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| to disgust with sentiment |
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| to boast; to praise excessively |
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| one tenth (esp. of one's income) |
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| a small or slender bundle; one of the divisions of a book published in parts |
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| boorish, rude; stingy; peasantlike; difficult to work with (esp. soil) |
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| hell; the negative afterlife in a religion; eternal damnation |
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marked by impulsive vehemence or passion |
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transformation into a pumpkin; extravagant or absurdly uncritical glorification (or an instance of this) |
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| chance or uncertainty; (archaic) it may be |
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| stubborn; too hard to cut or pierce; a legendary stone of impenetrable hardness |
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| a stock exchange (esp. of Paris or of any non-English speaking country) |
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| to bend the knee; to touch the knee to the floor / ground (esp. in worship); to be servilely obedient or respectful |
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| bitter and abusive language |
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| loud and harsh; presenting a point of view (esp. a controversial one, in an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way) |
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| a person who owns or manages a pub; (in ancient Roman and biblical times) a tax collector |
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| an artifice or trick in warfare for deceiving / outwitting the enemy; a trick for deceiving and outwitting in general; skill in trickery |
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| an Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith (680-754); one of the aforementioned missionaries who was martyred in Frisia; the owner or manager of an inn |
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| a departure from what is normal, usual or expected (esp. one that is unwelcome); a person whose beliefs are unacceptable or unusual; a departure from one's usual moral character or mental ability (esp. for the worse); a characteristic that deviates from the normal type |
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| naturally; of course; one's lifetime |
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| (of a person) fond of having heated arguments; (of an argument or situation) motivated by or causing strong opinions |
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| a cowboy of the South American pampas |
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| extensive, treeless plains in South America |
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| an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information (or to form one); an unproven mathematical or scientific theorem |
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| lying facedown (or to do so); completely overcome or helpless (esp. with illness, distress or exhaustion), (or to reduce someone to that condition); growing along the ground |
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| a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual; a distinctive or peculiar feature or characteristic of a place or thing; an abnormal physical reaction by an individual to a food or drug |
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| a member of a legion (esp. an ancient Roman legion or the French Foreign Legion) |
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| a puzzling or difficult problem; an essential point requiring resolution or resolving an outcome; a main or central feature of an argument |
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| a small slice or portion of something (esp. meat); a fold or roll of flesh on the body |
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| a list comprising of the least celebrated or important members of a group (esp. used to describe extreme insignificance) |
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| abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule |
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| leafage or foliage; the process or period of putting on leaves |
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| to inscribe; to adorn; to celebrate or extol |
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| a loincloth worn by a sumo wrestler |
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| a mass of trees or shrubs |
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| an unpleasant, unfair or undesirable situation or event (or the means by which this is inflicted upon someone); any of various types of flies with green bodies |
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| a large, reddish-gray kangaroo |
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| a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood |
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| a young woman of unexceptional appearance and/or talents, regarded as timid or mousy (or such a person who can nevertheless achieve professional and/or personal success through determination) |
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| a debater who refutes or disproves by bringing up counter-arguments |
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| something that serves as a check or stop |
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| a branch of a tree (esp. one of the larger or main branches) |
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| extremely violent or enraged; mad or crazy; one who is radge; a lascivious woman |
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| revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire |
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| marked by brief expression of a comprehensive manner; concise |
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| (pl. adyta) a sacred place that the public is forbidden to enter; an inner shrine; the most sacred or reserved part of any house of worship |
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| to the point of absurdity; to an absurd degree; designating a method of demonstrating a falsity of a hypothesis by showing that the consquence of assuming it to be true is something absurd or contradictory |
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| a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (esp. an unethical or illegal plan) |
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| without means of communication; in a situation or state not allowing communication |
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| the introduction of something new; the substitution of a new obligation for an old one |
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| anything taken in by a living organism or tissue to maintain life or growth (nutrients); that which feeds a fire (fuel); that which nourishes the mind or soul (food for thought, or spiritual sustenance); bland intellectual fare |
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| beyond any reasonable objection; irreproachable |
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| a person who gives reports (as at a meeting of a learned society) |
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| to tie, bind or fasten; (of a hawk, falcon, etc.) to grasp prey firmly |
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| in or according to the fashion; served with a portion of ice cream (often as a topping); larded and braised or stewed with vegetable, herbs, etc., and served with a rich brown gravy |
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| an indigenous person; an earliest known inhabitant; a person or creature born out of the Earth; an indigenous plant |
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| of or relating to the spleen |
