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| showing lack of fairness; wicked; vicious |
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| to put into words, express, phrase |
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| strongly opinionated, rigid, dictatorial |
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| cowardly, a coward, to make cowardly |
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| gaining the favor of another by acting kind or by using flattery |
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| filled with a bubbly excitement, as if boiling over with excitement. |
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| lacking emotion or not showing any emotion, stoical |
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| pleasany sound, pleasing to the ear |
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| using few words in speech |
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| in name and title only; so-called |
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| brief and full of meaning and substance; concise |
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| serving to assist or supplement; secondary, dependent |
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| restriction; limit OR to be sparing in giving or using |
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| speaking in circles; roundabout speech |
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| harsh-sounding; shrill; grating |
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| not perceptible to the touch; too subtle to be easily understood |
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| using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others |
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| having to do with showing off; pretentious |
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| looking down on others; proud and scornful |
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| pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational |
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| beyond what is required; not necessary |
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| to request urgently and repeatedly |
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| unconquerable, unyielding |
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| dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed |
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| to attribute, charge with or give credit |
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| lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale |
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| to make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension |
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| effective, produces results |
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| to pacify, soothe, or appease; to make less severe or violent |
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| prominent, famous, well-known |
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| sociable, outgoing in a festive way, especially when pertaining to eating and drinking; fond of good company |
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| keen judgement, ability to see through |
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| one who ignores tradition |
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| a downward slope or sloping, as of a hill |
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| green, immature, unfledged |
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| disease; a deteriorated condition |
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| not talking much; reserved |
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| talking with great ease; glib |
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| having great pride in oneself and dislike for others |
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| quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if it were original |
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| to lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain |
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| bad-tempered; quarrelsome |
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| friendship; peaceful harmony |
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| deeply hateful or spiteful; malicious |
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| to find fault; to be critical |
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| to oppose or attack someone or somethign as false of refutable |
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| inoffensive; harmless; without bad habit |
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| a tired feeling, usually resulting from depression or too much work |
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| loathsome, evil, revolting in a disgusting way |
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| to denounce or berate severely, flay verbally |
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| eager or excessive desire, especially to possess something, greed, avarice |
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| slave like, very humble and submissive |
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| showing enthusiasm, ardent |
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| to implant by repeated statement or admonition, teach persistently and earnestly |
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| strongly opinionated, narrow-mindedly stubborn |
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| lacking definite form, having no specific shape, formless |
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| moving or walking about; itinerant |
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| very, very old; antiquated |
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| a brief descriptive passage in writing |
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| the quality of a piece of writing that evokes pity, sympathy, or some other strong emotional response in the reader |
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| a more pleasant word or phrase that replaces another which is too direct, distasteful, or offensive. |
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| an emotional cleansing or release of emotional tensions, fears, or pity |
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| showy in one's learning, overly instructive |
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| destroying a good reputation, slander |
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| experiencing sensation and feeling |
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| foreign, outside, not essential |
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| an upward slope, as of ground, an ascent |
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| delicate to a fault, dainty |
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| to slander or defame someone's name or reputation |
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| contrasting, exactly opposite |
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| persuading by flattery, coaxing, entrapping |
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| to chide, to scold bitterly |
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| lively; full of uplifted spirit; vivacious |
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| stubborn, disobedient, defiant |
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| ongoing loud sound, noise |
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| state of being filled, excess of gratification |
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| improvement, change for the better |
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| to denounce or condemn openly, censure |
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| touching; in contact; adjacent in time |
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| of or pertaining to colors |
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