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caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.: an acrimonious answer; an acrimonious dispute. |
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1. being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate. |
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1. frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic. |
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Intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement; enlightenment. |
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to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate. |
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1. to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease. |
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1. continuing or enduring forever; everlasting. |
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1. awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly: uncouth behavior; an uncouth relative who embarrasses the family. |
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1. the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition. |
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1. commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress. |
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1. the diameter of something of circular section, esp. that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
3. degree of capacity or competence; ability: a mathematician of high caliber. |
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1. pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
2. not spiritual; merely human; temporal; worldly: a man of secular, rather carnal, leanings. |
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