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| one who is skeptical of the existence of a god or any ultimate reality, but does not deny it |
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| prototype; original model; primitive pattern |
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| one who renounces comforts and pleasure to follow rigid self-denial; austere (Do not confused with aesthetic—appreciation of beauty.) |
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| relating to or emanating from the stars |
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| a poet, especially an exalted national poet (Shakespeare) |
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| to lead by deception; to deprive by guile (to cheat); to persuade by the use of wiles (charms) |
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| a person associated with affluent middle-class people who are often conventional, conservative or materialistic in outlook |
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| to expurgate; to remove literary passages deemed indecent (named after Thomas Bowdler who expurgated both Shakespeare's works and Jonathan swift's Gulliver's Travels) |
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| a braggart (one who brags) |
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| conciseness; brief; terseness |
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| tawny or grayish with streaks or spots |
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| mockery by ludicrous imitation |
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| to prop up; to support; a support or prop; a reinforcement |
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| discord; harsh sound; dissonance |
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| massive slaughter, especially in war; total destruction of life |
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| one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society; any social class distinguished from others by rank, profession, etc. |
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a person or thing that precipitates a process or event, especially without being changed by the consequences; a chemical that
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| purging or cleansing of any passage of the body; a figurative cleansing or release of emotions |
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| broadly sympathetic; liberal; universal |
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| heavenly; spiritual; divine |
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| deception or trickery, especially by the clever manipulation of language |
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| crass (characteristic of one with bad manners); sullen; surely; rude; coarse |
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| having foresight; perceiving things that are out of the range of human senses |
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| a phrase dulled in meaning by repetition; a trite or overused expression (“quiet as a mouse”) |
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| work of art put together from fragments; random collection; hodgepodge |
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| contented to a fault; smug; self-satisfied |
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| correspondence of parts; harmonious relationship |
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| a conclusion based on incomplete or inconclusive information; speculation; assumption |
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| pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend |
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| person competent to act as a judge of art, food, etc. |
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| suggested or implied meaning of a word or an expression (connotation allows words to have varied meanings; denotation is only the exact dictionary meaning of the word) |
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| quarrelsome; controversial; arguable |
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| opposite; reverse of something; (v.) – to engage in conversation |
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| pertaining to the body; of a material or tangible nature |
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| group that meets socially; a select circle |
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| to deceive by a petty trick or fraud; to cheat; to swindle |
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| belief on slight evidence; gullibility |
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| deserving blame; responsible for wrongdoing |
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| one who is skeptical or distrustful of human motives; one who believes all men are motivated by selfishness |
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| scarcity; lack of food; shortage of something |
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| to pollute; to make filthy; to render impure |
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| to depict; to sketch out; to define; to explain (delineation is the noun form) |
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| the exact meaning of a word (dictionary meaning) |
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| expressing a low opinion; critical; insulting; belittling; disparaging |
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| something that spreads in all directions like a gas; dispersion; dissemination |
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| one who has a strong craving for intoxicating liquor |
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| dreadful; disastrous; awful; dismal; appalling |
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| perceivable; distinguishable; apparent |
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| condition of inequality; difference; disproportion |
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| formal, lengthy, essay; thesis; critique |
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| to pretend; to conceal by feigning (faking or pretending) |
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| to break up and drive away; to scatter; to squander |
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| obedient; easily managed; passive; meek; quiet |
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| expression opinions/beliefs in an authoritative and often arrogant manner; inflexible; assertive; unbending |
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| idle person; male bee (v.)—to talk dully; buzz or murmur like a bee |
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| unsure about an outcome; of uncertain quality; possibly dishonest or immoral (It's a dubious proposition) |
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| having womanly traits; unmanly |
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| to bring out; to evoke; to draw forth (illicit means illegal) |
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| to explain or to clarify; to enlighten |
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| short-lived; fleeting; transient; brief |
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| person who devotes self to pleasures of the senses, especially food and drink |
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| period of time; an era usually regarded as memorable |
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| calmness of temperament; composure; self-control |
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| doubtful; ambiguous; inconclusive; vague |
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| to lie; to mislead; to attempt to conceal the truth |
