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| an oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention; altercation |
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| convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear, or incisive presentation; telling |
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| serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing |
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| an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion |
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| to make more certain; confirm |
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| to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech |
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| skilled in dealing with sensitive matters or people; tactful |
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| to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something |
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| to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture |
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| a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief |
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| obvious and intentional exaggeration |
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| implied, rather than expressly stated |
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| having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible |
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| to set forth beforehand, as by way of introduction or explanation |
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| affording ground for presumption |
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| to oppose by contrary proof |
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| incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic |
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| the state or quality of being valid |
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| become unsteady; begin to fail or give way |
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| the end or close; final part |
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| care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence |
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| characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy |
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| causing fear, apprehension, or dread |
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| inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious |
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| the science or technique of classification |
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| the act of deriving by reasoning |
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| the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead or hedge; prevarication |
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| penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant |
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| not open to question or dispute; indisputable |
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| to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence |
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| the state of being lawful |
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| a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc. |
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| the act of assuming, as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory |
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| to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute |
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| o state or assert positively; maintain as true |
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| fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied; unequivocal |
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| to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind |
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| to reject as having no authority or binding force |
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| the act of holding back, controlling, or checking |
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