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| to soothe; to end a dispute; to reconcile |
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| to speak badly of; to belittle |
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| short-lived; fleeting; transitory |
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| hopeless; worthless; useless |
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| one that indicates what is to come; a forerunner |
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| to serve as an omen or a warning of |
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| foretelling or predicting future events |
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| not planned in advance; spur of the moment |
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ant. legitimate
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| self-evident truth; maxim |
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| universally accepted as true |
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| an opinion formed before there are grounds for it; prejudice |
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| views of a bigot (one devoted to one's own predjudices) |
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| to think over; to consider |
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| to infer; to derive by reasoning |
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| opinionated; asserted without proof |
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| choosing from various sources |
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| based on a fallacy (erroneous idea); misleading |
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liable to be mistaken
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| rejecting regularly accepted beliefs or doctrines |
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| misleading appearance; false impression |
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| certain; incontrovertible |
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generally accepted, especially in religion
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| characteristics of a paradox (a self-contradictory statement) |
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able to think clearly
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| to invent excuses for one's actions |
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| clever but deceiving resoning |
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| apparently reasonable, but not really so |
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capable of being maintained
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