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| failure to accomplish intent, premature, fruitless |
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| to spread news, reports, broadcast |
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| insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive humiliating |
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| a short saying; an authoritative statement |
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| to settle comfortably and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place; nestle, lodge |
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| attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions |
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| in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things |
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| mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed, murderous; savage, ruinous |
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| lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact, perception or judgment |
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| excessively or effusively sentimental; mushy, mawkish |
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| to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust |
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| forshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous |
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| knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight, foreknowledge |
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| something given in exchange or return for something else; swap, trade |
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| conducive to health or well-being; wholesome, beneficial, healthy, invigorating |
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| chatacterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness; |
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| a means or testing worth or geniuineness, benchmark, criterion, yardstick |
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| so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psyhological damage, jolting |
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| to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of, degrade, undermine |
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| fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll; whimsical, jocular |
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