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| intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speech-making to delay legislative action |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving |
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| coming into being; in early developmental stages |
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| a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| cursory; done without care or interest |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring |
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| to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
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| to disprove; to successfully argue against |
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| to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position |
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| quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| the combination of parts to make a whole |
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| extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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| to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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| to lessen in intensity or degree |
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| excessive praise; intense adoration |
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| dealing with, appreciate of, or responsive to art or the beautiful |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion |
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| a universally recognized principle |
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| rustic or pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| severe criticism or punishment |
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| a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change |
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| burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions |
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| free of bias or self-interest; impartial |
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| expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| composed of elements drawn from various sources |
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| a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead |
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| soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smooths the skin |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| a speech honoring the dead |
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| an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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| marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech |
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| violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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| lacking funds; without money |
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| beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
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| harmless; causing no damage |
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| to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| impenetrable by light; not reflecting light |
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| the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
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| to examine with great care |
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| extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion |
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| one that precedes and indicates or announces another |
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| to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
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| stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to |
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| a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| to take the place of; supersede |
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| lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
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| existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| to defame; to characterize harshly |
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| keen, accurate judgment or insight |
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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| to combine several elements into a whole |
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| outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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| to state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| to provide support or reinforcement |
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| to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| departing from norms or conventions |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| to make worse or more severe |
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| greatly emotional or zealous |
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| happening by accident or chance |
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| relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| pompous speech or expression |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
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| capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
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| the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing |
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| overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge |
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| the essential or central part |
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| a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
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| controversial; argumentative |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| the art of study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| promoting health or well-being |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination |
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| having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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| fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause |
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| having a sour or bitter tase or character; sharp; biting |
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| to increase in intensity, power, influence or prestige |
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| a medieval science aimed as the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold |
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| agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue |
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| sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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| polite or appropriate conduct or behavior |
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| scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
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| to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| to disclose something secret |
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| to flatter or praise excessively |
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| to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| pointlessly talkative, talking too much |
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| marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
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| about to happen; impending |
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| hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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| having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice |
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| damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
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| to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
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| a recent convert; a beginner; novice |
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| to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising |
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| characterized by or given to pretentious display; showy |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| an overabundance; a surplus |
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| practical rather than idealistic |
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| adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
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| excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
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| foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| to make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
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| hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
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| diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
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| one who spends money wastefully |
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| sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
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| to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate |
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| readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive |
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| to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
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| to take for one's own use, confiscate |
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| to tolerate, endure, countenance |
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| a blindly devoted patriot |
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| to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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| to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline |
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| sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant |
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| to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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| a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide, to steady or reinforce using a guy |
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| to imply, suggest, or insinuate |
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| to tilt or lean to one side |
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| to move heavily and clumsily |
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| to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of |
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| pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully |
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| exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
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| to be established, accepted, or customary |
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| hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
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| commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
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| multicolored, usually in blotches |
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| moldable, pliable, not rigid |
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| courage, spunk, fortitude |
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| to pry, to press or force with a lever |
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| to complain about bitterly |
