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| to retract, especially a previously held belief |
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| existing, not destroyed or lost |
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| exceptional, unusual, odd |
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| harshness or sharpenss of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony |
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| changing into bone; made rigidly conventional |
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| to shackle, put in chains, restrain |
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| someone who tries to flatter or please for personal gain, parasite |
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| widespread; occuring over a large area or affeting an unusually large percentage of the population |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thirfty; ungenerous |
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| strong inclination, a liking |
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| soaked or drenched; unimgaginative, dull |
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| sycophant, flatterer, yes-man |
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| tawdry, pretentious, attractive but flase, showy, having to do with prostitution |
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| a large net hung out and dragged to catch fish |
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| commonplace, trite, unremarkable |
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| ostentacious display of learning, exessive attention to minutiae and formal rules, unimaginative |
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| a slight offense, literally, a minor sin |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| courageous, high-spirited |
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| to plug, to drive in or downby a series of blows |
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| quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, cranky |
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| extremely loud and powerful |
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| position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income |
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| to imply, suggest, or insinuate |
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| rule establishing standards of conduct, a doctrine that is taught |
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| to defame, characterize harshly |
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| to summarize, to repeat concisely |
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