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sentient
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adjective: Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception.
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sociology
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noun: The philosophical study of society.
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massive
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adjective: Of considerable bulk and weight.
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creak
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noun: A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
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cosmetic
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adjective: Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion.
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deference
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noun: Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment.
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aforesaid
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adjective: Said in a preceding part or before.
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brigadier
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noun: General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
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tutelage
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noun: The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
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oral
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adjective: Uttered through the mouth.
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finesse
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noun: Subtle contrivance used to gain a point.
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second-rate
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adjective: Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc.
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isothermal
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adjective: Having or marking equality of temperature.
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apprehensible
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adjective: Capable of being conceived.
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Darwinism
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noun: The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
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violator
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noun: One who transgresses.
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irreverent
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adjective: Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
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casualty
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noun: A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
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endurance
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noun: The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing.
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peaceful
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adjective: Tranquil.
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indestructible
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adjective: That can not be destroyed.
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impracticable
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adjective: Not feasible.
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encyclical
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adjective: Intended for general circulation.
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demolish
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verb: To annihilate.
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spurious
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adjective: Not genuine.
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repugnance
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noun: Thorough dislike.
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cognate
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adjective: Akin.
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interrogate
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verb: To examine formally by questioning.
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streamlet
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noun: Rivulet.
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consignor
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noun: One who entrusts.
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estuary
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noun: A wide lower part of a tidal river.
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cynicism
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noun: Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
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prospectus
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noun: A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
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metric
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adjective: Relating to measurement.
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curio
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noun: A piece of bric-a-brac.
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obsolete
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adjective: No longer practiced or accepted.
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liquefacient
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adjective: Possessing a liquefying nature or power.
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riddance
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noun: The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
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sophism
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noun: A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
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maharaja
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noun: A great Hindu prince.
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out-of-the-way
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adjective: Remotely situated.
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rebuild
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verb: To build again or anew.
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punctual
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adjective: Observant and exact in points of time.
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discomfit
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verb: To put to confusion.
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bombast
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noun: Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
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misanthropic
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adjective: Hating mankind.
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cosmogony
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noun: A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
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galvanism
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noun: Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action.
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flag-officer
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noun: The captain of a flag-ship.
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omnipotence
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noun: Unlimited and universal power.
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unconscionable
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adjective: Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
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rapt
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adjective: Enraptured.
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reestablish
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verb: To restore.
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inapprehensible
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adjective: Not to be understood.
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hoard
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verb: To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation.
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exorcise
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verb: To cast or drive out by religious or magical means.
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postdate
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verb: To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
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characteristic
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noun: A distinctive feature.
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obelisk
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noun: A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
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orthopedist
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noun: One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity
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heretic
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noun: One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy.
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chivalry
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noun: The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
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vernal
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adjective: Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
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concussion
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noun: A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
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motley
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adjective: Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements.
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exigency
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noun: A critical period or condition.
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Madonna
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noun: A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus.
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immortalize
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verb: To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time.
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wretchedness
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noun: Extreme misery or unhappiness.
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tense
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adjective: Strained to stiffness.
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interim
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noun: Time between acts or periods.
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Calvinize
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verb: To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
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inhuman
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adjective: Savage.
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mandate
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noun: A command.
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abbess
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noun: The lady superior of a nunnery.
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dismissal
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noun: Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
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timbre
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noun: The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
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espy
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verb: To keep close watch.
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tincture
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noun: A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
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man-trap
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noun: A place or structure dangerous to human life.
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feint
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noun: Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
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aerial
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adjective: Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
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inscribe
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verb: To enter in a book, or on a list, roll, or document, by writing.
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disfigure
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verb: To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
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rebuff
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noun: A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
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operator
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noun: One who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus.
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heathenish
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adjective: Irreligious.
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fallible
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adjective: Capable of erring.
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saline
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adjective: Constituting or consisting of salt.
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wry
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adjective: Deviating from that which is proper or right.
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acrimony
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noun: Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
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deride
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verb: To ridicule.
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enkindle
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verb: To set on fire.
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overstride
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verb: To step beyond.
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preeminence
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noun: Special eminence.
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obvert
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verb: To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object.
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abominable
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adjective: Very hateful.
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imbibe
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verb: To drink or take in.
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somniferous
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adjective: Tending to produce sleep.
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hypercritical
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adjective: Faultfinding.
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hexagon
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noun: A figure with six angles.
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abridge
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verb: To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.
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stringent
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adjective: Rigid.
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mercantile
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adjective: Conducted or acting on business principles; commercial.
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advent
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noun: The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
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bursar
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noun: A treasurer.
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service
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noun: Any work done for the benefit of another.
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gesticulate
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verb: To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech.
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humiliate
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verb: To put to shame.
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immigrant
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noun: A foreigner who enters a country to settle there.
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functionary
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noun: An official.
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cataclysm
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noun: Any overwhelming flood of water.
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anagram
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noun: The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
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reprobate
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noun: One abandoned to depravity and sin.
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pontiff
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noun: The Pope.
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alcove
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noun: A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
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needlework
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noun: Embroidery.
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garrulous
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adjective: Given to constant trivial talking.
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felonious
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adjective: Showing criminal or evil purpose.
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tangible
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adjective: Perceptible by touch.
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revile
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verb: To heap approach or abuse upon.
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maroon
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verb: To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island.
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usurp
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verb: To take possession of by force.
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redolence
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noun: Smelling sweet and agreeable.
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veracity
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noun: Truthfulness.
