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| A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| Deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection |
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| An expression of approval or praise |
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| Able to speak clearly and expressively |
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One who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion
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| Severity, rigor, roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
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| To aver, allege, or assert |
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| To make something unpleasant less severe |
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| Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue |
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| To reduce in force or degree; to weaken |
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| Sever or stern in appearance; undecorated |
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| To state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| A universally recognized principle |
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| Pompous in speech and manner |
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| To bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about |
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| To tolerate; to endure; to countenance |
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| Rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas & their inhabitants |
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| To grow rapidly or flourish |
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| To slander, to make a false accusation |
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| Impartial and honest in speech |
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| An established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| Changing one’s mind quickly and often |
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| Disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| To punish or criticize harshly |
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| Severe criticism or punishment |
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| Something that brings about a change in something else |
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| To find fault without good reason |
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| Speed, alacrity, accelerate |
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| Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs |
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| An illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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| To change as if by dyeing (to distort, gloss, or affect) |
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| The willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| To overlook, pardon or disregard |
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| Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| Sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| To provide supporting evidence |
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| Steadily increasing volume or force |
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| To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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| Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| Rout, fiasco, complete failure |
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| Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety |
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| An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a ploy |
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| To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock |
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| To discriminate or discern |
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| Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
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| Am abusive, condemnatory speech |
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| Intended to teach or instruct |
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| To make larger; to expand |
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| Someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
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| A funeral hymn or mournful speech |
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| To set right; to free from error |
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| To perceive, to recognize |
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| Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions |
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| Free of bias or self-interest; impartial |
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| Fundamentally different; entirely unlike |
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| To prevent a false appearance; to disguise one’s real intentions or character |
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| A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds |
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| To disclose something secret |
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| A firmly held opinion, often a religious belief |
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| To deceive; a person who is easily deceived |
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| The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| Departing from norms or conventions |
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| Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources |
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| Extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| A sorrowful poem or speech |
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| Persuasive and moving, especially in speech |
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| Soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying, an agent that softens or smoothes the skin |
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| Based on observation or experiment |
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| To copy; to try to equal or excel |
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| Glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| To produce, cause, or bring about |
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| Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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| To count, list, or itemize |
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| To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
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| Wandering & unpredictable |
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| Learned, scholarly, bookish |
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| Known or understood by only a few |
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| To test or try; to attempt; to experiment |
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| Speech in praise of someone |
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| Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one |
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| Tending to disappear like a vapor; vanishing |
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| To demand; to call for; to require; to take |
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| To censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| To clear from blame; prove innocent |
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| To denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil |
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| Critical examination, explication |
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| Urgent; requiring immediate attention |
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| To atone or make amends for |
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| Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression |
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| Improvised, done without preparation |
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| To destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind |
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| An invalid or incorrect notion, a mistaken belief |
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| Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion |
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| To cause to fall by striking |
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| Greatly emotional or zealous |
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| Intensely emotional; feverish |
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| Intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
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| To sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
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| Excessively decorated or embellished |
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| To show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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| Happening by accident or chance |
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| Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| A tendency to be thrifty or cheap |
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| To loudly attack or denounce |
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| Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| To deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose |
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| Relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| Pompous speech or expression |
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| A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a… |
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| Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| To deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech |
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| Devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses |
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| The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| Violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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| Overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
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| An exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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| One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions |
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| Given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| Difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| About to happen; impending |
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| Lacking funds, without money |
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| Marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness |
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| Quick to act without thinking |
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| Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful |
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| Immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| Not fully formed; disorganized |
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| Beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| Not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged |
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| Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice |
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| Unfortunate, inappropriate |
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Showing innocence or childlike simplicity, Artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophistication
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| To imply, suggest, or insinuate |
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| Not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled |
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| To overwhelm; to cover with water |
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| Accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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| To obtain by deception or flattery |
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| Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile |
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| To express sorrow; to grieve |
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| To give praise; to glorify |
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| To give unsparingly (v); extremely generous or extravagant (adj) |
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| Acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner |
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| To tilt or lean to one side |
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| Clear and easily understood |
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| To move heavily and clumsily |
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| Bright, brilliant, glowing |
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| The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving |
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| Having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
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| To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
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| Associated with war and the armed forces |
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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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| Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show |
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| A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol |
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| Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
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| To exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
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| Menacing, threatening (e.g. Minotaur) |
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| To pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps |
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| A person who dislikes others |
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| To calm or make less severe |
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| Of the world, typical or concerned with the ordinary |
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| Coming in to being; in early development stages |
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| A new word, expression, or usage, the creation or use of new words or senses |
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| A recent convert; a beginner; a novice |
