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"To lessen in quantity, intensity or degree" |
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To relinquish (power or responsibility) in a formal manner |
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Deviation from a proper or expected course |
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"To urge, encourage or help someone or something (oft. an offense)" |
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To be faithful to or endure |
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To leave suddenly and secretly to avoid arrest |
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To praise enthusiastically (usu. in public) |
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A gradual increase in size by external addition |
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To comply or consent passively; submit |
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To clear from a charge or accusation |
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Harshly bitter in taste or smell |
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Stubborn or unyielding; an extremely hard substance |
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To make beautiful; to put ornaments on something |
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Intense adoration or praise; ass-kissing |
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Relating to the appreciation of beauty |
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Easy and pleasant to talk to; approachable |
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A natural attraction or feeling of kinship |
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"To make heavier, worse or more troublesome; to provoke" |
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The medieval science of turning metals to gold; any magical or false mutational process |
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Loyalty or the obligation of loyalty |
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To make more bearable; to lighten |
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Physically or emotionally distant; reserved or remote |
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Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease |
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Open to more than one interpretation; uncertain |
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Feeling the coexistence of opposing emotions or attitudes |
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A short account of an interesting event |
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Agonizing mental or physical pain |
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"Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like" |
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A policy of racial segregation practiced in South Africa against non-white people |
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A lack of interest or concern; indifference |
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To soothe someone angry; to bring peace or calm |
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Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy |
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Inclined; having a natural tendency to |
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Intensity of passion or affection |
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Demanding great effort or labor; difficult |
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"Marked by the use of clear, expressive language" |
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To discover with certainty |
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Harsh or severe in nature; sharp and penetrating |
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Fearlessly daring (oft. recklessly so); brave or bold |
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A single ruler having unlimited power; a despot |
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Giving assistance or support; helping; supplementary |
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"A fixed, intense dislike" |
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Marked by keen interest and enthusiasm |
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Drearily commonplace; trite |
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To expose oneself to pleasant warmth; to take pleasure or satisfaction |
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Inclined or eager to fight; hostile |
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One that gives aid (esp. financial) |
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An inclination to perform generous acts; a generous act |
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Of a gentle or mild character; harmless |
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Unpleasantly loud and noisy; totally or offensively conspicuous |
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Loud and noisy (oft. in a rough |
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Hasty and unthinking; lacking in tact or sensitivity |
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Brashly audacious (oft. rudely so) |
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"Likely to break, snap or crack; fragile" |
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Unprejudiced or impartial; open and sincere |
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Ill-tempered and quarrelsome |
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To examine carefully or discuss thoroughly; scrutinize |
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Someone or something that makes a process or event happen |
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A loud outcry or noise; din |
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The hardening of a substance into something thicker and firmer |
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To persuade through flattery |
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To treat indulgently; to baby |
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"To force to act or think in a certain way through the use of pressure, threat or force; to compel" |
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Particular to common speech as distinguished from literary |
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To honor the memory of through ceremony |
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An unduly high opinion of oneÕs self or abilities |
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To reduce in quantity or length |
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"To overlook, forgive or tolerate an offense without protest" |
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A person with expert knowledge or training (esp. in the fine arts) |
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To declare or make sacred |
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To bring to completion; complete or perfect in all respects |
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Warm and sincere; friendly |
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To forge falsely; Something illegally or falsely made |
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"Not openly practiced, engaged in or shown" |
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To secretly desire something which is not yours |
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Having hidden meaning; obscure |
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Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk; onerous |
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Brief or short in speech or manner (oft. rudely so) |
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Delicately beautiful or charming |
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"A sudden collapse, downturn or defeat; a total failure" |
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To kill or destroy a large portion of something |
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Appropriateness of conduct; the conventions of polite behavior |
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An authoritative order having the force of a law |
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Bold resistance to authority or an opposing force |
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To overwhelm with (usu. water); a flood |
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To speak ill of or attack the character of |
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"To reduce or lessen by use, exhaustion, or waste" |
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Testimony taken under oath (usu. written down) |
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To speak of with contempt and mirth |
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Something derived; unoriginal |
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Disparaging or belittling |
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A ruler with absolute power |
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Lacking or devoid of; poor |
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A derogatory comment on a personÕs character or reputation |
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Differing from the norm or the accepted standards of society; one who differs from the norm or the accepted standards of society |
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Skill and grace in physical activity (oft. of the hands); adroitness |
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To turn away from (esp. the main subject of a conversation) |
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Marked by painstaking effort |
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To withhold permission or sanction |
