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| A formal expression of praise; a tribute. |
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| holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
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| to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
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| to avoid, shun, keep away from |
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| able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
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| to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
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| to claim or take without right |
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| hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
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| a strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin |
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| to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
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| tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism |
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| to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
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| to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation , or postpone a decision; to compromise |
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| generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
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| capable of being held or defended |
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| so great or demanding that it cannot be satisfied |
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| a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
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| relevant, appropriate, apropos |
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| to divide and spread out like branches; to separate into divisions |
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| refusing to compromise, irreconciliable |
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| habitually silent or uiet, inclined to talk very little |
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| offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
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| desirious of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
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| a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
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| straying or wandering from a straight or direct course, roundabout; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
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| to approach and speak to first |
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| deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately starts fires; one who causes strife |
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| a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
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| in chess, an opening move that involves the risk or sacrifice of a minor pice in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
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| having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
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| pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial, melodramatic |
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| swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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| asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly |
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| to put forward, offer, suggest for consideration; to set forth |
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| the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
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| open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
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| to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
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| improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
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| an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers |
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| nearsighted; lacking in a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
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| without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
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| very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict |
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| belief, mental acceptance |
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| lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irrespondsible, unreliable |
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| to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate |
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| to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed |
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| designed to belittle or degrade; disparaging |
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| to romp or prance around exuberantly |
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| to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression |
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| a a formal statement of commendation; high praise |
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| to remove from a grave; to bring to light |
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| to display clearly, to make evident; to provoke |
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| green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement |
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| language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression |
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| dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision |
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| nearness in place or time; kinship |
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| hard to manage, stubborn, not responsive to discipline |
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| stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative |
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| founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical |
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| wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards |
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| having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity |
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| not usual or expected; not in character |
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| developed or created a tthe very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; dundamental, basic |
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| frenzied, frantic, highly agitated |
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| disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder |
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| the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; to waste away |
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| to affirm earnestly and with emphasis |
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| to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers |
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| complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection |
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| a type of game ird; a complaint; to comlain, grumble |
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| a fortified place, stronghold |
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| urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need, an emergency |
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| floating debris; homeless, impoverished people |
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| a state of agreement, harmony, a treaty |
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| pleasing, tending to create a favorable impression |
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| in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting |
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| to imprison, confine, jail |
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| ridiculous, laughable, absurd |
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| biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh |
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| contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited |
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| a prickly or stinging plant; to arounse displeasure, impatience, or angerl to vex or irritate severely |
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| a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end |
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| obligatory, required; one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of |
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| consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money |
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| humorous, jesting, jolly, joking |
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| to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially |
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| to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere |
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| to correct; to alter to serve a new or different purpose |
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| a favrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion |
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| an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness |
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| intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret |
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| sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses) |
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| to acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use |
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| fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive |
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| to weaken, lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of, enfeeble, hamstring |
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| brought to a state of evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles |
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| earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary |
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| a strong attraction or inclination |
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| present or existing everywhere |
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| according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation; alleged |
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| a curse, expression of hatred and condemnation |
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| conceited, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate |
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| reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy |
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| a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate gradation or shade of difference |
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| costly, rich, magnificent |
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| a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify |
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| involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice |
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| silly, empty of meaning or value |
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| one who believes that nothing is known about God; a skeptic; without faith, skeptical |
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| the act of accusing; a formal accusation |
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| the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim |
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| degraded, wretched; base, comtemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved |
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| a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
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| stopping and beginning again, sporadic |
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| someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; aleft abandoned; neglectful of duty |
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| a crude image of a despised person |
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| certain, not to be doubted or denied |
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| a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion |
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| a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation |
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| superficially attractive in a showy, cheap, or vulgar way; lacking sincerity; sham, spurious |
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| a new convert, beginner, novice |
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| pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody |
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| open to discussion and debate, unresolved; to bring up for discussion; a hypothetical law case argued by students |
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| keenness in observing and understanding |
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| easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
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| complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members |
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| a principal idea or feature; a repeated or dominant figure in a design |
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| having a highly favorable reputation, of high standing, commanding respect |
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