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competitive
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adjective: characterized by rivalry.
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wantonness
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noun: Recklessness.
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galvanic
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adjective: Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action.
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effeminacy
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noun: Womanishness.
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avidity
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noun: Greediness.
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magnet
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noun: A body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone.
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compulsion
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noun: Coercion.
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irksome
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adjective: Wearisome.
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merciful
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adjective: Disposed to pity and forgive.
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admonition
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noun: Gentle reproof.
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contravene
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verb: To prevent or obstruct the operation of.
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destitute
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adjective: Poverty-stricken.
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absolve
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verb: To free from sin or its penalties.
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aggrieve
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verb: To give grief or sorrow to.
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suasion
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noun: The act of persuading.
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retouch
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verb: To modify the details of.
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occlude
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verb: To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
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mendacious
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adjective: Untrue.
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inert
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adjective: Inanimate.
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personal
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adjective: Not general or public.
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submerge
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verb: To place or plunge under water.
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sextet
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noun: A band of six singers or players.
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preexistence
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noun: Existence antecedent to something.
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extant
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adjective: Still existing and known.
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panegyric
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noun: A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
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violation
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noun: Infringement.
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deciduous
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adjective: Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc.
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bier
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noun: A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
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reminiscence
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noun: The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
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rhetoric
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noun: The art of discourse.
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covenant
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noun: An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
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ailment
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noun: Slight sickness.
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transcribe
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verb: To write over again (something already written)
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prophecy
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noun: Any prediction or foretelling.
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deprecate
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verb: To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
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contagion
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noun: The communication of disease from person to person.
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exuberant
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adjective: Marked by great plentifulness.
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physiocracy
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noun: The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
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carnivorous
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adjective: Eating or living on flesh.
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anemic
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adjective: Affected with anemia.
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revelation
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noun: A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
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gentile
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adjective: Belonging to a people not Jewish.
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insolent
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adjective: Impudent.
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monocracy
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noun: Government by a single person.
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theocracy
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noun: A government administered by ecclesiastics.
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rehabilitate
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verb: To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
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harangue
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noun: A tirade.
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pretext
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noun: A fictitious reason or motive.
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implausible
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adjective: Not plausible.
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theological
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adjective: Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
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nausea
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noun: An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit
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instigator
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noun: One who incites to evil.
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grenadier
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noun: A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature.
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parlor
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noun: A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
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dragnet
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noun: A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
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confront
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verb: To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
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chastise
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verb: To subject to punitive measures.
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fraudulence
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noun: Deceitfulness.
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indescribable
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adjective: That can not be described.
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christen
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verb: To name in baptism.
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immovable
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adjective: Steadfast.
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modify
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verb: To make somewhat different.
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perturb
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verb: To disturb greatly.
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furrier
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noun: A dealer in or maker of fur goods.
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intimacy
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noun: Close or confidential friendship.
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phonic
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adjective: Pertaining to the nature of sound.
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naval
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adjective: Pertaining to ships.
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soothsayer
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noun: One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
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precocious
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adjective: Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
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medallion
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noun: A large medal.
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soliloquy
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noun: A monologue.
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physicist
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noun: A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
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prolong
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verb: To extend in time or duration.
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invigorate
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verb: To animate.
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species
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noun: A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
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transferrer
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noun: One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another.
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apothecary
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noun: One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
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gaiety
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noun: Festivity.
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clangor
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noun: Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
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undersell
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verb: To sell at a lower price than.
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irradiate
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verb: To render clear and intelligible.
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superlative
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noun: That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
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crockery
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noun: Earthenware made from baked clay.
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assonant
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adjective: Having resemblance of sound.
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anathema
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noun: Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
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muster
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noun: An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
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autocrat
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noun: Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
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pusilanimous
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adjective: Without spirit or bravery.
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novice
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noun: A beginner in any business or occupation.
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fretful
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adjective: Disposed to peevishness.
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dispel
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verb: To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions.
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earnest
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adjective: Ardent in spirit and speech.
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recapture
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verb: To capture again.
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pestilence
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noun: A raging epidemic.
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refer
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verb: To direct or send for information or other purpose.
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revert
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verb: To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
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acquiesce
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verb: To comply; submit.
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terminus
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noun: The final point or goal.
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vermin
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noun: A noxious or troublesome animal.
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hesitancy
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noun: A pausing to consider.
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undervalue
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verb: To underestimate.
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constituent
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noun: One who has the right to vote at an election.
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diaphanous
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adjective: Transparent.
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coincide
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verb: To correspond.
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inflammation
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noun: A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain.
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taxation
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noun: A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.
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invasion
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noun: Encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass.
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palpable
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noun: perceptible by feeling or touch.
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enigma
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noun: A riddle.
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vale
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noun: Level or low land between hills.
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territorial
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adjective: Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction.
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pediatrics
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noun: The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
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advert
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verb: To refer incidentally.
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antonym
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noun: A word directly opposed to another in meaning.
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squatter
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noun: One who settles on land without permission or right.
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numeration
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noun: The act or art of reading or naming numbers.
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financier
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noun: One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations.
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enormous
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adjective: Gigantic.
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efficient
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adjective: Having and exercising the power to produce effects or results.
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effervesce
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verb: To bubble up.
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surrogate
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noun: One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another.
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inherent
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adjective: Intrinsic.
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obdurate
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adjective: Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.
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lithotype
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noun: In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing.
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preengage
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verb: To preoccupy.
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alluvion
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noun: Flood.
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finale
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noun: Concluding performance.
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exemplar
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noun: A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated.
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cynical
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adjective: Exhibiting moral skepticism.
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beau
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noun: An escort or lover.
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anthropomorphous
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adjective: Having or resembling human form.
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meticulous
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adjective: Over-cautious.
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deform
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verb: To disfigure.
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tortious
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adjective: Wrongful.
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despicable
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adjective: Contemptible.
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prelude
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noun: An introductory or opening performance.
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undeceive
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verb: To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs.
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repository
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noun: A place in which goods are stored.
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indefensible
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adjective: Untenable.
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legislator
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noun: A lawgiver.
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admissible
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adjective: Having the right or privilege of entry.
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belittle
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verb: To disparage.
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normalcy
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noun: The state of being normal.
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laddie
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noun: A lad.
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emigrant
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noun: One who moves from one place to settle in another.
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clandestine
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adjective: Surreptitious.
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dishonest
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adjective: Untrustworthy.
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ridicule
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noun: Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
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possible
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adjective: Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural.
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misbehavior
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noun: Ill or improper behavior.
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Gordian knot
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noun: Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners.
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indolence
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noun: Laziness.
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odious
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adjective: Hateful.
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energetic
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adjective: Working vigorously.
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propaganda
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noun: Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.
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solicitude
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noun: Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
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commute
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verb: To put something, especially something less severe, in place of.
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ascension
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noun: The act of rising.
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insipid
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adjective: Tasteless.
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plural
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adjective: Containing or consisting of more than one.
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bitterness
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noun: Acridity, as to the taste.
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duteous
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adjective: Showing submission to natural superiors.
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hernia
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noun: Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position.
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bureaucracy
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noun: Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business.
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jaundice
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noun: A morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin.
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collapse
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verb: To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
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detrude
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verb: To push down forcibly.
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contumacy
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noun: Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
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contradiction
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noun: The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said.
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astringent
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adjective: Harsh in disposition or character.
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resilient
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adjective: Having the quality of springing back to a former position.
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elegy
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noun: A lyric poem lamenting the dead.
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shuffle
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noun: A mixing or changing the order of things.
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prominence
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noun: The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
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collapsible
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adjective: That may or can collapse.
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accordion
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noun: A portable free-reed musical instrument.
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censor
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noun: An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
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onus
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noun: A burden or responsibility.
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recuperate
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verb: To recover.
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impious
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adjective: Characterized by irreverence or irreligion.
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fete
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noun: A festival or feast.
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bestrew
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verb: To sprinkle or cover with things strewn.
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prudential
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adjective: Proceeding or marked by caution.
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sustenance
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noun: Food.
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dwindle
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verb: To diminish or become less.
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outride
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verb: To ride faster than.
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transplant
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verb: To remove and plant in another place.
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clumsy
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adjective: Awkward of movement.
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metamorphosis
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noun: A passing from one form or shape into another.
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catastrophe
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noun: Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity.
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sergeant-at-arms
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noun: An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer.
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guess
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noun: Surmise.
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centiliter
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noun: A hundredth of a liter.
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covert
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adjective: Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
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consul
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noun: An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
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heritage
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noun: Birthright.
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stimulus
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noun: Incentive.
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effervescent
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adjective: Giving off bubbles of gas.
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necessity
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noun: That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired.
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distort
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verb: To twist into an unnatural or irregular form.
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savor
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verb: To perceive by taste or smell.
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pantomime
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noun: Sign-language.
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benefit
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noun: Helpful result.
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animate
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verb: To make alive.
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vociferate
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verb: To utter with a loud and vehement voice.
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unctuous
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adjective: Oily.
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parallel
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verb: To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
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aviary
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noun: A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
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suppression
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noun: A forcible putting or keeping down.
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furlough
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noun: A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer.
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adulterate
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verb: To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
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precession
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noun: The act of going forward.
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thereabout
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aderb: Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
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aborigines
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noun: The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
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therefor
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aderb: For that or this.
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intervale
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noun: A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river.
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conferee
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noun: A person with whom another confers.
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success
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noun: A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
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denote
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verb: To designate by word or mark.
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Americanism
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noun: A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
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precision
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noun: Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
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benign
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adjective: Good and kind of heart.
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constellation
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noun: An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
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variation
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noun: Modification.
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lacerate
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verb: To tear rudely or raggedly.
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anode
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noun: The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
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disinherit
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verb: To deprive of an inheritance.
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cessation
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noun: Discontinuance, as of action or motion.
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ignoble
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adjective: Low in character or purpose.
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graceless
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adjective: Ungracious.
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pentad
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noun: The number five.
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dissonant
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adjective: Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
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emporium
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noun: A bazaar or shop.
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pernicious
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adjective: Tending to kill or hurt.
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deity
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noun: A god, goddess, or divine person.
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interminable
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adjective: Having no limit or end.
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frantic
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adjective: Frenzied.
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onslaught
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noun: A violent onset.
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embolden
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verb: To give courage to.
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rabid
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adjective: Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.
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miser
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noun: A person given to saving and hoarding unduly.
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consanguineous
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adjective: Descended from the same parent or ancestor.
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irate
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adjective: Moved to anger.
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midwife
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noun: A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth.
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declamatory
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adjective: A full and formal style of utterance.
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legging
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noun: A covering for the leg.
