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| providing necesary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system |
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| excessively fond of drinking alcohol |
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| affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting, (of a color) lurid or sickly, spiteful, bad-tempered |
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| fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail, a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve |
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| affected, overrefined, and ineffectual, no longer capable of effective action |
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| unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention |
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| originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native |
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| to great or extreme to be expressed or described in words, not to be uttered |
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| tearful or given to weeping, inducing tears, sad |
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| having an extremely offensive smell, disagreeable, unpleaseant, harmful, noxious |
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| dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations |
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| indicating mild or amused puzzlement, causing mild amusement because of its oddness or strangeness |
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| referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way |
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| such as to provoke laughter, having the faculty or power of laughing, inclined to laugh |
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| lying face upward, with the palm upward, failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence |
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