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Having well-shaped buttocks |
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1. Conscience
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3. Courage |
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2. Verb, intransitive: To suffer, to endure |
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Supernatural, mysterious, or awe-inspiring
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The sum of human knowledge, thought and culture |
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1. To nod the head
2. To oscillate while rotating (as an astronomical body)
3. To move in a curving or circular fashion (as a plant stem, leaf, etc) |
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Deliberately ambiguous or euphemistic language used for propoganda |
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1. Of or relating to air, wind or gases.
2. Spiritual
3. Buxom, zaftig (full figured, pleasingly plump) |
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A market condition in which there are only two buyers, thus exerting great influence on price |
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Involving a situation in which the donor and the recipient ( of bone, skin, blood) are the same person |
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The scientific study of aging |
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Involving chance; random, probabilistic |
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1. Inherent, spread throughout
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Pertaining to marriage or the married state |
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1. A large ship, or fleet of ships, especially one carrying valuable cargo
2. A rich source or supply |
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1. A strong supporter of a cause
2. A heroic champion |
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ADJ: deviating from normal or correct |
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V: To leave secretly and hide, often to avoid the law |
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V: To speak, plead or argue for a cause, or in another's behalf
N: One who advocates |
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V: To make greater, to increase, thus to exaggerate |
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1. Extremely pleasing to the senses, divine or delicious |
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ADJ: Peculiar, unique or contrary to the norm |
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ADJ: ancient, outmoded (literally, before the flood) |
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N: Hostility toward, objection or aversion to |
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ADJ: Unconcealed, shameless, or brazen |
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N: Speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something |
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V: To grow or flourish
N: A bud or new growth |
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V: To get something by taking advantage of someone |
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V: To chastise or criticize severely |
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1. Capable of dissolving by chemical action
2. Highly critical |
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N: Humiliation, degradation |
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N: Noisy, attacking speech |
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V: Cancel, deny, repeal. To abolish by formal or legal terms |
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ADJ: Complicated, highly convoluted |
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N: A statement giving high praise |
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V: To establish firmly in a position |
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ADJ: Gullible, ready to believe anything |
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V: To deliberately make something difficult to understand |
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ADJ: Self- denying, refraining from indulgence |
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ADJ: Free spirited, carefree |
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ADJ: Active at dawn and dusk |
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ADJ: Difficult to understand, obscure |
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N: An ancient weapon, or a clumsy person |
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V: To cause bitterness and bad feeling |
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ADJ: Using few words, to the point, brief |
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N, V: Tribute, honor, praise |
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N: someone who appreciates good food and drink |
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ADJ: causing sleepiness, boring |
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N: person who adheres overly and strictly to certain language without common sense |
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ADJ: constant, unrelenting |
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ADJ: of or pertaining to money (financial) |
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N: an office or position requiring little or no work |
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N: a beggar
ADJ: pertaining to beggars, begging |
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V: to acquit, free from guilt |
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V: to deliberately misstate or misconstrue facts |
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ADJ: dramatic, exaggerated |
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V: to soften in feeling or temper |
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V: To stir up, agitate.
V: To satirize or censure severely |
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V: to express extreme disapproval |
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N: a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety
N: lack of interest, boredom |
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N: the state of being satisfied, satiated (to the point of boredom) |
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ADJ: characterized by great knowledge or wisdom |
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V: to show to be false, to contradict
V: to misrepresent
V: To act unworthily according to the standards of something |
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ADJ: pleasant, easy to approach |
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V: to give false or misleading appearance to, to conceal the truth or real nature of
V: to put on the appearance of, feign
V: to let pass unnoticed, ignore |
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ADJ: extravagantly chivalrous or romantic, impractical
ADJ: impulsive, often rashly unpredictable |
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ADJ: having or showing a definite tendency or purpose |
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ADJ: sweet or smoothly flowing, flowing with honey |
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ADJ: utterly detestable, abhorrent, abominable |
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ADJ: resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner, unruly.
