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| Quickness, accuracy,and keenness of judgment or insight |
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| Known or understood by only a few |
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| To find out, as through investigation or experimentation |
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| To absorb or become absorbed; to make or become similar |
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| Independence; self-determination |
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| Emotionally hardened; unfeeling |
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| Completely honest; straight forward |
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| To scold, rebuke, or harshly criticize |
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| To draw a circle around, to restrict |
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| Careful; prudent; discreet |
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| Sharing an edge or boundary; touching |
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| Wordly; widely sophisticated |
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| Something that comes from another source |
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| Having lost faith or loyalty; discontent |
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| To scatter widely as in sewing seed |
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| Showing excessive emotion; overflowing |
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| A puzzle, mystery, or riddle |
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| Intended for or understood by only a small group |
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| A mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh or blunt term |
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| To infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information |
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| A clumsy social error; a faux pas |
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| Character peculiar to an individual or group |
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| Difficult to fathom or understand, impenentrable |
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| To introduce or communicate steathily |
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| Isolated; narrow or provincial |
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| Adhering to the traditional and established, especially in religion |
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| Adhering to the traditional and established, especially in religion |
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| Excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules |
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| One who has the power and position to rule over others; monarch |
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| Exhibiting unusually early intellectual aptitude or maturity |
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| Very productive; producing great quantities |
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| Seeking or preferring seclusion or isolation |
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| Seeking or preferring seclusion or isolation |
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| To retire from; give up or abandon |
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| To give up (a title, for exmaple), especially by formal announcement |
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| To retire from; give up or abandon |
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| Inclined to keep silent; reserved |
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| The art of using language effectively and persuasively |
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| Marked by harshly abusive condemnation |
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| To lower in rank, prestige or esteem |
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| Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness |
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| To urge with repeated appeals, teasing or flattery |
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| Appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile |
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| Capable of being believed; plausible |
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| No longer existing or functioning |
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| INsulting or intended ot insult |
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| To speak of negatively; to belitte |
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| Brazen boldness; presumptuousness |
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| Identify with another's situation, feelings, and motives |
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| To get rid of as if by tearing it up by the roots; abolish |
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| Great personal dishonor or humiliation; disgraceful conduct |
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| To attack as false or questionable |
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| Indisputable, not open to question |
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| To officially charge with wrongdoing or a crime |
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| Prone to engage in lawsuits |
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| Courageously or generously noble in mind or heart |
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| To damage, especially in a disfiguring way |
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| Equality, as in amount, status, or value |
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| Devoted to or biased in a support of a party, group, or cause |
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| Disparaging, belittling, insulting |
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| Humanitarian; benevolent, relating to monetary generosity |
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| To put down forcibly, suppress |
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| To level to the ground, demolish |
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| To mutually take or give, to respond in kind |
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| Moral uprightness, righteousness |
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| Lax in attending to duty, negligent |
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| To reject the validity or authority |
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| Feigning piety or righteousness |
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| Principled, having a strong sense of right and wrong, conscientious |
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| To crush as if by trampling, squash |
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| TO support within proof or evidence, verify |
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| To usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics |
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| Insincere, obsequious flatterer |
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| Adherence to the truth, truthfulness |
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| To annoy or bother; to perplex |
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| A combination of diverse elements; a mixture |
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| Simultaneously feeling opposing feelings, uncertain |
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| Feeling or showing little emotion |
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| Producing or promoting a favorable result; helpful |
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| Given to pompous speech or writing |
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| Impulsive and unpredictable |
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| Relaxing after an emotional outburst |
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| Something that completes, goes with, or brings to perfection |
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| To expose untruths, shams, or exaggerated claims |
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| Doubtful, of unlikely authenticity |
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| To ornament or decorate, to exaggerate |
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| A representative of an example or type |
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| Open to two or more interpretations and often intended to mislead, ambiguous |
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| Exceeding all bounds, as of custom or fairness |
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| Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy |
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| To make up in order to deceive |
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| To decline in vigor or strength, to tire, to droop |
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| Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable |
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| Given freely, unearned, unnecessary |
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| Suddenly and forcefully energetic or emotional, impulsive and passionate |
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| An impelling force or stimulus |
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| To overwhelm as if with a flood; to swamp |
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| Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree |
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| State of being various or manifold, a great number |
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| Relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure |
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| A strong liking or inclination |
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| Having a ring of truth or plausibility but actually false |
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| Occurring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order in time |
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| Having or exhibiting healing powers |
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| Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent |
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| To sway from one side to the other |
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| Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feeling of another |
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| Characterized by whim, unpredictable |
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| Promptness in response, cheerful readiness, eagerness |
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| Friendly, agreeable, good-natured |
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| Relating to or resembling a tree or trees |
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| To make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity; to supplement |
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| The quality or state of being brief in duration |
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| Plentiful, having a large quantity |
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| Stubbornly attracted to insufficiently proven beliefs |
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| To increased the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate |
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| Appropriate to a purpose, convenient, speedy |
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| Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please |
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| Disrespectfully humorous or casual |
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| Great in scope or intent; grand |
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| Having no adverse effect; harmless |
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| Insulting in manner or speech |
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| Characterized by or given to joking |
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| Refusal to moderate a position or to compromise |
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| A call (usually upon a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration |
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| Extremely careful and precise |
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| Flagrantly wicked; vicious |
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| Extremely or irrevocably harmful; deadly |
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| Calm or quiet; undisturbed |
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| Great depth or intellect; feeling, or meaning |
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| To make twice as great; to double |
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| Arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive |
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| Cheerfully confident, optimistic |
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| Disdainful; haughty, arrogant |
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| Passing quickly in time or space |
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| Having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors, varicolored |
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