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| v. to relieve; ease; make less severe |
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| n. an absolute monarchy; government where one person holds power |
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| adj. trite; without freshness or originality |
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| adj. conferring benefits; kindly; doing good |
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| n. pompous speech; pretentious words |
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| n. a parliamentary procedure to end a debate and begin to vote |
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| adj. too sugary; too sentimental or flattering |
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| n. in music, a concluding passage |
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| n. beauty; attractiveness in appearance or behavior |
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| n. the quality of being agreeable or eager to please |
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| adj. complying; obeying; yielding |
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| n. disaster; collapse; a rout |
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| v. to enfeeble; to wear out |
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| adj. suitable; proper; seemly |
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| v. to defame, to blacken or sully; to belittle |
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| v. to express disapproval of; to pretest against |
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| v. to laugh at with contempt; to mock |
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| n. the act of mocking; ridicule, mockery |
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| n. a division into two parts |
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| adj. timid; lacking self-confidence |
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| adj. spread out; verbose (wordy); not focused |
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| adj. separate; individually distinct; composed of distinct parts |
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| adj. not frank or candid; deceivingly simple (opposite: ingenuous) |
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| v. to pretend; to feign; to conceal by pretense |
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| n. musical discord; a mingling of inharmonious sounds; non-musically, disagreement, lack of harmony |
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| v. to make clear; to explain |
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| adj. softening or soothing to the skin; having power to soften or relax living tissues |
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| n. words of praise, especially for the dead |
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| adj. requiring immediate action; urgent, pressing |
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| v. to estimate the value of something beyond the scale; to infer what is unknown from something known |
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| adj. joking in an awkward or improper manner |
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| v. to speak against; to contradict; to deny |
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| adj. extremely talkative or wordy |
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| n. one who smashes revered images; an attacker of cherished beliefs |
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| adj. unwilling to be pacified or appeased |
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| c. to attack with words; to question the truthfulness or integrity |
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| adj. not yet fully formed; rudimentary |
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| adj. noble; honorable; candid; also, naive |
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| adj. part of the essential character; intrinsic |
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| adj. very talkative; garrulous |
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| v. to soften by steeping in liquid (including stomach juices) |
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| n. a quality of nobleness of mind, disdaining meanness or revenge |
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| adj. very frugal; unwilling to spend |
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| n. an inclination; a natural tendency toward; a liking for |
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| adj. inclined to silence; speaking little; dour, stern |
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