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descent
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noun: The act of moving or going downward.
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magnate
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noun: A person of rank or importance.
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arbitrate
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verb: To act or give judgment as umpire.
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warlike
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adjective: Belligerent.
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embody
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verb: To express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form.
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atheism
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noun: The denial of the existence of God.
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privateer
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noun: A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
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introgression
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noun: Entrance.
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hygiene
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noun: The branch of medical science that relates to improving health.
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consternation
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noun: Panic.
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delude
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verb: To mislead the mind or judgment of.
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fuse
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verb: To unite or blend as by melting together.
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pedagogue
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noun: A schoolmaster.
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premise
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noun: A judgment as a conclusion.
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perigee
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noun: The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.
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conspire
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verb: To plot.
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hybrid
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adjective: Cross-bred.
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rebut
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verb: To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
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scoundrel
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noun: A man without principle.
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pervasive
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adjective: Thoroughly penetrating or permeating.
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indicant
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adjective: That which points out.
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distrain
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verb: To subject a person to distress.
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infamous
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adjective: Publicly branded or notorious, as for vice, or crime.
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lodgment
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noun: The act of furnishing with temporary quarters.
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narrative
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noun: An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event.
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diplomatist
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noun: One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
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cholera
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noun: An acute epidemic disease.
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angelic
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adjective: Saintly.
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recreant
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noun: A cowardly or faithless person.
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respite
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noun: Interval of rest.
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emblazon
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verb: To set forth publicly or in glowing terms.
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hydraulic
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adjective: Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion.
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blase
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adjective: Sated with pleasure.
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ultramontane
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adjective: Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side).
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barcarole
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noun: A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.
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receptive
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adjective: Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
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satirize
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verb: To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
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fabulous
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adjective: Incredible.
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herbivorous
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adjective: Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals.
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rotate
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verb: To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
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metaphysical
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adjective: Philosophical.
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apostle
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noun: Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
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queue
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noun: A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
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commentary
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noun: A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.
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desperado
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noun: One without regard for law or life.
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mantel
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noun: The facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it.
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knickknack
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noun: A small article, more for ornament that use.
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distrust
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noun: Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person.
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domesticity
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noun: Life in or fondness for one's home and family.
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neutral
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adjective: Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants.
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disquiet
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verb: To deprive of peace or tranquillity.
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reign
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verb: To hold and exercise sovereign power.
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profiteer
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noun: One who profits.
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prosaic
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adjective: Unimaginative.
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contuse
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verb: To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
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conflagration
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noun: A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
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erudition
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noun: Extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc.
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introspection
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noun: The act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings.
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Spartan
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adjective: Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
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grief
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noun: Sorrow.
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vestment
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noun: Clothing or covering.
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propitious
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adjective: Kindly disposed.
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luxuriant
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adjective: Abundant or superabundant in growth.
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profligacy
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noun: Shameless viciousness.
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intervene
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verb: To interfere for some end.
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dissipate
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verb: To disperse or disappear.
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abdomen
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noun: In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly.
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kiloliter
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noun: One thousand liters.
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campaign
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noun: A complete series of connected military operations.
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occupant
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noun: A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner.
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dissect
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verb: To cut apart or to pieces.
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heredity
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noun: Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring.
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violoncello
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noun: A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
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diplomacy
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noun: Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
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zeitgeist
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noun: The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
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pension
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noun: A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
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poesy
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noun: Poetry.
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pamphleteer
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verb: To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
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satyr
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noun: A very lascivious person.
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periodicity
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noun: The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals.
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indigent
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adjective: Poor.
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insulate
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verb: To place in a detached state or situation.
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interlude
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noun: An action or event considered as coming between others of greater length.
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bereave
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verb: To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
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discreet
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adjective: Judicious.
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pauperism
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noun: Dependence on charity.
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lacteal
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adjective: Milky.
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upbraid
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verb: To reproach as deserving blame.
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defendant
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noun: A person against whom a suit is brought.
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rapid
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adjective: Having great speed.
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scurrilous
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adjective: Grossly indecent or vulgar.
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confer
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verb: To bestow.
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adroit
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adjective: Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
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amorphous
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adjective: Without determinate shape.
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embarrass
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verb: To render flustered or agitated.
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plebeian
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adjective: Common.
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awaken
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verb: To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
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mania
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noun: Insanity.
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inaudible
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adjective: That can not be heard.
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appreciable
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adjective: Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.
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wherever
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aderb: In or at whatever place.
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pervade
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verb: To pass or spread through every part.
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clan
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noun: A tribe.
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modish
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adjective: Fashionable.
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aura
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noun: Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
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flux
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noun: A state of constant movement, change, or renewal.
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reflexible
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adjective: Capable of being reflected.
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fastidious
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adjective: Hard to please.
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excess
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noun: That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience.
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protection
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noun: Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
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betimes
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aderb: In good season or time.
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vindicative
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adjective: Revengeful.
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intestacy
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noun: The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will.
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cantata
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noun: A choral composition.
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affront
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noun: An open insult or indignity.
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senile
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adjective: Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age.
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entangle
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verb: To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications.
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monastery
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noun: A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion.
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temporary
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adjective: Lasting for a short time only.
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divulge
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verb: To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret.
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revisal
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noun: Revision.
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haggard
|
adjective: Worn and gaunt in appearance.
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impetuosity
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noun: Rashness.
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untoward
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adjective: Causing annoyance or hindrance.
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imminence
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noun: Impending evil or danger.
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moralist
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noun: A writer on ethics.
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puerile
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adjective: Childish.
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desiccant
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noun: Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
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affable
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adjective: Easy to approach.
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resurrection
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noun: A return from death to life
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fissure
|
noun: A crack or crack-like depression.
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perversity
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noun: Wickedness.
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akin
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adjective: Of similar nature or qualities.
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troublesome
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adjective: Burdensome.
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heptagon
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noun: A figure having seven sides and seven angles.
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breaker
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noun: One who trains horses, dogs, etc.
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transcontinental
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adjective: Extending or passing across a continent.
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devise
|
verb: To invent.
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frizz
|
verb: To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to.
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attache
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noun: A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.
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adhere
|
verb: To stick fast or together.
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taciturn
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adjective: Disinclined to conversation.
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flue
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noun: A smoke-duct in a chimney.
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repine
|
verb: To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
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trite
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adjective: Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
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libel
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noun: Defamation.
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disown
|
verb: To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself.
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solace
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noun: Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
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sufferance
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noun: Toleration.
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unnecessary
|
adjective: Not essential under the circumstances.
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misrepresent
|
verb: To give a wrong impression.
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laborious
|
adjective: Toilsome.
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incandescent
|
adjective: White or glowing with heat.
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cosmic
|
adjective: Pertaining to the universe.
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donee
|
noun: A person to whom a donation is made.
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synonym
|
noun: A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other.
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analyst
|
noun: One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
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innovate
|
verb: To introduce or strive to introduce new things.
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supramundane
|
adjective: Supernatural.
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heterodox
|
adjective: At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion.
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bleak
|
adjective: Desolate.
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carnage
|
noun: Massacre.
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purport
|
noun: Intent.
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curtsy
|
noun: A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
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perpetrator
|
noun: The doer of a wrong or a criminal act.
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stationary
|
adjective: Not moving.
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indomitable
|
adjective: Unconquerable.
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defer
|
verb: To delay or put off to some other time.
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complacent
|
adjective: Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
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whine
|
verb: To utter with complaining tone.
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evince
|
verb: To make manifest or evident.
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trimness
|
noun: Neatness.
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divertible
|
adjective: Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
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tipsy
|
adjective: Befuddled with drinks.
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impunity
|
noun: Freedom from punishment.
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chasten
|
verb: To purify by affliction.
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arrant
|
adjective: Notoriously bad.
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dissonance
|
noun: Discord.
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dubious
|
adjective: Doubtful.
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petulance
|
noun: The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
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continuity
|
noun: Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development.
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lascivious
|
adjective: Lustful.
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patrician
|
adjective: Of senatorial or noble rank.
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tricolor
|
adjective: Of three colors.
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inoffensive
|
adjective: Causing nothing displeasing or disturbing.
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inquisition
|
noun: A court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics.
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louse
|
noun: A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals.
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intensive
|
adjective: Adding emphasis or force.
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inception
|
noun: The beginning.
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refragable
|
adjective: Capable of being refuted.
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panacea
|
noun: A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
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aperture
|
noun: Hole.
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fictitious
|
adjective: Created or formed by the imagination.
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pious
|
adjective: Religious.
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ambiguous
|
adjective: Having a double meaning.
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carnal
|
adjective: Sensual.
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adjacency
|
noun: The state of being adjacent.
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selective
|
adjective: Having the power of choice.
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afterthought
|
noun: A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
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mimic
|
verb: To imitate the speech or actions of.
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vagabond
|
noun: A wanderer.
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radiate
|
verb: To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
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diplomatic
|
adjective: Characterized by special tact in negotiations.
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benevolence
|
noun: Any act of kindness or well-doing.
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nomination
|
noun: The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office.
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reck
|
verb: To have a care or thought for.
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globose
|
adjective: Spherical.
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imaginable
|
adjective: That can be imagined or conceived in the mind.
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faulty
|
adjective: Imperfect.
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tempter
|
noun: An allurer or enticer to evil.
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impetus
|
noun: Any impulse or incentive.
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prate
|
verb: To talk about vainly or foolishly.
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preoccupation
|
noun: The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied.
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leeward
|
noun: That side or direction toward which the wind blows.
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demagogue
|
noun: An unprincipled politician.
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arrival
|
noun: A coming to stopping-place or destination.
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grievance
|
noun: That which oppresses, injures, or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong.
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tempt
|
verb: To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
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penetrable
|
adjective: That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
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promiscuous
|
adjective: Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
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prejudice
|
noun: A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts.
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technic
|
adjective: Technical.
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mobocracy
|
noun: Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
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spectator
|
noun: One who beholds or looks on.
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competitor
|
noun: A rival.
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meditation
|
noun: The turning or revolving of a subject in the mind.
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fluctuate
|
verb: To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another.
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immerse
|
verb: To plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid.
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humane
|
adjective: Compassionate.
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enrage
|
verb: To infuriate.
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asexual
|
adjective: Having no distinct sexual organs.
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hypocrisy
|
noun: Extreme insincerity.
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venereal
|
adjective: Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
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autobiography
|
noun: The story of one's life written by himself.
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exhaustible
|
adjective: Causing or tending to cause exhaustion.
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successful
|
adjective: Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity.
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comical
|
adjective: Funny.
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accession
|
noun: Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.
