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| Keen, accurate judgment or insight |
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| To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| To combine several elements into a whole |
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| Outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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| To state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| To provide support or reinforcement |
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| To disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| Departing from norms or conventions |
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| Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| Tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| To make worse or more severe |
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| Greatly emotional or zealous |
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| Happening by accident or chance |
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| relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| Pompous speech or expression |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses |
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| the consistent domincance of one state or ideology over others |
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| One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| Given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness |
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| not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
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| capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
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| the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
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| one who hates all other humans |
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| to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing |
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| overl concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge |
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| having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| to illegally use or reproduce |
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| the essential or central part |
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| to appease; to calm by making concessions |
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| a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful |
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| to plunge or drop straight down |
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| controversial; argumentative |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown |
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| to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| promoting health or well-being |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination |
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| having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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| fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause |
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| having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting |
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| to increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige |
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| a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, especially base metals into gold |
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| agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue |
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| sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| a generally agreed-upon practive or attitude |
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| tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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| polite or appropriate conduct or behavior |
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| scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
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| to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| to disclose something secret |
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| to flatter or praise excessively |
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| to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| pointlessly talkative; talking too much |
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| marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
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| about to happen; impending |
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| hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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| having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice |
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| damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
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| to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
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| a recent convert; a beginner; novice |
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| to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| stubborn; hard-headed; uncompromising |
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| characterized by or given to pretentious display; showy |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| an overabundance; a surplus |
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| practical rather than idealistic |
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| overstepping due bounds ( as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties |
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| adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
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| a natural predisposition or inclination |
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| excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
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| dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
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| characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste |
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| foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| to make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
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| hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
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| diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| a piece of broken pottery or glass |
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