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| to reject; abandon formally |
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| sour in taste or manner. acerbic, acetose, biting, piquant, pungent |
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| promptness, cheerful readiness |
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| something that calms, sooths pain |
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| of questionable authority or authenticity |
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| one who announces a religious faith |
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| to claim without justification; to claim for oneself without right |
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| to make something unpleasant less severe |
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| to reduce in force or degree; to weaken |
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| prophecy; prediction of events. auspices, harbinger, portent |
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| premise; postulate; self-evident truth. adage, apothegm, aphorism, maxim |
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| bell tower, room in which bell is hung. spire, steeple |
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| joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought |
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| pompous in speech or manner, fustian, grandiloquent, high-flown, orotund, pretentious. |
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| good-natured geniality; atmosphere of good cheer |
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| crude person, one lacking manners or taste |
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| a false and malicious accusation; misrepresentation |
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| changing one's mind quickly and often; mercurial; whimsical |
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| deception by means of craft or guile |
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| caustic, aware of potential consequences. |
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| to grow together to form a single whole |
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| strongbox; large chest for money; exchequer |
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| to overlook; to pardon, disregard |
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| deeply sorrowful and repentant for a wrong |
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| rebellious, factious, seditious |
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| to pamper, treat with great care; dandle, fondle, pet |
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| greed; strong desire; avarice; covetousness; rapacity |
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| cranky person, usually old |
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| proper, tasteful, socially correct |
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| appropriateness of behavior or conduct |
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| subtly or unexpectedly harmful |
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| a leader, rabble rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice; agitator; inciter; instigator |
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| to express doubts or objections; expostulate; kick; protest; remonstrate |
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| to dry out thoroughly; dehydrate; dry; parch |
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| jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
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| allowing light to pass through; delicate; tenuous |
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| an abusive, condemnatory speech; fulmination; harangue; invective |
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| intended to delay; procrastinating; sluggish; putting-off |
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| someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
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| a funeral hymn or mourful speech |
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| to set right, to free from error |
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| fundamentally different; entirely unlike |
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| to present a false appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character |
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female branch of the family |
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| to act confusedly or without clear purpose |
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| to foretell or know by inspiration; auger; intuit; presage |
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| rightly devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmatic; dictorial; inflexible. |
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| a firmly held opinion, especially a religious belief |
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| dictorial in one's opinions; doctrinaire; imperious |
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amusing in a wry, subtle way; risible; witty |
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| suffering from indigestion; gloomy and irritable; acerb; melancholy |
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| exhilarated, full of enthusiasm; ardent; avid; bubbly |
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| effectiveness;dynamism; force; power; productiveness; vigor |
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| stuffed doll; likeness of a person |
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| impudent boldness; audacity; brashness; gall; nerve; presumption; temerity |
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| a sorrowful poem or speech; dirge; lament |
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| warm praise; citation; eulogy; panegyric; tribute |
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belonging to a particular area; inherent; indigenous |
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| to reduce in change; debilitate; enfeeble; sap; weaken |
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| to produce, cause, or bring about; beget; generate; proliferate; reproduce; spawn |
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| lasting a short time; evanescent; fleeting; momentary; transient |
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| person with refined taste in food and wine; bon vivant; connoisseur; gasatronomer; gastronomist; gourmand; gourmet |
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| to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead; hedge; waffle |
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| learned, scholarly, bookish |
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to shun, to avoid; elude; escape; evade |
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| known or understood only by few |
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| beliefs or character of a group |
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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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| pleasant, harmonious sound |
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| to make worse; aggravate; annoy; intensify; irritate; provoke |
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| to clear from blame; to prove innocent; absolve; acquit; clear; exonerate; vindicate |
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| urgent; requiring immediate action. |
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| one who champions or advocates; respresentative; supporter |
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| dormant; unused; idle; inactive; unseeded |
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| acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion; extremist; fiery; frenzied; zealous. |
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| stupid; foolishly self satisfied; absurd; ludicrous; preposterous; ridiculous; silly |
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| to grovel; bootlick; grovel; pander; toady |
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| fertile; fruitful; productive; flourishing; prolific |
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| intensely emotional; feverish; burning; impassioned; passionate; vehement; zealous |
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| foul-smelling; putrid; funky; malodorous; noisome; rank |
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| to decline in vigor; ebb; dwindle; subside; wane |
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| excessively decorated or embellished |
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| to arouse; incite; impassion; kindle |
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| to cross a body of water by wading; traverse |
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| to prevent, delay; anticipate |
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| happening by chancem fortunate; prosperous; propitious; haphazard |
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| unruly, rebellious; contentious; cranky; peevish; quarrelsome |
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| frantic, frenzied; corybantic; delirious; feverish ;mad; rabid |
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| secret; stealthy; shifty; cladestine; underhand; surreptitious |
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| to dance or skip around playfully; caper; cavort; frisk; froliv; rollick; romp |
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| to gather and store; amass; acquire; glean; harvest; reap |
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| tending to talk a lot; effusive; loquacious |
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| growth process from conception to birth |
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| fluent in an insincere many; offhand; casual; easy; superficial |
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| to glare; stare angrily and intensely; frown; lower; scowl |
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| process occuring by regular degrees or stages; variation in color. nuance; shade; step; subtlety |
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| outgoing; sociable; affable; congenial |
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| causing grief or sorrow; serious and distressing |
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| to humble oneself in a demeaning way; bootlick crince; fawn; kowtow; toady |
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| deceit, trickery, artifice; chicancery; connivery; duplicity |
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| unfortunate; having bad luck; ill-fated; ill-starred; jinxed; luckless; unlucky |
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| the domination of one state or group over its allies |
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| tightly sealed; airtight; impervious; watertight |
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| composed of unlike parts, differeent, diverse; assorted; miscellaneous; mixed; motley |
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| very old; whitish or gray from age; ancient; antediluvian; antique; venerable; vintage |
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| of a similar kind; consistent; standardized; uniform; unvarying. |
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| to manage economically; to use sparingly; conserve |
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| purposeful exaggeration for effect; embellishment; inflation; magnification |
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| one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions; maverick; nonconformists; rebel; revolutionary |
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| peculiarity if temperment, eccentricity |
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| having low moral standards, not noble in character; mean. lowly; vulgar |
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| to infuse; dye, wet, moisten; charge; freight; impregnate; permeate; pervade |
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| blocked path; dilemma with no solution; cul-de-sace; deadlock; stalemate |
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| poor, having no money; destitute; impoverished; indigent; needy; penniless |
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| not capable of being disturbed; composed; dispassionate; impassive; serene; stoical |
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