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| verd. to test, try; attempt or experiment |
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| verb. to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
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| verb. to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. |
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| verb. to complain or grumble |
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| noun. a cord or cable used to steady or guide something |
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| verb. to pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully; also, to take tiny steps or tiptoe |
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| verb/noun. to pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken my force; spoils |
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| verb. to complain about bitterly |
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| adj/noun. torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such. |
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| noun. the supporting structural cross-part of a wing. |
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| verb. to equivocate; change one's position |
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| verb. to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid. |
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| verb. to abolish or annul by authority; to put down |
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| adj. effete; no longer fertile; worn out |
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| noun. a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing. |
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| noun. farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (antonym: perigee) |
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| noun. deification; glorification to godliness |
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| adj. appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos |
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| noun. a complex, ornate design; also to dance position |
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| noun. severity; rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability |
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| noun. an act of defamation or maligning; animadversion |
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| noun/verb. an analysis; examination; test; to put to a test |
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| verb. to aver; to allege; to assert |
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| adj. sinister; pernicious; ominous |
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| noun. cause of injury; poison; source of harm |
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| verb. to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly |
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| verb. to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner to festoon. |
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| verb. to give a false impression of, to misrepresent. |
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| adj. belligerent; pugnacious; warlike |
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| noun. a rude or insensitive person; lout |
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| verb. to polish; to run to a shine |
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| adj. labryinthine; complex |
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| verb. to inveigle, coax, or wheedle |
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| verb. to slander; to make a false accusation |
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| adj. calculated to confuse or entrap in argument; hypercritical; caviling |
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| noun. an insertion mark (^) used by editors & proof readers |
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| verb. to find fault without good reason |
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| verb. to chastise or correct |
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| noun. blindly devout patriot |
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| noun. an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she monster |
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