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an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment
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a conception of something in its perfection.
2. a standard of perfection or excellence.
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adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
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. to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
2. to change; alter.
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to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
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forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages: total abstinence.
2. any self-restraint, self-denial, or forbearance.
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destitute or void
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1.intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
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verb:to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
-noun:a freeing or a being freed from illusion or conviction; disenchantment. |
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authoritatively ordered;no option.
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suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
2. affected by, caused by, causing, or characteristic of disease.
3. pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
4. gruesome; grisly.
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a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to return in a time in a persons life.
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| of or pertaining to;moving about from place to place. |
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a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism
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lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
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incapable of producing any result;ineffective;trifling
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1.a gloomy state of mind.
2.sober thoughtfulness;pensiveness
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extremely liberal in giving; very generous.
2. characterized by great generosity |
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to speak derisively; mock
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the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.
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