| rigidly constrained; awkward, as lacking in grace and spontaneity |
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| period of time spent doing a particular job or activity; to restrict or hold back |
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| income; salary; allowance |
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| to make an express demand as part of an agreement |
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| detatched; impassive; unruffled |
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| to poke; stir up; to feed (as a fire) |
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| showing little or no emotion; apathetic; impassive |
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| plump; stocky; thick and strong |
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| plan or trick to achieve something; scheme; ruse |
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| restriction, limitation, negative criticism |
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| rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe |
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| to make numb with amazement; to stun into helplessness |
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| very great in amount or size; extraordinary; remarkable |
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| state in which a person is almost unconscious; stunned condition |
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| prevent from accomplishing a purpose |
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| to conquer; overcome; get the better of |
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| vanquish; make subservient; suppress |
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| impressive; inspiring awe; majestic |
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| operating below the level of conscious perception |
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| obedient; yielding, compliant; giving in easily |
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| lower in position, importance, or rank; inferior |
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| recurring or coming later or after |
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| to weaken; to diminish or lessen; sink or settle |
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| being in a secondary or subordinate relationship |
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| to pay part of the cost; to provide financial assistance |
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| means needed to support life; livelihood |
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| to show something to be true; to support with facts; to porve |
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| action taken to hide something from someone; trick; ruse |
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| secret; hidden; lying beneath the earth's surface |
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| elusive; discerning; not obvious |
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| traitorous, treasonous, corrupting, overthrowing, undermining; insurgent |
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| consecutive; following immediately one after another |
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| brief and to the point; concise and terse |
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| help, relief, aid; assistance |
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| comply with; accede; to yiedl; die |
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| to be enough; to be adequate |
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| to spread through or over; to cover; to saturate |
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| silent and unpleasant; dark, gloomy, or dispiriting; sulky |
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| marked by much heat; damp and warm |
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| order to appear in court; authoritative command or message |
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| luxurious and expensive; lavish; splendid |
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| various; several; miscellaneous |
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| arrogant; self- importnat; pompous |
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| narrowminded; shortsighted; on the surface only |
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| extra; unnecessary; redundant |
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| of the highest quality; formost; praiseworthy; superb |
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| to take the place of; to make obsolete; to replace |
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| lying on the back with the face turned upward; inclined |
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| to pray humbly; make humble; earnest entry or petition |
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| presumption; assumption; theory; opinion |
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| to end by force; to prevent from being expressed or known; to subdue |
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| overabundant amount; especially related to eating and drinking |
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| broodingly and sullenly unhappy; bad- tempered; testy |
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| to guess; to infer (something) without sufficient evidence |
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| having an unreal quality; dreamlike |
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| done or acting in a secret, sly manner |
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| substitute; replacement; stand- in; relief |
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| act of carefully watching; especially when unknown to the person being watched |
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| easily influenced or likely to be hurt by something; vulnerable; receptive to |
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| means of sustaining life; nourishment; livelihood |
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| to stret; saunter; stride insolently |
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| to influence or extend over a great area |
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| to suffer from oppressive heat |
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| cheat; con man; fraud; deciever |
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| person devoted to luxury and pleasure |
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| one who flatters another excessively; fawner |
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| practice of representing things by symbols |
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| beauty based on eexcellence of proportion |
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| meeting or conference for discussion of a topic |
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| of or having to do with symptoms |
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| to cause to occur at the same time; to make simultaneous |
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| word having the same or nearly the same meaning |
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| shade of color; hue; to color slightly |
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| extraordinary size and power; of great influence |
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| existing in name only; nominal; bearing a title |
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| something that refreshes; refreshing or invigorating drink |
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| test or criterion for quality; gauge |
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| to praise highly; publicize; vaunt |
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| as was done in the past; customary; habitual; established |
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| to speak maliciously and false of; slander; defame; vilify |
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| strenuous physical or mental labor or effort |
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| complete failure; mocker; shameful imitation |
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| unworthiness; trickery; betrayal of trust |
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| to shorten by cutting off |
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| state of great agitation, disturbance, or confusion |
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| one who changes to the opposite party or fraction; traitor; one who reverses his or her principles |
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| immorality; shameful chracter |
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| vigorous struggle or contest; scuffle |
