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| to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (a person, store, organization) as a sign of disapproval |
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| the emblem of the medical profession (a staff with intertwined snakes and wings at the top) |
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| purification of emotions, especially through art |
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| sentimentalism; overdone pathos; triteness; anticlimax |
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| something that evokes pity, compassion, or sorrow |
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| resembling the blue of the sky |
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| waste material from the threshing of wheat |
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| waste material from molten metal |
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| scoria; refuse from the melting of metals or reduction of ore |
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| waste material from the preparation of ores or grains |
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| to criticize harshly; to castigate |
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| excessive or blind patriotism |
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| (1) shrouded in gloom and darkness (2) a mythical people described by Homer as dwelling in gloom |
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| (1) dark and gloomy (2) relating to the Styx (in Greek mythology, the river of the underworld) |
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| to confirm; to back up with evidence |
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| (1) a hood (2) a cover for an engine |
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| having to do with the kitchen or cooking |
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| wild living; corruption by sensuality |
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| suave; courteous; sophisticated |
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| falling off or shedding at a certain season; ephemeral; not permanent |
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| to embezzle; to abscond with money |
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| to melt away or dissolve; to become soft, especially with age |
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| a deception; a false psychotic belief regarding oneself or others |
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| a durable, twilled, usually cotton fabric woven with white filling thread |
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| to express strong disapproval, especially publicly |
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| intended to teach, moralize, or preach |
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| shy; lacking in self-confidence |
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| one who goes against an opinion; nonconformist |
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| concealment of one's true intentions by misleading words or actions; deception |
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| selecting from many sources what seems to be the best; catholic |
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| (1) having to do with a body of churches (2) worldwide or general in extent or application |
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| instruction; improvement; enlightenment |
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| a baffling situation; something that is hard to explain or solve |
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| (1) to ravage for spoils; to pillage (2) sudden, sometimes brief, invasion |
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| a mythical animal having the head and wings of an eagle and the body and legs of a lion |
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| pretending to have qualities or virtues that are not possessed; dissembling |
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| one who destroys religious images or attacks established beliefs |
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| one who destroys property |
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| the use of words whose sounds convey their meanings (e.g., buzz, hiss) |
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| the development of an organism |
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| to cover up with excuses; to estenuate |
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| high praise; a tribute; an encomium |
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| an example; a pattern; an archetype |
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| one who studies and collects stamps |
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| (1) a lead weight used to find the true vertical (2) to measure the depth of; to fathom |
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| obscure; concealed; incomprehensible; esoteric |
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| having a pleasing scent; fragrant |
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| to use abusive speech; to rail; to scold |
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| one who willfully hinders, through destruction or obstruction, industrial production of a nation's war effort |
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| servile flatterer; parasite |
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| the combination of parts to form a whole, or of thesis and antithesis to form a higher truth |
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| shrunken and wrinkled with age |
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| a worker, especially in wood; used in combination with another word |
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| intensely angry; incensed |
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| to give birth, used of sheeps or goats |
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| one who is enthusiastic, sometimes fanatical, about a cause |
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| (1) the highest point (2) the highest point reached by a celestial body |
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