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| to fall, to happen by chance - accident, coincidence, cadence |
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| head, headlong - capital, captain, principle, capitulate, capitalism |
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| to burn - caustic, holocaust |
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| time - synchronize, chronicle |
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| around, on all sides - circumference |
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| to cut - scissors, precise, exorcise |
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| with, together - connect, confide, concede, coerce |
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| a disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys |
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| middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
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| to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject |
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| charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike |
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| a system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape |
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| a ludicrous, mocking, or exaggerated imitation |
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| harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices or sounds |
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| rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds |
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| persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do |
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| truthfulness; sincere honesty |
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| free enterprise; an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens (not by the government) and in which the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little government control |
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| to surrender; to give up or give in |
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| unpredictable; likely to change at any moment |
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| a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated, often to prove some point about its subject |
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| to criticize severely; to chastise |
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| in chemistry, something that changes the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being changed; anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it |
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| purification that brings emotional relief or renewal |
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| universal; embracing everything |
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| to condemn severely for doing something bad |
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| brainy; intellectually refined |
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| humiliation; embarrassed disappointment |
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| a magical seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty |
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| a deep, gaping hole; a gorge |
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| to inflict punishment on; to discipline |
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| trickery; deceitfulness; artifice, especially legal or political |
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| an illusion; a foolish fancy |
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| hot tempered; quick to anger |
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| constant; lasting a long time; inveterate |
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| a record of events in order of time; a history |
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| roundabout; not following a direct path |
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| an indirect expression; use of wordy or evasive language |
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| to draw a line around; to set the limits; to define; to restrict |
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| to frustrate as though by surrounding |
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| polite; civilized; courteous |
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| mercy; forgiveness; mildness |
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| an overused saying or idea |
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| exclusive group bound together by some shared quality or interest |
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| to come together as one; to fuse; to unite |
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| to force someone to do or not to do something |
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| dealing with how we now the world around us through our senses; mental |
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| holding together; making sense |
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| conversational; informal in language |
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| conspiracy; secret cooperation |
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| forceful; causing to yield |
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| self-satisfied; overly pleased with oneself; contented to a fault |
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| to complete or fill up; to be the perfect counterpart |
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| participation in wrongdoing; the act of being an accomplice |
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| covering or including everything |
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| making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill |
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| brief and to the point; succinct |
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| cut - caste, chastise, castigate |
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