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| To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way. |
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| A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
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| Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
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| having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
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| Swiftness, Rapidity of motion or action |
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| Straying or wandering from a straight or diect course; done or acting in a shift or underhanded way |
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| In chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
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| a legendary bird identified with the kingfish; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
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| pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
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| deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife |
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| A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
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| Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of situation; lacking foresight or discerenment |
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| Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
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| Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
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| The state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially accepted |
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| Improper or disrespectful treatful treatment of something held sacred |
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| Without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
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| Asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
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| An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
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| To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearence or form |
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