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sepulcher
|
noun: A burial-place.
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evidential
|
adjective: Indicative.
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ubiquitous
|
adjective: Being present everywhere.
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excruciate
|
verb: To inflict severe pain or agony upon.
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expediency
|
noun: Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case.
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jurisprudence
|
noun: The science of rights in accordance with positive law.
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superintendent
|
noun: One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
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quarterly
|
adjective: Occurring or made at intervals of three months.
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dissuasion
|
noun: The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading.
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sardonic
|
adjective: Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
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posterior
|
noun: The hinder part.
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vitiate
|
verb: To contaminate.
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irradiance
|
noun: Luster.
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epic
|
noun: A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc.
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supernumerary
|
adjective: Superfluous.
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kingship
|
noun: Royal state.
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negation
|
noun: The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
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battalion
|
noun: A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
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essence
|
noun: That which makes a thing to be what it is.
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solar
|
adjective: Pertaining to the sun.
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preservation
|
noun: Conservation.
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constable
|
noun: An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
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formula
|
noun: Fixed rule or set form.
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rigorous
|
adjective: Uncompromising.
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commotion
|
noun: A disturbance or violent agitation.
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proceed
|
verb: To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption.
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morbid
|
adjective: Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
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courtesy
|
noun: Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
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proclamation
|
noun: Any announcement made in a public manner.
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protrude
|
verb: To push out or thrust forth.
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desert
|
verb: To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
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sordid
|
adjective: Of degraded character or nature.
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detract
|
verb: To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation.
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midsummer
|
noun: The middle of the summer.
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epigram
|
noun: A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation.
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ossify
|
verb: to convert into bone.
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hackney
|
verb: To make stale or trite by repetition.
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salient
|
adjective: Standing out prominently.
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nit
|
noun: The egg of a louse or some other insect.
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improvident
|
adjective: Lacking foresight or thrift.
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aboveboard
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aderb: Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
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supple
|
adjective: Easily bent.
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codicil
|
noun: A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
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antiquary
|
noun: One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
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monetary
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adjective: Financial.
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lactation
|
noun: The secretion of milk.
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transmute
|
verb: To change in nature, substance, or form.
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abhorrent
|
adjective: Very repugnant; hateful.
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felicity
|
noun: A state of well-founded happiness.
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inhospitable
|
adjective: Not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously.
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nonpareil
|
noun: One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
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sympathetic
|
adjective: Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others.
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lackadaisical
|
adjective: Listless.
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protoplasm
|
noun: The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
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precede
|
verb: To happen first.
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paly
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adjective: Lacking color or brilliancy.
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impoverish
|
verb: To make indigent or poor.
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inefficient
|
adjective: Not accomplishing an intended purpose.
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malcontent
|
noun: One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
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variable
|
adjective: Having a tendency to change.
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defame
|
verb: To slander.
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loam
|
noun: A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay.
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ennoble
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verb: To dignify.
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alliance
|
noun: Any combination or union for some common purpose.
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anonymous
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adjective: Of unknown authorship.
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impair
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verb: To cause to become less or worse.
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temporal
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adjective: Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
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disbeliever
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noun: One who refuses to believe.
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sequence
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noun: The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
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hypnotize
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verb: To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions.
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rotund
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adjective: Round from fullness or plumpness.
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enfeeble
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verb: To debilitate.
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vogue
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noun: The prevalent way or fashion.
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indolent
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adjective: Habitually inactive or idle.
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accusatory
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adjective: Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
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commemorate
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verb: To serve as a remembrance of.
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manlike
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adjective: Like a man.
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dogmatic
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adjective: Making statements without argument or evidence.
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landlord
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noun: A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements.
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embezzle
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verb: To misappropriate secretly.
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hardihood
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noun: Foolish daring.
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venous
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adjective: Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
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missal
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noun: The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
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evasion
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noun: Escape.
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mystic
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noun: One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth.
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burgher
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noun: An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
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lenient
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adjective: Not harsh.
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alkali
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noun: Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
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metaphysics
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noun: The principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science.
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hesitant
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adjective: Vacillating.
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prelacy
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noun: A system of church government.
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necromancer
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noun: One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead.
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conversant
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adjective: Thoroughly informed.
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subsist
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verb: To be maintained or sustained.
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intricacy
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noun: Perplexity.
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faction
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noun: A number of persons combined for a common purpose.
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palette
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noun: A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
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tolerate
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verb: To passively permit or put up with.
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degenerate
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verb: To become worse or inferior.
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disinterested
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adjective: Impartial.
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baize
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noun: A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
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bumper
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noun: A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
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hale
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adjective: Of sound and vigorous health.
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inconsequential
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adjective: Valueless.
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allege
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verb: To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.
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monosyllable
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noun: A word of one syllable.
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nostrum
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noun: Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
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alacrity
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noun: Cheerful willingness.
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terminal
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adjective: Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
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appall
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verb: To fill with dismay or horror.
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prohibitory
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adjective: Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
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refusal
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noun: Denial of what is asked.
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liniment
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noun: A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.
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hawthorn
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noun: A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges.
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confectionery
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noun: The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
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postscript
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noun: Something added to a letter after the writer's signature.
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leonine
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adjective: Like a lion.
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impotent
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adjective: Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual.
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accumulate
|
verb: To become greater in quantity or number.
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pathos
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noun: The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
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forbearance
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noun: Patient endurance or toleration of offenses.
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ill-natured
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adjective: Surly.
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transcript
|
noun: A copy made directly from an original.
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reckless
|
adjective: Foolishly headless of danger.
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retrograde
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verb: To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
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trammel
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noun: An impediment.
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psychotherapy
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noun: The treatment of mental disease.
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esthetic
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adjective: Pertaining to beauty, taste, or the fine arts.
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mane
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noun: The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion.
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contemptuous
|
adjective: Disdainful.
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martial
|
adjective: Pertaining to war or military operations.
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suggestible
|
adjective: That can be suggested.
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latent
|
adjective: Dormant.
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itinerant
|
adjective: Wandering.
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illuminate
|
verb: To supply with light.
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deflect
|
verb: To cause to turn aside or downward.
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Antichrist
|
noun: Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power.
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absorption
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noun: The act or process of absorbing.
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dialogue
|
noun: A formal conversation in which two or more take part.
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intellect
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noun: The faculty of perception or thought.
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peter
|
verb: To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
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pincers
|
noun: An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
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punitive
|
adjective: Pertaining to punishment.
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municipal
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government.
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dearth
|
noun: Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
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expansion
|
noun: Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like.
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neurology
|
noun: The science of the nervous system.
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plea
|
noun: An argument to obtain some desired action.
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separate
|
verb: To take apart.
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insecure
|
adjective: Not assured of safety.
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disrupt
|
verb: To burst or break asunder.
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proportionate
|
adjective: Being in proportion.
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benediction
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noun: a solemn invocation of the divine blessing.
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interact
|
verb: To act reciprocally.
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imperious
|
adjective: Insisting on obedience.
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monotone
|
noun: The sameness or monotony of utterance.
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thermal
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to heat.
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animadvert
|
verb: To pass criticism or censure.
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juggle
|
verb: To play tricks of sleight of hand.
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obesity
|
noun: Excessive fatness.
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reprehand
|
verb: To find fault with.
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surfeit
|
verb: To feed to fullness or to satiety.
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vindicatory
|
adjective: Punitive.
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valedictory
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noun: A parting address.
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confidant
|
noun: One to whom secrets are entrusted.
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linear
|
adjective: Of the nature of a line.
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domineer
|
verb: To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
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conscience
|
noun: The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct.
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intrepid
|
adjective: Fearless and bold.
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notorious
|
adjective: Unfavorably known to the general public.
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callosity
|
noun: The state of being hard and insensible.
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propriety
|
noun: Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
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unify
|
verb: To cause to be one.
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reconstruct
|
verb: To rebuild.
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norm
|
noun: A model.
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repudiate
|
verb: To refuse to have anything to do with.
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divest
|
verb: To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment.
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depreciation
|
noun: A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
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nil
|
noun: Nothing
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|
peddle
|
verb: To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
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extemporaneous
|
adjective: Done or made without much or any preparation.
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resonance
|
adjective: Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
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lucid
|
adjective: Mentally sound.
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intelligence
|
noun: Capacity to know or understand.
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torpor
|
noun: Apathy.
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subacid
|
adjective: Somewhat sharp or biting.
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evict
|
verb: To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree.
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quite
|
aderb: Fully.
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vehement
|
adjective: Very eager or urgent.
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extortion
|
noun: The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion.
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similar
|
adjective: Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
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conceit
|
noun: Self-flattering opinion.
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innocuous
|
adjective: Harmless.
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extraneous
|
adjective: Having no essential relation to a subject.
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disciple
|
noun: One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine.
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discriminate
|
verb: To draw a distinction.
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|
somnolent
|
adjective: Sleepy.
|
|
|
annotate
|
verb: To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.
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recur
|
verb: To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
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animalcule
|
noun: An animal of microscopic smallness.
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translucent
|
adjective: Allowing the passage of light.
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|
effluvium
|
noun: A noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter.
|
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humanitarian
|
noun: A philanthropist.
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adversity
|
noun: Misfortune.
|
|
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lapse
|
noun: A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
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unisonant
|
adjective: Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
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commingle
|
verb: To blend.
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|
defamation
|
noun: Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another.
|
|
|
confessor
|
noun: A spiritual advisor.
|
|
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jurisdiction
|
noun: Lawful power or right to exercise official authority.
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|
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transact
|
verb: To do business.
|
|
|
averse
|
adjective: Reluctant.
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|
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subjugate
|
verb: To conquer.
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|
vociferance
|
noun: The quality of making a clamor.
|
|
|
conjunction
|
noun: The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
|
|
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postgraduate
|
adjective: Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
|
|
|
demagnetize
|
verb: To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
|
|
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mollify
|
verb: To soothe.
|
|
|
homonym
|
noun: A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
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|
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sidereal
|
adjective: Pertaining to stars or constellations.
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|
|
maneuver
|
verb: To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy.
|
|
|
culvert
|
noun: Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
|
|
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decimate
|
verb: To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
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infringe
|
verb: To trespass upon.
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|
|
reliance
|
noun: Dependence.
|
|
|
amateur
|
adjective: Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
|
|
|
sylph
|
noun: A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
|
|
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effrontery
|
noun: Unblushing impudence.
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|
|
reclusory
|
noun: A hermitage.
|
|
|
utilitarianism
|
noun: The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
|
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rankle
|
verb: To produce irritation or festering.
