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| intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
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| to move to and fro; to saw; to be unsettled in opinion |
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| make better or more tolerable |
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| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
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| argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy |
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| to undeceive; to set right |
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| composed of elements drawn from various sources |
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| extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| a speech honoring the dead |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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| the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady rhythym |
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| a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thrifty |
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| intentional breach of faith; treachery |
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| extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| extremely reverent or devout |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| one that precedes and indicates or announces another |
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| a disposition in favor of something; preference |
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| producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
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| stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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| to retract, especially a previously held belief |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| quite; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| characterized by filth, grime or squalor |
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| sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
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| to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| to take the place of; supersede |
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| the combination of parts to make a whole |
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| sluggish; lethargic; dormant |
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| existing everywhere and at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| to defame; characterize harshly |
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| extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| to lessen in intensity or degree |
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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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| greed, especially for wealth |
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| to grow rapidly or flourish |
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| harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
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| established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| severe criticism or punishment |
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| substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing |
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| burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions |
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| indifferent; free from self-interest |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead |
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| soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
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| an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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| marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of others |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade |
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| violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| lacking 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 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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| to dress up; primp; groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| to rot; to decay and give off a foul order |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| having a sour or bitter taste or character |
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| to combine several elements into a whole |
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| agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| to provide support or reinforcement |
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| self-important or pompous writing or speech |
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| tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| to flatter or praise excessively |
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| greatly emotional or zealous |
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| to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| happening by fortunate accident or chance |
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| pointlessly talkative; talking too much |
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| relevant to the subject at hand |
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| marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| arrogant presumption or pride |
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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| about to happen; impending |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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| not capable of being appeased |
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| having no interest or concern; showing no bias |
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| an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
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| characterized by extreme care or precision; tedious |
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| calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| characterized by or given to pretentiousness |
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| the parading of learning; excessively showy; excessive attention to minutiae and rules |
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| having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| to illegally use or reproduce |
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| controversial; argumentative |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| promoting health or well-being |
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| diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
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| increase in intensity, power, or prestige |
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| medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, especially base medals into gold |
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| something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe |
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| sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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| scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| to disclose something secret |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn |
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| a recent convert; a beginner; novice |
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| overstepping due bounds; taking liberties |
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| adherence to the highest principles; uprightness |
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| a natural predisposition or inclination |
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| excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| a natural inclination or tendency, penchant |
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| characterized by a sharp smell or taste |
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| foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| to make or become less dense; to refine |
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| hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| to fail to honor a commitment, to go back on a promise |
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| a piece of broken pottery or glass |
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| arranged at widely spaced intervals |
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| one who spends money wastefully |
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| not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern |
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| implied; not explicitly stated |
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| brief and concise in wording |
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| to publicly praise or promote |
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| sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| genuine, not false or hypocritical |
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| indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; waver |
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| multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of diff. color |
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| to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively |
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| readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive |
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| quick, keen or accurate knowledge or insight |
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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| outdated; associated with an earlier; perhaps more primitive time |
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| to state as fact; to confirm or support |
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| to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| departing from norms or conventions |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region or people |
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| tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| to worsen or make more severe |
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| pompous speech or expression |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| devotion to pleasureable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| having or showing often vicious ill will, spite or hatred |
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| one who hates all other humans |
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| to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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| the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing |
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| to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| the essential or central part |
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| to appease; to calm by making concessions |
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| a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful |
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| to plunge or drop straight down |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; lavish |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome |
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| obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
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| marked by, feeling or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued |
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| having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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