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| the condition of being without a stop or interruption |
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| to approach the same point from different directions; meet |
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| the basic or essential feature of something |
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| to begin; originate; cause to begin |
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| central or crucial to something; very important |
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| something that follows; continuation |
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| one subject to the authority of another |
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| only superficially relevant or related |
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| to bring to an end; conclude |
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| a name or title that distinguishes or identifies |
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| a speech sound that consists of either two vowels or a vowel and a semivowel (such as y) contained in a single syllable |
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| a person for whom something is or is thought to be named |
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| the study of human speech, especially its components, structure, and nature, and how it changes |
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| a newly made-up word, phrase, or expression |
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| a particular manner or kind of speech |
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| a dialect other than the standard dialect of a language, especially a regional or uneducated form of speech |
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| consisting of many groups speaking different languages |
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| the ungrammatical usage of a word or construction of a sentence |
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| spoken by or using the language spoken by the common people rather than literary, cultured, or learned people; vernacular |
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| an object worn to bring luck or to protect against evil or injury; charm |
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| characterized by or subject to sudden, unpredictable changes; fickle |
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| the belief that all events are determined in advance by fate and cannot be changed by human means |
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| a set of words spoken as a magic charm or to cast a magic spell |
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| presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious; advantageous |
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| resulting from or seeming to result from divine will; fortunate; opportune |
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| a peculiarity of behavior; mannerism; idiosyncrasy |
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| the ability to make valuable discoveries by chance; luck |
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| a wild or unpredictable notion or action; odd fancy |
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| one of the sudden or unexpected changes or shifts often encountered in one's life, activities, or surroundings |
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