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| without originality; trite, banal, overused |
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| appearing drawn, gaunt, and exhausted |
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| to irritate or annoy repeatedly; to worry (someone) |
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| forerunner; something that foreshadows the future; precursor |
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| unbecomingly proud; disdainful |
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| someone who lives for pleasure or happiness |
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| to pay attention to or notice; be mindful of |
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| absolutely hateful abominable, outrageous |
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| belief that is against church teachings; any strong dissent from accepted belief or theory |
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| the best period in performance, prosperity, health, etc. |
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| a gap or lapse in action; a break |
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| noticeably hairy; bristly |
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| of acting or drama; sometimes, overly dramatic; theatrical |
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| a lecture or sermon on being good |
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| to fool by false appearances; to dupe or hoax |
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| demonstrating kindness, understanding, and compassion for other human beings or for animals |
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| careful use of resources; conservation; also the care and growth of plants and animals; agriculture |
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| wild exaggeration, often deliberate (for effect) |
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| someone who pretends to hold beliefs or virtues that he or she really doesn't have; a dissembler; a fake (in a sense) |
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| depending on conditions; based on a hypothesis or supposition |
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| a person who criticizes established ideas or traditions; literally "image destroyer" in Greek |
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| a language (or phrases) distinct for a locale or set of people; dialect; a common, well-known expression of a specific person, place, or time |
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| a peculiarity that sets someone apart; eccentricity |
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| profound disgrace or humiliation; dishonor; infamy |
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| an awkward, embarrassing, often confusing situation; embroilment or altercation |
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| unchangeable, unalterable; eternal |
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| to stab with a pointed instrument (often a form of torture, almost always leading to death); also used metaphorically |
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| not able to be felt, therefore intangible; also not easily discernible to the mind |
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| to give information, communicate; to give as from an abundance |
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| point at which no way out can be seen; a dead end or cul-de-sac; a deadlock |
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| flawless or perfect; free from blame or sin; immaculate |
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| without money; penniless; poor; indigent |
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| something that gets in your way and impedes progress or speech; a hindrance |
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| being unusually calm and serene; cool or unflappable |
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| not capable of being penetrated or harmed; impenetrable; unaffected |
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| the stimulus that gets something going; impulse, incentive |
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| not able to be appeased or soothed; literally "not peaceful" in Latin |
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| implied though not stated; suggested; potential |
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| being persistent and pesty in demands or requests; troublesome |
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| curse; denunciation; execration |
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| freedom from punishment or penalty |
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| not on purpose; unintentional; accidental |
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| empty, silly, and foolish; insipid, fatuous |
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