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| To perceive; to recognize |
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| A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds |
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| A firmly held opinion, often a religious belief |
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| to deceive; a person who is easily deceived |
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| Speech in praise of someone |
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| Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one |
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| To clear from blame; to prove innocent |
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| Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion |
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| Quick to act without thinking |
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| Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful |
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| Showing innocence or childlike simplicity |
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| To overwhelm; to cover with water |
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| To express sorrow; to grieve |
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| To give praise; to glorify |
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| To give unsparingly (v.); extremely generous or extravagant (adj.) |
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| To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
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| A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol |
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| Extremely careful about details |
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| A person who dislikes others |
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| To calm or make less severe |
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| To prevent; to make unnecessary |
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| Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome |
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| A contradiction or dilemma |
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| Model of excellence or perfection |
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| Someone who shows off learning |
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| Done in a routine way; indifferent |
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| Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness |
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| Practical as opposed to idealistic |
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| To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
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| To lie or deviate from the truth |
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| Fresh and clean; uncorrupted |
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| To increase in number quickly |
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| To conciliate; to appease |
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| Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs |
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| Wisdom, caution, or restraint |
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| Sharp and irritating to the senses |
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| To reject the validity of |
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| Effective writing or speaking |
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| To satisfy fully or overindulge |
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| Causing sleep or lethargy |
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| Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious |
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| A mark of shame or discredit |
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| Unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
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| Long, harsh speech or verbal attack |
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| Extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
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| Temporary, lasting a brief time |
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| To sway physically; to be indecisive |
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| Filled with truth and accuracy |
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| Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive |
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| To fluctuate between choices |
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| Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable |
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| Lacking flavor, zest, liveliness, or spirit. Having lost appeal |
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| Beneficial to the health, wholesome |
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| Worthy of or deserving blame |
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| To violently tear apart or split into pieces |
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| Existing within the individual before his birth, rather than developing over time because of life experiences |
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| A chain or shackle which restricts motion. To put on shackles or to restrict motion |
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| Foul smelling, stinking, having offensive odor |
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| To destroy the sanctity or beauty of a holy or solemn place, object, event, or moment |
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| Reduction or elimination of punishment. Mildness of weather. |
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| Completely obvious in a cheap, offensive way. Attracting public notice. Noisy in a vulgar manner. |
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| A feeling of resentment that could lead to violence; hostility; antagonism |
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| Cheerful promptness, quickness |
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| Immense number, multitude |
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| Expression of approval or praise |
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| Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
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| Intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speech-making to delay legislative action |
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| To loudly attack or denounce |
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| Accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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| Associated with war and the armed forces |
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| vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form |
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| A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect |
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| To waste time by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| Not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
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| To stun, baffle, or amaze |
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| The combination of parts to make a whole |
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| Fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| Extremely harmful or poisonous |
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| Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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| Excessive praise; intense adoration |
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| Intended to teach or instruct |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| Beginning to come into being |
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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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| Literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
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| Pompous speech or expression |
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| The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| Immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| To illegally use or reproduce |
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| To invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| lacking authenticity or validity |
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| A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| A medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold |
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| Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue |
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| An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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| To show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| Overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
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| About to happen; Impending |
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| To fail to honor a commitment |
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| One who spends money wastefully |
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| Brief and concise in wording |
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| To publicly praise or promote |
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| To use harsh, condemnatory language |
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| To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
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| To take for one's own use, confiscate |
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| To suspend; to engage; holding one's attention |
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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 |
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| To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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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 |
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| Sarcastic, impertinent, as in 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 something as a brace or guide |
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| To imply, suggest, or insinuate |
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| To tilt or lean to one side: The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind |
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| Pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak to carefully. Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe |
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| Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction between the two cases |
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| To be established, accepted, or customary: Those standards no longer obtain |
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| Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
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| Multicolored, usually in blotches |
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| Courage, spunk, fortitude |
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| To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: The information was prized from him |
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| To complain about bitterly: early American progressives railed against the railroad barons |
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| To lose courage, turn frightened |
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| To limit: Let me qualify that statement |
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| Contemptible, despicable: He was a scurvy old reprobate |
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| To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep: She was completely steeped in esoteric knowledge |
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| The supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
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| To remove from consideration: They tabled the motion and will consider it again later |
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| To proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation |
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| To equivocate; to change one's position |
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| 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 (religious) curse; 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; 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, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
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| Diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
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| Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| To slander, make a false accusation |
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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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| Insubordinate, rebellious |
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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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| Disuse: After years of desuetude, my French kills were finally put to use |
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| Random; aimless: Her desultory performance impressed no one |
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| glowing and enthusiastic praise |
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| Denounce, feel loathing for, curse |
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| critical examination, explication |
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| To atone or make amends for |
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| Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| To deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclast |
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| Difficult or embarrassing situation |
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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, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show |
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| Menacing, threatening (think Minotaur) |
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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 rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age |
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| To make something less serious |
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| Formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
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| Transparent, easy to understand |
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| The concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| Lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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| Extremely loud and powerful |
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| Biased; showing marked tendencies |
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