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misanthropy
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noun: Hatred of mankind.
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submittal
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noun: The act of submitting.
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inversion
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noun: Change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first.
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forby
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aderb: Besides.
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athirst
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adjective: Wanting water.
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consolidate
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verb: To combine into one body or system.
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iridescent
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adjective: Exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light.
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lying
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noun: Untruthfulness.
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reconcilable
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adjective: Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
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septennial
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adjective: Recurring every seven years.
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bray
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noun: A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
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indelible
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adjective: That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed.
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overeat
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verb: To eat to excess.
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calculus
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noun: A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
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reprisal
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noun: Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
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gendarme
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noun: In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer.
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lexicon
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noun: A dictionary.
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mantle
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noun: A cloak.
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incandescence
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noun: The state of being white or glowing with heat.
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pectoral
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adjective: Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
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coquette
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noun: A flirt.
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enmity
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noun: Hatred.
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prodigious
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adjective: Immense.
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depreciate
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verb: To lessen the worth of.
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cupidity
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noun: Avarice.
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compressible
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adjective: Capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
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supplementary
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adjective: Being an addition to.
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frankincense
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noun: A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes.
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drainage
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noun: The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc.
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limitation
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noun: A restriction.
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counterfeit
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adjective: Made to resemble something else.
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ineffable
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adjective: Unutterable.
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infirm
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adjective: Lacking in bodily or mental strength.
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occasion
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noun: An important event or celebration.
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bedlam
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noun: Madhouse.
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attorney-general
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noun: The chief law-officer of a government.
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disfavor
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noun: Disregard.
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pulmonary
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adjective: Pertaining to the lungs.
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acerbity
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noun: Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
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martyrdom
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noun: Submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle.
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egoism
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noun: The theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self.
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priory
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noun: A monastic house.
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precedent
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noun: An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
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condense
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verb: To abridge.
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decency
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noun: Moral fitness.
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continuous
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adjective: Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
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portend
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verb: To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
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righteousness
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noun: Rectitude.
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brae
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noun: Hillside.
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miscount
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verb: To make a mistake in counting.
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prescriptible
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adjective: Derived from authoritative direction.
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repertory
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noun: A place where things are stored or gathered together.
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philharmonic
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adjective: Fond of music.
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entree
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noun: The act of entering.
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rhetorician
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noun: A showy writer or speaker.
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gradient
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adjective: Moving or advancing by steps.
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connubial
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adjective: Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
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stallion
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noun: An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
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underman
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verb: To equip with less than the full complement of men.
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besmear
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verb: To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
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interpreter
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noun: A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation.
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conclusive
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adjective: Sufficient to convince or decide.
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culprit
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noun: A guilty person.
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introvert
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verb: To turn within.
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testator
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noun: The maker of a will.
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hypnosis
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noun: An artificial trance-sleep.
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infirmary
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noun: A place for the reception or treatment of the sick.
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magician
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noun: A sorcerer.
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accredit
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verb: To give credit or authority to.
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capacious
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adjective: Roomy.
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satiate
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verb: To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
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head first
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aderb: Precipitately, as in diving.
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pandemonium
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noun: A fiendish or riotous uproar.
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orthodox
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adjective: Holding the commonly accepted faith.
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explode
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verb: To cause to burst in pieces by force from within.
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protuberance
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noun: Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
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opulence
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noun: Affluence.
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immaculate
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adjective: Without spot or blemish.
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surreptitious
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adjective: Clandestine.
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beget
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verb: To produce by sexual generation.
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incessant
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adjective: Unceasing.
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wean
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verb: To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment.
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forehead
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noun: The upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair.
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exorbitance
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noun: Extravagance or enormity.
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retrospect
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noun: A view or contemplation of something past.
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crag
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noun: A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
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contrivance
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noun: The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
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abdominal
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noun: Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.
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pallid
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adjective: Of a pale or wan appearance.
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Iliad
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noun: A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy.
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inefficiency
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noun: That which does not accomplish an intended purpose.
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inquire
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verb: To ask information about.
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conjugate
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adjective: Joined together in pairs.
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impeccable
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adjective: Blameless.
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proverb
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noun: A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
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acquire
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verb: To get as one's own.
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brevity
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noun: Shortness of duration.
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forepeak
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noun: The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck.
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sluggard
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noun: A person habitually lazy or idle.
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dolesome
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adjective: Melancholy.
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medieval
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adjective: Belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages.
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demeanor
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noun: Deportment.
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blaspheme
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verb: To indulge in profane oaths.
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prehension
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noun: The act of laying hold of or grasping.
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misogamy
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noun: Hatred of marriage.
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intension
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noun: The act of stringing or stretching, or state of being strained.
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adjuration
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noun: A vehement appeal.
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comparison
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noun: Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
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litigious
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adjective: Quarrelsome.
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man-eater
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noun: An animal that devours human beings.
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maleficent
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adjective: Mischievous.
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undermine
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verb: To subvert in an underhand way.
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paramount
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adjective: Supreme in authority.
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extremist
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noun: One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views.
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bromine
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noun: A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
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recluse
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noun: One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
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idiosyncrasy
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noun: A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
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legitimate
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adjective: Having the sanction of law or established custom.
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convex
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adjective: Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle.
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municipality
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noun: A district enjoying municipal government.
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further
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adjective: More distant or advanced.
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condescend
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verb: To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors.
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aboriginal
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adjective: Primitive; unsophisticated.
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forte
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noun: A strong point.
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liking
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noun: Fondness.
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