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rave; talk excitedly; scold; make a grandiloquent speech |
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emotional closeness; harmony |
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made less dense (of a gas)
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approve formally; confirm; verify |
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overwhelmingly favorable review |
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fall apart into tangles; unravel or untwist; entangle |
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snub; beat back
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scold harshly; criticize severely |
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puzzle in which pictures stand for words |
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refutation; response with contrary evidence |
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reconstruct (a sentence, story); fashion again |
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correct inconsistencies; become friendly after a quarrel |
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abstruse; profound; secret |
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survey of enemy by soldiers; reconnoitering |
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narrate or tell; count over again |
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resorting to help when in trouble |
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uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment |
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occurring again and again |
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fragrant; odorous; suggestive of an odor |
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superfluous; repetitious; excessively wordy |
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bending of a ray of light
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brightly sining; gleaming |
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renovate; make bright by polishing |
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murder of a king or queen |
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method or system of government |
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prescribed diet and habits |
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banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign |
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surviving remnant; memento |
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give up something with reluctance; yield |
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temporary moderation of disease symptoms; cancellation of a debt; forgiveness or pardon |
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to deliver; provide; represent |
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translation; artistic interpretation of a song |
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to abandon; disown; repudiate |
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to restore to good condition; renew |
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driving away; unattractive |
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rebound; reverberation; reaction |
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filled to the brim or to the point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied |
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to restrain; crush; oppress |
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strong rebuke; formal reproof; scolding |
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musical repetition; repeat performance; recurrent action |
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to express disapproval or disappointment |
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distaste; act of driving back |
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supposed
sent. = reputed father of the child |
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indignation; bitterness; displeasure |
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self-control; formal but distant manner |
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patient submissiveness; statement that one is quitting a job |
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elastic; having the power of springing back |
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determination; firmness of purpose
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echoing; resounding; deep and full in sound |
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interval of relief; time for rest; delay in punishment |
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dazzling; glorious; brilliant |
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state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc. |
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reparation (compensation); indemnification (payment) |
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restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting control |
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moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction |
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taking up again; recommencement |
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rise again; flow to and fro |
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repayment in kind (usually for bad treatment) |
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holding; having a good memory |
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reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence |
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vengeance; compensation; punishment for offenses |
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recover; find and bring in |
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taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax) |
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relapse; backslide; turn back to |
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attack with abusive language; vilify |
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sudden violent change of feeling; negative reaction |
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to speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner |
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art of effective communication; insincere or grandiloquent language |
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pierce with holes; permeate or spread throughout |
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ammendment or clause added to a legilative bill |
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to make liquids murky by stirring up sediment; to disturb |
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platform for speech-making; pulpit |
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circular building or hall covered with a dome |
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roundness; sonorousness of speech |
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title or heading (in red print); directions for religious ceremony; protocol |
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not developed; elementary; crude |
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chew over and over (mentally or, like cows, physically); mull over; ponder |
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ransack; thoroughly search |
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mysterious; set down in an ancient alphabet |
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pertaining to coutry people; uncouth |
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banish to the country; dwell in the country |
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one who commits sabotage; destroyer of property |
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Scandinavian myth; any legend |
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perceptive; shrewd; having insight |
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person celebrated for wisdom |
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lascivious; lustful; grossly indecent; lewd |
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yellowish; sickly in color |
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tending to improve; beneficial; wholesome
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displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness |
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refuge; shelter; shrine; holy place |
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scornful remark; stinging rebuke |
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disdainful; sarcastic; cynical |
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pertaining to tailors or clothing |
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satisfy to the full; cloy (wearied by an excess of food) |
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small body revolving around a larger one |
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form of literature in shich irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack vice and folly |
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half-human; half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus, portrayed as wanton and cunning |
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enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality |
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tasty; pleasing, attractive, or agreeable |
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case for a sword blade; sheath |
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temporary platform for workers; bracing framework; platform for execution |
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someone who bears the blame for others |
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hunt through discarded materials for usable items; search, especially for food |
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plot outline; screenplay; opera libretto |
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relating to an outline or diagram; using a system of symbols
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shred; least bit
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stamp out; thwart; hinder |
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lash; ship; severe punishment
