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| dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical |
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| acting with indifference; showing little interest or care |
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| rustic cottage or chamber; attractive dwelling or retreat |
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| a construction in which a single word, especially a verb or an adjective is applied to two or more nouns when its sense is appropriate to only one of them or to both in different ways |
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| tending to make or become worse. disparaging; belittle |
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| precisely meaningful; forceful and brief |
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| a state of sluggishness, inactivity, and apathy |
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| given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative |
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| requiring the strength of hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous |
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| to expurgate prudishly, to modify, as by shortening or simlifyling or by skewing the content in a certain manner |
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| a very noisy place: wild uproar or noise |
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| to act as a go-between or liaison in sexual intrigues; function as a procurer |
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| caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality. impulsive |
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| negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness |
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| one who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure or pain |
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| a mark or token of infamy, disgrace, or reproach: a small mark; scar or birthmark |
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| to retard or obstruct the progress of, hinder |
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| to speed up the progress of; expedite |
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| to excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach |
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| to stimulate or shock with an electric current |
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| using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise |
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| intended to delay. tending to postpone or delay |
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| to affirm positively; declare |
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| possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail |
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| of or relating to a lower world of the dead |
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| a name, title, or designation |
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