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| to reduce in amount, degree, or severity |
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to renounce upon oath; to reject solemnly
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| having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations |
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| to increase in power, influence, and reputation |
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| promptness in response; cheerful in readiness |
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to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity: alleviate
to make quiet: calm |
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| to combine; to mix together |
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| doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted several ways |
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| to make better; to improve |
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| something out of place in time |
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serving to alleviate pain
not likely to offend or arouse tensions: innocuous |
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| lack of interest or emotion |
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| a terse formulation of truth (adage) |
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| to judge a dispute between two opposing parties |
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| intense and passionate feeling |
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| to make something unpleasant less severe |
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| to reduce in force or degree; to weaken |
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| severe or stern in appearance; undecorated |
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| of or relating to an uncle; esp. in kindliness or geniality |
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| predictable, cliched, boring |
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| pompous in speech and manner |
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| markedly short and abrupt; blunt |
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| to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
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| changing one's mind quickly and often |
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| to punish or criticize harshly |
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| deception by means of craft or guile |
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| to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing |
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| convincing and well reasoned |
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| to become friendly or agreeable; appease |
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to go or act contrary to; to violate
to oppose in argument |
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| to recover health and strength gradually |
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| scarcity that makes dear; inadequate supply |
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| appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety |
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| to catch sight of; find out, discover, reveal |
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| jumping from on thing to another; disconnected |
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| an abusive, condemnatory speech |
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| someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
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| a funeral hymn or mournful speech |
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| to set right; to free from error |
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| fundamentally different; entirely unlike |
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| to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character |
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| a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief |
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| dictatorial in one's opinions |
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an invisible emanation; esp. an offensive exhalation or smell
a by-product esp. in the form of waste |
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| a sorrowful poem or speech |
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| fluent expression; revealing |
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| to produce, cause, or bring about |
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| to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
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| learned, scholarly, bookish |
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| known or understood by only a few |
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a betrothal, wedding, marriage
a taking up or adopting of a cause or belief |
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| speech in praise of someone |
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| to clear from blame; prove innocent |
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| urgent; requiring immediate action |
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| to move about freely or at will; to write in detail |
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archaic: standing out or above
still existing: not destroyed or lost |
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| intensely emotional; feverish |
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to drift; to fade away. to vanish
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| excessively decorated or embellished |
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| a consonant characterized by frictional passage of the expired breath through a narrowing at some point in the vocal tract |
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| to fill esp with food to satiety |
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| trite; lacking in freshness or originality |
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| of or relating to Greek history, culture, or art after Alex the Great |
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| deliberately affected: theatrical/dramatic |
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| one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions |
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| having little or no money usually habitually |
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| not capable of being disturbed |
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| quick to act without thinking |
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| not fully formed; disorganized |
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| beginning to come into being or to become apparant |
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| suffering from extreme poverty |
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causing little or no pain; slow to develop or heal
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| showing innocence or childlike simplicity |
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| lacking interest or flavor |
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| unable to pay debts as they are due |
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| uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled |
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| to overwhelm; to cover with water |
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| characterized by insult or abuse |
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| secure from violation or profanation; secure from assault or trespass |
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| to move in an up-and-down manner: bounce |
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| lacking legal or moral restraints; esp disregarding sexual restraints |
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| to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
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having an insipid often unpleasant taste
sickly or puerilely sentimental |
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| a person who dislikes others |
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| a mixture of races; esp. marriage, cohabitation, or sex between a white person and a member of another race |
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| to calm or make less severe |
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| lavish; liberal in giving or bestowing; generous |
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| a lack of foresight or discernment: a narrow view of something |
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| hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
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| to darken; to make obscure or confuse |
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| overly submissive and eager to please |
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| to prevent; to make unnecessary |
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| troublesome and oppressive; burdensome |
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| a joyous song of hymn or praise; a work that praises or honors its subject |
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| model of excellence or perfection |
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| person of high birth: aristocrat |
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| someone who shows off learning |
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easy to understand
reflecting light evenly from all surfaces |
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| willing to betray one's trust |
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| done in a routine way; indifferent |
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| one piece at a time: gradually |
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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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| to conciliate; to appease |
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| correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs |
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| displaying great diversity or variety: versatile |
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| wisdom, caution, or restraint |
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| occurring every day; commonplace, ordinary |
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| to make thinner or sparser |
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to lay at rest. to lie dead
to remain still or concealed: lie
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| to reject the validity of |
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| moving by leaps or springs: jumping |
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| of a grayish greenish yellow color |
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archaic: subside, abate
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| wearing loose shoes or slippers: shabby, careless |
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| causing sleep or lethargy |
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| deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious |
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| unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
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| an overabundant supply: excess |
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| of a timid disposition: fearful |
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| long, harsh speech or verbal attack |
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| extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
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| parched with heat esp of the sun: hot, scorching, ardent, passionate |
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| marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns: winding, crooked, tricky |
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| temporary, lasting a brief time |
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| a beginner in learning: novice |
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| to sway physically; to be indecisive |
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| an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
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| filled with truth and accuracy |
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to sharpen by rubbing on or with something
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| acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredicable |
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