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To perceive with the eyes; to detect through careful observation |
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To injure the reputation of |
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Showing prudence and self-restraint; modest |
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To regard or treat with haughty contempt; scorn |
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Causing gloom; dreary; characterized by a lack of merit |
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The act of refuting; evidence the refutes |
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To make known (esp. a secret) |
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To speak in a monotonous tone; a male bee that performs no work |
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Constraint by threat; coercion |
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To bring or draw out (something latent) |
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To make clear by explanation |
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To make or become extremely thin |
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To set free ownership or oppression; to liberate |
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To make beautiful by decoration; to add fictitious details to a story |
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To take (usu. money) for oneÕs own use in violation of a trust |
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"To express emotion, esp. in an excessive or theatrical manner" |
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To strive to equal or excel; to imitate |
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To encase in a capsule; to sum up |
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To write oneÕs signature on the back of a check; to give approval or support to |
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"To cut, carve or etch into some material" |
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To entwine in a confusing mass |
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To pull up by the roots; to destroy |
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Treating all parts or aspects without omission; thoroughly |
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"An act or deed, esp. a heroic one; to use (deceitfully)" |
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To put out or douse (usu. a fire); to destroy |
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To praise highly or exalt |
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To obtain from another by coercion or intimidation |
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Inessential or irrelevant |
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A gregarious or outgoing individual |
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Full of unrestrained joy or enthusiasm |
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"To waver or stumble, oft. due to a loss of confidence" |
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To give a false appearance of |
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One who has committed crime more severe than a misdemeanor |
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Great warmth and intensity of emotion; intense heat or passion |
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An object of unreasonably excessive attention or interest |
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A chain or shackle for the ankles; to restrain or restrict |
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To behave or more nervously or restlessly |
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Someone of nominal leadership but no real authority |
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" Refined or delicate performance, execution or artisanship" |
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The act or process of splitting into parts |
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To make stable; to fix oneÕs attention on; to obsess on |
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Highly elaborate; given to ostentatious display |
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To exhibit shamelessly or ostentatiously |
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To fall or lie down heavily and noisily; to fail utterly |
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To prevent from being successful; to thwart; a pole-like sword |
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Designed to be impervious to human error; infallible |
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The act of searching for food or provisions |
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To surrender something as a punishment |
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Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied |
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To make gestures for emphasis (esp. while speaking) |
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The central idea; essence |
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A dim or intermittent flicker or flash of light |
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To feel or express great self-satisfaction (oft. maliciously) |
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To fill beyond capacity; oversupply or excess |
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"To bite at, chew on or generally erode with the teeth" |
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"A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides; a ravine; to eat in a gluttonous manner" |
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To scoop or dig out; to charge an excessively high price |
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Requiring serious thought; somber in conduct or character |
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To feed on leisurely and continuously; to touch lightly |
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To behave in a servile manner; to lie in a prostrate manner |
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Cunning treachery; skillful deceit |
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To flow forth suddenly in great volume (esp. tears or praise) |
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"A strong, abrupt burst of wind" |
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"To cut or chap with repeated, irregular blows" |
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Scornfully and condescendingly proud |
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To pay attention to and consider |
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Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable |
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"An opinion or doctrine at variance with established religious beliefs, esp. from Christian dogma by a church member" |
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Highly cultured or intellectual |
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Disposed to treat strangers or guests with warmth and generosity |
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"A small, miserable dwelling" |
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The worship of idols; excessive devotion to something |
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Not noble in character; base |
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Well-known and distinguished |
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To cause to diminish in strength or quality |
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To be an obstacle to or to place obstacles in the way of |
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A command or order; extremely necessary |
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Impossible to penetrate or permeate |
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Unshakably calm and collected |
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A violent collapse inward |
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"Exempt from penalty, punishment or harm" |
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Marked by unintentional lack of care |
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Lacking sense or substance; empty or stupid |
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To cause to become extremely angry; an aromatic substance that is burned to produce a pleasant odor |
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Lacking in harmony; incompatible or not in agreement |
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Skeptical or disbelieving |
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"A small, often imperceptible addition or augmentation" |
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Obligatory; Resting or leaning on something else; Someone |
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holding a specified office |
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Not clearly or sharply delineated; vague |
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Not apt or fitting; foolish; incompetent |
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Incapable of erring or failing |
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A place or condition suggestive of hell; a place of fiery heat |
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To fill or cause to be filled with something |
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Lacking in worldliness; openly straightforward |
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To take into the body by the mouth for digestion; to take in |
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An interval of time between acts or periods; temporary |
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Contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings |
