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| excessive praise; intense adoration |
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| dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful |
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| one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion |
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| a universally recognized principle |
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| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
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| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| severe criticism or punishment |
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| a person or thing that causes change |
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| burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
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| convincing; appealing forcibly to the mind and reason |
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| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| (adj) seeking forgiveness; regretful; penitent |
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| scarcity; lack; smallness of quantity or number |
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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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| expressing an rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principle. |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feeling (精力沖) |
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| a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead |
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| soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; an agent that softens or soothes the skin. |
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| mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
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| a speech honoring the dead |
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| an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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| violating the accepted dogma or convention |
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| an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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| lack of funds; without money |
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| beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
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| harmless; causing no damage |
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| to tempt; to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| impenetrable by light; not reflecting light |
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| the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
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| to examine with great care |
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| extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion |
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| one that indicate another |
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| to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
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| stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to |
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| a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| wretched and dirty as from neglect; sordid |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| to take the place of; supersede |
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| inert; lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
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| existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| to defame; to speak ill of; to characterize harshly |
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