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| an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes |
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| particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: |
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| capable of being touched or felt; tangible |
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| lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless |
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| to make more certain; confirm |
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| passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling. |
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| to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly |
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| a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording |
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| remarkably clear and direct; sharp; keen; acute |
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| eager or excessive desire, esp. to possess something; greed; avarice. |
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| in close proximity without actually touching; near |
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| commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative |
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| to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely |
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| a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall. |
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| offensively noisy or loud; clamorous |
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| shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic |
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| characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others |
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| making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness |
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| being in excess; exceeding what is usual or natural |
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| to serve to make (a fault, offense, etc.) seem less serious. |
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| witty; brilliantly clever |
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| to free from guilt or blame or their consequences |
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| sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging |
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| a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence |
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| appropriate, favorable, or suitable |
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| causing a shudder or feeling of horror; horrible; gruesome |
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| producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive |
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| without emotion; apathetic; unmoved |
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| to gather or arrange in their proper sequence |
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| to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, |
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| requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform |
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| a noisy or drunken feast or social gathering; revelry. |
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| pleasing to the eye but deceptive. |
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| to burn or char the surface of |
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| to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc |
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| a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion |
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| given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary |
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| persistently or carefully maintained |
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| an act or instance of faithlessness or treachery |
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| exhibiting great diversity of elements |
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| extraordinary in some bad way |
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| a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed; beginner |
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| to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish |
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| not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating |
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| deserving blame or censure; blameworthy |
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| the main or essential part of a matter |
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| capable of having the desired result or effect |
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| scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency |
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| to revive, esp. from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
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| untidy or unclean in appearance or habits |
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| hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused |
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| free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm |
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| large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat |
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| caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, |
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| strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord |
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| to challenge as false;cast doubt upon |
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| accessible or especially liable or subject to some influence, mood, agency, |
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| intense hatred or dislike, esp. toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant |
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| to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly; squander; deplete |
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| a glove with an extended cuff for the wrist; to accept a challenge to fight |
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| to lessen in force or intensity |
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| doing good or causing good to be done; conferring benefits; kindly in action or purpose |
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| severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding |
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| to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder |
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| to treat with sacrilege; profane |
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| to prepare or make by combining ingredients |
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| strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust |
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| performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another |
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| returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed |
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| strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions |
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| to criticize or reprimand severely |
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| a member of a section of a political party that revolts against the methods or policies of the party |
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| deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal |
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| to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim |
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| lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless |
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| to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock |
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| characterized by equity or fairness; just and right; fair; reasonable |
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| gruesome; horrible; revolting |
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| natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition |
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| to act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition |
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| rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe |
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| to steal or take dishonestly ;embezzle |
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| to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed |
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| to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke |
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| to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute |
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| to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis |
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| to create a simulation, likeness, or model of |
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| immature or inexperienced |
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| a condensed account, esp. of a literary work; abstract |
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| to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license. |
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| of the nature of or characteristic of an unguent or ointment; oily; greasy |
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