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| severe or stern in manner;without adornment or luxury, simple, plain;harsh or sour in flavor |
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| performing acts ov kindness or clarity;conferring benefits, doing good |
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| pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse |
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| to prepare by combining ingredients, make up, derive, invent, fabricate |
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| coarse, unfeeling; stupid |
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| to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate, to cause to deteriorate |
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| to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently, to contaminate, pollute |
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| to confuse; to disturb the composure of |
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| grand in an affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated |
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| a breaking of law or obligation |
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| to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity |
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to rob of goods by open force
the act of looting |
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| to talk a great deal in a foolish aimless fashion |
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| very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety |
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| inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent |
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| to find fault with, scold, rebuke |
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| the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage |
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strong and sturdy; brave, resolute
a brave, strong person; a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position |
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| open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected |
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| stinging, bitter in temper or tone |
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| resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive |
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| fat; having a large, bulky body |
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| to deny responsibility for or connection with |
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| impartial: calm, free from emotion |
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| disagreement,sharp difference of opinion |
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| to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure |
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| to remove objectionable passages of words from a written text; to cleanse, purify |
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| an armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal |
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| based on an assumption or guess, used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation |
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| to call into question; to attack as false |
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| immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement |
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| hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
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| to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish |
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| inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined |
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| subordinate incapacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end |
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| open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance |
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| to make less in amount, degree, etc; to subside, become less; to nullify; to deduct, omit |
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| praise or flattery that is excessive |
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| an object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation (often used adjectivally without the article) |
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| shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom |
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| a greedy desire, particularly for wealth |
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| deserving blame, worthy of condemnation |
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| tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt, intended to delay or postpone |
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| conspicuous, standing out from the mass (used particularly in an unfavorable sense) |
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| to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous |
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| vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy |
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| unable to make up one's mind, hesitating |
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| cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color |
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| one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experienc (also used adjectivally) |
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| extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency |
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| done for show, striving to make a big impression; claiming merit or position unjustifiably making dmeands on one's skill or abilities, ambitious |
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| to review a series of facts; to sum up |
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| to revive, bring back to consciousness or existence |
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| something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence |
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| to grow or accumulate over time; to happen as a natural result |
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| a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work |
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| a state or scene of uproar and confusion |
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hidden, disguised, purposefully kept secret; sheltered, secluded
a sheltered place, a hiding place |
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| pleasant, courteous, lighthearted; smooth and polished in manner and appearance |
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to demand insistently, especially in payment of a debt
a creditor
dark, dull, drab, dingy |
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| effective, producing results |
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| calmness, composure, refusal to panic |
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| accidental, occurring by a happy chance |
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| the essential part, main point, or essence |
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| freely given; not called for by circumstances, unwarranted |
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| overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling |
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| a strong denunciation or condemnation; abusive language |
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| showing great variety; composed of different elements or many colors |
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| extremely generous, lavish |
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| to delay, put off until later |
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| tending to produce a strong feeling or response; arousing desire or appetite; irritating, annoying |
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| exceeding ordinary knowledge and understanding |
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a depraved, vicious, or unprincipled person, scoundrel
wicked, corrupt, or unprincipled
to disapprove of, condemn |
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| characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place |
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| moderate, sparing (as in eating and drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline |
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| deserving of blame or correction |
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likely but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by change
a representative group forming part of a larger body |
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| to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify |
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| an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place |
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| passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic |
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| to scatter or spread widely |
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| poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste |
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| highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy |
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| to impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty, or coercion |
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| awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy |
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| an opinon different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred |
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| to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly |
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| capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized |
