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| adj; sad; sullen; melancholy |
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| adj; evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| noun; the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm (verb: oscillate) |
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| adj; penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| adj; extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
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| verb; to examine with great care (noun: perusal) |
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| adj; extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion (noun: piety) |
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| noun; one that precedes and indicates or announces another |
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| verb; to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| adj; abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| adj; producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| verb; to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor (adj: putrid) |
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| noun; stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest (adj: quiescent) |
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| adj; awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| noun/verb; authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to |
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| noun; a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision (adj: satirical) |
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| adj; sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect (noun: squalor) |
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| adj; indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast (noun: stoicism) |
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| verb; to take the place of; supersede |
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| adj; lethargic; sluggish; dormant (noun: torpor) |
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| adj; eisting everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; wide-spread |
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| adj; sophisticated; refined; elegant (noun: urbanity) |
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| verb; to defame; to characterize harshly |
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| adj; thick; sticky (noun: viscosity) |
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| noun; keen, accurate judgment or insight |
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| verb; to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| verb; to combine several elements into a whole (noun: amalgamation) |
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| adj; outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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| verb; to state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| verb; to provide support or reinforcement |
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| adj; pompous; grandiloquent (noun: bombast) |
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| noun; a harsh denunciation |
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| verb; to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| adj; departing from norms or conventions |
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| adj; characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| adj; tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| verb; to make worse or more severe |
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| adj; greatly emotional or zealous (noun: fervor) |
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| adj; happening by accident or chance |
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| adj; relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| noun; pompous speech or expression (adj: grandiloquent) |
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| adj; rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| noun; devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses (a hedonist is someone who pursues pleasure) |
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| noun; the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| noun; one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| adj; given to intense or excessive devotion to something (noun: idolatry) |
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| adj; revealing no emotion |
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