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| The act of keeping back or detaining |
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1. Irrelevant; not pertinent; inappropriate
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| Adhering (“holding”) firmly to a purpose or opinion; very persistent |
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| Having to do with (“holding to”) the matter at hand; relevant |
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| Tenacious; able to retain or remember |
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| Group of followers or assistants attending a distinguished person |
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| Firmness in holding fast; persistence |
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| Period of tenant’s temporary holding of real estate |
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| Principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
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1. Period for which an office or position in held, as: “U.S. Supreme Court Justices enjoy life tenure.”
2. Status assuring an employee a permanent position |
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| Incapable of being held or defended (ant. tenable) |
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| Warn of a fault; reprove; rebuke (ant. commend) |
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| Gentle reproof (“warning”); counseling against a fault or error |
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| Conveying a gentle reproof |
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| Person or device that keeps track of, checks, or warns |
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| Keep track of, regulate, or control the operation of a machine or process |
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| Means of reminding us of a person or even (e.g., a statue or a tomb) |
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| Forewarning; intuitive anticipation of a coming event |
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1. Authoritative command
2. Territory administered by a trustee (supervisory nation) |
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| Obligatory; required b command (ant. optional) |
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| Send (“order”) back; recommit, as to a prison |
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| Written order from a court to enforce the performance of some public duty |
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| Officially authorized or recognized; provided with credentials |
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| Belief as to the truth of something |
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| Documents, letter, references, etc., that inspire belief or trust |
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| Believable (ant. incredible) |
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| Too ready to believe; easily deceived (ant. incredulous; skeptical) |
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| Summary of principles believes in or adhered to |
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1. Cast doubt on; refuse to believe
2. Take trust or credit away from; disgrace |
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| Loss of belief or trust; damage to one’s reputation; disgrace |
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| Sworn written statement made before an authorized official |
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| Made or carried out in a good faith; genuine |
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| confidante, if a woman) one whom secrets are entrusted |
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| Having faith in oneself; self-reliant; sure (ant. apprehensive; diffident) |
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| Communicated in trust; secret; private |
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| Lacking self-confidence (faith in oneself); unduly timid; shy (ant. confident) |
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1. Faithfulness to a trust or vow (ant. perfidy; infidelity)
2. Accuracy; faithfulness of sound reproduction |
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1. Held in trust (fiduciary property)
2. Confidential (fiduciary duties of a trustee) |
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| One who does not accept a particular faith; unbeliever |
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| False to a trust; faithless; treacherous |
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| Violation of a trust; treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty (ant. fidelity; fealty) |
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| Express one’s pleasure to another person at that person’s success |
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| Pleasant; courteous; kindly (ant. ungracious) |
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| Feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliges (ant. ungrateful) |
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| Give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction |
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| Without charge or payment; free |
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| Thankfulness (ant. ingratitude) |
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1. Given freely
2. Unwarranted, as a gratuitous remark |
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| Present of money in return for a favor or service; tip |
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1. Not subject to death (ant. mortal)
2. Not subject to oblivion (being forgotten); imperishable |
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1. Eternal life (ant. mortality)
2. Lasting fame |
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1. Destined to die
2. Human
3. Causing death; fatal, as a mortal blow |
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1. Destined to die
2. Human
3. Causing death; fatal, as a mortal blow |
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| Human being; person; individual |
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| Human being; person; individual |
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| Shame; humiliation; embarrassment |
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| Embarrass; shame; humiliate (literally, “make dead,” “kill”) |
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| Stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death (literally, “stiffness of death”) |
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| Bodily, as corporal punishment |
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| Body authorization by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties |
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1. Organized body of persons
2. Branch of the military, as the Marine Corps |
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| General collection or body of writings, laws, etc. |
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1. Blood cell (literally, “little body”)
2. Minute particle |
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1. Facts proving that a crime has been committed
2. Body of the victim in a murder case |
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| Spirit of a body of persons; group spirit |
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1. Writ (order) requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person’s detention (the writ begins with the words habeas corpus, meaning “you should have the body”)
2. Right of a citizen to secure protection against illegal imprisonment |
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| Combine so as to form one body |
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| Artificial channel for conducting water over a distance |
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| Tending to lead to; contributive; helpful |
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1. Taking away; subtraction (ant. addition)
2. Reasoning from the general to the particular |
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| Tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc. |
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1. Able to be drawn out or hammered this (said of metal)
2. Easily lead; docile |
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| Lead on; move by persuasion |
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| Admit (“lead in”) as a member; initiate |
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1. Ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation
2. Reasoning from the particular to the general |
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| Enticement; leading astray into wrongdoings |
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| Literally, “lead along” as a spectacle to bring into disgrace); malign; slander; vilify; calumniate |
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| Bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, etc, |
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| Following in regular order; successive |
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1. That which follows logically; result
2. Importance, as a person of consequence |
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1. Follow through to a completion; carry out
2. Put to death |
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| Of no consequence; trivial; unimportant |
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| Statement that does not follow from previous statements |
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Follow to the end or until finished
Conduct legal proceedings against; sue |
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| Something that follows; continuation; consequence; outcome |
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| The following of one thing after another; succession; orderly series |
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| Arranged in a sequence; serial |
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