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insignificance
|
noun: Lack of import or of importance.
|
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|
archetype
|
noun: A prototype.
|
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|
edible
|
adjective: Suitable to be eaten.
|
|
|
disenfranchise
|
verb: To deprive of any right privilege or power
|
|
|
peninsular
|
adjective: Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
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artless
|
adjective: Ingenuous.
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|
ordeal
|
noun: Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc.
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rendition
|
noun: Interpretation.
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|
|
analogy
|
noun: Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
|
|
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eccentric
|
adjective: Peculiar.
|
|
|
covey
|
noun: A flock of quails or partridges.
|
|
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tentative
|
adjective: Done as an experiment.
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|
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agglomerate
|
verb: To pile or heap together.
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|
|
antipathize
|
verb: To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
|
|
|
boatswain
|
noun: A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
|
|
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comport
|
verb: To conduct or behave (oneself).
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|
|
appellate
|
adjective: Capable of being appealed to.
|
|
|
omniscient
|
adjective: Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge.
|
|
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ascribe
|
verb: To assign as a quality or attribute.
|
|
|
efficacy
|
noun: The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it.
|
|
|
breech
|
noun: The buttocks.
|
|
|
opprobrium
|
noun: The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil.
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|
connoisseur
|
noun: A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art.
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insular
|
adjective: Pertaining to an island.
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|
expanse
|
noun: A continuous area or stretch.
|
|
|
blemish
|
noun: A mark that mars beauty.
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|
lingo
|
noun: Language.
|
|
|
cryptogram
|
noun: Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
|
|
|
stratum
|
noun: A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
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|
dramatist
|
noun: One who writes plays.
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|
drowsy
|
adjective: Heavy with sleepiness.
|
|
|
cycloid
|
adjective: Like a circle.
|
|
|
sentient
|
adjective: Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception.
|
|
|
sociology
|
noun: The philosophical study of society.
|
|
|
massive
|
adjective: Of considerable bulk and weight.
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|
creak
|
noun: A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
|
|
|
cosmetic
|
adjective: Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion.
|
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|
deference
|
noun: Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment.
|
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aforesaid
|
adjective: Said in a preceding part or before.
|
|
|
brigadier
|
noun: General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
|
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|
tutelage
|
noun: The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
|
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|
oral
|
adjective: Uttered through the mouth.
|
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|
finesse
|
noun: Subtle contrivance used to gain a point.
|
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|
second-rate
|
adjective: Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc.
|
|
|
isothermal
|
adjective: Having or marking equality of temperature.
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|
|
apprehensible
|
adjective: Capable of being conceived.
|
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|
Darwinism
|
noun: The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
|
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violator
|
noun: One who transgresses.
|
|
|
irreverent
|
adjective: Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
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|
casualty
|
noun: A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
|
|
|
endurance
|
noun: The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing.
|
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peaceful
|
adjective: Tranquil.
|
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|
indestructible
|
adjective: That can not be destroyed.
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impracticable
|
adjective: Not feasible.
|
|
|
encyclical
|
adjective: Intended for general circulation.
|
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|
demolish
|
verb: To annihilate.
|
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|
spurious
|
adjective: Not genuine.
|
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|
repugnance
|
noun: Thorough dislike.
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cognate
|
adjective: Akin.
|
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|
interrogate
|
verb: To examine formally by questioning.
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streamlet
|
noun: Rivulet.
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|
consignor
|
noun: One who entrusts.
|
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estuary
|
noun: A wide lower part of a tidal river.
|
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|
cynicism
|
noun: Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
|
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prospectus
|
noun: A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
|
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|
metric
|
adjective: Relating to measurement.
|
|
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curio
|
noun: A piece of bric-a-brac.
|
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obsolete
|
adjective: No longer practiced or accepted.
|
|
|
liquefacient
|
adjective: Possessing a liquefying nature or power.
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|
riddance
|
noun: The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
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sophism
|
noun: A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
|
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maharaja
|
noun: A great Hindu prince.
|
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out-of-the-way
|
adjective: Remotely situated.
|
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|
rebuild
|
verb: To build again or anew.
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punctual
|
adjective: Observant and exact in points of time.
|
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discomfit
|
verb: To put to confusion.
|
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|
bombast
|
noun: Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
|
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misanthropic
|
adjective: Hating mankind.
|
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cosmogony
|
noun: A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
|
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galvanism
|
noun: Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action.
|
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flag-officer
|
noun: The captain of a flag-ship.
|
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omnipotence
|
noun: Unlimited and universal power.
|
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unconscionable
|
adjective: Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
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rapt
|
adjective: Enraptured.
|
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reestablish
|
verb: To restore.
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inapprehensible
|
adjective: Not to be understood.
|
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|
hoard
|
verb: To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation.
|
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|
exorcise
|
verb: To cast or drive out by religious or magical means.
|
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|
postdate
|
verb: To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
|
|
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characteristic
|
noun: A distinctive feature.
|
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|
obelisk
|
noun: A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
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orthopedist
|
noun: One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity
|
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heretic
|
noun: One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy.
|
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|
chivalry
|
noun: The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
|
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vernal
|
adjective: Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
|
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concussion
|
noun: A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
|
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motley
|
adjective: Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements.
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exigency
|
noun: A critical period or condition.
|
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Madonna
|
noun: A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus.
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immortalize
|
verb: To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time.
|
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wretchedness
|
noun: Extreme misery or unhappiness.
|
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tense
|
adjective: Strained to stiffness.
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interim
|
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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octave
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noun: A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other.
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accustom
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verb: To make familiar by use.
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migrant
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adjective: Wandering.
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able-bodied
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adjective: Competent for physical service.
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pneumatic
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adjective: Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
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lattice
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noun: Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars.
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unction
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noun: The art of anointing as with oil.
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perspicuous
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adjective: Lucid.
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fulsome
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adjective: Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.
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metallurgy
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noun: The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.
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antiquate
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verb: To make old or out of date.
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transgress
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verb: To break a law.
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locative
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adjective: Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs.
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inadmissible
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adjective: Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony.
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despair
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noun: Utter hopelessness and despondency.
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ravine
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noun: A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
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momentous
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adjective: Very significant.
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volition
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noun: An act or exercise of will.
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resplendent
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adjective: Very bright.
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recure
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verb: To cure again.
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transferee
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noun: The person to whom a transfer is made.
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succumb
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verb: To cease to resist.
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apiary
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noun: A place where bees are kept.
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pervasion
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noun: The state of spreading through every part.
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symphonic
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adjective: Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
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infamy
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noun: Total loss or destitution of honor or reputation.
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overreach
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verb: To stretch out too far.
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synchronism
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noun: Simultaneousness.
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narrator
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noun: One who narrates anything.
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requiem
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noun: A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
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arrange
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verb: To put in definite or proper order.
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assay
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noun: The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.
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sedulous
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adjective: Persevering in effort or endeavor.
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later
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aderb: At a subsequent time.
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disburden
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verb: To disencumber.
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overdose
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noun: An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic.
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colloquial
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adjective: Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
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poetic
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adjective: Pertaining to poetry.
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bumptious
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adjective: Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
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antiphon
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noun: A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
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irrigant
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adjective: Serving to water lands by artificial means.
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ceremonious
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adjective: Observant of ritual.
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natal
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adjective: Pertaining to one's birth.
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consecrate
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verb: To set apart as sacred.
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sinecure
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noun: Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
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deficiency
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noun: Lack or insufficiency.
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complex
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adjective: Complicated.
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robust
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adjective: Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
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abundant
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adjective: Plentiful.
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tyro
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noun: One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
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translucence
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noun: The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
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overtone
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noun: A harmonic.
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offhand
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aderb: Without preparation.
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incompressible
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adjective: Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure.
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differentia
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noun: Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species.
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underrate
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verb: To undervalue.
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complication
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noun: An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
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compliment
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verb: To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
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alabaster
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noun: A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
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inevitable
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adjective: Unavoidable.
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pupilage
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noun: The state or period of being a student.
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airy
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adjective: Delicate, ethereal.
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objector
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noun: One who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling.
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outreach
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verb: To reach or go beyond.
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dedication
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noun: The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
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outlandish
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adjective: Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.
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protuberate
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verb: To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
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anthracite
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noun: Hard coal.
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reversion
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noun: A return to or toward some former state or condition.
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courageous
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adjective: Brave.
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reliquary
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noun: A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
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vertex
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noun: Apex.
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transfusible
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adjective: Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
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plutocracy
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noun: A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
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monotony
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noun: A lack of variety.
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caption
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noun: A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
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incipient
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adjective: Initial.
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evert
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verb: To turn inside out.
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apostasy
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noun: A total departure from one's faith or religion.
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augur
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verb: To predict.
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witling
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noun: A person who has little understanding.
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precipitate
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verb: To force forward prematurely.
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curator
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noun: A person having charge as of a library or museum.
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virulent
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adjective: Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.
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derisible
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adjective: Open to ridicule.
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typographical
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adjective: Pertaining to typography or printing.
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chastity
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noun: Sexual or moral purity.
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zodiac
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noun: An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets.
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magisterial
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adjective: Having an air of authority.
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lewd
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adjective: Characterized by lust or lasciviousness.
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abbot
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noun: The superior of a community of monks.
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well-doer
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noun: A performer of moral and social duties.
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subversion
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noun: An overthrow, as from the foundation.
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florid
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adjective: Flushed with red.
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habitable
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adjective: Fit to be dwelt in.
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seance
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noun: A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
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hibernal
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adjective: Pertaining to winter.
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pretentious
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adjective: Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
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outstretch
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verb: To extend.
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sphericity
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noun: The state or condition of being a sphere.
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nefarious
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adjective: Wicked in the extreme.
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perspire
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verb: To excrete through the pores of the skin.
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prostrate
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adjective: Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
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awry
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aderb: Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
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leaflet
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noun: A little leaf or a booklet.
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preposterous
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adjective: Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
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elapse
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verb: To quietly terminate: said of time.
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azure
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noun: The color of the sky.
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bethink
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verb: To remind oneself.
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audible
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adjective: Loud enough to be heard.
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converge
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verb: To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
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ravenous
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adjective: Furiously voracious or hungry.
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microscope
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noun: An instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects.
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auricular
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adjective: Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
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discrepant
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adjective: Opposite.
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floe
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noun: A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice.
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prosody
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noun: The science of poetical forms.
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self-respect
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noun: Rational self-esteem.
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enthrall
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verb: To bring or hold under any overmastering influence.
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liquefy
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verb: To convert into a liquid or into liquid form.
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undue
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adjective: More than sufficient.
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undergarment
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noun: A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments.
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transalpine
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adjective: Situated on the other side of the Alps.
