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| shield or protection; auspices; sponsorship |
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| exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; extremely delicious; |
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| rosy; radiant; pertaining to or resembling the dawn |
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| jovial or wild with drunkenness |
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| jovial or wild with drunkenness |
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one who prophesies doom or disaster; pessimist
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| fantastic; unreal; impossible; absurd |
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| cruel; harsh; severe; ironhanded |
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| automatic and immediate repetition |
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| delightful; blissful; heavenly |
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| prone to controversy; disputatious; argumentative |
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| animal life; animals of a particular region or period |
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| plant life; plants of a particular region or period |
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| medium or place for open discussion and expression of ideas |
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| bully; intimidate with threats; bluster |
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| very difficult; requiring the strength of Hercules |
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| airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious |
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| having colors like the rainbow |
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| jolly; merry; good-humored |
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| full of confusing passageways; intricate; complicated, like the labyrinth |
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| using words sparingly; terse; concise |
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| unnaturally drowsy; sluggish; dull |
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1. long distance footrace of 26 miles 385 yards
2. endurance contest, as a dance marathon |
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| pertaining to war; warlike |
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1. wise and trusted adviser
2. tutor; coach |
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1. quick; vivacious; active; lively
2. inconsistent; unstable; capricious; subject to rapid and unpredictable mood changes |
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| obedient and unquestioning follower |
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| in love with oneself; excessively fascinated and gratified by ones own physical and mental qualities; egocentric |
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| something exceptionally delicious to drink |
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1. due punishment for evil deeds
2. one who inflicts such punishment |
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| long series of wanderings or travels |
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1. majestic; godlike; lofty
2. having to do with the Olympic games |
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| song or hymn of praise, joy, or triumph |
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| sudden, overpowering terror |
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| bitter denunciation; tirade |
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| having great influence because of one's wealth |
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| cruel or inflexible in enforcing conformity |
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| exceedingly variable; readily assuming different forms or shapes |
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| ruinous; gained at too great a cost |
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heavy; dull; sullen; gloomy; morose
ant. mercurial |
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1. dangerous, attractive woman
2. woman who sings with bewitching sweetness
3. apparatus for sounding loud warnings |
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| legislator; wise lawgiver |
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| simplicity and avoidance of comfort; self-discipline; bravery and ability to endure pain |
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| infernal; especially dark; gloomy |
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| excite a hope but prevent it's fulfillment; tease |
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| pertaining to drama or acting |
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| enormous strength, size or power |
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| similarity; comparison; sameness in some form between to different things |
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autocratic; tyrannical; despotic; proceeding from a whim or fancy
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1. Decide a dispute; acting as an arbitrator (judge)
2. Submit a dispute or arbitration |
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| self evident truth; maxim |
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| universally accepted as true |
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| opinion formed before there are grounds for it; prejudice |
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| intolerant; narrow minded |
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| views or behavior of a bigot; narrow mindedness/ intolerance |
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| think over; consider with care; ponder; deliberate |
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| most important point; essential part |
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| figure out by reasoning; infer |
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| situation requiring a choice between to equally bad alternatives; predicament |
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| asserting opinions as if they were facts; opinionated; "this is what I believe therefore it is" |
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| choosing (ideas methods etc.) from various sources; selective |
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misleading; deceptive
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liable to be mistaken
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ejecting regularly accepted beliefs or doctrines; nonconformist
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| supposed; having the characteristics of a hypothesis, a supposition made as a basis for reasoning or research |
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| a misleading appearance, false impression, misconception |
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certain; incontrovertible; indisputable
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generally accepted, especially having to do with religion; conventional
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| having the characteristics of a paradox (a self contradictory statement which may never be true) |
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| something apparently trustworthy; superficially true or reasonable |
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| senseless; absurd; irrational |
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1)one able to think clearly having the power to reason
2) based on reason; intelligent: sensible; sane
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| to invent excuses for ones actions, desires, failures, etc... |
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| clever but deceptive reasoning |
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| superficially true; reasonable, but not really so |
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1) reflect; meditate; conjecture
2) by or sell with the hope of making profit by changes in price (stock market) |
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capable of being maintained or defended; defensible
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| shapeless; having no definite form, unorganized |
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curved inward, creating a hollow space
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1) twist out of shape
2) change from the true meaning |
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1)capable of being shaped by hammering
2) adaptable; pliant |
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1) rounded out, plump
2) full- toned |
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| bending in an out; winding; serpentine |
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balanced in arrangement; capable of division by a central line into similar halves
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| deserving serious attention; weighty; momentous |
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| of little or not value; trifling; worthless; useless |
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| practically worthless; trashy; puddling; petty |
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| chief; above others; supreme |
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pertinent; bearing upon the matter at hand
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1) falsely modest or serious
2) grave; prim |
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lacking self- confidence; unduly timid; shy
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not thinking to highly of one's merits; humble
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| freedom from conceit or vanity; humility |
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| settled; of quite disposition; sedate |
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1. shameless; impudent
2. made of brass or bronze |
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excessive concern for oneself; selfishness; conceit
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| done to impress others; showy; pretentious |
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| thinking to highly of oneself; arrogant; presumptuous |
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1. too free in speech or action; bold; saucy; impertinent
2. lively; spirited |
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1. conceited; excessively proud or concerned about oneself
2. empty; worthless
3. Futile |
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condition of being to vain about one's appearance or achievements; conceit
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loathsome; abominable; utterly opposed
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reprove gently but seriously; caution; warn of a fault
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| extremely pleasing to taste or smell; delicious; like ambrosia (the food of the gods); heavenly |
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imprison; keep in narrow, cramped quarters
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| explode with suddenness and violence; cause to explode |
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lasting one day only; fleeting; transitory; short lived
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easily deceived of cheated
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| dispute or argue over a price in a petty way; bargain |
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1. plunge in or place into a liquid; dip
2. engross; absorb |
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| inability to sleep; abnormal wakefulness; sleeplessness |
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1. slip; error; accidental mistake; trivial fault
2. interval |
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| critical inquiring into suspected illegal activity; investigation |
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| hand down officially; give; deliver (as a verdict) |
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| food for one occasion of eating; meal |
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