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| wandering; roving; straying from proper moral standards |
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| very delicate or highly refined; airy (light); heavenly |
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| a mild expression in place of an unpleasant one ("to pass away" instead of to die) |
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| to talk at length; to elaborate; to wander or roam at will |
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| to exile (n.) one who has withdrawn from his/her native land |
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| to express disagreement or disapproval, especially when trying to dissuade somebody from doing something |
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| not rehearsed; not planned; impromptu |
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| full of enthusiasm; abundant; lavish; effusive |
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| a copy of something; a reproduction |
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| plowed but not sowed; uncultivated; inactive |
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| broad comedy; mockery; something that is ridiculous or laughable |
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| foolish; showing a lack of intelligence or thought |
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| an error or slip in manners or behavior |
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| fertility; fruitfulness; productive |
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| to stir up; to develop or evolve something; to agitate |
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| showing deep feeling or emotion; ardent |
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| wool coat of a sheep (v.)—to rob or to plunder; to swindle |
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| painting on plaster, usually fresh |
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| lack of seriousness; silly and trivial behavior |
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| an official; one who holds authority or trust |
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| large sailing ship of the 15th and 16th centuries |
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| opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed; a carefully considered strategy; a maneuver |
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| a grotesque ornamental figure utilized as a water spot on older buildings ("gargle" originated from this word) |
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| type; class; variety; style of art |
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| to bend the knee as in worship; courtesy |
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| given freely; unwarranted; unnecessary and unjustifiable (gratuitous remarks) |
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| deceit; cunning; craftiness |
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| forerunner; an indicator of something to come |
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| the belief that pleasure is the sole aim in life |
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| opinion contrary to popular belief or religion |
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| body divided into ranks with each rank subordinate to the rank above |
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| image of holy person; recognizable symbol; somebody famous for something |
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| attacking cherished traditions; destroyed of religious images |
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| special usage in language ("fly off the handle") |
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| charmingly carefree; peaceful; full of quiet beauty |
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| wickedness; lack of religious respect; ungodly act |
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| to curse; to pray that evil wil befall |
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| act of assuming a human body and human nature |
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| notoriously bad; having an exceedingly bad reputation |
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| naive; young; unsophisticated ("ingenious" means clever and creative) |
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| basic—part of very nature of something (the risks inherent in investing in the stock market) |
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| hint or something improper; insinuation |
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| to prohibit; to forbid; to cut off or destroy |
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| to insert between (interpolate dialogue in your essay); to interrupt by saying something |
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| to denounce; to speak out in angry disapproval |
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| language used by a special group; gibberish |
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| rascality; a deceitful act |
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| weary; sluggish; listless; without energy |
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| very small; petty (from Swift's Gulliver's Travels—the land of Lilliput where little people lived who considered themselves to be important) |
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| horrifying or shocking, with graphic details; of a sickenginly intense brightness or boldness of color—a lurid green; with a pale sickly complexion (pallid) |
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| crafty; double-dealing (a term used to describe many of Shakespeare's evil characters: Macbeth, Claudius, Iago) |
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| a curse (opposite of benediction); slander of evil talk about another person |
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| declaration; statement of policy |
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| of soldiers and war; warlike and fierce |
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| a person who enjoys his/her own pain |
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| fickle; quick and unpredictably changeable in character; shrewdness and swiftness like the god Mercury (Catherine in Wuthering Heights) |
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| relating to metaphysics (study of nature of being); speculative; abstract; without material form or substance; supernatural |
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| demeanor; bearing; somebody's general air (facial expression or general appearance, or posture taken as an indication of his/her mood or character) |
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| to entangle; to stick in swampy ground; to be stuck in a troublesome or oppressive situation [(n.)—bog; thick mud; difficult situation] |
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| one who hates or distrusts people |
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| wrong name; incorrect designation or appellation |
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| pertaining to memory (HOMES is the mnemonic aid for remembering the name of the Great Lakes.) |
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| a thematic element in a work, especially a dominant idea or central theme; a single or repeated design or color |
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| not clear, distinct or definite; vague; cloudy |
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| witchcraft or sorcery; dealings with the dead |
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| not clear, distinct or definite; vague; cloudy |
