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| a confused mixture of sounds, a scene of noise and confusion. |
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| any lunatic asylum, a madhouse, a scene of wild uproar and confusion. |
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| a huge powerful man, beast, etc. |
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| a prolonged lamentation, a lugubrious complaint. |
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| riches or material wealth |
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| often used humorously, one expert in or devoted to hunting. |
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| rigid observance of external forms of religion without genuine piety, self-rightious, hypocritical. |
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| lacking in culture, commonplace. |
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| one who is compassionate and helpful to people in distress. |
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| extremely wicked, diabolical. |
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| a guide who shows and explains the antiquities, curiosities, etc. of a place. |
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| a surgical operation to remove a fetus from the uterus. |
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| of a sneering, fault-finding nature, distrusting the motives of others. |
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| the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good, devotion to pleasure. |
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| a generous patron, esp. of the arts. |
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| any discourse or speech of bitter denunciation. |
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| rigorously simple, frugal, or austere, sternly disciplined, brave. |
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| conduct conforming to the precepts of the stoics, repression of emotion and indifference to pleasure and pain. |
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| imminent danger, impending doom. |
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