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| Abnormal; straying from the normal or usual path |
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| sparing in use of food or drink |
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1. tasting sour or bitter
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| cheerful promptness or speed |
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| to refer indirectly to something |
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| an indirect reference; a hint |
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| unselfish devotion to the welfare of others rather than self |
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| a mixture or combination (often of metals) |
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| to improve or make better |
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| something out of place in time ( a plane in 1942) |
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| an oddity, inconsistency; a devation from the norm |
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| a natural dislike or repugnance |
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| obscure; secret; mysterious |
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| the first model from which others are copied; prototype |
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| laborious, difficult; strenuous |
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| extremely dry, parched; barren, unimaginative |
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| clear, distinct; expressed with clarity; skillful with words |
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| to utter clearly and distinctly |
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1. one who leads a simple life of self-denial
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| slanderous statement; a damaging or derogatory criticism |
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| carefully attentive; industrious |
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| to relieve; ease; make less severe |
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1. a substance that contracts bodily tissues
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| to waste away, as from lack of use; to wither |
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| to make thin or slender; to weaken or dilute |
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| an absolute monarchy; government where one person holds power |
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| harmful, malign, detrimental |
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| trite; without freshness or originality |
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| conferring benefits; kindly; doing good |
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| pertaining to or affecting both sides or two sides; having two sides |
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| pompous speech; pretentious words |
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| to grow or develop quickly |
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| a harsh, inharmonious collection of sounds; dissonance |
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| insincere or hypocritical statements of high ideals; the jargon of a particular group or occupation |
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| a sudden, unpredictable, or whimsical change |
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| a purging or relieving of the body or soul |
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| a crude or surly behavior; behavior of a peasant |
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| a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; not to the point |
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| a parliamentary procedure to end debate and begin to vote |
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| too sugary; too sentimental or flattering |
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| in music, a concluding passage |
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| to organize laws or rules into a systematic collection |
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| to the point; clear; convincing in its clarity and presentation |
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| to think hard; ponder, meditate |
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| possessing the power to think or meditate; meditative; capable of perception |
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| sticking together; connected; logical; consistent |
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| the act or state of sticking together |
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| beauty; attractiveness in appearance or behavior |
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| spacious and convenient; roomy |
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| the quality of being agreeable or eager to please |
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| complying; obeying; yielding |
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| containing associated meanings in addition to the primary one |
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| to force, compel; to restrain |
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| touching; or adjoining and close, but may not be touching |
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| to act contrary to; to oppose or contradict |
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| to move toward one point ( opposite: diverge) |
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| a clique; a group who meet frequently, usually socially |
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| stupid, unrefined; gross; materialistic |
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| disaster; collapse; a rout |
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| harmful; hurtful; noxious |
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| to defame, to blacken or sully; to belitle |
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| to express disapproval of; to protest against |
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| to laugh vat with contempt; to mock |
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| the act of mocking; ridicule, mockery |
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| a bitter or abusive speech |
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| timid; lacking self-confidence |
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| spread out; verbose (wordy); not focused |
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| to converse; to communicate in orderly fashion |
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| separate; individually distinct; composed of distinct parts |
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| not frank or candid; deceivingly simple |
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| neutral; unbiased ( alternate meaning: uninterested) |
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| unequal,dissimilar; different |
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| argumentative; inclined to disputes |
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| to pretend; to feign; to conceal by pretense |
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| not in harmony; in disagreement |
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| an overflowing of high spirits; effervescence |
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| omission of words that would make the meaning clear |
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| to make clear; to explain |
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| softening or soothing to the skin; havingt the power ot soften or relax living tissues |
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| native to a particular area or people |
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| to weaken; to deprive of nerve or strength |
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| to bring about; beget; to bring forth |
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| very short-lived; lasting only a short time |
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| words of praise, especially for the dead |
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| vanishing quickly; dissipating like a vapor |
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| requiring immediate action; urgent, pressing |
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| to improvise; to make it up as you go along |
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| to estimate the value of something beyond the scale; to infer what is unknown from something known |
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| not meant to be taken seriously; humorous |
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| to speak against; to contradict; to deny |
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| extremely talkative or wordy |
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| one who smashes revered images; an attacker of cherished beliefs |
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| impenetrable; not allowing anything to pass through; unaffected |
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| unwilling to be pacified or appeased |
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| to attack with words; to question the truthfullness or integrity |
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| not yet fully formed; rudimentary |
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| getting to the heart of things; to the point |
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| native to the region; inborn or innate |
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| not reacting chemically; inactive |
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| noble; honorable; candid; naive |
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| part of the essential character; intrinsic |
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| uninteresting, boring, flat, dull |
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| stubborn, obstinate; not easily taught or disciplined |
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| sparing of words; terse, pithy, concise |
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| very talkative; garrulous |
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| emitting light; shining; also enlightened or intelligent |
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| to soften by steeping in a liquid ( including softening food by the action of a solvent) |
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spotted, blotched; hence defiled, impure (opp: immaculate)
v. stain, spot, defile |
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| a quality of nobleness of mind, disdaining meanness or revenge |
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| wishing of evil (opposite: benevolent) |
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v. to speak evil of
adj. having an evil dispostion toward others (opposite: benign) |
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| servilely attentive; fawning |
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| to turn to bone; to harden |
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| touchable; clear, obvious |
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| model, prototype; pattern |
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| a tenet seemingly contradictory or false, but actually true |
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| very frugal; unwilling to spend |
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| overly concerned with minute details, especially in teaching |
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| done in a routine, mechanical way, without interest |
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| to speak equivocally or evasively. I.e. to lie |
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| primitive, pure, uncorrupted |
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| an inclination; a natural tendency toward; a liking for |
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| a smelly mass that is the decomposition of organic matter |
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| state of being at rest or without motion |
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| hard to understand; concealed; characterized by profound scholarship |
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| superfluous; exceeding what is needed |
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| full or curves; twisting and turning |
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| plausible, but deceptive; apparently, but not actually, true |
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| not genuine, false; bogus |
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| filthy; wretched (from squalor) |
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| a flatterer of important people |
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| inclined to silence; speaking little; dour, stern |
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| thin, slim, delicate; weak |
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| full of twists and turns; not straightforward; possibly deceitful |
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| omnispresent; present everywhere |
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| dull, stupid; empty-headed |
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