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| the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era |
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| wicked or villainous; pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony |
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| a procession (esp. a ceremonial one); a line or train of attendants |
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| the aurora australis (a large light visible in Antarctica in the winter) |
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| of or relating to a church parish; limited in range or scope |
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| a breach of good manners or etiquette; a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage; any error, impropriety or inconsistency |
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| in the manner of Sir Isaac Newton; with regard to Newton's theories |
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| concerned with declarations of war or treaties of peace |
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| physical or mental laziness (esp. as a condition leading to listlessness or lack of interest in life); apathy, lethargy or torpor |
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| a horse trained for battle; a cavalry horse |
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| a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing; an abusive word or phrase |
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| extravagant boasting; boastful talk; to boast |
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| a person who takes credit for or benefits undeservedly from the intellectual labor of others; a plagiarist; a parasite; a person or thing that feeds on brain matter; something regarded as harmful to the intellect |
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| excessive pride or self-confidence |
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| pompous or extravagant in language, style or manner (esp. in a manner that aims to impress) |
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| showing excessive sexual drive; lustful |
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| deep-blue in color like a clear sky; such a color |
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| to extract money from someone through fine or taxation; to deprive someone of money or possessions deceptively; a fine |
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| a day event comprising of races and other competitions between horse riders or car drivers |
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| beyond calculation or measure |
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| divination, or fortune-telling, involving playing cards |
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| jail (esp. the local jail) |
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| a small or inconsequential person or thing |
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| to foreshadow; to describe or state (esp. faintly or in outline); to overshadow; to add shading to a picture |
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| so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring |
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| until now; until the point in time being discussed |
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| a place where frogs are kept for breeding; a place where frogs live or congregate in the wild; a group or colony of frogs |
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| boring; (exclamation) used to express boredom or resignation |
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| by or in itself or themselves; intrinsically |
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| belonging naturally; essential |
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| savagely cruel or depraved behavior; sexual intercourse between a human and an animal |
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| to make immoral or corrupt |
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| sexual feelings directed towards children |
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| of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood; ridiculously old-fashioned |
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rough to the ear; showing little concern for the feelings of others
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| biting and sarcastic in manner, thought or style; burning or pungent |
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| reckless extravagance; shameless dissoluteness; great abundance |
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| a mechanism with hidden machinery or wiring; a humanoid robot |
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| having the purpose of its existence or occurrence apart from itself |
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| a certificate that a student is too ill to take an examination; a pass or credit awarded to a student, allowing them to not take the exam because of sickness |
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| fortune-teller who predicts futures through the lines on a person's palms |
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| prestige; praise given for an achievement |
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| a device invented by Lewis Carroll with which a person can record ideas without light at night without having to fully wake up |
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| a generation of young people about whose future there is uncertainty; a lost generation; the generation that reached adulthood in the 1980's and 1990's, perceived to be disaffected, directionless or irresponsible |
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| a vessel in which metals or other substances are heated or melted; a severe test; a place or situation where forces cause or influence change or development |
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| intended for display; plausible rather than demonstratably true or real |
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| characterized by excessive caution or hesitation; commited to or advocating total abstinence; one who is pussyfoot |
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| (of language) extravagant and lofty |
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| mental depression or apathy caused my comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state; a mood of sentimental sadness |
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| the act or action of summoning, invoking or commanding an evil spirit; the action of commanding or appealing to someone in the name of God or a god; a solemn or earnest appeal or command |
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to overcome the distrust or hostility of; to win; to reconcile; to become reconciled
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| a cryptic representation of a word/phrase through pictures/symbols |
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| a supernatural being connected with nature and fertility, often viewed as a personification of the woodland or forest; a representation of a man's face composed of foliage or branches; a raw or inexperienced man or recruit (esp. in fishing or whaling, someone who has never been to sea before) |
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| an outer adjacent area of any place |
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| the bringing together of shares or properties in order to be divided equally |
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| an innovation in language (a new word, phrase or expression); the usage of one |
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| a woman who is the senior member of a group, class or profession |
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| a long, pompous speech; a conclusion to a speech that persuades the audience by repeating a prior phrase earnestly and forcefully |
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