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| to stare openmouthed in amazement; to open wide |
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| to regard with excessibe or malicious satisfaction |
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n. a long pointed stick used for driving animals; anything that spurs a person on
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a. relating to a drawn or pictorial representation; visual
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a. freely given; done without recompense
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a. tending to form or move in a herd or other group; social
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a. a twisted facial expression indicating pain, disgust, or disapproval
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| v. to feel around uncertainly for |
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| extremely demanding and exhausting |
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| causing great shock, horror, and repugnance |
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| easily cheated or decieved |
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| worn and exhausted from anxiety, disease, hunger or fatigue |
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n. a long, emotional public address designed to arouse strong feelings or spur the audience on to action; similar piece of writing
b. to deliver a harangue |
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n. a forerunner
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| the beginning of something |
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| showing remarkable originality, imagination, inventiveness, or skill; clever |
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| existing as a natural or essential part of |
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| incapable or being overcome |
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| to come between; to involve oneself in |
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| to protest bitterly or vehemently |
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| incongruity between what might be expected and what actually happens |
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| to throw overboard; to discard |
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| having or exhibiting sound judgment |
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| to show to be just, right, valid, or free of blame |
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| n. a hireling, especially a hired professional soldier |
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| adj. debatable and therefore unresolved |
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| a swamp or bog; a confused or degrading situation that is difficult to get out of |
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| n. a kind of multicolored cloth; a garment made form this cloth, especially the costume worn by a court jester or clown |
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| worldly (as opposed to spiritual), humdrum and everyday |
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| dominated by an excessive love or admiration of oneself |
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| hazy, vague, or indistinct |
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| too small to be significant |
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| unwarranted favoritism shown to relatives or friends by someone in high office |
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a. existing in name only
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| a longing to return to a sentimentalized past; homesickness |
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a. a person who has just entered a religious order on a probationary basis
b. a beginner of any kind |
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| a slight or subtle variation in meaning, expression, tone, feeling, color, or the like |
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a. having the nature of a command in that it does not allow discussion, contradiction, or refusal
b. determined, resolute
c. offensively dictatorial |
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| to lie deliberately while under oath to tell the truth |
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| to spread through; to penetrate |
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| highly injurious or harmful |
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| to continue steadfastly despite obstacles or discouragment |
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| an intense irrational fear of something; any strong aversion |
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| the use of another person's writings or ideas as one's own without acknowledging their source |
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| sorrowful or melancholy; mournful |
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| keenly touching or moving |
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| dangerously insecure, unstable, or uncertain |
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| developing unusually early |
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| preying on, plundering, or piratical |
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| an introductory piece of music; anything that precedes or introduces something else |
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| a statement upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn |
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| to level to the ground; to blot out or demolish |
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adj. stubbornly resistant to reason or authority
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| to withdraw formally or publicly |
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| to give in return for, or in response to something already given |
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| the act of answering one accusation with another' a bitter reply |
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| unnecessarily repetitive or superfluous; more than what is normally considered adequate or necessary |
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| to become less harsh or sever; to let up or slacken |
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| the act of recalling the past; a memory |
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| anguish, self-reproach, or bitter regret for wrongdoing |
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n. a person who deserts one cause or group for another
adj. disloyal or traitorous |
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| an indirect effect or result produced by an event or action |
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| to refill or provide a new supply or |
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| retaliation in kind for injuries received |
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a. springy or flexible; able to resume its original shape
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| someone or something that is innocently made to bear the blame or punishment for the sins or misdeeds of others |
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| a split or division within the ranks of an organization |
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| to examine closely or critically |
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| not religious; pertaining to worldly (as opposed to spiritual) matters; pertaining to the state |
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| showing the signs of old age, especially advanced mental or physical deterioration |
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| n. comfort or consolation in sorrow, distress, or misfortune |
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a. filthy and mean
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| endurance; the moral or physical strength required to withstand hardships or overcome obstacles |
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n. a conventional, usually oversimplified, conception or representation of something
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| to brand or characterize as blemished or disgraceful |
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| to specify or demand as a condition for agreement; to guarantee or affirm |
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a. an overall plan of action designed to achieve a specific goal
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| close observation of a person or group considered suspicious; a continuous watch for the purpose of direction or control |
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| a group of traits, symptoms, or signs that collectively characterize a disease or social condition |
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| unspoken; implied or inferred |
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| capable of being touched; real or concrete |
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| capable of being defended or maintained |
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| perceptive and forceful; cutting |
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| violently agitated or disturvd; restless or unruly |
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| being or seeming to be everywhere |
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| refined, elegant, and sophisticated in manner or style |
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| to seize power, office, function, or the like without any legal right to do so |
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| a bizarre or eccentric idea, action, or condition |
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| open to, or marked by, bribery or corruption |
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| in the nature of being an experiment or trial, uncertain |
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| peaceful and quiety, free of mental agitation |
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| so shocking as to produce a lasting psychological effect |
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n. a thin layer of fine material put on the surface of something in order to make in more attractive of conver defects; a deceptively attractive outward appearance
v. to cover something with a veneer of fine material |
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| worthy or reverence or respect because of character, position, age or religious or historical associations |
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| habitual adherence to the truth; accuracy |
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| capable of doing many things or serving many functions |
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| to impair the quality, force, or value of; to debase |
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a. evaporating readily at normal temperatures or pressure levels
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v. to decrease gradually in size, extent, power or intensity
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a wooden frame joining a pair of oxen or other draft animals together at the neck; any form or symbol of bondage or subjection
b. to join or bond together |
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a. a comical person given to outlandish behavior, a buffoon
b. adj. ludicrously comic, bizarre, or absurd |
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| n. enthusiastic devotion to something; fervor |
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a. the point of a celestial sphere that is directly above the observer and vertically oposite the extreme point below
b. the highest point or shate of something |
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n. the right or power of the chief executive to reject measures approved by the legislative body; any authoritative prohibition
b. v. to preventa bill from becoming law by exercising the right of veto; to prohibit or reject |
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| v. to struggle for superiority with; to contend with |
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| inclined to seek revenge; intended to inflict pain or harm |
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