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| (adj) following established customs or usage; usual or accepted in common belief |
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| (adj) holding correct or currently accepted doctrines; not original conventional (n. orthodoxy) |
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| (n) someone who goes against accepted dogma, especially in religion |
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| (n) one who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions (adj. iconoclastic) |
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| (n/adj) a nonconformist; a rebel |
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| (n) a deep and profound feeling of wonder |
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| (n) respect; respectful yielding to the judgement, etc., of another (adj. deferential) |
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| (adj) pious; devoted to religion |
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| (adj) extremely devout; showing strong religious devotion (n. piety) |
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| (n) a feeling or profound awe and respect (v. revere) |
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| (v) to revere (n. veneration) |
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| (adj) without due respect or veneration; disrespectful; flippant |
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| (n) vulgar or irreverent speech.acton; obscenity (adj. profane) |
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| (n) violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred (adj, sacrilegious) |
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| (adj) displaying a pretended devoutness, a hypocritical show of piety |
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| (n) a violation beyond the limits set by a law or commandment (v. transgress) |
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| (adj) appropriate; suitable |
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| (adj) proper; marked by good taste (n. decorum) |
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| (n) appropriateness of behavior |
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| (n) morally debased behavior |
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| (adj) describing methods that are advantageous rather than just; suitable to the circumstances (n. expediency) |
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| (adj) extremely bad; flagrant |
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| (adj) not appropriate; unskillful |
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| (n) morally debased behavior |
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| (n) a place of safety from trouble or danger (p. refugee) |
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| (n) a place of shelter, protection or refuge; a holy place |
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| (adj) idealistic to a foolish or impractical extreme (derived from the character Don Quixote) |
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| (adj) displaying the characteristics of an ideal state or any visionary plan |
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| (v) to interpret in a fanciful or overly idealistic manner; to glamoraize |
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| (adj/n) displaying foresight; imagined, not real; a person inspired by visions |
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| (n or v) an opinion based on incomplete information; to guess (adj. conjectural) |
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| (n) conjecture (v. speculate) |
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| (adj) practical (n. pragmatism) |
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| (adj) designed to be useful (n. utilitarianism) |
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| (adj) deserving blame (n. culpability) |
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| (adj) blameworthy; deserving rebuke or censure |
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| (v) to avoid deliberately; keep away from; stay clear of |
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| (v) to free from guilt or blame |
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| (v) to free completely from blame (n. exoneration) |
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| (adj) faultless; blameless |
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| (v) free from blame; to justify by evidence or argument (n. vindication) |
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| (n) a feeling of guilt caused by regret for doing wrong; contrition |
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| (adj) desiring to reconcile, to placate (v. conciliate) |
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| (adj) regretful; penitent (n. contrition) |
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| (adj) expressing remorse for one's misdeeds (n. penitence) |
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| (v) to show that two seemingly contradictory ideas are compatible through argument or practice (this is the definition, but the primar way the word is sed on the RC); to make friendly again after a quarrel (n. reconciliation) |
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| (adj) feeling sorrow for some wrongdoing (n. repentance) |
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| (n or adj) social statistics of a human population (adj. demo) |
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| (adj) given to engaging in lawsuits |
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| (n) public declaration of policy and aims (esp. political) |
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| (v) to make known to the public; to disseminate; to proclaim (n. promulgation) |
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| (n) the right to vote, esp. in a political election |
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| (n) the state or quality of being different or varied |
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| (adj) made up of a variety of sources; mixed |
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| (adj) including minority groups and allowing them to maintain their cultural traditions (n. pluralism) |
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| (adj) varied; diversified; diverse |
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| (v) to blend or come together |
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| (adj) tending to come together; merging |
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| (n) a building (esp. a large one); a complex organizational structure |
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| (v) to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or border |
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| (adj) physically adjacent; neighboring, abutting; adjacent in time |
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| (n) the state of being close together or side by side; the placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast |
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| (n) nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation |
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