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| person who makes an excessive display of learning |
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| harsh or biting sharpness especially of words, manner, or disposition |
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| an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
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| outrageously disgraceful or shameful |
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| not serious; joking, often inappropriately |
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| showy; meant to attract notice; marked by or fond of conspicuous and sometimes pretentious display |
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| abstain from: to avoid doing or using something on principle or as a matter of course |
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| approval: a public and enthusiastic display of approval |
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not liable to failure; certain |
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of or pertaining to actors or acting; deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overlydramatic, in behavior or speech.
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disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
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using or given to coarse or obscene language
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| known or knowable only to the initiate; known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure;esoteric |
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| to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock. |
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to renounce upon oath;to reject solemnly; to abstain from
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to make confused; to occupy the attention of
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| contemptuously indifferent: full of contempt and arrogance |
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| disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
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- unintelligent: showing a lack of intelligence or thought combined with complacency
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| vulgar, inappropriate; depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society |
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| sharpness of mind: the ability to make quick accurate intelligent judgments about people or situations |
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sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor; deeply or violently bitter
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Keen, sharp; vigorously effective and articulate; sharply perceptive
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| pleasant to hear: pleasant and soothing to listen to, and sweet or rich in tone; euphonic |
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- completely remove something undesirable: to completely get rid of, kill off, or destroy somebody or something considered undesirable
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| dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter |
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| debris: debris or discarded material; refuse |
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| the worthless or useless part of something; detritus |
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| 1. obsolete: madman, lunatic. 2. often capitalized: a lunatic asylum . 3: a place, scene, or state of uproar and confusion |
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| 1: ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented . 2: marked by extravagance or sometimes tasteless showiness |
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- careful about correct behavior: very careful about the conventions of correct behavior and etiquette
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| like a wag, which is a person given to droll, roguish, or mischievous humor |
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- unsafe: dangerously unstable, unsteady, uncertain, or insecure
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| somebody's general air: somebody's facial expression or general appearance, bearing, or posture, taken as an indication of his or her mood or character; demeanor |
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| disown something: to disapprove of something formally and strongly and renounce any connection with it |
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| show somebody to be blameless: to clear somebody or something of blame, guilt, suspicion, or doubt |
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| recuperate: to spend time recovering from an illness or the effects of medical treatment, especially by resting |
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| aggressively defiant: aggressively or sullenly refusing to accept something or do what is asked |
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- praise: extravagant praise delivered in formal speech or writing
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| unexcitable: generally unemotional and difficult to arouse |
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| find something extremely unacceptable: to disapprove of something very strongly |
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| dabbler in art or knowledge: somebody who takes up a subject or interest in a superficial or desultory way |
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| varied: made up of parts from various sources |
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all-inclusive: including or concerned with all people; useful to all: useful or interesting to a wide range of people; all-embracing: interested in or sympathetic to a wide range of things
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exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious orfragrant; worthy of the gods; divine.
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| abstain from: to avoid doing or using something on principle or as a matter of course |
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| chalky: consisting of or resembling chalk |
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- requiring action: needing immediate action
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- apparently true but actually false: appearing to be true but really false
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| to make known; to announce |
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| cause trouble: to cause or stir up trouble or rebellion |
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| decide between disputants; settle dispute between others: to act as a judge in a dispute between others |
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| give compensation: to give compensation to somebody for an injury or loss |
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| disgrace or public censure |
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- innocent and unworldly: showing innocence and a lack of worldly experience
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- genuine
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| influence or dominance; authority or control |
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| quirk; unusual response to something |
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| stingy; having very little money; frugal |
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| taking on a monumental task |
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| gordian knot, a problem with no discernable solution |
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