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| offensive, often because of crudeness (language or behavior); indecent or coarse; risque |
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| indecent, improper, lewdly suggestive; ribald |
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| referring to elaborately detailed artistic or musical style; intricately ornate |
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| a raised dais, stage, or platform for speaking of performing |
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| referring to any sound with notable rhythm or richness; plump or chubby of body |
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| to regret exceedingly; to feel remorse or sorrow |
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| a clever trick or deception; subterfuge |
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| lack of deference, respect, or reverence for anything sacred or special |
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| wisdom and discernment; keen perception, shrewdness |
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| very noticeable or conspicuous; prominent |
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| giving a feeling of well-being or aiding in well-being; favorable to health; salutary |
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| promoting good health; salubrious |
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| high-colored (as of complexion); healthily optimistic or cheerful; confident |
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| to give complete satisfaction; surfeit |
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| harsh or severe to an extreme; strongly critical |
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| to lash, whip, or flog; to make miserable |
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| any instrument--a person or thing--used to punish; whip or lash; affliction |
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| being punctilious and precisely correct; showing painstaking care and adherence to scruples or morals |
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| done with care and diligence; particular |
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| showing advanced age or mental deterioration that may accompany old age |
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| the finding of luck or good fortune when you're not even looking for it |
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| calm, tranquil, peaceful; free from stress; also part of a title (as Her _______ Majesty) |
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| subservient (as a slave or menial worker); overly submissive in an off-putting way |
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| a commonly accepted word or phrase that has become a byword or slogan; old doctrine or beliefs of a group |
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| to approximate; to appear to be like something else in a superficial way |
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| any job or position that yields an income but demands littler work, maybe none at all |
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| showing flexibility in the form of undulating, wavy motion (like a snake) |
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| someone inclined to doubt or suspend judgment, to be disbelieving, uncertain, or frankly critical |
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| behaving as a slave; servile; reproducing exactly in a manner lacking freshness or originality, initiative |
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| sloppy and unkempt (in appearance); lazy and haphazard (in workmanship) |
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| concerned or worried; anxious; showing thoughtfulness or care; very careful, meticulous |
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| of dark or gloomy aspect; sober or grave in manner |
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| removed from original, natural simplicity, complex; of persons, knowledgeable and often polished (mentally or socially); worldly, informed, highly aware |
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| appearing legitimate on the surface but lacking truth or validity; plausible, but false underneath |
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| referring to a specter or ghost; ghostly; of a spectrum |
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| to think or wonder about something; to guess or suppose; to risk in business, hoping for profit |
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| easily irritated and grouchy; ill-tempered, spiteful |
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| not regular or predictable; infrequent, random |
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| false or fake, though outwardly legitimate; forged |
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| the dirt and abject neglect associated with poverty |
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| to use in a silly or extravagant way; to waste or dissipate |
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| to be without movement or inactive; to be out of use, stale |
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| lacking change or movement; being quiet, at rest; fixed or stationary; of electronic noise; colloquially: negative noises or disagreement |
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| the state or condition of someone or something; rank relative to others; a position in any hierarchy; situation |
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| unpleasantly harsh, getting attention through persistence and loudness |
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| showing strict and rigid compliance with accepted standards; lacking money or credit |
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| to astonish or astound; to cause someone to be slow-witted or insensible |
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