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"To cover, overwhelm or flood with water; to swamp" |
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One who is disabled by illness or injury; not valid |
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A very small amount; a bit |
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"Causing annoyance, weariness or vexation" |
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To talk rapidly or unintelligibly |
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Having or exhibiting sound judgment; prudent |
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"Lacking brightness, luster or vitality; dull" |
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To express grief for or about; to regret deeply |
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Marked by or produced with extravagance; to give in abundance |
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Money or property bequeathed to another by will; something |
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down from an ancestor or a predecessor |
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"A state of inactivity, sluggishness and apathy" |
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Easily understood; intelligible |
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"To lie in wait, as in ambush" |
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Courageously noble in mind and heart; generous or unselfish |
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One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs |
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To speak evil of; evil in nature or spirit |
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A device for confining the hands |
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"A cruel, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings" |
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To injure by beating; to handle roughly |
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Extremely careful and precise; excessively concerned with details |
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Causing mischief; Playfully naughty; troublesome |
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One who lives very meagerly to save money; a greedy person |
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"Of, relating to or caused by disease; psychologically unhealthy" |
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Sullenly melancholy; gloomy |
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Commonplace or ordinary; everyday |
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"Characterized by or inclined to neglect, esp. habitually" |
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Completely unaware or mindful of |
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Menacing or threatening; portentous |
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Impenetrable by light; so obscure as to be unintelligible |
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Of the nature or a palace; magnificently enormous |
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"A fervent supporter of a cause, group, person or idea" |
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A sponsor or benefactor; a customer (esp. a regular one) |
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Smallness of number; fewness |
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One who journeys on foot; commonplace |
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Lasting or active throughout the entire year or many years |
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To spread or flow through; to pervade |
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To be responsible for or commit (esp. a crime) |
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To turn into wood; to cause to be stiff or stone-like |
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To mourn or long for out of grief |
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Religiously devout; marked by false devoutness |
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Of vital importance; crucial |
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To allay the anger of (esp. by concessions); to appease |
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"To move or walk in a heavy, laborious manner" |
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To decline suddenly and steeply; something that weighs down |
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"Keenly distressing to the spirit, body or mind; profoundly moving" |
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Marked by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity |
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A sign of something important of calamitous to come; an omen |
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"Widely occurring, existing, accepted or practiced" |
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In a pure state; uncorrupted |
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To delay or put off for later |
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An innate inclination; a tendency |
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Wise in handling practical matters |
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To inquire in a nosy manner or snoop; to obtain with difficulty |
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"Sharp smelling or tasting; penetrating, biting or caustic" |
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An untrained person who pretends to be a physician; a charlatan |
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To put down forcibly; to suppress |
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Deviating from the expected; strange |
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A blunt or abrupt repulse or refusal |
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To re-establish a close relationship; to bring (oneself) to accept |
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To spit up partially digested food (oft. used of ideas as well) |
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To restore to youthful vigor or appearance |
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To restore to an earlier condition; to revive |
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" To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally" |
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Necessary; something that is required |
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"To restore consciousness, vigor or life to" |
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"A feeling of profound awe, respect and (often) love; veneration" |
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To approve authoritatively |
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Not specifically related to religion; occurring once in a century or from century to century |
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Abjectly submissive; slavish |
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The act or condition of being severed; separation |
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A piece of broken pottery or a fragment of glass |
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Clever or cunning; sharp or penetrating |
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High-pitched and piercing in sound; harshly keen to the senses |
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To pronounce indistinctly |
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"Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance" |
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To lay down as a condition |
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Beyond what is needed or required |
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To lay or place something over something else |
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To prevent from being disclosed or punished |
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An additional amount charged |
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The claw of a predatory bird |
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Holding persistently to something (e.g. a point of view) |
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"To prevent the occurrence, realization or attainment of" |
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To go beyond or over; to act in violation of the law |
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Violently agitated; tumultuous; causing unrest or restless in nature |
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"To sway between two sides, positions or opinions; to waver" |
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Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless; excessively proud of |
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appearance or accomplishments |
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"A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something gone" |
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"To annoy, bother or harass" |
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To make vicious and defamatory statements about |
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"A rare, curious, or beautiful quality" |
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To give or bring to life; to make more lively or vivid |
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Making a noisy and vehement outcry |
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Prone to quick and marked change |
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"A short, sharp cry or bark" |
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A strong desire or urge for something |
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Filled with enthusiastic devotion to a principle or cause |
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