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| acceptance without protest |
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| A type of chalcedony quartz found in a variety of colors and patterns, frequently with varying color layers. |
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expel from a community or group |
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| A carpet or rug in which a raised pattern or engraved effect is formed using heavy twisted yarn tufts on a ground of straight fibers. |
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| a strong dialectal accent, notably in Irish dialects of the English language. |
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| A small, one-story home built in a turn of the century style, often with a prominent front verandah. |
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| A shape of a mark, much like >, found on some caterpillars and butterflies. |
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| treat with excessive indulgence |
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| any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters |
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| brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort" |
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| Heavy, bright, fine-yarn fabrics with reverse jacquard design on both sides. It is used for decorative fabrics and fine apparel. |
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| desperate: fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless |
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| this refers to any item that is held within a frame |
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| the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets |
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| giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness |
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| intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right |
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| to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
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| a wooden or metal lattice used to close or floor an opening |
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| given to generous and cordial reception of guests |
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| unsusceptible to or destitute of emotion |
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| to involve as a consequence, corollary, or natural inference |
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| a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |
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| incapable of being consoled |
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| unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true |
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| a year of emancipation and restoration provided by ancient Hebrew law to be kept every 50 years by the emancipation of Hebrew slaves, restoration of alienated lands to their former owners, and omission of all cultivation of the land |
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| a receptacle (as a pit in the earth) for use as a toilet |
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| expending or bestowing profusely |
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| in lieu of: in the place of |
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| an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
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| emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
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| a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
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| a mildly mentally retarded person |
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| a doctrine that this world is the best possible world |
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| to bring about or carry out (as a crime or deception) |
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| the usually orange several-seeded globular berry of a persimmon that is edible when fully ripe but usually extremely astringent when unripe |
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| having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
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| overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
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| damage resulting from ravaging : violently destructive effect |
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| to become less severe, harsh, or strict usually from reasons of humanity |
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| an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
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| marked by firm determination |
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| the condition of being lost in thought |
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| one that practices sabotage: destruction of an employer's property (as tools or materials) or the hindering of manufacturing by discontented workers |
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| someone that uses a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
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| one who holds or possesses real estate or sometimes personal property (as a security) by any kind of right |
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| a hard or painful struggle |
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