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| temporary suspension or inactivity |
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| to leave suddenly and secretly, particularly to avoid prosecution or capture |
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| to make greater or exaggerate |
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| to combine or form a collection or sum; amounting to a whole or total |
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| willingness or cheerful eagerness |
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| to lessen or make easier to endure |
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| a mixture of different elements or concepts |
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| uncertainty or inability to make a choice because of simultaneous desire or repulsion |
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| to improve or make more satisfactory |
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| having no definite form, vague, or unorganized |
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| an error in chronology or a thing that belongs in another era or time |
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| unusual or not consistent with familiar patterns |
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| habitual dislike or natural aversion |
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| to satisfy or to yield in an affable way |
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| to manage and judge a dispute |
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| simple, absence of deceit, natural, or poorly made |
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| someone who practices self-mortification for religious reasons, or one who lives a chaste and simple life |
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| constant, industrious, or working diligently at a job |
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| to lessen, make easier, or soothe |
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| recklessly bold and daring |
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| strict, self-disciplined, or severely simple or rough |
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| independent, regarding a self-governing state or organization |
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| aggressive, inclined to fight, or hostile |
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| a person who makes a gift or endowment |
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| charitable, or characterized by kindness |
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| a long cushion or pillow or a horizontal piece of wood used to lessen the span on a long beam; to support or hold up |
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| characterized by pretentious use of language; pompous |
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| crude, unmannered, or insensitive |
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| to grow, flourish, or to bud as in a flower |
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| to support or give encouragement |
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| loud or harsh, usually referring to sound |
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| erratic or a tendency to change one's mind or behavior |
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| something that spurs a change or event without itself being necessarily affected |
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| critical, sarcastic, or corrosive |
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| to criticize, reproach, or reprimand |
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| fraud, or one who pretends to have knowledge or skill she or he does not possess |
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| tricky, deceitful, or evasive language |
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| to go from a fluid state to more solid, or to form a clot |
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| corresponding in degree or amount, proportionate, or having the same measure |
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| a brief summary or a list of inventory |
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| submissive, yielding, or obliging |
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| placate, win over, or reconcile |
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| to disregard or overlook, to give implied consent, or to forgive |
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| a discerning, qualified judge |
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| struggling in opposition or dispute |
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| remorseful, regretful, or desiring atonement |
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| a riddle or something that puzzles |
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| tending to meet at a point or reach a common conclusion |
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| to support with further evidence |
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| deserving blame or responsibility |
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| to discourage or intimidate |
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| manners or the customs of polite society |
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| failure to act or to live up to financial obligation |
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| a respectful regard or courteously yielding to the opinion of another |
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| to describe precisely or to trace |
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| to mock or laugh at in scorn |
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| not original, secondary, or something deduced |
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| something that discourages or prevents an event or action |
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| a division into two parts or two opposing groups or constant forking into two branches |
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| intending to teach or instruct |
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| wordy or widely spread; to disperse, to spread out, or to soften |
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| a passage that deviates from the main theme |
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| disagreeable to the ear, harsh, argumentative, or being at odds |
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| to damage one's reputation |
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| inconsistent or differing |
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| separate, distinct, or consisting of distinct parts |
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| to become dislocated or to put out of order; incoherent or lacking order |
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| to belittle or to bring discredit |
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| to conceal true motives or to act hypocritically |
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| to scatter widely, to disperse, or to broadcast |
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| the breaking of a partnership, a termination, or sensual indulgence |
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| to process by vaporization and subsequent condensation or to extract or purify |
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| to direct, to leave, or to reject |
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| a harsh chord, cacophony, or lack of agreement |
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| to branch off, deviate, or turn aside |
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| opinionated or concerning doctrine |
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| inactive, hibernating, or latent |
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| one who is easily fooled, gullible; a person who unwittingly serves the cause of someone else |
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| drawing from various, distinct sources |
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| power to produce a desired effect |
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| to draw out, provoke, or to arrive at by reasoning |
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| to strive to excel or imitate |
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| to be filled with love or to be foolishly fond of |
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| to be peculiar or specific to an area or people |
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| to weaken or remove part of a nerve |
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| to cause to happen or exist |
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| relating to or resembling a puzzle |
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| even-temperedness or calmness |
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| highly educated; possessing or demonstrating advanced knowledge |
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| intending for or understood by only a select few |
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| a highly praiseful speech or piece of writing |
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| an inoffensive word substituted for an offensive one |
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| a feeling of extreme happiness or well-being |
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| to worsen something that is already bad |
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| clearly stated or expressed without ambiguity |
