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Deadlock
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A standstill
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Locking in place
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Cumbersome
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Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk
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Cumber = Trees = Burden
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Spasmodic
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Convulsive
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Spaz
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Relinquish
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To give up using or having
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To release
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Salvage
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Any act of saving property
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Salvaging whatever to survive
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Muddle
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To confuse or becloud, especially with a drink
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Cloudy, unclear, puddle
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Spurious
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Not genuine
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Fickle
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Dilemma
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A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary
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Problem
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Unbridled
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Being without restraint
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Not bridled by anything
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Diffuse
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Wordy, tending to use more words than are necessary
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Diffuse = More
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Debris
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Scattered remains of something; rubbish
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What's left after a hurricane?
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Breach
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An opening, tear, or rupture. A violation of a law or promise
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Law
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Perennial
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Continuing through the year or through many years
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Years
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Opinionated
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Holding stubbornly to one's own opinions
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Chris is very opinionated.
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Brigand
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One who lives by robbery and plunder
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Kurosagi
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Circumspect
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Cautious; prudent; wary; careful
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Inspecting everything
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Efface
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To cause to disappear by rubbing out, striking out, etc
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Wipe out
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Commandeer
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To seize for military use; confiscate
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A commander is very commanding. Commanders are sort of like mean boot-camp-training people.
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Predispose
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To make someone inclined to something in advance; To make susceptible
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Pre = Before
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Admonish
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To warn of a fault, lightly scold
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I admonish Nancy sometimes for having certain annoying characteristics.
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Inveterate
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Long established; habitual; deep-rooted
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Koki has trouble telling the truth; in fact, he's an inveterate liar.
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Innate
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Possessed at birth
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Cats have the innate ability to see in the dark.
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Vindicated
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Free from blame
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I'm vindicated. I'm selfish. I'm wrong.
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Incontrovertible
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Indisputable; not open to question
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Evidence is incontrovertible.
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Parochial
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Narrow in scope
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Stop being so parochial in your thinking on this issue.
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Biased
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Prejudiced
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No matter how baka Yamapi acts, I will <3 him because I am biased.
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Bete Noir
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Something to be avoided or disliked
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Sleeping with Nancy is so bete noir, especially due to the fact that she snores and kicks.
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Fetid
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Stinky
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Sandra has fetid feet.
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Tableau
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A striking, dramatic scene or picture
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The photographer captured the tableau of Koki dressing up as a transvestite.
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Epitome
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Representative example of a type
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Nancy's the epitome of slovenliness.
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Emulate
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Copy someone; to imitate
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Everyone seems to emulate Irene because she is just so gosh darn sexy!
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Saturnine
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Of a gloomy temperament
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Sandra is often saturnine. I wish she would stop being a mopey dope and be more gay instead.
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Vernacular
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Informal speech; native language
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Koki and I share many different vernacular words, because we delight in being (to some extent) fobs.
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Antiseptic
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Free from germs; thoroughly clean
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OMG. I must be the most antiseptic person among my friends. Excluding, perhaps, Jasmine --what a freakshow she is! (haha).
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Choleric
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Easily angered; bad-tempered
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It's a good thing that Koki isn't choleric. Otherwise, he would probably stab me (with just his eyeballs... oh wait, he already stabs me with his face though...)
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Disseminate
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To scatter widely; to make known
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I must disseminate the news to the world that Koki is KUMO ONNA!!!
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Judicious
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Wise and careful
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Koki is incapable of making judicious decisions because he's a clumsy fool.
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Blatant
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Offensively obvious; unpleasantly noisy
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Sometimes, the blatant weird sounds that Nancy makes really annoy the heck out of me.
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August
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Inspiring awe or admiration, esp. because of high rank of character
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Irene's totally august. Koki's totally not august, because Irene's sexier.
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Definitive
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Complete
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My definitive answer to your question is "Yes, I do believe that Koki is Spiderwoman."
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Palatable
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Pleasant or acceptable to taste
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The food that Koki cooks is barely palatable. Irene cooks better.
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Generic
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Without a trademark; general
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Brocolli is a generic vegetable. In contrast, tomatoes are very un-generic because they are special.
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Draconian
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Extremely harsh and severe
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Mommy can be very draconian at times.
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Transient
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Passing with time; remaining only briefly
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Are feelings transient? Nothing of this world is forever, is it?
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Quintessence
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Pure substance or essence of something; pure example
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Irene is the quintessence of HOT STUFF.
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Robust
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Strong and healthy
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Daddy worries day and night about being robust, but he doesn't seem to realize that we are not always in control over our health.
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Crevice
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Crack or narrow fissure
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This reminds me of that "scary" movie I watched with Koki.
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Emphatic
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Done or expressed with force
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Whenever Nancy tries to tell me something, she's very emphatic about it --leaving me with numerous bruises! :(
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Moribund
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Approaching death; nearly obsolete
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Dessicated brocolli can be considered moribund.
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Pejorative
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Having negative connotations; tending to belittle or disparage.
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Synonym = Depreciate (To lower in estimation or esteem; lower in value).
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