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| While on the contrary, considering that |
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| Eager to please; cheerfully complying |
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| Presenting a positive, peaceful view of rural life (as poetry or prose); pleasant in a natural, simple way |
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| Relating to or resembling a monastery (where monks or nuns live), esp. by being quiet, secluded, contemplative, strict, and/or lacking luxuries |
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| Morally low, mean, dishonorable; of little or no value; crude and unrefined; counterfeit |
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| Very loud and powerful (generally of a human voice) |
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| Fragment of some brittle substance, esp. a sharp fragment of pottery, glass, etc. |
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| Formal or lofty expression of praise |
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| Loose, negligent, lazy, weak (adj); neglect to do one's duties; loosen up, relax (verb); period of little work (noun) |
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| Temporary suspension, inactivity |
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| Shy, fickle, uncertain, or prone to act suddenly due to nervousness; lively in a restless or excessive way |
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| nevertheless or nonetheless |
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| However, even so, despite that |
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| Relating to or caused by disease; relating to compulsive bad behavior |
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| Difficult to control, manage, or manipulate; hard to cure; stubborn |
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| Speak in an impassioned, pompous, or oratorical manner; give a formal speech |
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| Incapable of error; certain |
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| Decorate, add ornamentation; enhance (a story) with fictional or fanciful details |
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| Rude, ill-mannered, or insensitive person; a peasant or country bumpkin |
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| Selecting the best of everything or from many diverse sources |
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| Untiring, not able to become fatigued |
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| Relating to prophesy, predicting, ominous |
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| Slanting or sloping; indirect, misleading, or evasive |
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| Person who deserts a party, cause, religion, etc. |
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| Self-governing, independent |
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| Formally give up the throne (or some other power or responsibility) |
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| Not religious, lacking reverence, ungodly |
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| Professed, evident, or pretended; outwardly appearing in a certain way |
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| Excessively long and wordy (of a person, piece of writing, etc.) |
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| Fixed, not moving or changing, lacking vitality |
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| Admirably appropriate, very well-suited for the occasion; pleasant, fortunate, marked by happiness |
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| Rigor, severity; harshness or sharpness of tone; roughness of surface |
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| New word or phrase (or a new meaning applied to an existing word or phrase) |
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| Greed, great or excessive desire |
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| Irrelevant; foreign, coming from without, not belonging |
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| Former, previous (adj); in the past, formerly (adv) |
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| Tending to spread throughout |
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| Given to complaining, grumbling |
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| Lazy, drowsy, or sluggish |
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| Discourage, dishearten, lessen the courage of |
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| Artificial, synthetic; being an inferior substitute |
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| Charming, engaging, esp. in a sweet and innocent way |
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| Wise; showing good judgment and foresight |
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| Marked or motivated by whims (odd, fanciful ideas); erratic, unpredictable |
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| A burden or something that oppresses; a frame for attaching animals (such as oxen) to each other and to a plow or other equipment to be pulled, or a bar across a person's shoulders to help carry buckets of water, etc. (noun); to unite together or to burden (verb) |
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