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| condition of sticking together |
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| intended to instruct. as in class lectures |
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| describing unrestrained emotional expression |
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a relationship of mutual trust or affinity
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| profoundly moving; touching |
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| serving no useful purpose |
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| hatefully evil; abominable |
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| slow the progress of; to interfere with |
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| not migratory; involving much sitting; settled |
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| causing sleep or sleepiness |
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| a state of reduced or suspended sensibility |
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| lively or enthusiastic expression |
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| a ridiculous or empty show |
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| uninteresting; unchallenging |
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| having or producing sound; imposing or impressive |
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| a filthy condition or quality |
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| having the ring of truth or plausibility but acually being false |
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| false charges and malicious oral statements or reports about someone |
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| conspicuously bad or offensive |
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| to cater to the tastes and desires of others or exploit their weeknesses |
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| appropriateness of behavior |
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| dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony |
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| (n) a broad satirical piece; (v) to broadly satire |
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| an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect |
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| to formally give up power |
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| characterized by exercising abloulute power |
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| marked by arrogent assurance |
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| treating in a condescending manner |
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| commendable; deserving imitation |
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| stubbornly adhering to a belief or a point of view |
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| to draw or extract profit or advantage from |
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| passionate; extremely interested in pursuing something |
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| strictly attentive to minute details; picky |
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| a place of retreat or security |
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| attended by favorable circumstances |
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| to make less severe or painful |
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(v) to give official authorization or approval to
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| supported with proof or evidence; verified |
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| to free from guilt or blame |
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| to expose the falseness of |
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| having a harmful effect; injurious |
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| fundamentally distinct or different |
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| defiant of authority; stubborn; not easily managed |
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| impuslive and unpredictable |
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| fellings of contempt for others; to look down on others |
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| to look or stare angrily or sullenly |
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| describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone |
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| unoriginal; overused; stale |
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| to lower in estimation or importance; to slander |
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| to speak of in a slighting way or negatively;; to belittle |
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| a deviatiion from the way things normally happen or are done |
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| doubtful; of doubtful outcome |
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| describing a showy or pretentious display |
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| a state of uncertainty or perplexity |
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| thwarted; stumped; blocked |
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| proper; marked by good taste |
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| to make beautiful by ornamenting; to add details to in order to make more attractive |
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| an assortment or a moxture, especially of musical pieces |
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| exhibiting a display of great wealth |
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| clear to the understanding; sane |
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| warm and sincere; friendly |
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| enjoying the company of others sociable; outgoing |
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| cheerfully confident; optimistic |
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| having no bad effect; harmless |
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| describing a rudely abrupt manner |
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| describing a rudely abrupt manner |
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| bitingly sarcastic or witty |
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| felling hatred; scornful; despising |
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| savage, fierce, or unruly |
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| insulting in manner or speech; rude |
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| having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; hateful; evil |
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| known widely and unfavorably; infamous |
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| stubborn; inflexible; stubbornly persisting in wrongdoing |
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| causing disgust or hatred |
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| not pleasing to the taste |
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| frugal to the point of stinginess |
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| traveling from place to place |
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| one that indicates what is to come; a forerunner |
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| to serve as an omen or a warning of |
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| foretelling or predicting future events |
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| open to more than one interpretation; not clear |
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| simultaneously felling opposing feelings, love and hate |
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| a judge who decides a disputed issue |
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| plentiful; large in quantity |
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| enormous; exciting amazement or wonder |
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| abundantly supplied; filled |
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| sincerity; openness; frankness |
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| open and sincere in expression; candid |
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| one who is particularly concerned with maintaining traditional practices |
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| secretive, especially in regards to concealing an illicit purpose |
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| a brilliant and sudden overthrow of a government |
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| mutual hatred or ill will |
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| an opinion that disagrees with established, dearly held beliefs |
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| impossible to appease or satisfy |
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| one who is independent and resists adherence to a group |
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| quick and changeable mood |
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| combative; belligerent; quarrelsome |
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| hateful; marked by deep seated ill will |
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| a clever trick used to deceive or outwit |
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| to prevent the occurrence of; to successfully oppose |
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| a restoration or rehabilitation to productivity or usefulness; the process of reclaiming |
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| characteraed by stealth; sneakey |
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| characterized by sudden energy or emotion; impulsive |
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| the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure |
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| seemingly valid or acceptable; credible; believable |
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| the philosophy or science of law |
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| (adj) imposed as a duty; obligatory |
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| narrow in scope; of or relating to a church parish |
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| to have an effect or make an impression |
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| having little substance or strength; shaky; flimsy |
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| exercising good judgement or common sense |
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| principal held as being true by a person or an organization |
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| indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive |
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| somber, stern unadorned, and simple |
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| describing a category of artistic endeavor; a style, content, or form |
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| characterized by a straitlaced sense of propriety; serious |
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| to try to equal through imitation |
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| coming into existence; emerging |
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| extreme ill will or spite |
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| misconduct or wrongdoing, expecially by a public official |
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| a dabbler; one who superficially understands an art or a field of knowledge |
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| made up of a variety of sources or styles |
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| known or perceived by intuition |
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| supreme; dominant; superior to all others |
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| notabley polite and elegant in manner; suave |
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| a sudden burst of understanding or discovery |
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