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| to state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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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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| to find fault without good reason |
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| to criticize serverely; to officially rebuke |
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| to change as if by dyeing |
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| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| polite or appropriate conduct or behavior |
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| an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
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| scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| a song of grief or lamentation |
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| to undeceive; to set right |
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| conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
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| cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions |
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| dismissal or rejection; speed in performance or movement |
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| to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| sale, liquidation, or spinoff of a corporate division or subsidiary |
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| expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principles |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| departing from norms or conventions |
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| composed of elements drawn from various sources |
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| extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead |
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| well-spoken, expressive, articulate |
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| soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smoothes the skin |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
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| mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
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| dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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| to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
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| intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| to test or try; attempt, experiment |
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| a speech honoring the dead |
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| tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| to make worse or more severe |
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| to demand, call for, require, take |
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| to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| exonerate; to clear of blame |
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| denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| critical examination, explication |
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| urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
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| to atone or make amends for |
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| improvised; done without preparation |
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| to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind |
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| an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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| to flatter or praise excessively |
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| to cause to fall by striking; inhumanly cruel |
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| greatly emotional or zealous |
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| intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
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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 show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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| happening by accident or chance |
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| quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable, |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| pointlessly talkative, talking too much |
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| relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| a soft sheer fabric, something delicate or flimsy |
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| pompous speech or expression |
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| sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people |
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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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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech |
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| devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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| overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
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| an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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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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| difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| lacking funds; without money |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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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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| beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged |
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| impossible to remove, erase, wash away; permanent |
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| having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice |
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| unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
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| damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| harmless; causing no damage |
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| without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| of or relating to an island, suggestive of the isolated life of an island |
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| to imply, suggest, or insinuate |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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| to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
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| to tilt or lean to one side |
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| characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving |
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| capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
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| associated with war and the armed forces |
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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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| cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show |
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| characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
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| to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of |
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| pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak to carefully |
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| one who hates all other humans |
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| to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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| exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
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| baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising |
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| noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
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| to be established, accepted, or customary |
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| lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression |
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| to anticipate and make unnecessary |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm |
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| tending to become more rigid, conventional sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone |
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| characterized by or given to pretentious display; showy |
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| a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| to make something seem less serious to gloss over, to make less sever or intense |
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| formal praise, eulogy, encomium; |
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| a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art |
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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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| commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
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| transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
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| intentional breach of faith; treachery |
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| cursory; done without care or interest |
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| extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
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| the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| acutely preceptive; having keen discernment |
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| to examine with great care |
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| having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| multicolored, usually in blotches |
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| to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion |
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| to illegally use or reproduce |
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| the essential or central part |
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| to appease; to calm by making concessions |
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| pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| moldable, pliable, not rigid |
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| a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
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| an overabundance; a surplus |
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| courage, spunk, fortitude |
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| to plunge or drop straight down |
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| controversial; argumentative |
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| practical rather than idealistic |
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| to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse; to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| one that precedes and indicates or announces another |
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| a disposition in favor of something; preference |
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| to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring |
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| overstepping due bounds; taking liberties |
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| to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils |
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| adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
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| a natural predisposition or inclination |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| a natural inclination or tendency, penchant |
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| to appease; to conciliate |
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| dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
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| childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste |
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| to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
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| to lose courage, turn frightened |
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| misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
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| question; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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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 complain about bitterly |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| to make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
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| obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| to retract, esp. a previously held belief |
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| hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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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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| to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
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| to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage |
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| lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| promoting health or well-being |
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| remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to |
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| cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| to enervate or weaken to vitality of; a fool or nitwit |
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| a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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| diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| aphoristic, or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| a piece of broken pottery or glass |
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| exceptional, unusual, odd |
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| concerned and attentive; eager |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
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| characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
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| one who spends money wastefully |
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| occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
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| to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
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| to saturate or completely soak |
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| extremely loud and powerful |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern |
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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| to take the place of; supersede |
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| an overabundant supply excess; to feed or supply to excess |
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| toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite |
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| the combination of parts to make a whole |
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| to remove from consideration |
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| implied; not explicitly stated |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination |
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| biased; showing marked tendencies |
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| having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| brief and concise in wording |
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| timid, fearful, diffident |
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| a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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| lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
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| a force that causes rotation |
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| winding, twisting; excessively complicated |
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| to publicly praise or promote |
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| fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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| existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| genuine; not false or hypocritical |
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| indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; waver |
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| multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
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| to defame; to characterize harshly |
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| extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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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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| fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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| having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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| to equivocate; to change one's position |
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| to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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| fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause |
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