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| lack of interest or emotion |
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| Intense and passionate feeling |
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| to reduce in force or degree, to weaken |
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| severe or stern in appearance, undecorated |
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| predictable, cliched, boring |
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| pompous in speech and manner |
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| changing one's mind quickly and often |
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| someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs |
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| deception by means of craft or guile |
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| convincing and well-reasoned |
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| jumping from one thing to another, disconnected |
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| to make larger; to expand |
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| someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
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| A funeral hymn or mournful speech |
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| to set right, free from error |
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| to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character |
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| a sorrowful poem or speech |
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| to copy; to try to equal or excel |
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| to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
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| learned, scholarly, bookish |
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| known or understood by only a few |
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| Speech in praise of someone |
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| use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one |
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| to clear from blame, prove innocent |
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| urgent, requiring immediate attention |
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| intensely emotional, feverish |
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| excessively decorated or embellished |
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| one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions |
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| impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected |
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| quick to act without thinking |
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| not fully formed; disorganized |
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| showing innocence or childlike simplicity |
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| lacking interest or flavor |
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| to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
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| a person who dislikes others |
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| to calm or make less severe |
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| hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion |
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| overly submissive and eager to please |
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| to stop up, prevent the passage of (ie. of light) |
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| troublesome and oppressive, burdensome |
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| model of excellence or perfection |
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| someone who shows off learning |
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| willing to betray one's trust |
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| done in a routine way, indifferent |
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| to throw violently or bring about abruptly, lacking deliberation |
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| to lie or deviate from the truth |
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| to conciliate, to appease |
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| to lie or deviate from the truth |
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| to conciliate, to appease |
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| correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs |
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| to make thinner or sparser |
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| causing sleep or lethargy |
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| deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious |
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| unemotional, lacking sensitivity |
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| extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
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| a) to sway physically b) to be indecisive |
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| filled with truth and accuracy |
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| acting in a fanciful or capricious manner, unpredictable |
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