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| being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time |
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| beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed |
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| of the greatest possible size or degree; maximum |
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| sense of injury or insult; offense; displeasure |
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| quality of being in complete, mutual agreement |
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| not open to attack, doubt, or denial |
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| unpretentious; modest; humble |
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| detracting from one's appearance, character or reputation |
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| violent; unbounded; unrestrained |
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| difficult to explain; weird; seemingly beyond the ordinary |
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| discourteous; abrupt; hasty; rude |
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| not guided by conscience; unscrupulous; beyond all reason |
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| awkward; clumsy; unmannerly; lacking refinement |
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| affected; excessively smooth; suave; mug; oily |
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| marked by treachery or deceit |
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| fundamental; basic; real but not immediately obvious |
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| to gradually, secretly weakon and destroy; to impair |
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| structural support or foundation; support from below, as with girders or props |
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| ointment; slave, usually applied to wounds or sores |
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| one- sided; not mutual; done on behalf of one side only |
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| completely honest and moral; above doubt; unquestionable |
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| not noticeable; inconspicuous; seeming to belong |
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| showing marked departure from previous practice |
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| existing or occurring without interruption or exception |
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| unpleasant in taste or smell; distasteful |
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| not hurt or harmed; completely uninjured |
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| not in keeping with established standards; not suited to circumstances |
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| incapable of being defended, occupied or lived in; weak or illogical |
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| having no basis or foundation in fact; groundless |
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| inadvertent; unintentional; accidental |
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| momentous or sweeping change or disturbance |
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| to maintain in good condition; support or defend |
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| honest; moral; virtuous; standing erect |
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| having bolish; suave; elegant; characteristic of major cities |
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| stressing usefulness or utility above other features; seviceable |
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| to use, employ; put into service; avail oneself |
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| to articulate; enunciate; to say |
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| unclear; lacking definite shape or substance; confused |
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| bidding goodbye; farewell address |
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| bold; courageous; stouthearted; heroic |
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| to declare legally valid; legalize |
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| without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious; insipid |
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| willing to sell one's influence; oepn to bribery; mercenary; corrupt |
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| any prolonged and bitter feud, rivalry, contention |
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| thin layer of material; facade; outward appearance |
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| speaking the truth; honest |
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| truthfulness, honesty, integrity, probity, candor |
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| authenticity; plausibility; appearance of the truth |
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| everyday languate; natural speech; slang |
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| remaining bit of something; last trace |
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| small container for holding liquids, medicines, and dry material |
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| secondhand; fantasized; empathic |
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| upheaval; natural change; change in fortune |
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| to compete; to struggle; contest |
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| brief, small decorative design or illustration; brief written, musical, or film sketch that describes or characterizes and event |
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| energy; vitality; enthusiasm; stength |
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| to speak ill of; defame; slander; libel |
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| having manly strength or vigor |
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| person with special knowledge or skills in a field |
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| dreamer; one who is idealistic or speculative |
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| power; vim; liveliness; energy |
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| to give a lift; animate; quicken |
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| act of choosing; conscious choice |
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| characteristic by a lack of taste, refinement; crude |
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| vulgar person, especially one of wealth |
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| in danger; unprotected; open to attack; susceptible |
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| to speak or write evasively |
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| gathering helf to honor a dead person; waves left by a passing boat; after- effects |
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| uncalled for; malicious; unjustified; unprovoked |
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| to justify; provide grounds for; to guarantee |
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| caurious; on watchful gurad against; not trustful of |
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| based on solid evidence or good reason |
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| conceit; sudden idea; fanciful notion |
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| trick to entice; to pass time |
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| intentional; insistent on having one's way |
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| deceitful; clever; crafy; cunning |
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| to flinch; to shrink back |
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| to rid of undesirable parts |
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| obnoxious, self- assertive, and arrogant person |
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| longing; sorrowfully pining; yearing |
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| great suffering or sorrow; distress |
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| custom; habit practice; accustomed |
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| pull away; take by violence |
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| to twist or bend; to suffer acutely, as in pain or embarrassment |
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| crazily silly or comical; clownish |
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| someone who is overly enthusiastic about a topic or cause |
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| spirit of the age; trend of a particular period |
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