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| an estimate from facts already known |
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| playfully jocular; humorous |
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| a statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference |
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| to penetrate to the meaning or nature of; comprehend |
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| showing excessive devotion or affection |
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| pretended; done for show without legitimate cause |
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| great warmth and intensity of emotion |
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| characterized by erratic changeableness or instability; capricious |
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| the use of prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action |
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| a young or inexperienced person |
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| to give up (something formerly held dear); to renounce |
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| happening by a fortunate accident or chance |
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| to promote the growth and development of; to cultivate |
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| practicing or marked by economy, as in the expenditure of money or the use of material resources |
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| being both pertinent and fitting; relevant |
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| showing little thought, preparation, or concern |
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| unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified |
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| seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable |
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| innocent; honest from a complete inability to deceive |
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| to prevent the free movement, action, or progress of |
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| a long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering |
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| pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses |
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| having a resemblance in structure |
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| a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect |
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| one who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions |
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| a structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group |
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| about to occur; impending |
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| having the power or authority to command or control |
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| unshakably calm and collected |
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| incapable of being penetrated |
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| characterized by sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive and passionate |
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| implied or understood though not directly expressed |
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| inclined to act on impulse rather than thought |
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| exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm |
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| marked by unintentional lack of care |
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| tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious |
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| to restrain, prohibit, or hold back |
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| incapable of being corrected or reformed |
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| having no particular interest or concern; apathetic |
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| experiencing want or need; impoverished |
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| disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy |
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| incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable |
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| sluggish in action or motion; lethargic |
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| existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; intrinsic |
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| to hold back; restrain; innocuous; harmless |
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| impossible to satiate or satisfy |
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| intended to entrap; treacherous |
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| lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull |
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| difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable |
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| suggestive of the isolated life of an island |
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| incapable of being perceived by the senses |
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| difficult to manage or govern; stubborn |
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| resolutely courageous; fearless |
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| to overwhelm as if with a flood |
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| prone to outbursts of temper; easily angered |
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| a route or proposed route of a journey |
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| to cast overboard or discard |
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| having or exhibiting sound judgment; prudent |
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| in a dormant state, but having potential for expression |
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| expressing or conferring praise |
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| lightness of manner or speech, especially when inappropriate; frivolity |
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| easily understood; intelligible |
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| suggestive of or characterized by expediency, deceit, and cunning |
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| generous in forgiving; eschewing resentment or revenge; unselfish |
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| a powerful or influential person, especially in business or industry |
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| to feign illness or other incapacity to avoid duty or work |
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| capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure; tractable |
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| prone to rapid changes in mood |
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| one who hates or mistrusts humankind |
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| a person without moral scruples |
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| to moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate |
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| relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary |
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| excessive love or admiration of oneself |
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| coming into existence; emerging |
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| harmful to living things; injurious to health, mind, or morals |
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| lacking quickness of perception or intellect |
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| arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure |
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| marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others |
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| having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful |
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| not allowing radiant energy to pass through; impenetrable by light |
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| to waver, as between conflicting opinions or courses of action; to vacillate |
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| one that serves as a pattern or model; a set of assumptions and concepts that defines a way of viewing the world |
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| a model of excellence or perfection of a kind; a peerless example |
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| a literary work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule |
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| excessively sparing or frugal |
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| of or relating to teaching or education |
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| characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules |
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| a definite liking; a strong inclination |
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| time without end; eternity |
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| to be present throughout; permeate |
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| of, relating to, or marked by charity; humanitarian |
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| having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional |
