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| A decision that can be subsequently used as an example. |
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| First, or among the first, in importance or rank. |
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| In the greatest number or amount. |
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| Concerned with actual facts and experience. |
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| Showing a strong interest in unpleasant or gloomy subjects. |
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| At the point of death or in terminal decline. |
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| Done without planning or organization. |
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| So obvious or conspicious as to be impossible to hide. |
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| Capable of being carried out or put into effect. |
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| To dominate or control somebody or something. |
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| An important underlying law or assumption required in a system of thought. |
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| The right or need to be dealt with before somebody or something else. |
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| To urge somebody to perform a particular action. |
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| That is more than, or adds to, the quantity or extent of something. |
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| Easily forgiven or excused. |
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| Impossible or very difficult to believe. |
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| Unable or unwilling to believe something. |
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| Producing an abundance of offspring or new growth. |
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| Of value or benefit to somebody or something. |
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| Very obvious and contrary to standards of conduct or morality. |
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| In a state of uncertainty or indecision. |
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| To have an addtional or implied meaning. |
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| An actor or other entertainer typically one with long experience. |
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| Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another. |
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| To inform or give notice to somebody about something. |
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| Come to live permanently in a foreign country. |
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| Expressing praise or admiration. |
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| Open to persuasion by corrupt means. |
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| Impartial and free from bias. |
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| A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme. |
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| The ability to understand another's feelings. |
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| Showing innocence and a lack of worldly experience. |
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| To show reluctance to do something. |
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| To improve something or to make it better. |
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| The rear part of the barrel of a gun. |
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| To be extremely happy or joyful about something. |
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| Openly disregard a rule, law or convention. |
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| Deserving to be treated with contempt. |
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| To agree to something or to express agreement. |
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| Prepared in advance but delivered without notes. |
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| Admirable and worthy of praise. |
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| Producing resentment by unfairly slighting someone. |
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| Take or claim without justification. |
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| (of relations between people) characterized by or done in friendliness. |
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| To give up a previously held belief. |
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| A strong dislike or lack of respect. |
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| Completely separate and unconnected. |
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| To make something understood without expressing it directly. |
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| Slowly and subtly harmful or destructive |
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| Increase the power, status, or wealth of. |
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| Used to indicate the extent to which one thing or person is or becomes distant from another. |
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| To conclude something on the basis of evidence and reasoning. |
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| Full of twists and turns. |
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| Unwilling to communicate very much. |
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| Friendly and pleasant to be with. |
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| To make an earnest appeal. |
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| Appropriate, advisable or useful in a situation that requires action. |
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| Not at this exact moment but in a short while. |
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| Tediously pompous or bombastic. |
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| Dull because lacking in character and lively qualities. |
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| A situation with unsatisfactory choices. |
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| Gradually spread through or over. |
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| Beginning to appear or develop. |
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| To make somebody sure or certain of something. |
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| A confused or muddled literary style. |
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| Capacity to share feelings. |
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