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| adj. Expressing hatred or evil; harmful, ominous |
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| v. To criticize vigorously; to scold vehemently |
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| n. A feeling of uneasiness or anxiety caused by guilt |
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| n. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant |
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| adj. Able to be used up and then discarded or replaced |
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v. To pay or compensate
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| n. Food and drink; a meal |
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| n. A lack of freedom; forced labor |
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| v. To punish by criticizing sharply; to berate |
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| n. The words carved on a tombstone in memory of the deceased |
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| n. The act of giving generously; gifts |
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| n. A notice of someone's death, such as in a newspaper, usually with a brief summary of the person's life |
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| adj. 1. Eating all kinds of food, including both animal and vegetable food 2. Taking in everything available |
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| v. To spread throughout; to pass through |
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| n. An interpretation or translation; a performance |
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| n. A rising again to life, use, acceptance, or prominence; a revival |
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n. A generalization that is used to characterize a person without acknowledging individual differences
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| n. A regular and fixed amount of pay for work done or to help cover living or work expenses |
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| adj. Serving or acting in a subordinate manner; servile |
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| adj. Near or next to; adjoining |
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| v. 1. To surround or to attack repeatedly 2. To trouble or weigh down |
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| v. To give up or transfer; especially by treaty or formal agreement |
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| adj. Roundabout; indirect |
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| adj. Proceeding or carried out in an aimless or random way |
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| adj. lacking importance or worth; unable to make an impact; trivial |
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| v. 1. To become real or actual 2. To appear in physical form, especially suddenly |
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Reminisce
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v. To think or talk about one's past
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| n. A fleet of boats or small ships |
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n. 1. Thin, sheer fabric resembling gauze 2. A fine, filmy substance made of strands of cobweb
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| adj. Marked by, deserving, or causing shame or disgrace |
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| v. To bring upon oneself something undesirable, such as a debt |
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| v. 1. To settle the affairs of a business; to convert into cash 2. To get rid of; to kill or destroy |
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| n. An important, often wealthy, person prominent in a large industry or business |
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| n. A name that does not fit |
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| adj. Burdensome; oppressive |
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| n. A state or place of great confusion or uproar |
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| adj. Romantic and idealistic, but impractical |
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| n. A trace of something that once was present |
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| n. A light, gentle breeze |
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| v. To declare or be evidence of something as true, genuine, or accurate |
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| adj. Lacking good manners; rude, impolite |
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v. To make up, prepare, or invent
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n. Something that grows out of or results from an earlier form or condition
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v. To criticize in a negative, disrespectful manner
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| v. 1. To break up and spread out so thinly as to disappear; to scatter or be scattered 2. To spend or use foolishly |
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| adj. Not generally known or understood; familiar to only a relatively small number of people |
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| adj. Relating to the sense of smell |
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| n. Too great a number; an excess |
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| v. To make like new; to renovate |
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| v. 1. To produce and give off 2. To place so as to be hidden from view; to conceal |
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| n. (usually plural) A departure from the normal, expected course; a whim or unpredictable action |
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| adj. 1. Evaporating quickly 2. Changing readily; explosive; unpredictable |
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