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| devotion and reverence to parents and family; religious devotion |
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| professing or exhibiting a strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality; high-minded |
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| precisely meaningful; forceful and brief |
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| to pacify, often by making compromises or concessions |
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| capable of easily adapting to varying conditions; moldable |
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| a trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant |
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| pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical |
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| a superabundance; an excess |
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| a controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine |
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| occurring or continuing after one's death |
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| dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical |
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| dangerously lacking in security or stability |
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| to cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely |
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| one that precedes and indicates, suggests, or announces someone or something to come |
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| superiority in weight, force, importance, or influence |
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| going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward |
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| making or marked by an extravagant outward show; ostentatious |
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| an ostensible or professed purpose; an excuse |
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| not settled; unresolved or dubious |
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| rashly or wastefully extravagant |
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| impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous |
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| a person with exceptional talents or powers |
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| situated at, extending to, or coming from a great depth; deep |
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| lavish or unrestrained expense; extravagance |
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| producing abundant works or results; fertile |
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| an innate inclination; a tendency |
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| agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree |
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| the quality of being proper; appropriateness |
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| something (such as a bulge, knob, or swelling) that protrudes |
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| affecting the organs of taste or smell with a sharp acrid sensation |
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| given to complaining; peevish |
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| idealistic without regard to practicality |
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| marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance |
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| to make a formal retraction or disavowal of a previously held statement or belief |
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| to assign to an obscure place, position, or condition |
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| to fail to carry out a promise or commitment |
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| to give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement |
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| deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy |
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| to express disapproval of, criticism of, or disappointment in (someone) |
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| morally unprincipled; shameless |
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| to reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust; to disown |
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| to make void; to repeal or annul |
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| firm or determined; unwavering |
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| inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself |
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| something justly deserved; recompense |
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| feeling or showing profound respect or veneration |
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| a state of elated bliss; ecstasy |
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| the art or study of using language effectively and persuasively |
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| feigning piety or righteousness |
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| support or encouragement, as from public opinion or established custom |
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| to satisfy (an appetite or desire) fully |
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| a literary work in which human voice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit |
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| worldly rather than spiritual |
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| marked by or given to doubt; questioning |
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| marked by or given to anxious care and often hovering attentiveness |
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| capable of meeting financial obligations |
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| plausible but fallacious argumentation |
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| lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine; false |
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| to spend wastefully or extravagantly; to dissipate |
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| showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky |
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| being beyond what is required or sufficient |
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| the combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole |
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| unspoken; understood without words |
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| reserved; using few words |
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| showing moderation or restraint |
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| having little substance; flimsy |
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| brief and to the point; effectively concise |
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| a long, critical, emotional speech |
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| remaining in a place only a brief time |
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| disposed to fight; pugnacious |
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| utter depravity or wickedness; a complete lack of morals |
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| lying beyond what is evident, revealed, or avowed, especially something that is concealed intentionally |
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| being such that defense or maintenance is impossible |
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| polite, refined, and often elegant in manner |
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| to swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another |
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| commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position |
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| adherence to the truth; truthfulness |
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| lush and green with vegetation |
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| the standard native language of a country or locality |
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| to annoy, as with petty importunities; bother |
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| capable of success or continuing effectiveness; practicable |
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| to make vicious and defamatory statements about |
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| bitterly hostile or antagonistic; hateful |
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| full of animation and spirit; lively |
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| tending to vary often or widely; explosive |
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| ample or lengthy in speech or writing |
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| consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous |
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| to be undecided; to hesitate in decision making |
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| to increase in size or strength |
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| a person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign |
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| a fanatically committed person |
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