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Deviating from normal or correct
My aberrant parents decided to start tanning in our backyard, completely naked. We have no fence and our neighbors just stood horrified in their dining room window. |
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A bud or new growth
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To grow or flourish
Yesterday, my pot plants began to burgeon. Today, my mother decided to clean my room and found every last one. |
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To obtain by opposing on another's friendship, to borrow without repaying
I knew Katey would cadge those earings from me; I never should have let her wear them. |
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To conceal one's real motive
He tried to dissemble his lack of weed smoking experience but the loud coughing told us otherwise.
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A formal Eulogy or speech of praise
John's encomium was very well written, but all that flattery and praise started to get very tedious. |
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To seek favor or attention, to act subserviently
Men don't fawn over you because you're smart. They do it because you have huge tits. |
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Fine cobweb covering foliage, fine cloth
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Very fine
My gossamer lingerie feels so light and gently against my skin and gives me goosebumps all over. Would you like to see? |
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Unfortunate
I don't understand how you find my hapless situation so funny. I couldn't have known that he would have a panic attack as soon as I unzipped his pants. |
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One who attacks traditional ideas and institutions, one who destroys sacred images.
All of these iconoclastic homosexuals are starting to annoy me. Someone told me that they even want to be considered "people" now. |
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A large biblical whale --> anything of immense size and power
I hope that leviathan doesn't get inside the restaurant before we do or else there won't be anything left to eat. |
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One who hates people
He was a true misanthrope who preferred to die rather than spend time with himself. |
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Harmful, offensive, obstructive
They tried to tell me that smoking weed is noisome to leading a happy life, but I couldn't hear them over the sounds of me not caring. |
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To close or shut off
We manage to occlude the doorwar when the pizza man arrived so none of the smoke could escape. |
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To stray away from or evade the truth
I tried to prevaricate as much as possible when my parents asked me where I had been last night. I told them I was at my friend's house, I just didn't mention that I'm sleeping with her brother. |
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Stillness, inactivity, dormancy
Adjective form: Quiescent
The quiescence within the room was disturbing to Mr. Sykes after he had murdered the girl. He could not bear such utter stillness. |
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To make or become thin, to purify or refine
The Buddhists wish to rarefy their minds so their spirits can be just as pure. |
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An extremely gifted person, a genius
Maybe I'm really a savant in hiding. Maybe the weed has just clouded my true genius but now we'll never know for sure. |
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A beginner, a person with no experience with a certain endeavor
We all start out as sexual tyros which means you've got to practice to get good at it. I'd rather not be a beginner on my wedding night. |
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Empty, without contents, lacking ideas or intelligence
I understand that your skull is mostly like so vacuous that there is nothing remaining with which to retain and understand the amazing arguments I have been presenting. Therefore, I shall cease all attempts to further reason with you. |
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To hesitate, to tremble
He never seemed to hesitate or tremble while we were at the bar, but he definitely started to waver when I started climbing on top of him. I'm pretty sure he was a virgin. |
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Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, idea, or goal
You had thought that I no longer had any zeal for sex because I was cheating on you. I was actually just very unethusiastic because I no longer enjoyed your presence in my bed. |
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