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eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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| well spoken; expressive; articulate |
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| exonerate,to clear of blame |
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| improvised; done without preparation |
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| intentional obstruction, esp using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
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| the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving |
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| associated with war and the armed forces |
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| lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression |
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a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect |
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| recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
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| intentional breach of faith; treachery |
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| cursory; done without care or interest |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| to cause to happen before anticipated or required |
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| a disposition in favor of something, preference |
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| foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occuring |
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| to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| misgivings, reservations, causes for hesitancy |
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| to retract especially a previously held belief |
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| to disprove; to successfully argue against |
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| to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position |
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| quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| concerned and attentive; eager |
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| characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| occuring only occasionally, or in scattered instances |
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| to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
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| to stun, baffle, or amaze |
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| the combination of parts to make a whole |
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| a force that causes rotation |
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| fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| extremely harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit, ravenous |
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to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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| to lessen in intensity or degree |
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| excessive praise; intense adoration |
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| dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| one who practices self denial especially as an act of religious devotion |
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| greed especially for wealth |
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universally recognised principle |
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| to grow rapidly or flourish |
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| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
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| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| severe criticism or punishment |
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| a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or a thing that causes change |
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| burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reasoning; convincing |
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| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions |
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| free of bias or self interest; impartial |
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| expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead |
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| composed of elements drawn from various sources |
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| soothing especially to the skin, making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens of soothes the skin |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| obscure, mysterious; difficult to understand |
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a speech honoring the dead |
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| sociable, outgoing; enjoying the company of other people |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech |
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| violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech |
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| lacking funds; without money |
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| beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| unmoving, lethargic, sluggish |
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| harmless, causing no damage |
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| to obtain by deception of flattery |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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impenetrable by light; not reflecting light |
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| the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady uninterrupted rhythm |
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| penny-pinching, excessively thrifty, ungenerous |
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| extremely harful; potentially causing death |
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| to examine with great care |
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| extremely reverent or devout, showing strong religious devotion |
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| one that precedes and indicates or announces another |
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| to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent, extraordinary |
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producing large volumes or amounts, productive |
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| to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
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| stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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awe inspiring, worthy of honor |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to |
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| a literary work that ridicules or criticises a human vice through humor or derision |
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| sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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to take the place of of; supercede |
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| lethargic, sluggish, dormant |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| to defame; to characterise harshly |
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| keen, accurate judgement or insight |
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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| to provide support or reinforcement |
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to disguise, conceal; to mislead |
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| departing from the norms or the conventions |
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| tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing |
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| greatly emotional or zealous |
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| happening by accident or chance |
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| relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subjectmatter |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions |
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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| not of capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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in an initial stage not fully formed |
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unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| without taste or flavor, lacking in spirit; bland |
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characterised by brightness and the emission of light |
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| having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
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| the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| one who hates all other humans |
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| to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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unyielding, hard hearted, intractable |
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exhibiting or fawning attentiveness |
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| disgrace, contempt; scorn |
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| overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education show-offish about one's knowledge. |
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| to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| the essential or central part |
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| a superficial remark especially one offered as meaningful |
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| argumentative; controversial |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| characterised by bitter, long lasting resentment |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
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| to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| promoting health or well-being |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive, plausible but false |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/ or testimony |
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| exceeding what is suffcient or necessary |
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| an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination |
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having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause |
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| having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting |
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| to increase in intensity, power, influence or prestige |
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| a medieval science aimed as the transmutation of metals, especially base metals into gold |
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| agreeable; responsive to a suggestion |
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| something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh ; severe |
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| sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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polite or appropriate conduct or behaviour |
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| scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
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| to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| to flatter or praise excessively |
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| to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| pointlessly talkative, talking too much |
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| marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
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| hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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| damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubburn; obstinate |
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| an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| characterised by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
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| to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
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| a recent convert, a beginner, a novice |
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| to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| characterised by or given to pretentious display; showy |
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| calm, sluggish, unemotional |
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| an overabundance; a surplus |
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| overstepping due bounds; taking liberties |
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| adherence to the highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
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| natural predisposition or inclination |
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| excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| natural inclination or tendency, penchant |
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| dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
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| foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| to make or become thin; less dense; to refine |
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| hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| to fail to honor a committment; to go back on a promise |
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| diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| a piece of broken pottery or glass |
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| causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
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| thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals |
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| not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern |
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| implied; not explicitly stated |
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| brief and concise in wording |
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| to publicly praise or promote |
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| sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| genuine; not false or hypocritical |
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indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another |
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| to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate |
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| readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive |
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| to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
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| bring up, announce, begin to talk about |
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| to tolerate; endure; countenance |
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| to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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| to demand, call for, require, take |
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| to sag or droop; to become spiritless, to decline |
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| sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant |
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| to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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| a rope; cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy |
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| to imply; to suggest or insinuate |
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| to tilt or lean to one side |
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| to move heavily and clumsily |
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| pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully |
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| exacting; fastidious, extremely precise |
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| hidden; concealed; beyond comprehension |
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| commonplace; trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
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| multicolored, usually in blotches |
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| courage, spunk, fortitude |
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| to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils |
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| to lose courage; turn frightened |
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| to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep |
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| the supporting structural cross part of a wing |
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| to remove from consideration |
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