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1.) Hot, steady, intense wind.
Everybody in the room was sweating because of the big sirocco.
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Dust Devil Zephyr
Sandstorm Gale
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Highhanded
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highhandedly, highhandedness
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1.) Overbearing
She was a highhanded sibling.
2.) Based on whim or impulse.
"She made an overbearing desicion."
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Arbitrary Well - informed
Overbearing Light
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Recur
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recurrence, recurrent
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1.) To happen, to return, or to appear again
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1.) A room or cupboard where articles of food are stored.
2.) The provisions of a household.
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1.) Having/showing great warmth or intensity of spirit or feeling.
2.)Hot; burning
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1.) Radience surronding a figure as a representative of sacred personage
2.) Halo
3.)A zone of altered country rock around an igneous
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1.) Fixed in direction
2.) Firm in faith or purpose as a person
3.) Unwavering in faith, resolution, adherence, etc.
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Authorize
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authorized, authorizing |
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1.) To give authority or official power to; empower
2.) To formally sanction
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1.) A deep fissure in the earth; bottomless gulf; chasm
2.)Anything to deep for measurment
3.) The ocean depths
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n. a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in
drawing aliquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing theshorter leg into the container above and the
longer
leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer oneby the pressure of the atmosphere
v. to convey, draw, or pass through as if through a siphon
To siphon water; siphon off profits into a secret bank account
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1. A person who carries a torch.
2. A leader in a movement, campaign, etc. |
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1. Filled with an intese feeling; filled with passion; passionate; ardent
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1. A direct route traveled quickly
She made a beeline for the brownies |
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1. Dreamily or wistfully thoughtfull
2. expressing or revealing thoughtfullness, usually with some sadness
A pensive mood
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1. To show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubliant
2. To leap especially for joy
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1. To raise irritating or annoying objections; to find fault with unessary things
2. To oppose with sham objections
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1. characterized by or in a state of uproar; tumultuous.
2. making an uproar; confused and noisy, as an assembly, person, etc.
3. very funny, as a person or situation
4. very loud, as sounds or utterances;very loud, as sounds or
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1. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family ofoffspring or young
2. a breed, species, group, or kind
3. -v- to sit upon to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
4.-v- to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder:
5.-adj- kept for breeding
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1.an inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a
port
2. the remote or less developed parts of a country;back country
3. the land lying behind a coastal region
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1.) -adj- Stiffly formal and respectable; showing or feeling dissaproval for anythig regarded improper
2.) -n- Purse mouth and/or lips into a prim expression |
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1.) -v- Tread on or crush
2.) -n- The act or sound of trampling
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1.) An artificial for conducting water, often fitted with a gate at the upper end for regulating flow
2.) Act of rinsing or showering with water |
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