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| torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such |
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| to lose courage, turn frightened |
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| to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
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| exceptional, unusual, odd |
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| to saturate or completely soak |
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| the supporting structural cross-past of a wing |
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| to remove from consideration |
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| to equivocate; to change one's position |
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| to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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| to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
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| a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
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| one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection |
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| to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
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| formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
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| to renounce or reject; to officially disclaim |
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| to make a secret departure, to elope |
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| intricate decorative patterns involving intertwining lines and sometimes incorporating flowers, animals, and fruits |
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| based on random or merely personal preference |
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| to express oneself clearly and effectively |
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| to analyze for particular components |
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| to claim to be true; to avouch |
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| an opposing army, a party waging war |
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| to overwhelm with amazement |
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| inflated or pompous in style |
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| acting with disrespectful boldness |
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| to bring up an issue for discussion, to propose |
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| to bloom, literally or figuratively |
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| something that supports or strengthens |
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| discordant sounds; dissonance |
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| to determine or mark graduations (of a measuring instrument); to adjust or finely tune |
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| bringing about, causing, or producing some result |
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| an arrangement of events by order of occurrence, a list of dates; the science of time |
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| either to stick closely together or to split apart |
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| any material that causes another to thicken or clot |
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| to force someone either to do something or to refrain from doing something |
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| aligned with, proportional |
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| having an attitude of superiority toward another; patronizing |
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| to overlook, to permit to happen |
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| the occurrence of two or more events together in time or space; in astronomy, the point at which two celestial bodies have the least separation |
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| fond of good company and eating and drinking |
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| international sophistication; worldliness |
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| a leader who plays dishonestly on the prejudices and emotions of his followers |
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| openly displaying feeling |
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| imitating or borrowed from a particular source |
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| to dry out, to wither; to drain of vitality |
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| oppressive and tyrannical |
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| abusive or bitter speech or writing |
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| to correct a fallacy, to clarify |
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| to pay out or distribute (funds or property) |
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| showing good judgment in speech and behavior |
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| something distilled, an essence or extract; in chemistry, a process that drives gas or vapor from liquids or solids |
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| holding firmly to a particular set of beliefs with little or no basis |
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| something that is trivial or inferior; an impurity |
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| instructive, enlightening |
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| a song or poem expressing sorrow |
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| to steal money or property that has been entrusted to your care |
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| something that softens or soothes |
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| a formal expression of praise |
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| to reduce the energy or strength of someone or something |
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| hatred, hostility, ill will |
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| someone who appreciates fine wine and fine food, a gourmand |
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| term or words used to characterize a person or thing, often in a disparaging way |
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| to use misleading or intentionally confusing language |
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| extensive knowledge, usually acquired from books |
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| items of interest to a select group |
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| to take up as a cause; to adopt |
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| worthy of esteem and admiration |
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| a formal tribute usually delivered at a funeral |
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| an agreeable expression that is substituted for an offensive one |
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| the act of condemning someone with harsh words |
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| to free from blame or guilt |
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| the person appointed to execute someone's will |
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| an error in fact or logic |
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| to flatter in a particularly subservient manner |
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| weak and ineffective; irresponsible |
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| skillful maneuvering; delicate workmanship |
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| an extraneous embellishment; a dramatic gesture |
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| without originality, trite |
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| to cultivate with a harrow; to torment or vex |
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| someone who attacks traditional beliefs or institutions |
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| a rustic, romantic interlude; poetry or prose that celebrates simple pastoral life |
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| admirably direct and decisive |
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| quality of being extremely difficult to interpret or understand, mysteriousness |
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| unaware, incognizant; unconscious, out cold |
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| unable to be solved, irresolvable; indissoluble |
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| to step in, to moderate; to mediate or negotiate on behalf of someone else |
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| to give someone a dressing-down; to attack someone verbally; to whip |
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| to demand payment or collection of a tax or fee |
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| a claim against a property for the satisfaction of a debt |
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| to outline in distinct detail; to delineate |
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| at the outer edge or fringe; of minimal quality or acceptability |
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| changing quickly and unpredictably |
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| to undergo a striking transformation |
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| strength of spirit; stamina |
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| to chop into small pieces; to speak with decorum and restraint |
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| someone who hates or distrusts all people |
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| unbelieving, heretical; evil, villainous |
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| to make less severe; to relieve |
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| a condition in which there is only one seller of a certain commodity |
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| tediously uniform, unchanging |
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| a significant change; in biology, a permanent change in hereditary material |
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| preclude, make unnecessary |
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| a joyous expression of praise, gratitude, or triumph |
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| to break a sentence down into grammatical components; to analyze bit by bit |
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| reflecting strong allegiance to a particular party or cause |
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| simple and rustic, bucolic, rural |
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| a special guardian or protector; a wealthy or influential supporter of the arts |
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| the embodiment of a thing or an abstract idea in human form |
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| someone who is smugly ignorant and uncultured |
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| the core, the essential part; in biology, the central strand of tissue in the stems of most vascular plants |
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| expressing suffering or melancholy |
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| unwieldy and bulky; oppressively dull |
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| someone who pretends to be what he isn't |
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| a philosophy that denies speculation and assumes that the only knowledge is scientific knowledge |
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| a belief in approaching problems through practical rather than theoretical means |
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