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| Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
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| To deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| Overly submissive and eager to please |
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| Noisily and stubbornly defiant; aggressively boisterous |
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| To be established, accepted, or customary |
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| Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or precision |
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| To prevent, to make unnecessary |
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| To stop up; to prevent the passage of |
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| Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
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| Evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| Troublesome & oppressive; burdensome |
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| Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light |
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| Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone |
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| A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
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| Formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
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| A contradiction or dilemma |
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| Model of excellence or perfection |
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| A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature or art |
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| The profession or principles of teaching or instructing |
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| Someone who shows off learning |
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| Commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
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| Done in a routine way; indifferent |
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| Extremely hateful; potentially causing death |
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| The concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| Acutely perceptive, having keen discernment |
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| To examine with great care |
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| Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness |
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| Multicolored, usually in blotches |
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| To yearn intensely; to languish; to love vigor |
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| Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion |
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| To illegally use or reproduce |
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| The essential or central part |
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| Pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| Able to be molded, altered or bent |
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| A superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
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| Courage, spunk, fortitude |
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| To plunge or drop straight down |
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| Controversial; argumentative |
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| Practical as opposed to idealistic |
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| To babble meaninglessly, to talk in an empty & idle manner |
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| To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
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| One that precedes and indicates or announces another |
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| A disposition in favor of something, a preference |
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| To dress up, to primp, to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurrence |
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| Overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties |
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| To lie or deviate from the truth |
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| Fresh and unclean; uncorrupted |
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| To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils |
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| Adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
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| A natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
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| Abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| To increase in number quickly |
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| Producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| To conciliate; to appease |
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| Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs |
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| Dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
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| Wisdom, caution, or restraint |
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| Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| Sharp and irritating to the senses |
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| To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
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| To lose courage; to turn frightened |
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| Misgivings, reservations, causes for hesitancy |
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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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| Foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| To complain about bitterly |
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| Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| To make thinner or sparser |
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| Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| To retract, esp. a previously held belief |
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| Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor |
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| Radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| To disprove, to successfully argue against |
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| To forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position |
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| To fail or honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
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| Torn (past of rend); an opening or tear caused by such |
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| To reject the validity of |
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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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| Effective writing or speaking |
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| Having sound judgment; perceptive, wise, like a sage |
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| Lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| Promoting health or well-being |
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| Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to |
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| Cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| To satisfy fully or overindulge |
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| A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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| Diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| A piece of broken pottery or glass |
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| Exceptional, unusual, odd |
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| Concerned & attentive; eager |
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| Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| Causing sleep or lethargy |
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| Characterized by filth, grime, or squalor, foul |
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| Thin, not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals |
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| Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious |
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| One who spends money wastefully |
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| Occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances |
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| Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| Sordid; wretched and dirty as a form of neglect |
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| To waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| Not moving, active, or in motion, at rest |
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| To saturate or completely soak, as in tea |
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| Extremely loud and powerful |
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| A mark of shame or discredit |
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| Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| Unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
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| The supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
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| To stun, baffle, or amaze |
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| A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| Not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern |
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| Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| To take the place of; to supercede |
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| An overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess |
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| Toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer, parasite |
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| The combination of parts to make a whole |
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| To remove (a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
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| The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination |
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| Biased, showing marked tendencies |
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| Having little substance or strength; flimsy |
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| Brief and concise in wording |
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| Timid, fearful, diffident |
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| Long, harsh speech or verbal attack |
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| Lethargic, sluggish, dormant |
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| Extreme mental & physical sluggishness |
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| A force that causes rotation |
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| Winding, twisting, excessively complicated |
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| To publicly praise or promise |
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| Fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| Temporary, lasting a brief time |
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| Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| Fierce & cruel, eager to fight |
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| Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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| Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| Genuine; not false or hypocritical |
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| Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| Sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| To sway physically; to be indecisive |
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| Multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
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Filled with truth & accuracy
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| To defame; to characterize harshly |
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| Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| To corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective |
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| To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate |
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| Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive |
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| Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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| Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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| To equivocate; to change one’s position |
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| To fluctuate between choices |
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| Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable |
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| Sparing in eating and drinking, temperate |
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| Without guile; open & honest |
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| Contradict; give a false impression |
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| Make shiny by rubbing; polish |
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| Concluding section of a musical or literary composition |
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| Brief, comprehensive summary |
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| Lacking coherence, separated at the joints |
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| Calmness of temperament; composure |
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| Prevent by taking action in advance |
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| Narrow-mindedness; isolation |
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| Uncertain how to act; weak |
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| Languor; weariness; depression |
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| Meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one’s services |
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| Ostracize; banish; outlaw |
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| Minor objection or complaint |
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| Marked with parallel bands; grooved |
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| Turmoil, bewildering jumble |
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| Purging or cleansing of any passage of the body |
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