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| not conventional; a little kooky; irregular |
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| lack of interest; lack of feeling |
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| generious; kind; doing good deeds |
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| reverent or devoted; outwardly; reverent or devoted hypocritical |
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| making peace; attempting to solve a dispute through goodwill |
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| reluctant acceptance of a bad situation (secondary meaning) |
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| submissive; firm; unwavering |
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| absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder |
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| extremely poisonous; malignant; full of hate |
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| to examine very carefully |
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| disagreement (the opposite of concord) |
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| to reject; to renounce; to disavow; to have to do with |
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| reproachful disdain; extreme dislike |
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| having to do with artistic beauty |
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| to add to; to increase; to make bigger |
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| to prevent; to stop; to keep from dong something |
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| shamefully wicked; having an extremely bad reputation; disgraceful |
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| exciting; attracting attention |
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| extreme wickedness or corruption |
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| seriousness (secondary meaning) |
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| plesant sound (the opposite of cacophony) |
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| to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously |
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| unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess |
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| any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs |
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| a love of mankind, especially by doing good deeds |
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| submission to another's will; respect; courtesy |
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| to be indecisive; to waver |
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| practical; down- to earth; based on experience rather than theory |
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| hermitlike; practicing self-denial |
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| deep ( in several senses) |
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| meaning the opposite of what you seem to say; using words to mean something other than what they seem to mean |
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| arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas; stubbornly claiming that something (offten a system of beliefs) is beyond dispute |
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| intending to teach; morally instructive; pedantic |
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| different; incompatible; unequal |
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| to belittle; to say uncomplimentary things about, usually in a somewhat indirect way |
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| lasting a very short time |
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| dull; unimagiative; like prose (as opposed to poetry) |
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| combative; quarrelsome; waging war |
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| to condemn severely for doing something bad |
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| to bring into existence; to create; to cause |
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| outstanding; setting a great example |
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| unbiased; not taking sides; objective |
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| a short account of a humourous or revealing incident |
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| praise; applause; admiration |
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| consistent; unchanging; the same for everyone |
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| to stoop to someone else's level, usually in an offensive way; to patronize |
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| conventional; adhering to established principles or doctrines, esspecially in religion; by the book |
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| agreeable suitable; pleasant |
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| to prevent something from ever happening to make im possible; to shut out |
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| feeling superior to others; snooty |
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| to erase; to rub away the feature of |
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| to comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree |
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| to waste away from lack of use |
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