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| (usually military) clique taking power after a coup d'etat |
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| willful lying while on oath |
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lavatory:
dilute
pollute:
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| before the biblical flood; extremely old |
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dialogue:
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prologue:
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grandiloquent:
loquacious |
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| art of clear and expressive speaking |
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| pompous or inflated in language |
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illuminate:
illustrious:
translucent
lackluster:
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luminous |
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| permitting light to pass through |
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| a preliminary to an action, event, etc. |
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malfunction
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malady
maladroit:
malapropism
malfeasance:
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| to speak harmful untruths about, to slander |
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| misconduct or wrongdoing often committed by a public official |
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manual:
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| an authoritative order or command |
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miscellaneous:
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promiscuous |
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| consisting of diverse and unrelated parts or individuals |
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monument
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summon:
admonish:
remonstrate:
premonition |
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| to counsel against something; caution |
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| to say or plead in protect, objection, or reproof |
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| forewarning, presentiment |
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| without definite form; lacking a specific shape |
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| attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena |
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commute:
mutation:
transmutation:
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immutable |
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| to substitute; exchange; interchange |
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| the act of changing from one form into another |
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