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Someone who is intolerantly devoted to one's opinion and prejudices; some who regards (social) groups with intolerance and hatred. |
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Exaggerated pride or expression. |
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Fatigue (Listlessness) |
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Intensity of feeling or expression. |
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Someone who is Zealous- Marked by fervent partisanship for a person, cause, or an ideal. |
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Frensied, frantic. |
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To pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid work/ duty). |
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Active bodily or mental strength or force. |
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To gush forth; to expel in a steam or jet (squirt).
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A short period of time; sudden brief burst of effort. |
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Offensive to the senses and especially to the sense of smell; highly obnoxious or objectionable; harmful. |
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To emit sparks; sparkle or spark. |
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To trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part. |
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To walk about in an idle or leisurely manner; stroll. |
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Very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging in rise or fall. |
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Characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound, also: commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality. |
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Worthy of praise: commendable. |
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infernal regions (hell); a wild uproar (tumult). |
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Disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd, usually with uproar and confusion of voices; Riot. |
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Being born after the death of father; published after death of author; following or occurring after death. |
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The act of mourning aloud; expressing sorrow, mourning, or regret. |
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Causing or tending to cause sleep. |
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A song or pem expressing sorrow or lamentation, especially for one who is dead. |
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Ornamental openwork of delicate or intricate design; embellishment.
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To adorn with or as if filigree. |
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Someone who asks earnestly and humbly; someone who makes a humble entreaty.
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To make a humble entreaty. |
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To beg for urgently or anxiously; to request earnestly: implore. |
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Someone who helps another person, group, etc. by giving money. |
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Warmly and genially affable; tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; sincerely or deeply felt.
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A stimulating medicine or drink; liqueur. |
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Supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking. |
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Lewd, lustful. |
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Vague speculation: belief without sound basis; the belief that direct knowledge of God/spirtual truth or ultimate reality can be attained through subjective experience. |
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deceitful cunning. |
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Serving as a pattern; deserving imitation (because of excellence); serving as an example, instance, or illustration. |
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Extreme or excessive in degree, size, or extent, joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic; produced in extreme: plentiful. |
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Marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame: dishonorable; deserving shame or infamy. |
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Of keen and farsighted penetration and judgement: discerning; caused by or indicating acute discernment. [Discern- showing insight or understanding.] |
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A cramping or oppressive lack or resources (money); extreme and often niggardly fugality. |
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Grudgingly mean about spending or granting; provided in meanly limited supply. |
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Foreknowledge of events; divine omniscience; human anticipation of the course of event. |
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Not partial or biased; treating or affecting all equally. |
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To fall perpendicular; to drop sharply and abruptly. |
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To actively second and encourage (activity or plan); to assist or support in the achievemnet of a purpose. |
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To write, engrave, or print as a lasting record. |
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To vacillate irresolutely between choices: fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction; to weave or sway unsteadily to and fro. |
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Having a huge appetite; excessively eager: insatiable. |
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Relating to matters of fact or practival affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters: practical as opposed to idealistic. |
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A chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position; a remark intended to start a conversation or make a telling point; a calculated move. |
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To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure. |
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To take for one's own use, confiscate. |
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To suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait. |
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Majestic, venerable.
[Majestic- having or exhibiting sovereign power, authoriy, or dignity. Venerable- deserving regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference.] |
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Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency. |
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Bring up, announce, begin to talk about. |
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To tolerate, endure, countenance. |
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Major, as in cardinal sin. |
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A blindly devoted patriot. |
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To change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first): Yellow journalism colored the truth. |
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Pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important). |
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To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound. |
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A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop. |
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To test or try; attempt, experiment. |
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To demand, call for, require, take. |
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To cause to fall by striking: The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees.
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Inhumanly cruel: Fell beasts surrounded the explorers. |
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To sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: Think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits. |
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Sarcastic, impertinet (not relevant), as in flippant: a flip remark. |
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To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. |
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To complain or grumble. |
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A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guy. |
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To imply, suggest, or insinuate: Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted? |
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To tilt or lean to one side. |
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To move heavily and clumsily. |
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Fitting, proper: It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame. |
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To exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of. |
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To pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully: Don't mince words. Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe. |
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Exacting, fastidiuous, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction between th two cases. |
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To be established, accepted, or customary: Those standards are no longer obtain. |
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Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension. |
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Commonplace, trite (boring from much use), unremarkable, quotidian (occuring everyday). |
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Multicolored, usually in blotches: The Pied Piper of Hamilin was so called because of his multicolored coat. |
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Moldable, pliable, not rigid. |
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To lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn. |
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Courage, spunk, fortitude: Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war. |
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To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: The information was prized from him. |
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To complain about bitterly: Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons. |
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Torn, past of rend (to remove from place by violence): He rent his garments; an opening or tear caused by such: a larger rent in the fabric. |
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To lose courage, turn frightened. |
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To limit: Let me qualify that statement. |
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To enervate or weaken the vitality of: The race sapped my strength.
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A fool or nitwit: Don't be a sap! |
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Contemptible, despicable: He was an scurvy old reprobate. |
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Exceptional, unusual, odd: He was singularly well-suited for the job. |
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To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep. |
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The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. |
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To remove (as a parliament motion) from consideration: They tabled the motion and will consider it again later. |
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To proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation. |
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To equivocate (to avoid committing oneself in what one says); to change one's position: His detractors say that the President waffles too much; he can never make up his mind. |
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Wit, joker: Groucho Marx was a well-known wag. |
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To depart clandestinely (marked by, held in, or conducted in secrecy); to steal off and hide. |
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