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fret about; hesitate, for ethical reasons
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conscientious; extremely thorough |
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examine closely and critically |
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struggle confusedly; move off in a confused hurry |
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despicable; contemptible
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sordid; unwholesome
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withdrawal
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hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism |
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separate religious body; faction |
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worldly; not pertaining to church matters; temporal |
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resistance to authority; insubordination |
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run-down; decrepit; disreputable |
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outward appearance; guise |
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germinal; influencing future developments; related to seed or semen
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school for training future ministers; secondary school, especially for young women |
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old age; feeblemindedness of old age |
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process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance |
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devoted to the pleasures of the senses; carnal; voluptuous |
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pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses
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terse; concise; aphoristic |
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capable of sensation; aware; sensitive |
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sentry; lookout
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putrid; producing putrefaction |
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to isolate; retire from public life; segregate; seclude |
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gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck
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slavish (like a slave); submissive; cringing |
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slavery; compulsory labor |
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harshness; intensity; sternness; austerity |
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navigation tool used to determine a ship's latitude and longitude |
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fragment; generally of pottery |
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very thin piece, usually of wood |
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bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together |
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to avoid (responsibility, work); malinger (to shirk one's duties) |
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to glimmer intermittently |
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sham; not genuine; inferior |
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scolding woman (of violent temper and speech) |
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to turn aside; divert; sidetrack |
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lawyer using questionable methods |
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prophetic; oracular; mysterious; cryptic |
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comparison of one thing with another, using the word like or as |
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to smirk; smile affectedly; silly, self-conscious smile |
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well-paid position with little responsibility |
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unique; extraordinary; odd |
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winding; bending in and out; not morally honest |
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doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view |
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small, light sailboat or rowboat |
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to provide scantily; live very economically |
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to move furtively (stealthly) and secretly |
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residue from smelting metal; dross; waste matter |
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(n.) defamation; utterance of false and malicious statements
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haphazard; careless; sloppy |
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flimsy; unsubstantial
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(n.) insult to one's dignity; snub
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untidy or slovenly; shabby |
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slow-moving tree dwelling mammal |
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to cast off
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untidy; careless in work habits |
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artificial channel for directing or controlling the flow of water |
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(n.) insult to one's character or reputation; slander
sent. = damaged by the slurs
(v.) to speak indistictly; mumble
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slight knowledge
sent. = i don't know whether it's better to be ignorant of a subject or to have a mere smattering of information about it |
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to melt or blend ores, changing their chemical composition |
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to burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment |
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(n.) half-stifled laugh
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to run at the nose (have a runny nose); snuffle; whine
sent. = don't you come sniveling to me about your brother |
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moderation (especially regarding indulgence in alcohol); seriousness |
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soaked; dull; aas if from drink |
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to repair or make whole by using a metal alloy |
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construction that is flagrantly incorrect grammatically sent. = must give them a failing mark b/c it contains many solecisms |
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to request earnestly; seek |
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worried; concerned sent. = very solicitous about the health of her friends |
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talking to oneself; device used by the dramatist to reveal a character's innermost thoughts and emotions |
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state of being alone; seclusion |
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point at which the sun is farthest from the equator sent. = winter solstice is on December 21 |
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able to be dissolved; able to be worked out sent. = the problem was not soluble |
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substance that dissolves another; able to pay all debts sent. = able to become solvent and avoid bankruptcy |
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pertaining to the body; physical |
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resonant; loud and full in sound |
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teacher of philosophy; quibbler; employer of fallacious (logically unsound) reasoning |
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slyness; sneakiness; secretiveness |
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to soak; saturate sent. = steep the fabric in the dye to make sure it absorbs it |
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to check the flow sent. = used a tourniquet to stem the blood |
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extremely loud sent. = had a stentorian voice |
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fixed and unvarying representation; standardized mental picture, often reflecting prejudice |
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perfectionist; person who insists things be exactly right |
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to suppress; extinguish; inhibit |
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bombastic; stiffly pompus sent. = his stilted vocabulary did not impress the college audience, they were used to it |
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supply; allotted amount; assigned portion of work sent. = daily stint as a janitor OR be thrifty; set limits sent. = refusing to stint on the wedding arrangements |
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(n.) pay (salary) for services; a periodic payment sent. = is a nominal stipend for the position |
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to paint or draw with dots |
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to make express conditions, specify |
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typical; standard; kept regularly in supply |
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wooden enclosure or pen; fixed line of posts used as a defensive barrier |
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stuffy; boringly conservative sent. = he is stodgy, you'd expect someone his age to have a little more life |
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impassive; unmoved by joy or grief |
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to stir up a fire; feed plentifully |
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clever trick; deceptive scheme |
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divided into classes; arranged into strata (classes) |
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layer of earth's surface; layer of society; one of a number of layers |
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