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a person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public: The actor's elocution is faultless.
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the study and practice of oral delivery, including the control of both voice and gesture. |
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of or pertaining to alms, charity, or charitable donations; charitable.
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derived from or provided by charity.
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dependent on or supported by charity: an eleemosynary educational institution. |
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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), o·pined, o·pin·ing.
to hold or express an opinion. |
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Opinionated |
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to recant, renounce, repudiate under oath |
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to renounce a right or privileged |
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forgiveness, or passing over of offenses |
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dealing with matters difficult to be understood |
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to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent; to accede to a request; to accede to the terms of a contract. |
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–verb (used with object)
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to confront boldly: The beggar accosted me for money.
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to approach, esp. with a greeting, question, or remark.
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(of prostitutes, procurers, etc.) to solicit for sexual purposes. |
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sourness, with bitterness and astringency
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harshness or severity, as of temper or expression. |
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talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
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characterized by excessive talk; wordy: easily the most loquacious play of the season. |
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to free or clear, as from accusation |
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excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
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excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
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an uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.
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general disgust caused by excess or satiety.
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to bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.
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to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.
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to eat or drink to excess.
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to suffer from the effects of overindulgence in eating or drinking.
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to indulge to excess in anything. |
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to move or incite to action |
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quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination |
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having fine or penetrating discernment |
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to make inefficient or worthless; muddle. |
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to bring forward or name for considerationt |
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to represent beforehand in outline or emblem |
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easy to approach |
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an open insult or indignity |
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cheerful willingness |
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inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas |
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–noun, plural -thies.
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absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
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lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting. |
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notoriously bad |
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to take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds |
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a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.
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trickery; guile; craftiness.
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cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness: a drawing-room comedy crafted with artifice and elegance.
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a skillful or artful contrivance or expedient. |
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severely simple; unadorned |
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passion for getting and keeping riches |
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–verb (used with object), a·verred, a·ver·ring.
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to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
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Law . to allege as a fact. |
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to make supremely happy |
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a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
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Archaic . an insane asylum or madhouse. |
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the passion for collecting books |
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fond of drinking |
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–verb (used with object), -beat, -beat·en, -beat·ing.
to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing. |
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without experience of the world |
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sarcastic and severe |
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a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
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to vex by disappointment or humiliation: The rejection of his proposal chagrined him deeply. |
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exceedingly noxious or deleterious |
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