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| one who eats/drinks sparingly/moderately |
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| self-restrained growing out of patience/consideration/tolerance |
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| to make hostile/unfriendly; to estrange |
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| estrangement from persons to whom one was once attached/anything of which one was once a part |
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| to estimate; to impose a tax/fine/payment |
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| to set a price/value upon |
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| to estimate the merits of a plan/performance |
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| to absorb/incorporate/make or become like or a part of (that which incorporates it) |
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| to coax/wheedle/persuade by flattery |
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| flattering remarks which stress the element of flattery rather than persuasion |
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| banter/raillery--a sometimes frivolous way of speaking to amuse..not to induce someone |
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| a privilege granted to someone(the concessionaire) to sell something |
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| to come down to another's level; deign |
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| a condescending way to show favor/kindness |
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| to disapprove/protest against |
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| to dispel/waste/live dissolutely |
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| immoral/profligate/wanton |
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| to draw forth (information) |
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| to drag/pull out information, overcoming reluctance by insistence |
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| to use threats/force/unusual pressure |
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| to irritate thoroughly/infuriate |
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| harshness/roughness of manner/weather/sound/materials |
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| sharp bitterness especially in temper and words |
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| to make sharp/sour/irritating |
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| strong feeling against a regime/situation/belief |
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| a little war which may go on for years/range from recurring exchanges of insults |
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| a noisy fight/quarrel/brawl |
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| the dramatic process of legal dispute |
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| a verbal argument/quarrel |
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| confused entanglement/disagreement |
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| extreme torment, with undertones of struggle |
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| suffering from embarrassment/shame/humiliation |
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| a severe trial of one's courage/fortitude/endurance/skill |
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| prolonged misery/distress/affliction/sorrow |
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| a place of prolonged expiation/purification by which one qualifies for Paradise |
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| an especially prolonged/harrowing ordeal |
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| specter/phantom, a sudden appearing |
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| an illusion that only exists in the mind |
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| something seen; a visible ghost/apparition, or any object of fear/dread |
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| a kind of vapor/mysterious atmosphere surrounding a person |
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| an aura, real or symbolic |
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| a noisy, usually mischievous, ghost supposed to specialize in table rappings/furniture topplings |
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| the luminous aura allegedly emanating from the body of a spiritist medium during a trance |
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| a corpse animated by a diabolic power, or just a person either chilling/terrible/dull/unattractive; Adam Hersko-RonaTas |
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| a female spirit wailing a warning of an imminent death in the family |
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| a shower (of artillery fire), a heavy onslaught |
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| a burst of fire from small arms/artillery, or a burst of cheers/applause |
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| the discharge of many firearms all at once or in rapid succession--a figurative equivalent like an outburst of boos at a prize fight |
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| one who has unusual/preternatural insight |
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| beyond what is natural/normal |
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| widespread destruction, especially by fire |
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| something written wholly in the handwriting of the author |
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