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| to tolerate; to endure; to countenance |
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| exacting; fastidious, extremely precise |
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| to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
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| to be established, accepted or customary |
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| to equivocate; to change one's position |
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| to lose courage; to turn frightened |
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| to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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| sharply perceptive, penetrating. e.g. a trenchant wit. |
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| to use harsh, condemnatory language, to abuse or censure severely |
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| implied, not explicitly stated |
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| sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| bland; without taste or flavour; lacking in spirit |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| disgrace; scorn; contempt |
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| relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| stillness; motionlessness |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honour |
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| to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily |
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| a solemn or religious curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| farthest or highest point; zenith or culmination |
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| one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| to aver, allege or assert |
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| belligerent; pugnacious; warlike |
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| severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability |
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