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| marked by temperance in indulgence |
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| shrewdness shown by keen insight |
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| belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War |
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| auguring favorable circumstances and good luck |
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| having or showing a ready disposition to fight |
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| edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
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| the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
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| a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order |
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| having a bad disposition; surly |
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| an indirect way of expressing something |
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| travel around, either by plane or ship |
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| (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season |
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| grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude |
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| either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length |
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| the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies |
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| tending to vanish like vapor |
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| edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
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| relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) |
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| (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches |
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| a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes |
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| divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts |
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| the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others |
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| a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues |
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| all of the same or similar kind or nature |
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| overbearing pride or presumption |
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| the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle |
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| bring an accusation against; level a charge against |
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| without revealing one's identity |
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| impossible to deny or disprove |
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| teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
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| the basic structure or features of a system or organization |
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| insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby |
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| incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
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| lacking interest or significance or impact |
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| relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith |
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| bend the knees and bow in a servile manner |
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| the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs |
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| a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them |
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| full of trivial conversation |
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| a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances |
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| cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes |
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| one of two (approximately) equal parts |
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| the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules) |
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| complete denial of all established authority and institutions |
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| a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline |
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| attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
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| a political system governed by a few people |
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| a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols |
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| enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide |
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| a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve |
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| a standard or typical example |
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| a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves |
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| relating to or involving money |
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| synthesis of compounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants) |
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| take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property |
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| the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended |
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| a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers |
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| a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts |
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| found in the ordinary course of events |
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| concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return |
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| something done or paid in expiation of a wrong |
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| a single complete act of breathing in and out |
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| inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life |
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| speech you make to yourself |
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| make subservient; force to submit or subdue |
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| an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) |
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| having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy |
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| a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc. |
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| pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust |
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| characterized by violent emotions or behavior |
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| the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy |
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| characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control |
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| unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech |
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| seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession |
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| marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid |
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| a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) |
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| the act of separating grain from chaff |
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| shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) |
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| a fear of foreigners or strangers |
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| in former times was free and cultivated his own land |
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| a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians |
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