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preparatory
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adjective: Having to do with what is preliminary.
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chronology
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noun: The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
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atrocity
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noun: Great cruelty or reckless wickedness.
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enshrine
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verb: To keep sacred.
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plagiarism
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noun: The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.
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euphonious
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adjective: Characterized by agreeableness of sound.
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prevalent
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adjective: Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
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fickle
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adjective: Unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose.
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protomartyr
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noun: The earliest victim in any cause.
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perforate
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verb: To make a hole or holes through.
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kingling
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noun: A petty king.
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advertiser
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noun: One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
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syneresis
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noun: The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
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acrid
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adjective: Harshly pungent or bitter.
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desist
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verb: To cease from action.
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conductible
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adjective: Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
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indiscriminate
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adjective: Promiscuous.
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transverse
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adjective: Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
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epoch
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noun: A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events.
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remonstrant
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adjective: Having the character of a reproof.
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plausible
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adjective: Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
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soldier
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noun: A person engaged in military service.
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volitive
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adjective: Exercising the will.
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lowly
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aderb: Rudely.
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pyromania
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noun: An insane propensity to set things on fire.
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descry
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verb: To discern.
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bedeck
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verb: To cover with ornament.
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foggy
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adjective: Obscure.
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pestilential
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adjective: having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
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insufficiency
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noun: Inadequacy.
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oust
|
verb: To eject.
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replenish
|
verb: To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
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prurient
|
adjective: Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
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modernize
|
verb: To make characteristic of the present or of recent times.
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joggle
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noun: A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
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botanical
|
adjective: Connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
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aurora
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noun: A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
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momentum
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noun: An impetus.
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persuade
|
verb: To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection.
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ambitious
|
adjective: Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
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reformer
|
noun: One who carries out a reform.
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expense
|
noun: The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength.
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gravity
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noun: Seriousness.
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ligature
|
noun: Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
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psychic
|
adjective: Pertaining to the mind or soul.
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hard-hearted
|
adjective: Lacking pity or sympathy.
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propellant
|
adjective: Propelling.
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freethinker
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noun: One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion.
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overture
|
noun: An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
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contagious
|
adjective: Transmitting disease.
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socialism
|
noun: A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
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extremity
|
noun: The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position.
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juvenile
|
adjective: Characteristic of youth.
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undulate
|
verb: To move like a wave or in waves.
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transfigure
|
verb: To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
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vagrant
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noun: An idle wanderer.
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gyrate
|
verb: To revolve.
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packet
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noun: A bundle, as of letters.
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futile
|
adjective: Of no avail or effect.
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flexible
|
adjective: Pliable.
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livid
|
adjective: Black-and-blue, as contused flesh.
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vendition
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noun: The act of selling.
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literal
|
adjective: Following the exact words.
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integrity
|
noun: Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle.
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metal
|
noun: An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous.
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fiducial
|
adjective: Indicative of faith or trust.
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habitant
|
noun: Dweller.
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guileless
|
adjective: Frank.
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exclusion
|
noun: Non-admission.
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glimmer
|
noun: A faint, wavering, unsteady light.
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polygamy
|
noun: the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
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evolution
|
noun: Development or growth.
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infidel
|
noun: One who denies the existence of God.
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doe
|
noun: The female of the deer.
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nameless
|
adjective: Having no fame or reputation.
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conspirator
|
noun: One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
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collide
|
verb: To meet and strike violently.
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recruit
|
verb: To enlist men for military or naval service.
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burnish
|
verb: To make brilliant or shining.
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philately
|
noun: The study and collection of stamps.
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cohere
|
verb: To stick together.
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brethren
|
noun: pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
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barometer
|
noun: An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
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triplicity
|
noun: The state of being triple or threefold.
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pedant
|
noun: A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
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paralyze
|
verb: To deprive of the power to act.
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malevolent
|
adjective: Wishing evil to others.
|
|
|
knead
|
verb: To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands.
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|
|
pinchers
|
noun: An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
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precaution
|
noun: A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger.
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paraphernalia
|
noun: Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
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proficient
|
adjective: Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
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paramour
|
noun: One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
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collaborate
|
verb: To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
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betide
|
verb: To happen to or befall.
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fervent
|
adjective: Ardent in feeling.
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|
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sergeant
|
noun: A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
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perversion
|
noun: Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
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surround
|
verb: To encircle.
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detest
|
verb: To dislike or hate with intensity.
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teem
|
verb: To be full to overflowing.
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qualification
|
noun: A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
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wizen-faced
|
adjective: Having a shriveled face.
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excitable
|
adjective: Nervously high-strung.
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harass
|
verb: To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
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bowler
|
noun: In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
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|
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kind-hearted
|
adjective: Having a kind and sympathetic nature.
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litigant
|
noun: A party to a lawsuit.
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disregard
|
verb: To take no notice of.
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|
archaeology
|
noun: The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
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|
theorize
|
verb: To speculate.
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numerical
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to number.
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tyrannical
|
adjective: Despotic.
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trinity
|
noun: A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
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dolor
|
noun: Lamentation.
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|
|
rebellious
|
adjective: Insubordinate.
|
|
|
anticyclone
|
noun: An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
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|
|
triennial
|
adjective: Taking place every third year.
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|
|
influence
|
noun: Ability to sway the will of another.
|
|
|
ichthyic
|
adjective: Fish-like.
|
|
|
hirsute
|
adjective: Having a hairy covering.
|
|
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rustic
|
adjective: Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
|
|
|
morphology
|
noun: the science of organic forms.
|
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divisible
|
adjective: Capable of being separated into parts.
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convene
|
verb: To summon or cause to assemble.
|
|
|
unique
|
adjective: Being the only one of its kind.
|
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|
transmissible
|
adjective: That may e sent through or across.
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|
correlative
|
adjective: Mutually involving or implying one another.
|
|
|
mnemonics
|
noun: A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances.
|
|
|
perception
|
noun: Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.
|
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preamble
|
noun: A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows.
|
|
|
predominate
|
verb: To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
|
|
|
wampum
|
noun: Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
|
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|
modulate
|
verb: To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound.
|
|
|
micrometer
|
noun: An instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions.
|
|
|
by-law
|
noun: A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like.
|
|
|
bailiff
|
noun: An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
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furtherance
|
noun: Advancement.
|
|
|
mundane
|
adjective: Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial.
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acquit
|
verb: To free or clear, as from accusation.
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enhance
|
verb: To intensify.
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impregnable
|
adjective: That can not be taken by assault.
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mallet
|
noun: A wooden hammer.
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sinuous
|
adjective: Curving in and out.
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infidelity
|
noun: Disloyalty.
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|
tribune
|
noun: Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
|
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colloquy
|
noun: Conversation.
|
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|
physiography
|
noun: Description of nature.
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philology
|
noun: The study of language in connection with history and literature.
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percolate
|
verb: To filter.
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languid
|
adjective: Relaxed.
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clemency
|
noun: Mercy.
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antecede
|
verb: To precede.
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appertain
|
verb: To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
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reassure
|
verb: To give new confidence.
|
|
|
expedite
|
verb: To hasten the movement or progress of.
|
|
|
aide-de-camp
|
noun: An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
|
|
|
viscount
|
noun: In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
|
|
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proxy
|
noun: A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter.
|
|
|
mountaineer
|
noun: One who travels among or climbs mountains for pleasure or exercise.
|
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preexist
|
verb: To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
|
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|
bronchitis
|
noun: Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
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discursive
|
adjective: Passing from one subject to another.
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provident
|
adjective: Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
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pamphlet
|
noun: A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
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|
|
famish
|
verb: To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst.
|
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|
moat
|
noun: A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall.
|
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profile
|
noun: An outline or contour.
|
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isle
|
noun: An island.
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instant
|
noun: A very brief portion of time.
|
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anesthetic
|
adjective: Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
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insomnia
|
noun: Sleeplessness.
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outstrip
|
verb: To go beyond.
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brigade
|
noun: A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
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constrict
|
verb: To bind.
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|
taxidermy
|
noun: The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
|
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aqueous
|
adjective: Of, pertaining to, or containing water.
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matrix
|
noun: That which contains and gives shape or form to anything.
|
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imitator
|
noun: One who makes in imitation.
|
|
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impugn
|
verb: To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations.
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prepossession
|
noun: A preconceived liking.
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intimidate
|
verb: To cause to become frightened.
|
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lyre
|
noun: One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class.
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gusto
|
noun: Keen enjoyment.
|
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knight errant
|
noun: One of the wandering knights who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure.
|
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impecunious
|
adjective: Having no money.
|
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repellent
|
adjective: Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
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tremendous
|
adjective: Awe-inspiring.
|
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navigate
|
verb: To traverse by ship.
|
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incomplete
|
adjective: Lacking some element, part, or adjunct necessary or required.
|
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|
syllabus
|
noun: Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.
|
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|
outdo
|
verb: To surpass.
|
|
|
mongrel
|
noun: The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
|
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|
existence
|
noun: Possession or continuance of being.
|
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|
derivative
|
adjective: Coming or acquired from some origin.
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perverse
|
adjective: Unreasonable.
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|
|
ligament
|
noun: That which binds objects together.
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|
|
bilingual
|
adjective: Speaking two languages.
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|
|
stringency
|
noun: Strictness.
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|
|
embroil
|
verb: To involve in dissension or strife.
|
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|
grimace
|
noun: A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc.
|
|
|
aeronautics
|
noun: the art or practice of flying aircraft
|
|
|
demonstrative
|
adjective: Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts.
|
|
|
cosmology
|
noun: The general science of the universe.
|
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|
generalize
|
verb: To draw general inferences.
|
|
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sanguine
|
adjective: Having the color of blood.
|
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inexhaustible
|
adjective: So large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted, or spent.
|
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counteract
|
verb: To act in opposition to.
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licentious
|
adjective: Wanton.
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|
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monition
|
noun: Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
|
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irascible
|
adjective: Prone to anger.
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primeval
|
adjective: Belonging to the first ages.
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aural
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to the ear.
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candid
|
adjective: Straightforward.
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reducible
|
adjective: That may be reduced.
|
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decimal
|
adjective: Founded on the number 10.
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nectar
|
noun: Any especially sweet and delicious drink.
|
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insignificant
|
adjective: Without importance, force, or influence.
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inexpensive
|
adjective: Low-priced.
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|
philanthropist
|
noun: One who endeavors to help his fellow men.
|
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close-hauled
|
adjective: Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
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augment
|
verb: To make bigger.
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shiftless
|
adjective: Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
|
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contiguous
|
adjective: Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
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effective
|
adjective: Fit for a destined purpose.
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convergent
|
adjective: Tending to one point.
