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to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
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an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert |
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to undeceive; to set right |
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conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
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fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
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extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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well-spoken, expressive, articulate |
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to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
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dissatisfaction and restlessness with a deceptive intent |
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exonerate; to clear of blame |
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urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
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improvised; done without preparation |
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intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
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to loudly attack or denounce |
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artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
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accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
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the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, forgiving |
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associated with war and the armed forces |
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of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary |
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coming into being, in early developmental stages |
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vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form |
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a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses |
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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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a song or hymn of praise and thanskgiving |
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a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, in literature and art |
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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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acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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a disposition in favor of something; preference |
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foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occuring |
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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 retract; a previously held believe |
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to disprove; to successfully argue against |
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to forcibly assign; to a lower place or position |
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quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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concerned and attentive; eager |
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characterized by filth; grime; or squalor; foul |
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occuring only occasionally; or in scattered instances |
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to waste by spending or using irresponsbily |
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not moving; active; or in motion; at rest |
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to stun, baffle, or amaze |
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the combination of parts to make a whole |
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a force that causes rotation |
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winding; twisting; excessively complicated |
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fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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having and insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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to move to and from; to way; to be unsettled in opinion |
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to lessen in intesity or degree |
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excessive praise; intense adoration |
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dealing with, appreciative 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 as an act of religious devotion |
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a universally recognized principle |
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to grow rapidly or flourish |
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rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
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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 the 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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intented 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 one lamenting the dead |
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soothing to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; and agent that softens or smoothes the skin |
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based on observation or experiment |
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mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
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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 rythm |
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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; motionless; quality of being at rest |
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awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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authorative 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 unaffacted by pleasure or pain; stead-fast |
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to take the place of; to 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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devotion to pleasurable pursuits to the pleasures of the senses |
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the consisent 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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characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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having or showing 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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characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
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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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unyielding; hardhearted; intracable |
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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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having the tendency to permeat or spread throughout |
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to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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to illegaly 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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a superficial remark one offered as meaningful |
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to plunge or drop straight down |
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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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to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
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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; to disown |
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to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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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 taste or character; sharp; biting |
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to increase in intensity; power; influence or prestige |
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a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals 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 attitued 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, contemptous 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 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; hard-headed; 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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overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy), taking liberties |
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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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excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
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dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
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characterized by a strong; sharp smell or taste |
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foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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occuring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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to make or become thing, 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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a piece of broken pottery or glass |
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cousing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
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thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals |
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one who spends money wastefully |
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not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern |
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implied; not explicitly stated |
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brief and concise in wording |
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to publicly praise or promote |
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sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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genuine; not false or hypocritical |
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indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another |
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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; to berate |
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readily changing to a vapore; changeable; fickle; explosive |
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to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide |
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eager or enthusiastic willingness |
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deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality |
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an expression of approval or praise |
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strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort |
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to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify |
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daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
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without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
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taken as a given, possessing self-evident truth |
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following or in agreement with accepted traditional standards |
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inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable |
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to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
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to take for one's own use; to confiscate |
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to suspend; engage; holding one's attention |
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leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency |
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to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about |
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to tolerate; to endure; to countenance |
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a blindly devoted patriot |
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to change as if by dyeing; gloss |
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pompous, self-important (logically following) |
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to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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a tool used for shapin, tool and die shop |
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to test or try; to attempt; to experiment |
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to demand; to call for; to require; to take |
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to cause to fall by striking |
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to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
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sarcastic; impertinent, 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 |
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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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to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to 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 with a lever; something taken by force, spoils |
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to complain about bitterly |
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torn; an opening or tear caused by such |
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to lose courage; to 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, as in to let a tea bag steep |
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the supporting structural cross-part of wing |
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to remove (parliamentary motion) from consideration |
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to equivocate; to change one's position |
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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant |
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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 (religious) curse; thoroughly loathed person |
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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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farthes 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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severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability |
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to aver, allege or assert |
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diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
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belligerent, pugnaciou, warlike |
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to slander, to make a false accusation |
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disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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to find fault without good reason |
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an illusion; origionally an imaginary monster |
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insubordinate, rebellious |
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rout, fiasco, complete failure |
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an outcome or solution, unraveling of a plot |
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to discriminate or discern |
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random, aimless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking self-confidence |
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a song or grief or lamentation |
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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegryic; tribute; eulogy |
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to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil |
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critical examination, explication |
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to atone or make amends for |
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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind |
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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose |
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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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difficult or embarrasing situation |
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not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged |
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unconcerned, carefee, heedless |
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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile |
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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show |
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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think |
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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggresively boisterous |
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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age, literally turned into bone |
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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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transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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the concluding part of a speech, flowery, rhetorical speech |
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pounding, thundering, resounding |
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to appease, to conciliate |
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childishm, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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having sound judgment, perceptive, wise; like a sage |
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lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic, trending to moralize excessively |
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extremely loud and powerful |
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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer, parasite |
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biased, showing marked tendencies |
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timid, fearful, diffident |
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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective |
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fluent, verbal, having easy use of language |
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