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to make ashamed, embarrassed |
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to step down from a position of power or responsibility |
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something not typical; a deviation from the standard |
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hopeless; extremely sad and servile; defeated |
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to deny oneself; to reject; to renounce |
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| to forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from obligation |
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| abstaining; voluntarily not doing something, especially something pleasant that is bad for you or has a bad reputation |
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| extremely hopeless or wretched; bottomless |
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| to approach and speak to someone aggressively |
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| sour; severe; like acid in temper, mood, or tone |
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| to comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree |
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| full of spite; bitter; nasty |
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| keenness of judgment; mental sharpness |
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| stubborn, unyielding; completely inflexible |
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| to speak to; to direct one's attention to |
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| follower; supporter; believer |
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| skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease |
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| wild or excessive admiration; flattery |
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| to contaminate; to make impure |
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| unfavorable; antagonistic |
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| having to do with artistic beauty; artistic |
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| easy to talk to; friendly |
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| unnatural or artificial behavior, usually intended to impress |
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| sympathy; attraction; kinship |
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| program; the things to be done |
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| sum total; collection of separate things mixed together |
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| one who believes that the existence of a god can neither be proven nor disproven |
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| relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land |
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| cheerful readiness to respond |
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| to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; lessen |
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| to distribute; to assign; to allot |
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| a combination of two more things, usually metals |
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| uninvolved; standing off; keeping one's distance |
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| selflessness; generosity ; devotion to the interests of others |
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| a mixture of different elements |
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| atmosphere; mood; feeling |
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| unclear; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways |
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| undecided; having opposed simultaneously |
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| a trap in which concealed persons lie in wait to attack by surprise |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable |
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| pleasantness; attractive or comfortable features |
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| an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy |
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| lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good nor bad immoral; without feelings |
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| shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; blob-like |
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| something out of place in time or history; an incongruity |
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| a comparison of one thing to another; similarity |
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| absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder |
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| a short account of a humorous or revealing incident |
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| agonizing physical or mental pain |
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| resentment; hostility; ill will |
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| an aberration; an irregularity; a deviation |
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| indefinite; indeterminate |
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| the former policy of racial segregation and oppression in South Africa |
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| lack of interest; lack of feeling |
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| a brief, witty saying, a proverb |
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| a prophetic revelation, especially one concerning the end of the world |
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| of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious |
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| elevation to a divine status; the perfect example of something |
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| to soothe; to pacify by giving in to |
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| to take without permission; to set aside for a particular use |
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| capacity for learning; natural ability |
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| mysterious; known only to a select few |
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| extremely old; ancient; outdated |
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| an original model or pattern |
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| hermitlike; practicing self-denial |
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| hardworking; busy; quite diligent |
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| to take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly |
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| to soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve |
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| one who does not believe in God |
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| gradual wearing away, weakening, or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers or size |
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| boldness; reckless daring; impertinence |
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| to make bigger; to add to; to increase |
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| favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
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| unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess |
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| ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy |
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| greed; excessive love of riches |
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| to claim; to declare boldly; to admit |
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| like an uncle, especially a nice uncle |
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| off course; twisted to one side |
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| a self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying |
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| poison; torment; cause of harm |
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| stronghold; fortress; fortified place |
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| to give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause |
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| to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent |
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| to surround; to besiege; to harass |
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| to give a false impression of; to contradict |
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| to make seem little; to put someone down |
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| combative; quarrelsome; waging war |
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| one who provides help, especially in the form of a gift or donation |
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| generous; kind; doing good deeds |
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| generous; kind; doing good deeds |
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| gentle; not harmful; kind; mild |
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| something left to someone in a will |
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| deprived or left desolate, especially through death |
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| irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity |
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| unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring |
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| a disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys |
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| given to pompous speech or writing |
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| middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
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| to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject |
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| system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rule; any large administrate system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape |
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| to expanding; to flourish |
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| a ludicrous, mocking lewd imitation |
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| harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds |
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| rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds |
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| to persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do |
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| truthfulness, sincere honesty |
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| an economic system in which business are owned by private citizens (not by the government) and in which the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little government control |
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| to surrender; to give up or give in |
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| unpredictable; likely to change at any moment |
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| a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated, often to prove some point about its subject |
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| to criticize severely; to chastise |
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| anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it |
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| purification that brings emotional relief or renewal |
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| universal; embracing everything |
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| to condemn severely for doing something bad |
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| brainy; intellectually refined |
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| humiliation; embarrassed disappointed |
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| a magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty |
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| to inflict punishment on; to discipline |
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| trickery; deceitfulness; artifice, especially legal or political |
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| an illusion; a foolish fancy |
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| hot-tempered; quick to anger |
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| constant; lasting a long time; inveterate |
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| a record of events in order of time; a history |
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| roundabout; not following a direct path |
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| an indirect reference; use of wordy or evasive language |
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| to draw a line around; to set the limits; to define; to restrict |
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| to frustrate as though by surrounding |
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| polite; civilized; courteous |
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| mercy; forgiveness; mildness |
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| an overused saying or idea |
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| an exclusive group bound together by some shared quality or interest |
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| to come together as one; to fuse; to unite |
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| to force someone to do or not to do something |
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| dealing with how we know the world around us through our senses; mental |
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| holding together; making sense |
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| conspiracy; secret cooperation |
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| forceful; causing to yield |
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| a summary; an abridgement |
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| self-satisfied; overly pleased with oneself; contented to a fault |
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| to complete or fill up; to be the perfect counterpart |
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| participation in wrongdoing; the act of being an accomplice |
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| making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill |
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| happening at the same time; parallel |
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| to stoop to someone else's level, usually in an offensive way; to patronize |
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| to overlook; to permit to happen |
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| a flowing together, especially of rivers |
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| agreeably suitable; pleasant |
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| to guess; to deduce or infer on slight evidence |
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| to summon or bring into being as if by magic |
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| an expert, particularly in matters of art or taste |
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| to make or declare sacred |
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| unanimity or general agreement |
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| perfect; complete; supremely skillful |
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| argumentative; quarrelsome |
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| admitting guilt; especially feeling remorseful |
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| common; customary; unexceptional |
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| fond of partying; festive |
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| something that follows; a natural consequence |
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| to confirm; to back up with evidence |
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| at home in many places or situations; internationally sophisticated |
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| face; facial expression, especially an encouraging one |
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| a brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group |
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| a solemn agreement; a contract; a pledge |
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| marked by intemperance in eating or drinking; sick from over indulgence in liquor |
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| standard; basis for judgment |
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| to climax; to reach full effect |
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| one who deeply distrusts human nature; one who believes humans are motivated only by selfishness |
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