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| experiencing extreme need (of vital necessities); indigent, poverty-stricken |
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| without set plan or purpose; random; haphazard, casual |
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| to vary from the normal or standard way; to digress, change course; swerve |
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| someone who is noticeably different from the norm |
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| at odds with the normal, accepted course; off the beaten path in the sense of remote; roundabout |
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| skilled with mind/hands; adroit, artful, expert deft |
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| division into two groups or ideas at odds with one another; literally "cut in two" |
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| instructive, designed to teach; offering moral preachments; pedantic |
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| lacking self-confidence; unassertive and shy |
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| causing delay; tardy; "putting off" (as in procrastinating) |
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| problem lacking a good solution; quandary in which the only two alternatives are equally unsatisfactory |
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| a dabbler of superficial knowledge/interest |
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| ability to fully understand; discrimination and penetrating insight; acumen |
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| state of confusion and embarrassment; act of thwarting or state of being thwarted |
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| tension, strife, or lack of agreement and harmony; dissonance in music; conflict |
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| to notice differences ; to distinguish between; to differentiate; to treat differently |
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| moving from one topic to another; digressive |
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| to belittle, downgrade, or decry |
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| difference in type or quality |
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| to disperse or spread all over (knowledge, ideas) almost as though sowing seeds |
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| to thin out or to drive away to the point that almost nothing is left; to sue up in a worthless, foolish way (as an inheritance); to waste |
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| easily managed; compliant, tractable, amenable, obedient |
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| dictatorial and autocratic in manner, usually dogmatic and stubborn as well |
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| strongly opinionated; dictatorial |
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| temporarily inactive, asleep; latent |
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| harsh or stubborn; sometimes gloomy, sullen |
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| humorous; distinct in an appealing way |
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| doubtful or undecided; equivocal; questionable |
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| double-dealing in a contradictory way; deception |
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| restraint by force; forcing by threat (follows "under") |
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| energetic, forceful; unusually active |
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| carefully selected; chosen from the best or from various sources |
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| act or process of instruction, enlightening, or improving |
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| to erase or obliterate; to wear away (as by time) |
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| no longer useful, nonproductive; outmoded (as a law) |
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| capable of producing the effect wanted; effective, potent |
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| likeness or image of a person (often a disliked person) |
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| unpleasant odor or exhalation; waste by-products |
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| unlimited boldness; insolence, temerity; chutzpah |
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| profoundly noticeable in a negative way; flagrant; outstandingly bad |
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| liquid to give eternal life; a cure-all |
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| moving and forcefully phrased; memorable because of verbal skill |
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