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| to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve |
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| being at, or near the surface. Shallow, not profound. |
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| the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype. |
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| extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant |
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| the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. |
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| excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please |
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| obvious and intentional exaggeration |
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| the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
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| lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory |
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| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
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