ADJ: noisy, clamorous or boisterous |
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ADJ: without vigor or force, languid |
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ADJ: given to seizing for plunder or satisfaction of greed
ADJ: inordinately greedy, extortionate
ADJ: (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey, predacious |
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N: insatiable greed for riches |
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ADJ: perilous, dangerous
ADV: to a large extent, greatly |
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V: to make false of malicious statements about, slander |
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N: funeral song or generally mournful sound |
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V: to inspect, observe or survey in order to gain information |
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V: to impair the quality of, to spoil
V: to weaken the effectiveness of
V: to debase, corrupt, pervert |
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V: to beat or whip severely, to reprimand |
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ADJ: being quiet, still, at rest |
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V: to polish
V: to make smooth and bright |
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N: climax, the highest or most distant point |
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N: the point in its orbit at which an astronomical body is nearest to earth |
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ADJ: immoderate in indulgence of appetite or passion, unrestrained
ADJ: extreme in temperature (climate) |
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ADJ: astringent or sour in taste
ADJ: harsh and severe, as of temper or expression |
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N: one who trains others, especially children, in crime |
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N: a braggart
ADJ: boastful |
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N: a person devoted to luxury and pleasure |
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N: repression of emotion and indifference to pleasure or pain |
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ADJ: diligent in application or attention, persevering
ADJ: persistently or carefully maintained |
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V: to address with abusive language |
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V: to dry thoroughly, dry up
V: to preserve (food) by removing moisture, dehydrate |
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N: keenness of mental perception and understanding |
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ADJ: lying down, reclining |
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ADJ: having an offensive odor |
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ADJ: produced accidentally or by chance
ADJ: lucky, fortunate |
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ADJ: neat and trim in dress and appearance, spruce |
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ADJ: utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated, thoroughly desolute
ADJ: recklessly prodigal |
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ADJ: wasteful or recklessly extravagant |
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ADJ: given to excessive moralizing, self-righteous |
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N: a good for nothing, wasteful person |
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ADJ: uninhibited, wild, spontaneous, undisciplined, orgiastic |
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N: a clumsy, stupid person |
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N: one who takes up an activity or interest in a superficial or casual way
ADJ: superficial, amateurish |
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N: a debauched man, especially an elderly man from a wealthy or aristocratic family. |
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N: one who behaves in an affected manner to impress others |
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ADJ: boldly defiant, creative, audacious
N: a person who is boldly creative or defiantly original |
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N: a safegaurd
N: a rare, silvery white metal |
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ADJ: serene, harmonious, disciplined, well-balanced |
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TRANS VERB: to minimize or explain away
INTRANS VERB: 1. to use flattery, 2. to make an explanation, 3. to shine brightly
NOUN: 1. a comment, 2. flattery, 3. a pretense |
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NOUN: a lecture hall or secondary school |
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NOUN: 1. a special anniversary of an event, especially a 50th anniversary.
2. rejoicing or celebration
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NOUN: 1. the interior organs located in the main cavities of the body, especially the abdominal cavity
2. the interior parts |
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NOUN: a thought experiment carried out in imagination only |
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NOUN: demonstration of the falsity of a premise by showing an absurdity to which it would logically lead |
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NOUN: 1. a mistress or promiscuous woman
2. opinion or doctrine |
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NOUN: fortification around a castle, town, or area so enclosed
ADJ: pregnant |
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NOUN: 1. hypocritically pious talk
2. The private language of an underworld group
3. whining speech, especially of beggars
4. a slope or tilt
5. a motion that tilts something
6. an outer corner
TRANS VERB: to set at an oblique angle
ADJ: oblique |
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2. to thwart the plans of |
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VERB: 1. to envy or resent someone else's good fortune
2. to be reluctant to give |
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NOUN: a defensive movement or an evasive answer |
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NOUN: 1. a stage or period of stagnation or slump
2. a region of the ocean near the equator marked by calms and light variable winds |
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NOUN: an opening for draining water, as on the sides of a ship
VERB: 1. to prevent from succeeding,
2. to overwhelm, destroy, or disable |
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NOUN: 1. rumors, gossip
2. a drinking fountain or cask of drinking water on a ship |
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NOUN: 1. a source of sudden wealth or profits
2. a very large amount
2. a rich mine or pocket of ore |
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NOUN: 1. a surge of opinion or feeling about someone or something
2. a broad deep swell of the ocean, caused by a distant storm or earthquake |
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NOUN: 1. a very large and perfect pearl
2. a perfect diamond weighing 100 carats or more
3. a model of excellence or perfection
4. a match or an equal
VERB: to compare, parallel, rival, or surpass |
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VERB: to tolerate or support
NOUN: 1. appearance, especially the facial expression
2. the face
3. composure
4. approval or support |
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