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Conversant adj
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Thoroughly informed
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Coronet n.
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Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.
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Corps n
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A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together
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Corpuscle n
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A minute particle of matter
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Countervail v
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To offset
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Counting-house n.
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A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
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Courser n
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A fleet and spirited horse
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Covey n
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A flock of quails or partridges
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Crag n.
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A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
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Crass adj.
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Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
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Credulous adj
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Easily deceived
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Culvert n.
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Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
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Cycloid adj
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Like a circle
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Dastard n
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A base coward
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Datum n.
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A premise, starting-point, or given fact.
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Day-man n
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A day-laborer
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Death's-head n
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A human skull as a symbol of death
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Debonair adj
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Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner
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Decalogue n
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The ten commandments
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Decameron n
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A volume consisting of ten parts or books
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Decapod adj
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Ten-footed or ten-armed
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Declension n
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The change of endings in nouns and adj
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Defalcate v.
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To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
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Defer v
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To delay or put off to some other time
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Deist n.
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One who believes in god, but denies supernatural revelation.
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Deliquesce v
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To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air
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Demulcent n
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Any application soothing to an irritable surface
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demurrage n
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The detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing
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Dendroid adj
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Like a tree
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Dendrology n
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The natural history of trees
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Denouement n
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That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up
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Dentifrice n
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Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth
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Denude v
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To strip the covering from
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Derrick n
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An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights
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Descry v
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To discern
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desiccant n.
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Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
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Despotism n
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Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part
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Detrude v
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To push down forcibly
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Dialectician n
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A logician
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Digraph n
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A union of two characters representing a single sound
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Diphthong n
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The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds
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Discursive adj
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Passing from one subject to another
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Dishabille n
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Undress or negligent attire
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Dissentient n
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One who disagrees
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Dissever v
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To divide
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Disyllable n
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A word of two syllables
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Distemper n
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A disease or malady
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Distend v
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To stretch out or expand in every direction
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Distensible adj
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Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction
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Distention n
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Expansion
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Distill v
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To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation
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Distillation n
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Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile
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Distiller n
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One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors
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Distrain v
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To subject a person to distress
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Distrainor n
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One who subjects a person to distress
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Diurnal adj
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Daily
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Divagation n
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Digression
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Divertible adj
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Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established
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Divest v.
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To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment.
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Dolesome adj
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Melancholy
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Dolor n
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Lamentation
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Domicile n
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The place where one lives
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Donee n
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A person to whom a donation is made
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Doublet n
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One of a pair of like things
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Drachma n
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A modern and an ancient greek coin
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Duteous adj
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Showing submission to natural superiors
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Dyne n.
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The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
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Educe v
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To draw out
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Effeminacy n
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Womanishness
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Effervesce v
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To bubble up
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Efflorescence n.
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The state of being flowery, or a flowery appearance.
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Efflorescent adj
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Opening in flower
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Effluvium n
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A noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter
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Egress n
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Any place of exit
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Electrotype n.
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A metallic copy of any surface, as a coin.
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Enamor v
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To inspire with ardent love
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Epicycle n
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A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle
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Epicycloid n
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A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle
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Epitaph n
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An inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead
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Epithet n.
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Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "father aeneas".
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Epizootic adj
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Prevailing among animals
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Epode n
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A species of lyric poems
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Eschew v
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To keep clear of
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Espy v
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To keep close watch
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Esquire n.
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A title of dignity, office, or courtesy.
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Estuary n
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A wide lower part of a tidal river
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Et cetera latin
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And so forth
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Eugenic adj
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Relating to the development and improvement of race
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Evanescent adj
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Fleeting
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Evert v
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To turn inside out
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Execrable adj
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Abominable
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Execration n
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An accursed thing
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Executor n
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A person nominated by the will of another to execute the will
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Exemplar n.
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A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated.
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Exigency n
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A critical period or condition
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Extempore adv
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Without studied or special preparation
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Extensible adj
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Capable of being thrust out
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Extensor n
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A muscle that causes extension
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Fabulous adj
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Incredible
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Facile adj
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Not difficult to do
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Facility n
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Ease
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Factious adj
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Turbulent
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Fancier n
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One having a taste for or interest in special objects
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Fanciless adj
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Unimaginative
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Faun n.
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One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet.
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Fealty n
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Loyalty
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Federate v
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To league together
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Fez n.
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A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel.
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Fiducial adj
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Indicative of faith or trust
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Fitful adj
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Spasmodic
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Foible n
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A personal weakness or failing
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Foist v
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To palm off
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Forby adv
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Besides
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Forepeak n.
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The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck.
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Forecastle n
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That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds
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Forfend v
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To ward off
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Frigidarium n.
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A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc.
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Frowzy adj
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Slovenly in appearance
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Fugacious adj
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Fleeting
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Fungous adj
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Spongy
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