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| (adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
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| (v.) to claim or take without right |
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| (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
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| (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
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| (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way (n.) petty, nagging criticism |
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| (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
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| (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
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| (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
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| (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
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| (v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from |
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| (adj.) relevant, appropriate, fitting |
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| (adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
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| (adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
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| (adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
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| (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
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| (n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
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| (v.)to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
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| (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
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| (adj.) capable of being held or defended |
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| to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
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| a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
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| desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
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| having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
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| swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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| straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shirty or underhanded way |
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| in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
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| a legendary bird identified with the kingisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
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| pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical artificial; medodramatic |
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| deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberatley sets fires, arsonist, one who causes strife |
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| a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpoool in violence and destruction |
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| nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacing foresight or discernment |
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| open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recongized |
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| tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
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| the state of being proper, appropriatness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
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| improper of disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
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| without delay or fomality; briefly, concisely |
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| asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
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| an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
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| to move in waves or with a wavelike motions; to have a wave like appearance or form |
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| to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefull |
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| to romp or pranse around exuberantly, to make merry |
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| belief, mental acceptance |
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| to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression |
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| to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate |
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| very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict |
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| a formal staement of commendation; high praise |
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| to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke |
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| to remove from a grave; to bring to light |
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| lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak, irresponsible, unreliable |
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| dark and gloomy, obscure;lacking in clarity and precision |
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| wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards |
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| stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative |
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| developed or created at the very beginning, going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage |
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| nearness in place or time; kinship |
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| not usual or expected, not in character |
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| founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical |
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| language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness |
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| green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement |
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| having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity |
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| the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; to waste away |
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| a fortified place, stronghold |
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| a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity, a treaty, a pact |
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| complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection |
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| disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder |
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| urgency, pressure, urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency |
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| floating debris; homeless, impoverished people |
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| frenzied, highly agitated |
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| to imprison, to confine; jail |
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| obligatory, reguired; one who holds a specific office |
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| to imprison, to confine; jail |
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| ridiculous, laughable, absurd |
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| biting or caustic in thought, manner, or stlye; sharply or bitterly harsh |
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| a prickly or stinging plant; to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vexo or irritate severly |
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| consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money |
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| contemptibly cowardly or mean spirited |
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| in a reclining position, lying down |
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| a scheme to outwit or decieve an opponent or to gain an end |
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| sharpness(paricularly of the mind or senses) |
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