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| Imitate an admired person's characteristics |
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| To put at a loss for what to say/do; to bewilder |
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| Lessen intensity of something negative |
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| Suspension, pause, temporary disuse |
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| Get the f out of Dodge, usually because you did something wrong |
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| Concerned with beauty, appreciation of beauty |
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| Whole formed by combining several disparate elements |
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| Brisk, cheerful readiness |
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| Make something negative less severe |
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| Combine or unite to form one structure |
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| Open to more than one meaning |
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| Having mixed feelings/contradictory feelings |
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| Make something negative better |
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| A thing belonging to a period other than the one in which it appears |
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| Comparable in certain respects |
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| Disorder due to absence of authority |
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| Deviating from what is normal |
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| Deep-seated hatred; aversion |
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| Lack of interest, concern |
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| Pacify by yielding to demands |
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| Take something for one's own use, typically w/o owner's permission; devote something to a special purpose |
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| Involving strenuous effort |
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| W/o guile/deception; natural, simple; w/o finesse/sophistication |
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| Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstinence, typically for religious reasons |
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| Persistent attention; diligence |
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| Ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe |
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| Make thinner; weaken or lessen |
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| Forbiddingly stern; severly simple and unornamented |
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| Assert confidently or declare |
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| Commonplace, trite, unoriginal |
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| Contradict; give a false impression |
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| Pompous; using inflated language |
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| Grow forth; send out buds |
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| To make shiny by rubbing; polish |
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| Discordant, inharmonious sounds |
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| Punishment, severe criticism |
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| Person of thing that causes action; agent that influences chemical reaction but remains unchanged itself |
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| Burning; sarcastically biting |
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| Concluding section of a musical or literary composition |
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| Brief, comprehensive summary |
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| Trying to please; overly polite; obliging |
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| Yielding; conforming to requirements |
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| Overlook; forgive; tacit approval; excuse |
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| Person competent to act as a judge of something |
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| Riddle; difficult problem |
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| Approach; tend to meet; come together |
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| Coiled around; involved; intricate |
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| Propriety; orderliness and good manners |
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| Courteous regard for another's wish |
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| Define, portray, depict, sketch |
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| Unoriginal; obtained from another source |
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| Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random |
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| Something that discourages; hindrance |
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| Bitter scolding; invective |
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| Split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones) |
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| Wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas) |
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| Wandering away from the subject at hand |
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| Correct a false impression; undeceive |
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| Mentally quick and observant; having insight |
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| Not harmonious; conflicting |
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| Defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve |
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| Lack of consistency; difference |
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| Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts |
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| Lacking genuine candor; insincere |
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| Unpredjudiced (meaning to pre-judge a situation) |
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| Lacking coherence; separated at the joints |
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| Dismiss (secondary meaning) |
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| Eliminate from consideration; reject |
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| Distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds) |
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| Disintegration; looseness in morals |
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| Discord; opposite of harmony |
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| Purify; refine; concentrate |
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| Vary; go in different directions from the same point |
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| Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal |
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| Sleeping; lethargic; latent |
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| Someone easily fooled; gullible person |
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| Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm |
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| Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources |
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| Power to produce desired effect |
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| Shameless boldness; impudence; sheer nerve; presumptuousness |
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| Poem or song expressing lamentation |
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| Adorn; ornament; enhance, as in a story |
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| Calmness of temperament; composure |
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| use ambiguous language to conceal truth or avoid committing oneself |
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| hard to understand; known only to the chosen few |
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| expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death |
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| mild expression in place of an unpleasant one |
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| urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention |
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| joking (often inappropriately); humorous |
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| help bring about; make less difficult |
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| brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug |
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| trying to please by behaving obsequiously; being flattering (cringingly so) |
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| suitably expressed; apt; well-chosen |
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| glowing ardor; intensity of feeling |
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| decline in vigor or strength; hang limply; droop; to decline in interest |
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| Prevent by taking action in advance |
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| Talkative, wordy, loquacious |
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| Long, passionate, and vehement speech |
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| Exaggeration; overstatement |
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| Attacking cherished traditions |
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| Worship of idols; excessive admiration |
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| W/o feeling; imperturbable; stoical |
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| impervious; not permitting passage through its substance |
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| Impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed |
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| Incapable of being pacified |
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| Understood, but not stated |
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| Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary |
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| lack of harmony; absurdity |
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| Insignificant; unimportant |
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| Introduce something into a larger whole |
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| Firmly established by nature or habit |
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| Refusal of any compromise; stubbornness |
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| Irritable; easily angered |
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| Uncertain how to act; weak |
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| Earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding |
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| Lack of seriousness; frivolity |
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| Record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities |
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| One who feigns illness to escape duty |
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| Lying; habitually dishonest |
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| Lessen in intensity; moderate; appease |
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| Wordly as opposed to spiritual; everyday |
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