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| a literary person, especially a professional writer |
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| to lay oneself down for rest or sleep |
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| appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect |
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| selfish pettiness or narrowness as of interests, opinions or views |
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| a regulation or dogma decreed by a church council |
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| extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books |
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| a narrow exclusive circle or group of persons especially one held together by common interests, views, or purposes |
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| of or relating to meaning in language |
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| a new word, usage, or expression |
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| a giving or capable of giving form |
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| disdainfully or skeptically humorous |
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| originating in or based on observation or experience |
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| an identifying name or title |
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| of, relating to, or determining norms or standards |
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| to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its unacceptable form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable |
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| one obtaining sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
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| firmly established by long persistence |
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| a science that deals with the division of human beings into races and their origin, distribution, relations, and characteristics |
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| situated at the opposite side of the earth or moon |
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| being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
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| of, relating to, or affirming existence |
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| an undoubted or self-evident truth especially one too obvious for mention |
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| a relation between two kinds of organisms in which one obtains food or other benefits from the other without damaging or benefiting it |
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| a system of marital exchange between two bands of tribes, according to which men of one tribe marry women of other and vice-versa |
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| forbidden to profane use or contact because of what are held to be dangerous supernatural powers |
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| a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
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| the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops |
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| to lay the responsibility or blame for often falsely or unjustly |
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| an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
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| to rise and fall or toss about in or with waves |
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| being in a state of distension |
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| to reevaluate especially on a basis that repudiates accepted standards |
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| to accustom as a young child or animal to take food otherwise than by nursing |
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| to raise to the rank of nobility |
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| the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
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| marked by diversity of variety |
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| to bring under control and governance as a subject |
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| separation into component parts |
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| to yield or grant typically by treaty |
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| depending on individual discretion as of a judge and not fixed by law |
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| depending on individual discretion as of a judge and not fixed by law |
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| a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
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| the lending of money with an interest charge for its use especially the lending of money at exorbitant interest rates |
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| a series forming successive stages |
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| a sound, healthy, or prosperous state |
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| a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment |
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| to cause a solvent to pass through a permeable substance as a powdered drug especially for extracting a soluble constituent |
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| put into operation or use |
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| to furnish with an income especially to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of |
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| originating in or based on observation or experience |
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| having the power to produce a desired effect |
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| governing or controlling influence |
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| a concise statement of a principle |
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| an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
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| of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
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| elevation to divine status |
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| a small territorial division of a country |
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| belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
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| lying or resting and usually exerting pressure on something else |
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| the act of making greater, more numerous, larger or more intense |
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| of, relating to, resembling, or having a program |
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| a swelling, rolling, or sweeping forward like that of a wave or series of waves |
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| an embankment for preventing flooding |
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| a branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population |
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| being at once verbose and ill organized |
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| to make as a doctrine known by open declaration |
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| marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
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| the character or status commonly ascribed to one |
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| to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
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| a person who lives on income from property or securities |
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| government by the wealthy |
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| in accordance with one's established law or custom |
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| having the power to produce a desired effect |
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| scarcity that makes dear specifically famine |
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| the action of establishing on a socialist basis |
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| an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
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| of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
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| the quality or state of being changeable |
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| an act or instance of taking exclusive possession of |
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| of or relating to the act of joining as a partner, friend or companion |
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| a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
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| to suppress or alter as a vowel or syllable by ellision |
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| language intended to incite and encourage |
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| showing or pointing out directly |
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| relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts |
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| having negative connotations especially tending to disparage or belittle |
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| not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped |
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| excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain |
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| a deep or precipitous cliff |
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| inference from defective or presumptive evidence |
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| moving by leaps or springs |
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| a ruler with absolute power and authority |
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| made sacred especially by religious or historical association |
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| to gather into a ball, mass, or cluster |
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| to cause to divide into two branches or parts |
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| a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |
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| marked by compact precise expression without wasted words |
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| a visible disembodied spirit |
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| to depreciate as a coin officially or publicly |
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| relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially ultraconservative in politics |
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| a Roman clan embracing the families of the same stock in the male line with the members having a common name and worshipping a common ancestor |
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| a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty |
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| an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
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| an inhabitant of a borough or a town |
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| the smallest administrative district of many countries especially in Europe |
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| not capable of being annulled or voided or undone |
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