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grandiloquent
|
adjective: Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style.
|
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cull
|
verb: To pick or sort out from the rest.
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|
birthright
|
noun: A privilege or possession into which one is born.
|
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paraphrase
|
verb: Translate freely.
|
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|
isolate
|
verb: To separate from others of its kind.
|
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|
subsequent
|
adjective: Following in time.
|
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decipher
|
verb: To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible.
|
|
|
corps
|
noun: A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together.
|
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fanciless
|
adjective: Unimaginative.
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uproot
|
verb: To eradicate.
|
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visual
|
adjective: Perceptible by sight.
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|
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docile
|
adjective: Easy to manage.
|
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allot
|
verb: To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
|
|
|
flatulence
|
noun: Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.
|
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bullock
|
noun: An ox.
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hindrance
|
noun: An obstacle.
|
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transposition
|
noun: The act of reversing the order or changing the place of.
|
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archaic
|
adjective: Antiquated
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ignominious
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adjective: Shameful.
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quarto
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noun: An eight-page newspaper of any size.
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Narcissus
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noun: The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.
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duet
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noun: A composition for two voices or instruments.
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impiety
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noun: Irreverence toward God.
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inscrutable
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adjective: Impenetrably mysterious or profound.
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course
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noun: Line of motion or direction.
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syllable
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noun: That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
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deficient
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adjective: Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.
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undercharge
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verb: To make an inadequate charge for.
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vertigo
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noun: Dizziness.
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genesis
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noun: Creation.
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distention
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noun: Expansion.
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surveyor
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noun: A land-measurer.
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lyric
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adjective: Fitted for expression in song.
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Canaanite
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noun: A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
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nauseous
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adjective: Loathsome.
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philologist
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noun: An expert in linguistics.
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insistence
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noun: Urgency.
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sensibility
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noun: Power to perceive or feel.
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extol
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verb: To praise in the highest terms.
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conciliatory
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adjective: Tending to reconcile.
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degradation
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noun: Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
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palinode
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noun: A retraction.
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confluent
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noun: A stream that unites with another.
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tenure
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noun: The term during which a thing is held.
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subaquatic
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adjective: Being, formed, or operating under water.
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inflammable
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adjective: Easily set on fire or excited.
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planisphere
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noun: A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
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myriad
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noun: A vast indefinite number.
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naphtha
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noun: A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
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remonstrance
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noun: Reproof.
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quadrate
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verb: To divide into quarters.
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dissension
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noun: Angry or violent difference of opinion.
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lifelong
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adjective: Lasting or continuous through life.
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gnash
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verb: To grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage.
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icily
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aderb: Frigidly.
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obstinacy
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noun: Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way.
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incomparable
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adjective: Matchless.
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physics
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noun: The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
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malaria
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noun: A fever characterized by alternating chills, fever, and sweating.
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trestle
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noun: An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
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ostentation
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noun: A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery.
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inanimate
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adjective: Destitute of animal life.
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virtual
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adjective: Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.
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piccolo
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noun: A small flute.
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penultimate
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adjective: A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
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prologue
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noun: A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
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pledgee
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noun: The person to whom anything is pledged.
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principal
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adjective: Most important.
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tactics
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noun: Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
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matinee
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noun: An entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime.
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undersized
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adjective: Of less than the customary size.
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deponent
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adjective: Laying down.
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palliate
|
verb: To cause to appear less guilty.
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creamy
|
adjective: Resembling or containing cream.
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irrelevant
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adjective: Inapplicable.
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apposition
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noun: The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
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freemason
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noun: A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans.
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lien
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noun: A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge.
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monogamy
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noun: The habit of pairing, or having but one mate.
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compliant
|
adjective: Yielding.
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omnivorous
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adjective: Eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately.
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microcosm
|
noun: The world or universe on a small scale.
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profligate
|
adjective: Abandoned to vice.
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allude
|
verb: To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
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quiescent
|
adjective: Being in a state of repose or inaction.
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thesis
|
noun: An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
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neo-Darwinsim
|
noun: Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students.
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inconceivable
|
adjective: Incomprehensible.
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equivocate
|
verb: To use words of double meaning.
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acclaim
|
verb: To utter with a shout.
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kernel
|
noun: A grain or seed.
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intention
|
noun: That upon which the mind is set.
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botanize
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verb: To study plant-life.
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wherewith
|
noun: The necessary means or resources.
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subordinate
|
adjective: Belonging to an inferior order in a classification.
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moribund
|
adjective: On the point of dying.
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explosion
|
noun: A sudden and violent outbreak.
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meretricious
|
adjective: Alluring by false or gaudy show.
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sinus
|
noun: An opening or cavity.
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adduce
|
verb: To bring forward or name for consideration.
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belay
|
verb: To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
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presentiment
|
noun: Foreboding.
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erroneous
|
adjective: Incorrect.
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fez
|
noun: A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel.
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thoroughbred
|
adjective: Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
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mileage
|
noun: A distance in miles.
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Scriptural
|
adjective: Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
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nomad
|
adjective: Having no fixed abode.
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laureate
|
adjective: Crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction.
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insuppressible
|
adjective: Incapable of being concealed.
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incapacitate
|
verb: To deprive of power, capacity, competency, or qualification.
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hydrometer
|
noun: An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation.
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semblance
|
noun: Outward appearance.
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rectitude
|
noun: The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
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hemorrhage
|
noun: Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel.
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niggardly
|
adjective: Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
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masterpiece
|
noun: A superior production.
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imprudent
|
adjective: Heedless.
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justification
|
noun: Vindication.
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despond
|
verb: To lose spirit, courage, or hope.
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credence
|
noun: Belief.
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revocation
|
noun: Repeal.
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boycott
|
verb: To place the products or merchandise of under a ban.
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depopulate
|
verb: To remove the inhabitants from.
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correlate
|
verb: To put in some relation of connection or correspondence.
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fervor
|
noun: Ardor or intensity of feeling.
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brokerage
|
noun: The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
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luminescent
|
adjective: Showing increase of light.
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posit
|
verb: To present in an orderly manner.
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salvo
|
noun: A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
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overpay
|
verb: To pay or reward in excess.
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chagrin
|
noun: Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
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pecuniary
|
adjective: Consisting of money.
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|
hydrostatics
|
noun: The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids.
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makeup
|
noun: The arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed.
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garrote
|
verb: To execute by strangling.
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decrepit
|
adjective: Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity.
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appellation
|
noun: The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
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guzzle
|
verb: To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp.
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abase
|
verb: To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.
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futurist
|
noun: A person of expectant temperament.
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abjure
|
verb: To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
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pollute
|
verb: To contaminate.
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obtrude
|
verb: To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
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dormant
|
adjective: Being in a state of or resembling sleep.
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plumb
|
noun: A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
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embellish
|
verb: To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features.
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sentence
|
noun: A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
|
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intestine
|
noun: That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus.
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initiate
|
verb: To perform the first act or rite.
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stature
|
noun: The natural height of an animal body.
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undulous
|
adjective: Resembling waves.
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prerogative
|
adjective: Having superior rank or precedence.
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retrieve
|
verb: To recover something by searching.
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|
specialize
|
verb: To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
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permissible
|
adjective: That may be allowed.
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volatile
|
adjective: Changeable.
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|
intrude
|
verb: To come in without leave or license.
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journalize
|
verb: To keep a diary.
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|
facile
|
adjective: Not difficult to do.
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|
decamp
|
verb: To leave suddenly or unexpectedly.
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|
versatile
|
adjective: Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
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|
auditory
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing.
|
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keepsake
|
noun: Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver.
|
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|
pandemic
|
adjective: Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
|
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indivisible
|
adjective: Not separable into parts.
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anew
|
aderb: Once more.
|
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bulbous
|
adjective: Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
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ensnare
|
verb: To entrap.
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|
obituary
|
adjective: A published notice of a death.
|
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imperative
|
adjective: Obligatory.
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demented
|
adjective: Insane.
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whet
|
verb: To make more keen or eager.
|
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unyoke
|
verb: To separate.
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appropriate
|
adjective: Suitable for the purpose and circumstances.
|
|
|
deleterious
|
adjective: Hurtful, morally or physically.
|
|
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lever
|
noun: That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power.
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zealot
|
noun: One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner.
|
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perquisite
|
noun: Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages.
|
|
|
optimism
|
noun: The view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best.
|
|
|
inhibit
|
verb: To hold back or in.
|
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|
satiric
|
adjective: Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
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preemption
|
noun: The right or act of purchasing before others.
|
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revoke
|
verb: To rescind.
|
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|
disengage
|
verb: To become detached.
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illegible
|
adjective: Undecipherable.
|
|
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lassie
|
noun: A little lass.
|
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|
sacrifice
|
verb: To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
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|
|
hereditary
|
adjective: Passing naturally from parent to child.
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insistent
|
adjective: Urgent.
|
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|
afire
|
aderb: On fire, literally or figuratively.
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|
oddity
|
noun: An eccentricity.
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|
|
vicissitude
|
noun: A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
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corpulent
|
adjective: Obese.
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veneer
|
noun: Outside show or elegance.
|
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|
peevish
|
adjective: Petulant. (irritable)
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venerable
|
adjective: Meriting or commanding high esteem.
|
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chattel
|
noun: Any article of personal property.
|
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|
derision
|
noun: Ridicule.
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adjudge
|
verb: To award or bestow by formal decision.
|
|
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ornate
|
adjective: Ornamented to a marked degree.
|
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|
tricycle
|
noun: A three-wheeled vehicle.
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pittance
|
noun: Any small portion or meager allowance.
|
|
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daring
|
adjective: Brave.
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colleague
|
noun: An associate in professional employment.
|
|
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antic
|
noun: A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
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|
|
ought
|
verb: To be under moral obligation to be or do.
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|
|
felon
|
noun: A criminal or depraved person.
|
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|
calorie
|
noun: Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
|
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unbridled
|
adjective: Being without restraint.
|
|
|
leviathan
|
noun: Any large animal, as a whale.
|
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|
judgment
|
noun: The faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached.
|
|
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miniature
|
adjective: Much smaller than reality or that the normal size.
|
|
|
genital
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.
|
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|
outlaw
|
noun: A habitual lawbreaker.
|
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|
foot-note
|
noun: A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column.
|
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|
materialize
|
verb: To take perceptible or substantial form.
|
|
|
evangelist
|
noun: A preacher who goes from place to place holding services.
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inborn
|
adjective: Implanted by nature.
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|
pungency
|
noun: The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
|
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privilege
|
noun: A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special
|
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grotesque
|
adjective: Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned.