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| having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation |
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| extremely harmful; deadly, fatal |
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leaping, jumping, or springing forth; prominent, standing out, conspicuous
a projection or bulge, a land from that projects upward or outward |
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to satisfy completely; to fill to excess
full, satisfied |
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| to make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, dessicate, singe |
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| deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit |
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| to clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt |
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a presentation (especially a drawing) in which the subject's characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated
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a loud, ringing sound
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| side by side, touching; near; adjacent in time |
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| an eager desire for something; greed |
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| to raise to a higher degree; to increase the value or desirability of |
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| to captivate, charm, hold spellbound, to enslave; to imprison |
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| to lessen the seriousness or magnitude of an offense by making partial excuses |
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| implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts |
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| sharp, keen, penetrating (with a suggestion of decisiveness and effectiveness) |
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| marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy |
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| a model of excellence or perfection |
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to restate in other words
a statement that presents a given idea in a new language |
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| prudent, shrewdly conceived and developed; artful, expedient |
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| dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter-of-fact, straightforward; characteristic of prose, not poetic |
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| extra, excess, more than is needed; wordy, repetitive; profuse, lush |
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| making a show of virtue or righteousness; hypocritically moralistic or pious; self-righteous, canting, holier-than-thou |
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| sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant (applied to mental or personal qualities) |
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| charming, attractive, pleasing (often suggesting childlike charm and innocence) |
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| to encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or unworthy) |
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| to affirm, declare confidently |
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| noisy in a coarse, offensive way; obvious or conspicuous, especially in an unfavorable sense |
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| to bring up or begin to talk about (a subject); to announce, introduce, to break the surface of the water; to turn sideways to the winds and waves; to pierce |
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to support, prop up, strengthen
a supporting structure |
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| noisy; revelry or merrymaking (often with a suggestion of heavy drinking) |
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| to compare critically in order to make differences, similarities, etc; to arrange in order for some specific purpose |
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| an expert; one who is well-qualified to pass critical judgments, especially in one of the fine arts |
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| deeply unhappy or dejected; without hope, beyond consolation |
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| to weigh down or harden (with difficulties, cares, debt, etc.); to fill up , block up, hinder |
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| to promote trouble or rebellion; to apply warm liquids to, warm |
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| frightful, horrible, ghastly |
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(capital H) relating to Hercules
(lowercase h) characterized by great strength; very hard to do in the sense of requiring unusual strength |
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| showing no feeling or emotion; inanimate; motionless |
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| unfavorable, unlucky, suggesting bad luck for the future |
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| unquestionable, beyond dispute |
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| suitable or convenient for a particular purpose; occurring at an appropriate time |
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| abundantly productive; abundant, profuse |
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| a reply to a reply, especially from the defendant in a legal suit |
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| willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive; liable to be held responsible |
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| too ready to believe; easily deceived |
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| a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation |
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| to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly |
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| to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely |
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| coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant |
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| the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. |
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| a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.) |
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| lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile |
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| delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel |
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| self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages, saying much in few words; pithy |
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an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust
to feed or supply with anything to excess |
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| winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex, devious |
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| swollen, bloated, filled to excess, overdecorated or excessive in language |
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firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, obdurate, implacable, inflexible
an extremely hard substance |
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| a confused hodgepodge of sound, hubbub; an uproar or commotion that goes far beyond what is justified |
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a strong defense or protection, a solid wall-like structure for defense
to provide such defense or protection |
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| easily made angry, bad-tempered |
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| to spoil or destroy an appetite by too much indulgence, especially in sweet or rich things; to glut, satiate, surfeit |
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| to cut short, bring to a halt or end sooner than expected; to reduce |
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| courteous, yielding to the wishes and ideas of another person; great respect marked by submission, as to a superior |
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| conclusive, final, representing the limit of what can be done |
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| the way a person behaves, overall impression made by comportment, manner, etc; facial appearance, mien |
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| puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood |
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without preparation, offhand, suddenly or hastily
an extemporaneous composition or remark; a minimal piece suggestive of improvisation |
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| excessively and objectionably sentimental, having a mildly sickening flavor |
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| to soften, make gentle, pacify; to calm, allay (as an emotion), assauge, appease, placate; to reduce in intensity |
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| something that is heavy or burdensome (especially an unwelcome responsibility); a stigma; blame |
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| a vague sense of approaching misfortune |
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given over to dissipation and self-indulgence, immoral; recklessly extravagant
a person given to self-indulgent and wild spending |
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| to send or hand in (as money); to cancel (as a penalty or punishment), forgive, pardon; to lessen, diminish, to put off, postpone, defer |
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| needed, necessary, regarded as essential or indispensable |
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| of or pertaining to a tailor or his work; having to do with clothes or dress (especially men's) |
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| to oppose successfully; to prevent, frustrate |
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