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| revenging agent; unbeatable opponent; deserved punishment (Nemesis was the Greek goddess of justice or vengeance.) |
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| not generous; very reluctant to give or spend anything; stingy, miserly |
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| denial of traditional values; total skepticism |
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| opium-containing drug; sleep-inducing substance; something with a dulling effect (Mrs. Hill's lectures) |
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| disgraceful; shameful; infamous |
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| excessively decorated; using elaborate language |
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| rich and showy; marked by a vulgar display of wealth and success designed to impress people; pretentious display |
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| to beat in an irregular or rapid way because of exertion, fear of anxiety |
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| cure-all; remedy for all diseases |
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| Hell; chaos; noisy confused place |
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| comprehensive view; unobstructed view in all directions |
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| a statement that looks false but is actually correct; a contradictory statement |
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| example of excellence; model of perfection |
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| a humorous imitation of a person, literary work, etc. that exaggerates to the ridiculous |
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| niggardly; stingy; excessively frugal |
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| strong supporter (adj.—one-sided; biased) |
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| father and ruler of a family or a tribe |
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| overly concerned with formal rules and details; showing off learning; bookish |
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| to pass through; to spread |
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| agitation; greatly disturbed |
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| to read or examine something carefully OR to read something quickly |
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| pertaining to rogues in literature |
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| to plunder; to steal possessions |
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| religious; acting in a falsely moralizing way |
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| purely spiritual; theoretical; without sensual desire |
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| to assume something; to claim something |
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| extravagantly wasteful; wasting parental money but returning home to a warm welcome |
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| marvelous; great in amount, size or extent; impressive |
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| children; offspring; something resulting from something else |
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| member of the working class |
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| sexually indiscriminate; choosing carelessly or without discrimination; confusedly mixed |
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| a tendency to demonstrate a particular behavior |
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| to appease; to soothe over; to win somebody's favor |
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| to convert to a religion or belief |
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| original work used as a model by others |
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| cause for anger or retaliation; the act of provoking |
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| affecting the organs of taste and smell with a sharp, acrid sensation; penetrating; biting; caustic |
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| lacking courage; cowardly; faint-hearted |
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| decaying with a disgusting smell; disgusting; worthless |
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| person with insane desire to set fire to things |
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| dilemma; a state of uncertainty or indecision |
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| purest and highest embodiment of something |
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| idealistic but impractical; impulsive; tending to take a romanticized view of life |
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| to disown something; to reject something; to disown a loved one |
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| boisterous merrymaking; noisy celebrating |
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| the art of effective communication; insincere language (empty talk or pretentious words) |
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| white frost; variation of spelling of "rhyme" (Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner) |
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| sarcastic; cynical; disdainful |
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| half-human; half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus (god of wine) portrayed as wanton and cunning; a man who displays inappropriate sexual behavior |
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| terse; concise; overly moralizing; expressing much in a few words; using maxims and aphorisms (succinct statement of truth) |
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| expressing an attitude of concern and consideration; ready and willing to do something; paying careful attention to details |
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| the act of speaking while alone, especially onstage where a character's thoughts and ideas are conveyed to the audience |
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| somebody using clever talk to deceive; ancient Greek philospher |
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| nasty; demonstrating the worst aspects of human nature such as immorality; selfishness and greed; squalid (dirty and depressing) |
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| polite and charming, especially in a way that seems affected or insincere; pleasingly dressed |
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| lover of luxury; one seeking sensual pleasures |
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| cheap; gaudy and poor quality; mean-spirited |
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| government of a community by religious leaders |
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| shaving of the head, especially by person entering religious orders |
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| imaginary land with perfect social and political system; ideal and perfect state |
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| in feudalism, one who gave loyalty and homage to a feudal lord; a slave |
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| having a pale or sickly color; pallid |
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| sexually indiscriminate; lacking reason or provocation; desiring to do harm; unrestrained; unruly |
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| agreeable; gracious; engaging |
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| custom; habitual procedure |
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| man owning small estate; middle-class farmer |
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