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| to engage in any business transaction involving considerable risk or the chance of large gains, especially to buy and sell commodities, stocks, etc., in the expectation of a quick or very large profit. |
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| an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment |
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| adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty. |
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| a conception of something in its perfection |
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| forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages |
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| of, pertaining to, or capable of walking |
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| to deplete or strip of some quality or substance: |
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| a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism |
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| inclined to teach or lecture others too much |
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| lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy. |
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| to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant. |
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| incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful |
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| authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory |
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| a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged |
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| suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc |
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| extremely liberal in giving; very generous |
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| a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time |
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| to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at) |
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| the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight. |
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