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WL 10-18
Comprehensive WL Exam
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English
9th Grade
06/04/2009
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An addled mind.
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confused
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An addled egg
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rotten
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To cauterize a wound
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burn with a hot iron
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Congestion in the streets
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overcrowding
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Congestion of the lungs
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overaccumulation of matter
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Disinterested observer
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impartial
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To exhale slowly
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breathe out
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To exhale a gas
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give off
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Filial love
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of a child for its parents
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A professional gamester
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gambler
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A violent harangue
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long, scolding speech
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To accept the indignity
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insulting treatment
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A family mausoleum
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monumental tomb
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An enthusiastic ornithologist
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expert on birds
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A philistine
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uncultured and narrow-minded person
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Don't rationalize what you did.
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seek reasons to justify
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A salutary effort.
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beneficial
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A taciturn person.
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habitually silent
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A state of anarchy.
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complete political disorder
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A censer is needed.
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vessel for burning incense
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To be defiled.
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made unclean
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A large entourage.
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group of attendants
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To expunge the entry
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remove
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This is his forte.
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particular skill
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Play it forte.
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loudly
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A graphic description.
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vivid
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The graphic arts.
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pictorial
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Accused of heresy.
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holding views contrary to those officially taught
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An insidious scheme.
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treacherous
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To mediate a dispute.
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work for a settlement
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Palliative remedies.
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that ease without curing
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A prodigious amount.
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enormous
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A redoubtable foe.
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formidable
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A sinuous line
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winding
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In thrall.
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bondage
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To be a thrall.
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slave
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Aqueous deposits
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made by water
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A chaste person.
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morally pure
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A chaste design.
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severely plain
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To demoralize them.
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weaken the spirit of.
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To favor euthanasia.
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killing as an act of mercy
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Extenuating factors.
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A gala occasion.
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festive
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A gregarious person.
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enjoying the company of others
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Inclement weather.
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stormy
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An inclement act
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unkind
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Maladroit handling.
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clumsy
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Surrounded by mendicants.
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beggars
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To admire the panorama.
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comprehensive view
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To quadruple something.
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increase fourfold
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Replete with learned references.
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filled
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A spectral figure.
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ghostly
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A period of transition.
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change
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To set up a triumvirate.
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ruling body of three
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Quite abashed.
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embarrassed
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To choose an arbiter.
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person able to judge or decide
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To receive her benison.
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blessing
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To bluff someone.
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fool
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A bluff manner.
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frank
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To reach the bluff.
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steep cliff
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To treat the canker.
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spreading sore.
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A canker in society
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evil influence
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A complaisant person.
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obliging
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A crass remark.
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coarsely stupid
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To defame someone.
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attack the reputation of.
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To overcome ennui.
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boredom
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A funereal manner.
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gloomy
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A false ideology.
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set of beliefs
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To escape from the inferno
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intense heat
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Dante's inferno.
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hell
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He is a mercenary.
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hired soldier.
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They are both mercenary.
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concerned only with making money.
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A parsimonious person.
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miserly
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Attempts at propaganda.
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deliberately spreading ideas that will help one's own cause or injure an enemy's
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To start to retrogress.
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worsen
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To be surfeited.
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given too much of something
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A white tureen.
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dish
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Daily ablutions
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washings
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To accept the bauble.
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trinket
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A bestial manner.
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brutal
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A bombastic person
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pompous
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He seems chary.
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cautious
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A congenital disease.
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present from birth
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French cuisine.
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cooking
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To demote someone.
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reduce in rank
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A state of flux
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change
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Use plenty of flux.
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substance used in joining metals.
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Strange garb.
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clothes
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Impeccable taste.
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faultless
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Ignore his invective
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abusive language.
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To ogle someone.
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glance flirtatiously at
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Living in penury.
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extreme poverty
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The raillery of his classmates
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Term
See it scintillate
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sparkle
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To survey the area.
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measure
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To conduct a survey
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detailed study
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to survey someone.
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look closely at
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To repeat it verbatim
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word for word
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to anneal metal.
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toughen by heating and then cooling
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A becoming manner
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pleasingly suitable
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A bizarre manner.
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fantastic
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It is buoyant.
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able to float
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A buoyant personality
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cheerful
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A chattel mortgage
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on movable property
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A blow on the cranium
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top of the skull
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He is culpable
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blameworthy
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To endorse a candidate.
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express support of
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To endorse a check.
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sign the back of
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A redoubtable freebooter
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pirate
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Look for the hallmark
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stamp on gold or silver objects
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The hallmark of a soldier.
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distinguishing characteristic
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To travel incognito
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with one's identity concealed.
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An irrevocable decision.
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unalterable
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A pacific society
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peaceful
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A pernicious effect
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harmful
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A large retinue
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train of attendants
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To receive scrip
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paper entitling the bearer to receive something
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Symmetrical parts
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balanced
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Done with verve
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enthusiasm
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To affirm something
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assert
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Their avarice
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greed for money
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A proud courser.
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horse
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A devotee of the great dancer.
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ardent supporter
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A complete dossier.
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collection of documents giving a detailed report
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To exonerate someone.
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declare blameless
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To receive a franchise
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right granted by a government or a company
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To extend the franchise.
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right to vote
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To herald the arrival.
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announce
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An instantaneous response
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immediate
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A marathon session.
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prolonged
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To enter the marathon.
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footrace of about 26 miles
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To prove one's mettle.
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spirit
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What a predicament!
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trying situation
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A sanctimonious speech
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falsely pious
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They are stevedores.
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dockworkers
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A great throng
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crowd of people
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Unremitting toil
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unending
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To receive an annuity
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fixed yearly payment
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Bedeviled by someone.
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tormented
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To do it with decorum
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correctness and good taste
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Divers offers.
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various
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Elemental forces
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having to do with great forces of nature
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The book is extant.
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still in existence
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It will germinate
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begin to develop
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Heterogeneous groups
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dissimilar
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To jettison the cargo.
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throw overboard
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To watch a melodrama
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unrealistic play in which good and evil are exaggerated
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An ocular examination.
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eye
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A strong partiality
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liking
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A slow recession
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moving backward
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A pleasant sojourn
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stay
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A stickler for discipline
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person who makes strict demands
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A travesty of justice
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crude and mocking immitation
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A bitter vendetta
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feud
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An autonomous division
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self-governing
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A belligerent attitude
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hostile
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A meeting of the belligerents
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nations at war
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To default on a debt
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fail to make payment
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Dogged efforts
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determined
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To emancipate them
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free
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The flora of Alaska
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plants
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They are gourmets.
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experts on fine foods
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The hindmost position
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farthest back
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A mania for something
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excessive enthusiasm
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The memoirs of a president
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autobiography
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We marveled at her opulence
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wealth
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To prate of their wealth
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talk foolishly
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The residue of the money.
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remainder
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Sporadic attempts
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irregularly occuring
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Thermal properties.
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having to do with heat
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Raw umber.
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earth color used in artists' paints
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