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| (n.) mucus; foolish, aimless talk; nonsense. (v.) to let saliva flow from mouth; to prattle; to waste or fritter away foolishly. |
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| (n.) one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder |
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| (adj.) belonging to someone or something by its very nature; essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part |
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| (n.) a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy. |
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| (adj.) hidden from view, secret; mysterious, uncanny, magical. (v.) to hide, cover up; eclipse. (n.) matters involving the supernatural. (GHOST HUNTERSSS!) |
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| (v.) to fall as moisture; to bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct form to (adj.) characterized by excessive haste (n.) moisture; the product of an action or process. |
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| dissuade someone from some course by earnest reasoning |
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| banal, trite, commonplace, corny |
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| insinuation, intimation (often in a derogatory sense) |
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| gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly |
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| praiseworthy, laudable, commendable |
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| special right/privilege, perquisite, perk |
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| rise above, surpass, outstrip, exceed |
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| irritation, pique, offense; vague suspicion |
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| excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness; pliable; mealy mouthed |
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| to have a hatred for; loathe; abhor |
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| modification of the social patterns; adaptation |
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| extrinsic, incidental, fortuitous, not essential, acquired |
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| roundabout, not direct, meandering |
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| to sympathize with, empathasize |
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| direct or order, charge, bid, adjure |
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| to make easy, cause to progress faster, facilitate, accelerate |
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| redeem, make amends for, make reparation |
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| commotion, turmoil, unrest |
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| titular, inconsequential, not real, too small to be taken seriously |
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| uninformative, playing it safe, not decisive or definite |
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| steal, defraud, misappropriate |
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| habitual inclination or tendency, penchant, propensity |
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| composure or coolness, poise, self-assurance, equanimity |
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| resistant to lawful authority, mutinous, rebellious, subversive |
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| flimsy, insubstantial, vague, hazy |
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| bitter, caustic, withering, acerbic, mordant |
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| coax, inveigle, soft-soap, sweet-talk |
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| sociable, easy to speak to, genial, amicable, cordial |
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| augment, amplify, enhance, exalt, to make appear greater |
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| shapeless, formless, unstructured, inchoate |
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| model, prototype, epitome |
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| bootleg, unlawful, smuggled goods |
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| scholarly, learned, profoundly educated, well-read |
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| thin, light, delicate, insubstantial; a very thin, light cloth |
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| incapable of being understood, impenetrable, incomprehensible, enigmatic |
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| narrow-minded, provincial |
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| unrecallable, unalterable, incapable of being changed |
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| a natural inclination; proclivity; penchant |
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| reason against, expostulate |
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| renounce, to disown, to reject |
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| able to recover quickly, springy, elastic |
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| to re-echo,rumble, thunder, boom, echo |
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| obscene, filthy, abusive, vulgar, foul-mouthed |
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| persistent, showing determination, assiduous, indefatigable |
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