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| state of being a novice of a religious order |
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| harshness or sharpness of tone |
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| to make morally bad or evil |
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| indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute |
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| a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained |
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| a depraved, unprincipled person |
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| vulgar or indecent in speech |
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| vile, shameful or base character |
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| not spontaneous, copy, artificial |
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| not spontaneous, copy, artificial |
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| performed, exercised, received or suffered in place of another |
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| damaging or derogatory remark |
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| a false and malicious statement |
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| to denounce or berate severely |
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| to deny dispute or contradict |
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| a scolding or long lasting verbal attack |
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| a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism, slander |
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| to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words |
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| to express strong disapproval; to criticize severely |
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| censure, blame or abusive language aimed at a person or thing |
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| the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageous shameful, infamy |
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| a wooden framework erected on a post with holes for securing hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision |
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| to say or plead in protest objection or disapproval |
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| to reprove or find fault with; rebuke; censure; blame. |
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| to verbally abuse; berate |
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| in a dying state, near death |
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| an apparition of a living person suppsed to portend his or her death |
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| to refuse or deny onself some rights, conveniences, reject, renounce |
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| religious self denial or self mortification |
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| domineering in a haughty manner, dictatorial, overbearing |
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| leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal |
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| understood by or meant for only the select few |
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| dealing with very profound, difficult or abstruse subject matter |
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| calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense, hateful |
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| offensive or disgusting as an odor |
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| deserving or causing hatred, hateful, detestable |
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| causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent |
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| convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear or incisive presentation |
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| allowing the maximum passage of light as glass, translucent |
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| breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration |
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| to destroy the self-confidence, poise, or self-possession of; disconcert; make ashamed or embarrassed |
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| a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation |
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| a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain, contrition, remorse |
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| sincere penitence, or remorse |
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lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
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| to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion |
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| a minor weakness or failing of character, slight flaw or defect |
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| lack of social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness, awkwardness, crudeness, tactlessness |
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| to feel sorrow over, repent of, regret bitterly |
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| of doubtful authorship or authenticity |
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| a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report or rumor |
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| trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry |
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| to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of |
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| deceitfulness in speech or conduct, speaking or acting in two different ways concerning the same matter with intent to deceive; double dealing |
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| to use equivocal language intentionally |
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| to serve as a substitute, synthetic, artificial |
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| telling lies, esp habitually, dishonest, lying, untruthful |
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| deliberate breach of faith or trust, faithlessness, treachery |
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| to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie |
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| plausible but not true; based on pretense; sophistic |
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| not genuine, authentic or true |
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| having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood |
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| Work and concerns traditionally considered important to women. |
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| Marriage within a particular group in accordance with custom |
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| a biologically related ancestor |
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| a person person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory with sufficient regard for pratical considerations, an impractical theorist |
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| having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel. |
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| to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate |
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| to atone for; make amends or reparation for |
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| to relieve or lessen without curing, mitigate |
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| amusing in an odd way, whimsical |
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| not meant to be taken seriously or literally |
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| a quick sharp return in speech or action, counterstroke |
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| to smile in a silly, self conscious way |
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| the act or state of abating or the state of being abated; reduction; decrease |
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| an interval of time between the close of a sovereign's reign and the accession of his or her normal or legitimate successor |
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| generous bestowal of gifts |
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| generous in forgiving an insult or injury, free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness |
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| extremely liberal in giving, very generous |
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| given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed |
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| willing to sell one's influence, esp for a bribe |
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| harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner |
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| full of menacing or milign influences, pernicious |
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| fierce; cruel; dreadful; savage |
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| sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker, biting |
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| scornful, mocking; disdainfully humorous |
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| fierce; cruel; savagely brutal |
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| the act or an instance of abusive censure |
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| adverse in tendency or effect, unfavorable, harmful |
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| harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect |
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| intended to entrap or beguile |
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| deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful |
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| causing insidious harm or ruin |
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| making or having a harsh sound, grating, creaking |
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| a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism |
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| bitter, rankling resentment or ill will |
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| favorable to or promoting health; healthful |
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| a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person |
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| willing to believe or trust too readily |
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| free from reserve, restraint |
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| not straightforward or candid |
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| to give a false or misleading appearance to |
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| offensive to good taste-excessive |
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| outwardly appearing as such, professed, pretended |
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| characterized by excessive piousness |
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| having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion, slothful |
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| being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless |
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| associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part |
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| presenting favorable conditions; favorable |
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| to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate |
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| to raise irritating and trivial objections |
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| to prescribe with authority or emphasis |
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| to treat with insolence; bully; torment |
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| the act of rebuking, censuring, reproving |
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| any strike and rebound, as a ball striking a wall and glancing off. |
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| speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic |
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| to soften in feeling or temper, pacify, appease |
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| giving out or capable of giving out a sound, pleasant sounding |
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| knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight |
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| to defend, secure or protect |
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| careful, cautious, prudent |
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| used in, suitable for or resembling an elegy |
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| mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner |
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| expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful |
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| a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, esp. for the dead; dirge; funeral song |
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| not easily controlled or directed, not docile or manageable, stubbon |
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| resisting pressure, resistant |
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| containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise |
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| something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time |
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| that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable |
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| integrity and uprightness; honesty |
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| habitually speaking the truth; truthful |
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| a break or destroyer of religious images |
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| a characteristic, habit mannerism or the like that is peculiar to an indiviual |
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| traveling fromplace to place, esp on a circuit, as a minister or judge |
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| passing aimlessly from one subject to another, disgressive, rambling |
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| to enlarge in discourse or writing, be copious in description or discussion |
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| to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary |
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| to make or cause to appear foolish or ridiculous |
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| to impair the quality of, make faulty, spoil |
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| a tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion |
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| a short, pithy, instructive saying; a terse remark or aphorism |
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| an authoritative pronouncement, judicial assertion |
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| a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound |
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| abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims |
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| temporary inactivity, cessation or suspension |
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| to renounce, repudiate or retract especially with formal solemnity, recant |
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| to abolish by formal or official means, annul by an authoritative act |
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| to depart from a camp to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground |
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| to make objection especially on the grounds of scruples, take exception, object |
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