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inadvisable
|
adjective: Unadvisable.
|
|
|
luscious
|
adjective: Rich, sweet, and delicious.
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arid
|
adjective: Very dry.
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|
pedagogy
|
noun: The science and art of teaching
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stagnate
|
verb: To become dull or inert.
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|
ingenious
|
adjective: Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement.
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|
squabble
|
verb: To quarrel.
|
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|
granule
|
noun: A small grain or particle.
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fracture
|
noun: A break.
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|
solicitor
|
noun: One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
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tolerant
|
adjective: Indulgent.
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anhydrous
|
adjective: Withered.
|
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|
disburse
|
verb: To pay out or expend, as money from a fund. discard
|
|
|
insensible
|
adjective: Imperceptible.
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|
desistance
|
noun: Cessation.
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apogee
|
noun: The climax.
|
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|
viceroy
|
noun: A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
|
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admonish
|
verb: To warn of a fault.
|
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|
declension
|
noun: The change of endings in nouns and
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decagram
|
noun: A weight of 10 grams.
|
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|
disappoint
|
verb: To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
|
|
|
protagonist
|
noun: A leader in any enterprise or contest.
|
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|
probation
|
noun: Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like.
|
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compulsory
|
adjective: Forced.
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surmount
|
verb: To overcome by force of will.
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emblem
|
noun: A symbol.
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cameo
|
noun: Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
|
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octagon
|
noun: A figure with eight sides and eight angles.
|
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impassive
|
adjective: Unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling.
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passive
|
adjective: Unresponsive.
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|
predicament
|
noun: A difficult, trying situation or plight.
|
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assonance
|
noun: Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
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assiduous
|
adjective: Diligent.
|
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duckling
|
noun: A young duck.
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imbrue
|
verb: To wet or moisten.
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|
delectable
|
adjective: Delightful to the taste or to the senses.
|
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conservatism
|
noun: Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things.
|
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stimulate
|
verb: To rouse to activity or to quickened action.
|
|
|
impervious
|
adjective: Impenetrable.
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|
tableau
|
noun: An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
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|
nondescript
|
adjective: Indescribable.
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baleful
|
adjective: Malignant.
|
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avow
|
verb: To declare openly.
|
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ominous
|
adjective: Portentous.
|
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disapprove
|
verb: To regard with blame.
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expressive
|
adjective: Full of meaning.
|
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|
query
|
verb: To make inquiry.
|
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|
casual
|
adjective: Accidental, by chance.
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endanger
|
verb: To expose to peril.
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contributor
|
noun: One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
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forefather
|
noun: An ancestor.
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virago
|
noun: A bold, impudent, turbulent woman.
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stanza
|
noun: A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
|
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mistrust
|
verb: To regard with suspicion or jealousy.
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|
Milky Way
|
noun: The galaxy.
|
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ingenuity
|
noun: Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating.
|
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treasonable
|
adjective: Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
|
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forswear
|
verb: To renounce upon oath.
|
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|
scribble
|
noun: Hasty, careless writing.
|
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ascent
|
noun: A rising, soaring, or climbing.
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austere
|
adjective: Severely simple; unadorned.
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sociable
|
adjective: Inclined to seek company.
|
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|
osculate
|
verb: To kiss.
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|
oblique
|
adjective: Slanting; said of lines.
|
|
|
exposure
|
noun: An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass.
|
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potency
|
noun: Power.
|
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annunciation
|
noun: Proclamation.
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|
productive
|
adjective: Yielding in abundance.
|
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|
necrosis
|
noun: the death of part of the body.
|
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adjacent
|
noun: That which is near or bordering upon.
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approbation
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noun: Sanction.
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discernible
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adjective: Perceivable.
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Protestant
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noun: A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment.
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sanguinary
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adjective: Bloody.
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instantaneous
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adjective: Done without perceptible lapse of time.
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phonetic
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adjective: Representing articulate sounds or speech.
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physique
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noun: The physical structure or organization of a person.
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butt
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verb: To strike with or as with the head, or horns.
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conservatory
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noun: An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation.
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assets
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noun: pl. Property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
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contiguity
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noun: Proximity.
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nuptial
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adjective: Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony.
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metropolis
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noun: A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state.
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carrion
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noun: Dead and putrefying flesh.
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promulgate
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verb: To proclaim.
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descendent
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adjective: Proceeding downward.
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sufficiency
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noun: An ample or adequate supply.
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emancipate
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verb: To release from bondage.
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apex
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noun: The highest point, as of a mountain.
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devilry
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noun: Malicious mischief.
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deviate
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verb: To take a different course.
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azalea
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noun: A flowering shrub.
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intolerable
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adjective: Insufferable.
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atomizer
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noun: An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
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occult
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adjective: Existing but not immediately perceptible.
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deterrent
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adjective: Hindering from action through fear.
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Newtonian
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adjective: Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher.
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confiscate
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verb: To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
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beck
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verb: To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
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incisor
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noun: A front or cutting tooth.
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fray
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verb: To fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads.
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inadvertent
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adjective: Accidental.
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absurd
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adjective: Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
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confluence
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noun: The place where streams meet.
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consensus
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noun: A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons.
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ceremonial
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adjective: Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
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antislavery
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adjective: Opposed to human slavery.
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domination
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noun: Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority.
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telepathy
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noun: Thought-transference.
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invincible
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adjective: Not to be conquered, subdued, or overcome.
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bequeath
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verb: To give by will.
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toleration
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noun: A spirit of charitable leniency.
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folio
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noun: A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once.
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reluctant
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adjective: Unwilling.
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hanger-on
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noun: A parasite.
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Renaissance
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noun: The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
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archdeacon
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noun: A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
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transfuse
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verb: To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
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tannery
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noun: A place where leather is tanned.
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ambidextrous
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adjective: Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
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disarrange
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verb: To throw out of order.
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levee
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noun: An embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow.
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whereabouts
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noun: The place in or near which a person or thing is.
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epizootic
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adjective: Prevailing among animals.
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iniquity
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noun: Gross wrong or injustice.
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ambulance
|
noun: A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
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pledgeor
|
noun: One who gives a pledge.
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workmanship
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noun: The art or skill of a workman.
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sanctimonious
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adjective: Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
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palate
|
noun: The roof of the mouth.
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preternatural
|
adjective: Extraordinary.
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preferential
|
adjective: Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
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herbaceous
|
adjective: Having the character of a herb.
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acme
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noun: The highest point, or summit.
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legalize
|
verb: To give the authority of law to.
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regime
|
noun: Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
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effusion
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noun: an outpouring.
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erratic
|
adjective: Irregular.
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truculence
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noun: Ferocity.
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errant
|
adjective: Roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds.
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swarthy
|
adjective: Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.
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sonata
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noun: An instrumental composition.
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ferocious
|
adjective: Of a wild, fierce, and savage nature.
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charlatan
|
noun: A quack.
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comparative
|
adjective: Relative.
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overthrow
|
verb: To vanquish an established ruler or government.
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dogmatize
|
verb: To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence.
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corrosion
|
noun: Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
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orthopedic
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adjective: Relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity
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folk-lore
|
noun: The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people.
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arboreal
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
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acknowledgment
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noun: Recognition.
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recrudescent
|
adjective: Becoming raw or sore again.
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quintessence
|
noun: The most essential part of anything.
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generic
|
adjective: Noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific.
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cede
|
verb: To pass title to.
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viol
|
noun: A stringed instrument of the violin class.
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browbeat
|
verb: To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner.
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enthuse
|
verb: To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling.
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reflectible
|
adjective: Capable of being turned back.
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mutiny
|
noun: Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority.
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sear
|
verb: To burn on the surface.
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emulate
|
verb: To imitate with intent to equal or surpass.
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outright
|
aderb: Entirely.
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interrogatory
|
noun: A question or inquiry.
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cantonment
|
noun: The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
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laundress
|
noun: Washerwoman.
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statute
|
noun: Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
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pentathlon
|
noun: The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
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forcible
|
adjective: Violent.
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collegian
|
noun: A college student.
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disarm
|
verb: To deprive of weapons.
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soluble
|
adjective: Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid.
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penitential
|
adjective: Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
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inexpedient
|
adjective: Unadvisable.
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choral
|
adjective: Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
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commitment
|
noun: The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping.
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juncture
|
noun: An articulation, joint, or seam.
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execrable
|
adjective: Abominable.
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negligent
|
adjective: Apt to omit what ought to be done.
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neo-Latin
|
noun: Modernized Latin.
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utility
|
noun: Fitness for some desirable practical purpose.
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persuadable
|
adjective: capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the
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tilth
|
noun: Cultivation.
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madden
|
verb: To inflame with passion.
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illimitable
|
adjective: Boundless.
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consulate
|
noun: The place in which a consul transacts official business.
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moonbeam
|
noun: A ray of moonlight.
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sarcophagus
|
noun: A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
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abed
|
aderb: In bed; on a bed.
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immune
|
adjective: Exempt, as from disease.
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polyglot
|
adjective: Speaking several tongues.
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percipience
|
noun: The act of perceiving.
|
|
|
acoustic
|
adjective: Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
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|
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intrigue
|
noun: A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways.
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phenomenon
|
noun: Any unusual occurrence.
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incarcerate
|
verb: To imprison.
|
|
|
monopoly
|
noun: The control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price.
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onerous
|
adjective: Burdensome or oppressive.
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pleasurable
|
adjective: Affording gratification.
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indigestible
|
adjective: Not digestible, or difficult to digest.
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vestige
|
noun: A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
|
|
|
nectarine
|
noun: A variety of the peach.
|
|
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retinue
|
noun: The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
|
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subsistence
|
noun: Sustenance.
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donator
|
noun: One who makes a donation or present.
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forejudge
|
verb: To judge of before hearing evidence.
|
|
|
theism
|
noun: Belief in God.
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dominate
|
verb: To influence controllingly.
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surcharge
|
noun: An additional amount charged.
|
|
|
steppe
|
noun: One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
|
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prevention
|
noun: Thwarting.
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divisor
|
noun: That by which a number or quantity is divided.
|
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specie
|
noun: A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
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|
precursor
|
noun: A forerunner or herald.
|
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repeal
|
verb: To render of no further effect.
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impassible
|
adjective: Not moved or affected by feeling.
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dialectician
|
noun: A logician.
