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| ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing. (effectless) |
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| insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity |
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| to make more acute or effective; improve; perfect |
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| immoderate in indulgence of appetite or passion. |
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| the quality or state of being profound; depth. |
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| leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command. |
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| a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct. |
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| an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent. |
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| ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch] |
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| to renounce, repudiate, or retract, esp. with formal solemnity; recant: to abjure one's errors. |
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| to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause. |
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| having only one meaning; unambiguous. |
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| to compose; form: mortar constituted of lime and sand. |
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| metamorphose, convert, alter. |
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| a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation. |
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| to stop the flow of (a liquid, esp. blood). |
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| To wear down or rub away by friction; erode. See Synonyms at chafe. |
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1. an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
2. an abundant source or supply.
–verb (used with object) 3. to obtain (stone) from or as if from a quarry. |
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| respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another. |
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| contemptible; despicable; mean: a scurvy trick. |
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1. lying on the back, face or front upward.
2. inactive, passive, or inert, esp. from indolence or indifference. |
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