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excessively nervous and excited
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state of weariness, laziness
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| to support with other evidence, make more claims |
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| rekated to the body; tangible |
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| involving clever rogues or adventures |
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| to speak or write at length |
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| of questionable authenticity |
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to expose to ridicule and abuse
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| commander of a century in Rome |
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prepare something with prior preparation
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| openness, frankness, sincerity of expression |
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| to represent or suggest in advance; to imagine beforehand |
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| abstract; short complete summary |
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| formal written request for something needed |
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| characterized by elegance and sophistication |
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| improvised, done without prior preparation |
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| lacking sharpness or intellect |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse; to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| to deliberately avoid truth; to mislead |
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| overly concerned and attentive |
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| fierce and eager to fight |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| to grow rapidly and flourish |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade |
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| stubborn, refusing to compromise |
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| extremely harmful, potentially causing death |
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| awe-inspiring, worthy of honor |
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| keen accurate judgment or insight |
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| to state as fact; declare or assert |
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| to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| relevant to the subject at hand |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; showoffish about one's knowledge |
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| recklessly wasteful; profuse; lavish |
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| characterized by bitter, long lasting resentment |
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| able to meet financial obligations |
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| seemingly true but actually fallacious; plausible but false |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; counterfeit |
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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| to increase in intensity, power, influence or prestige |
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| something 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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| touching, sharing a border |
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| one with amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| pointlessly talkative; talking too much |
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| superficial, nonchalant, marked by ease or informality |
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| adherence to highest principles; uprightness |
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| dull, lacking in spirit or imagination |
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| one who spends money wastefully |
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| to test or try; to attempt |
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| to wade across the shallow part of the stream |
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| to lean heavily to one side |
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| to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize or speak too carefully |
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| multicolored, usually in blotched |
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| to lose courage, to turn frightened |
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| to renounce or reject solemnly |
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| to foreshadow vaguely or intimate |
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| accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| farthest or highest point; zenith |
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| one who abandons long held religious or political convictions |
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| severity, rigor, roughness, harshness |
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| diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
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| to slander, to make a false accusation |
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| disposed to point out trivial faults |
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| to find fault without good reason |
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| insubordinate, rebellious |
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| marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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| unassuming, not self-confident |
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| glowing, enthusiastic praise |
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| to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| to atone or make amends for |
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| difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, puerile |
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| noisily and stubbornly defiant |
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| concluding part of a speech |
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| to appease, to conciliate |
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| cheerful, optimistic, confident |
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| tending to moralize excessively |
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| to corrupt, debase, to spoil |
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| habitual relapse into crime |
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| to express opinions in a dogmatic way |
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| strikingly appropriate and relevant |
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| remedial, effecting improvement |
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| exemption from punishment |
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| loudly attack or denounce |
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| growth by gradual external addition |
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| marked by ill humor, irritability |
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| intended to delay, postpone |
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| characterized by inactivity, being unseeded |
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| meretricious, dress or adorn in showy tasteless way |
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| serves as a pattern or model |
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| conspicuously bad or offensive |
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| to make slender, fine or small; to reduce in force, weaken |
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| displacement of lower class people by higher classes |
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| channel by which to convey material |
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| reasoning from general to specific; deduction |
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| crude; displaying no cunning or deceit |
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| of refined tastes in food and wine |
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| great physical beauty and appeal |
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| to remove by erosion, melting or vaporization |
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| believing in equality for all people |
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| outrageous, monstrousness |
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| of excellent quality or ability |
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| breach of oath or promise |
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| substitution of a disparaging word for a more neutral one (pig > policeman) |
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| belief in purely aesthetic literature |
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| ignorance, lack of knowledge, agnosticism |
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| to cajole, coax by flattery or wheedling |
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| characterized by swimming |
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| highly concentrated essence of a thing |
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| conclusion, closing point |
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| rhythmic flow or sound of words, cadence |
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| to speak ill of; to disparage |
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| offensive to the point of disgust |
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| musical phrase of several notes sung to one syllable |
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