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a : having high and often capricious standards : difficult to please <critics … so fastidious that they can talk only to a small circle of initiates — Granville Hicks>
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: favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars
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: marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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: existing in, belonging to, or determined by factors present in an individual from birth : native, inborn <innate behavior>
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a : to detect with the eyes <discerned a figure approaching through the fog>
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: governed by or conforming to the dictates of conscience : scrupulous <a conscientious public servant>
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a : awaiting a chance to entrap : treacherous
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: having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying : possessing or displaying erudition <an erudite scholar
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: of or relating to conversation : conversational
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obsolete : showing or calling for intelligence, aptitude, or discernment
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: marked by originality, resourcefulness, and cleverness in conception or execution <an ingenious contraption>
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: relieve, lessen: as a : to make (as suffering) more bearable <her sympathy alleviated his distress> b : to partially remove or correct <measures taken to alleviate a labor shortage>
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: relationship by marriage
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a : of or relating to time as opposed to eternity b : of or relating to earthly life c : lay or secular rather than clerical or sacred : civil <lords temporal>
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: the office or government of triumvirs
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: a group or association of three
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: being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point
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: touching or connected throughout in an unbroken sequence <contiguous row houses
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: the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal : treachery
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: the act of talking to oneself
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: to make fit, suitable, or congruous
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: to provide with something desired, needed, or suited (as a helpful service, a loan, or lodgings)
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: to give consideration to : allow for <accommodate the special interests of various groups>
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: the power to produce an effect
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: felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep <a visceral conviction>
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: of, relating to, or located on or among the viscera : splanchnic <visceral organs>
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: obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
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: producing no injury : harmless
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: equal in measure or extent : coextensive <lived a life commensurate with the early years of the republic>
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: corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate <was given a job commensurate with her abilities>
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: formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective: as a (1) : clustered in a dense mass or head <an aggregate flower> (2) : formed from several separate ovaries of a single flower <aggregate fruit> b : composed of mineral crystals of one or more kinds or of mineral rock fragments
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: existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread <a ubiquitous fashion
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: joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish <just being facetious>
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a : a living cell; especially : one (as a red or white blood cell or a cell in cartilage or bone) not aggregated into continuous tissues b : any of various small circumscribed multicellular bodies
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