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| the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence. |
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| a boat made by hollowing out a log. |
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| to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken. |
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| bringing or bearing disease. |
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| having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer. |
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| shallow place in a body of water. |
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| to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon. |
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| a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch. |
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| to instruct or benefit, esp. morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that edify the viewer. |
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| resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer. |
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| a person who is in bondage; slave. |
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| concise, clipped, or elliptical in style: telegraphic speech. |
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| to use figures or numerals arithmetically. |
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| wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful. |
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| dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood. |
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| dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood |
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| dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise. |
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| the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing. |
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| a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation. |
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| to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively. |
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| that part of the mouth or lower course of a river in which the river's current meets the sea's tide. |
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| a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons. |
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| having a kindly disposition; gracious: a benign king. |
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| commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress. |
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