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| to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent adj equivocal |
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| to praise highly (adj form laudatory) |
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| the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart esp in forgiving adj magnanimous |
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| of the world, typical o concerned with the ordinary |
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| a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| intentional breach of faith, treachery adj perfidious |
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| acutely perceptive, having keen discernment n persicacity |
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| to disprove, to successfully argue against |
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| characterized by filth, grime or squalor, fame |
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| having an insatiatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit, ravenous |
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| to move to and fro, to sway, to be unsettled in opinion |
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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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| one who practice rigid self denial, esp as an act of religious devotion |
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| greed, esp for wealth, adj avaricious |
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| a universally recognized principle axiomatic |
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| to grow rapidly or flourish |
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| harsh, jarring, discordant sound, dissonance cacophonous |
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| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature adj canonical |
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| a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing, a person or thing that causes change |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, convincing |
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| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others adj complaisant |
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| regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness, n contrition |
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| regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness, n contrition |
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| deserving blame, n culpabilty |
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| deserving blame, n culpability |
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| deserving blame, n culpability |
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| smallness of quantity or number, scarcity |
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| cautious reserve in speech, ability to make responsible decisions adj discrete |
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| expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles n dogma |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiatic expression of thoughts and feelings adj form ebullient |
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| composed of elements drawn from various sources |
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| a mournful poem , esp one lamenting the dead adj elegiac |
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| soothing, esp to the skin, making less harsh, mollifying an agent that softens or smoothes the skin |
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| a mournful poem , esp one lamenting the dead adj elegiac |
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| an invalid or incorrect notion, a mistaken belief, adj fallacious |
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| an invalid or incorrect notion, a mistaken belief, adj fallacious |
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| marked by stealth, covert, surreptitious |
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| sociable, outgoing, enjoying the company of other people |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade, a long, pompous speech |
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| violating an accepted dogma or convention, n heresy |
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| an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech, adj hyperbolic |
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| refusing to compromise n intransigence |
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| refusing to compromise n intransigence |
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| to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| impenetrable by light, not reflecting light |
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| the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady,uninterupted rhythm (oscillate) |
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| penny pinching excessively thrify; ungenerous |
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| to examine with great care n perusal |
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| extremely reverent or devout, showing strong religous devotion piety |
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| one that precedes and indicates or annouces another |
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| to dress up, to primp, to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent, extraordinary |
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| producing large volumes or amounts productive |
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| awe inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| authoritative permission or approval, a penalty intended to enforce compliance, to give permission or authority to |
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| a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision adj satirical |
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| sordid, wretched and dirt as from neglect, squalor |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast, stoicism |
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| to take the place of supersede |
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| lethargic, sluggish, dormant n, torpor |
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| exisiting everytwhere at the same time, constantly encountered, wide spread |
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| sophisticated, refined, elegant n urbanity |
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| to defame, to characterize harshly |
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| to combine several elements into a whole n amalgamation |
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| adj outdated, associated with an earlier, perhaps more primative time |
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| to state as fact to declare or assert |
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| to provide support or reinforcement |
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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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| happening by accident or chance |
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| relative to the subject at hand, appropriate in subject matter |
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| pompous speech or expression adj grandiloquent |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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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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| extremely talkative n loquacity |
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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 noun malevolence |
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| the condition of being untruthful, dishonesty, mendacious |
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| characterized by extreme care and precision, attention to detail |
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| one who hates all other humans misanthropic |
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| to make or become less severe or intense, moderate |
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| unyielding, hardheated, intractable |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| the essential or central part |
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| a superficial remark, esp one offered as meaningful |
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| to fail to honor a commitment, to go back on a promise |
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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 opinionand another waver |
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| multicolored, characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
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| annoyance, irritation vex |
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| alertly watchful vigilance |
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| to use harsh condemnatory language, to abuse or censure severely or abusively, berate |
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| readily changing to a vapor, changeable, fickle, epxlosive, volatility |
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| to commingle, to debase by mixing with something inferior, unalloyed means pure |
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| to take for ones own use, confiscate |
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| to suspend, to engage, holding ones attention, as in arrested adolescence, and arresting portrait |
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| leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency |
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| bring up, announce, begin to talk about |
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| to tolerate, endure, countenance |
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| major, as in cardinal sin |
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| a blindly devoted patriot |
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| to change as if by dyeing, to distort gloss or affect |
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| pompous, self important, definitions are logically following, important |
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| to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a souind |
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| a tool used for shaping, as in a tool and die shop |
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| to test or try, attempt, experiment |
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| to demand, call for, require, take |
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| to cause to fall by striking |
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| to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline. think of a flag on a windless day |
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| sarcastic impertinent, as in a flippant, a flip remark |
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| to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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| a rope, cord, or cable attached to osomething as a brace or guide, to steady or reinforce using a guy, think guide |
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| to imply, suggest or insinuate |
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| to tilt or lead to one side the broken mast listed helplessly in the wind |
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| to move heavily and clumsily |
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| to exploit, to squeeze every once of |
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| to pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully |
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| the supporting structural cross part of a wing |
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| to remove, as a parliamentary motion, from consideration |
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| to equivocate, to change ones position |
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| to to renounce or reject solemnly, to recant, to avoid |
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| to foreshadow vaguely or intimate, to suggest or outline sketchily, to obscure or overshadow |
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| a solemn or ecclesiastical (relifious) cure, accursed or thoroughly loathed person |
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| soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| farthest or highest point, culmination, zenith |
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| one who abandons long held religious or political convictions |
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| deification, glorification, to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection |
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| severity, rigor, roughness, harness, acrimony, irritability |
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| diligent, hard working, sedulous |
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| belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| to destroy, exterminate, cut out excind |
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| quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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| difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged |
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| unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile |
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| lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| cheap, gawdy, tawdry, flashy, showing, attracting by false show |
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| baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think |
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| noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
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| tending to become more ridged, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age, litterally turned into bone |
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| to make something seem less serious, to make less intense or severe |
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| formal praise, eulogy, encomium, panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise |
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| exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
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| to be established, accepted or customary |
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| hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
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| commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
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| multicolored, usually in blotches |
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| to lose vigor (as through grief, to year) |
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| moldable, pliable, not rigid |
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| courage, spunk, fortittude |
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| to pry, to press or force with a lever, something taken by force, spoils |
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| to complain about bitterly |
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| torn, past of rend, an opening or tear caused by such |
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| to lose courage, to turn frightened |
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| to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
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| exceptional, unusual, odd |
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| to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep |
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| to slander, to make a false accusation, calumny means slander, aspersion |
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| disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| to find fault without good reason |
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| speed, alacrity, think accelerate |
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| an illusion, originially, an imaginary fire breathing she monster |
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| insubordinate, rebellious, contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion |
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| rout, fiasco, complete failure |
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| an outcome or solution, the unraveling of a plot |
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| to discriminate or discern |
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| random, aimless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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| reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking in self confidence |
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| a song of grief or lamentation |
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| glowing and enthusiastic, praise, panegyeic, tribute, eulogy |
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| to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| critical examination, explication |
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| to atone or make amends for |
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| transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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| the concluding part of a speech, flowery, rehetorical speech |
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| pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| to appease, to conciliate, propitious means auspicious, favorable |
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| childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| power, strength, puissant means powerful, strong |
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| having sound judgement, perceptive, wise, like a sage |
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| lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| gloomy, dusk sullen morose |
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| aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively |
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| extremely loud and powerful |
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| toady, servile, self seeking flatterer, parasite |
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| biased, showing marked tendancies |
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| novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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| to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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| fluent, verbal, having eas use of spoken language |
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