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|
|
dolorous
|
adjective: Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
|
|
|
jovial
|
adjective: Merry.
|
|
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animosity
|
noun: Hatred.
|
|
|
despotism
|
noun: Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.
|
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servitude
|
noun: Slavery.
|
|
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miter
|
noun: The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle.
|
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|
philander
|
verb: To play at courtship with a woman.
|
|
|
legionary
|
noun: A member of an ancient Roman legion or of the modern French Legion of Honor.
|
|
|
fundamental
|
adjective: Basal.
|
|
|
sergeant-major
|
noun: The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
|
|
|
toilsome
|
adjective: Laborious.
|
|
|
mirage
|
noun: An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert.
|
|
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exhaustive
|
adjective: Thorough and complete in execution.
|
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translator
|
noun: An interpreter.
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|
|
transition
|
noun: Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
|
|
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corporal
|
adjective: Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
|
|
|
immutable
|
adjective: Unchangeable.
|
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|
defensible
|
adjective: Capable of being maintained or justified.
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|
cadaverous
|
adjective: Resembling a corpse.
|
|
|
transatlantic
|
adjective: Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
|
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benefactor
|
noun: A doer of kindly and charitable acts.
|
|
|
coerce
|
verb: To force.
|
|
|
spontaneous
|
adjective: Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
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egress
|
noun: Any place of exit.
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|
|
perpendicular
|
adjective: Straight up and down.
|
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|
canon
|
noun: Any rule or law.
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facetious
|
adjective: Amusing.
|
|
|
academy
|
noun: Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.
|
|
|
interpolation
|
noun: Verbal interference.
|
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overseer
|
noun: A supervisor.
|
|
|
exonerate
|
verb: To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame.
|
|
|
statuesque
|
adjective: Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
|
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transmit
|
verb: To send trough or across.
|
|
|
amusement
|
noun: Diversion.
|
|
|
definite
|
adjective: Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
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panoply
|
noun: A full set of armor.
|
|
|
pentameter
|
noun: In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.
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noiseless
|
adjective: Silent.
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|
|
domicile
|
noun: The place where one lives.
|
|
|
pentavalent
|
adjective: Quinqeuvalent.
|
|
|
manliness
|
noun: The qualities characteristic of a true man, as bravery, resolution, etc.
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|
ache
|
verb: To be in pain or distress.
|
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pare
|
verb: To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.
|
|
|
primitive
|
adjective: Pertaining to the beginning or early times.
|
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fragile
|
adjective: Capable of being broken.
|
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|
boisterous
|
adjective: Unchecked merriment or animal spirits.
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|
gluttonous
|
adjective: Given to excess in eating.
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|
|
dissolution
|
noun: A breaking up of a union of persons.
|
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illusory
|
adjective: Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance.
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|
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defraud
|
verb: To deprive of something dishonestly.
|
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|
payee
|
noun: A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
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portent
|
noun: Anything that indicates what is to happen.
|
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|
prattle
|
verb: To utter in simple or childish talk.
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|
|
equity
|
noun: Fairness or impartiality.
|
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liege
|
adjective: Sovereign.
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|
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mystification
|
noun: The act of artfully perplexing.
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glorious
|
adjective: Of excellence and splendor.
|
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neglectful
|
adjective: Exhibiting or indicating omission.
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inebriate
|
verb: To intoxicate.
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|
crystallize
|
verb: To bring together or give fixed shape to.
|
|
|
foresight
|
noun: Provision against harm or need.
|
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continence
|
noun: Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion.
|
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irrigate
|
verb: To water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means.
|
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juxtapose
|
verb: To place close together.
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|
Pantheon
|
noun: A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
|
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investor
|
noun: One who invests money.
|
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|
alchemy
|
noun: Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
|
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boll
|
noun: A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
|
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remuneration
|
noun: Compensation.
|
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|
phosphorescence
|
noun: The property of emitting light.
|
|
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reciprocal
|
adjective: Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
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|
consonant
|
adjective: Being in agreement or harmony with.
|
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|
participate
|
verb: To receive or have a part or share of.
|
|
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surety
|
noun: Security for payment or performance.
|
|
|
antiseptic
|
noun: Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
|
|
|
crematory
|
adjective: A place for cremating dead bodies.
|
|
|
underhanded
|
adjective: Clandestinely carried on.
|
|
|
incoherence
|
noun: Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc.
|
|
|
orthodoxy
|
noun: Acceptance of the common faith.
|
|
|
readjust
|
verb: To put in order after disarrangement.
|
|
|
expectancy
|
noun: The act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable.
|
|
|
forebode
|
verb: To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil.
|
|
|
syndicate
|
noun: An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise.
|
|
|
consumption
|
noun: Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc.
|
|
|
incendiary
|
noun: Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively.
|
|
|
waistcoat
|
noun: A vest.
|
|
|
scythe
|
noun: A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc.
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treble
|
adjective: Multiplied by three.
|
|
|
spectrum
|
noun: An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
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perform
|
verb: To accomplish.
|
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|
powerless
|
adjective: Impotent.
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|
|
bibliomania
|
noun: The passion for collecting books.
|
|
|
plenipotentiary
|
noun: A person fully empowered to transact any business.
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|
frontier
|
noun: The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country.
|
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|
antagonism
|
noun: Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.
|
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|
antechamber
|
noun: A waiting room for those who seek audience.
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impropriety
|
noun: The state or quality of being unfit, unseemly, or inappropriate.
|
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populous
|
adjective: Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
|
|
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luminous
|
adjective: Giving or radiating light.
|
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|
exhale
|
verb: To breathe forth.
|
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calculable
|
adjective: That may be estimated by reckoning.
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disagree
|
verb: To be opposite in opinion.
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becalm
|
verb: To make quiet.
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achromatic
|
adjective: Colorless,
|
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dilute
|
verb: To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something.
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|
brusque
|
adjective: Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.
|
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armada
|
noun: A fleet of war-vessels.
|
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comely
|
adjective: Handsome.
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|
exacerbate
|
verb: To make more sharp, severe, or virulent.
|
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lieu
|
noun: Stead.
|
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|
paradox
|
noun: A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
|
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|
coagulant
|
adjective: Producing coagulation.
|
|
|
contingency
|
noun: Possibility of happening.
|
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plurality
|
noun: A majority.
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precipitant
|
adjective: Moving onward quickly and heedlessly.
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|
phlegmatic
|
adjective: Not easily roused to feeling or action.
|
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sacrificial
|
adjective: Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
|
|
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gestation
|
noun: Pregnancy.
|
|
|
outrage
|
noun: A gross infringement of morality or decency.
|
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|
belle
|
noun: A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
|
|
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demerit
|
noun: A mark for failure or bad conduct.
|
|
|
polygon
|
noun: A figure having many angles.
|
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Pariah
|
noun: A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.
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|
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plaudit
|
noun: An expression of applause.
|
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invaluable
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adjective: Exceedingly precious.
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itinerary
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noun: A detailed account or diary of a journey.
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bibliophile
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noun: One who loves books.
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apparent
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adjective: Easily understood.
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mellifluous
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adjective: Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
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cathode
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noun: The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
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extort
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verb: To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity.
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sidelong
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adjective: Inclining or tending to one side.
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innuendo
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noun: Insinuation.
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corrigible
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adjective: Capable of reformation.
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empower
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verb: To delegate authority to.
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hypotenuse
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noun: The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
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emphatic
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adjective: Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words.
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penalty
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noun: The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
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meliorate
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verb: To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition.
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advocate
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noun: One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
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homogeneity
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noun: Congruity of the members or elements or parts.
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lax
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adjective: Not stringent or energetic.
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fitful
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adjective: Spasmodic.
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hexapod
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adjective: Having six feet.
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actuary
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noun: An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
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sacrilege
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noun: The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
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opaque
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adjective: Impervious to light.
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concord
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noun: Harmony.
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paroxysm
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noun: A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
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unwieldy
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adjective: Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape.
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pertinacity
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noun: Unyielding adherence.
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oculist
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noun: One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
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discountenance
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verb: To look upon with disfavor.
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vegetarian
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noun: One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable.
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disqualify
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verb: To debar.
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excellence
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noun: Possession of eminently or unusually good qualities.
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disyllable
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noun: A word of two syllables.
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incompetent
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adjective: Not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose.
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divert
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verb: To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
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beseech
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verb: To implore.
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deplore
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verb: To regard with grief or sorrow.
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comprehensible
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adjective: Intelligible.
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disappear
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verb: To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being.
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despot
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noun: An absolute and irresponsible monarch.
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grisly
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adjective: Fear-inspiring.
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sophisticate
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verb: To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
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wee
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adjective: Very small.
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opalescence
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noun: The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints.
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triad
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noun: A group of three persons of things.
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mentor
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noun: A wise and faithful teacher, guide, and friend.
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specialty
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noun: An employment limited to one particular line of work.
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finally
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aderb: At last.
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alienable
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adjective: Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
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jeopardize
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verb: To imperil.
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controller
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noun: One who or that which regulates or directs.
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reservoir
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noun: A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
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invalid
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adjective: Having no force, weight, or cogency.
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psychiatry
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noun: The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
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authenticity
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noun: The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.
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gourd
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noun: A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind.
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facilitate
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verb: To make more easy.
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diplomat
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noun: A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.
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mastery
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noun: The attainment of superior skill.
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calumny
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noun: Slander.
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irrepressible
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adjective: That can not be restrained or kept down.
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lunatic
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noun: An insane person.
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affix
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verb: To fasten.
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befriend
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verb: To be a friend to, especially when in need.
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federate
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verb: To league together.
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interlocutor
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noun: One who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion.
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reprimand
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verb: To chide or rebuke for a fault.
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susceptibility
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noun: A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
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cabal
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noun: A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
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vacuum
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noun: A space entirely devoid of matter.
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suppress
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verb: To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
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circumspect
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adjective: Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration.
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nugatory
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adjective: Having no power or force.
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indivertible
|
adjective: That can not be turned aside.
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sprightly
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adjective: Vivacious.
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garrison
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noun: The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other place for its defense.
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platitude
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noun: A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
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ocular
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adjective: Of or pertaining to the eye.
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agitate
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verb: To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
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paucity
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noun: Fewness.
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magnitude
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noun: Importance.
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differentiate
|
verb: To acquire a distinct and separate character.
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disrepute
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noun: A bad name or character.
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frequency
|
noun: The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space.
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deformity
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noun: A disfigurement.
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specter
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noun: Apparition.
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joust
|
verb: To engage in a tilt with lances on horseback.
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abusive
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adjective: Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
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stagnant
|
adjective: Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
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maintain
|
verb: To hold or preserve in any particular state or condition.
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debut
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noun: A first appearance in society or on the stage.
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askance
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aderb: With a side or indirect glance or meaning.
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vigilant
|
adjective: Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety.
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vitalize
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verb: To endow with life or energy.
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abrade
|
verb: To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
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gratification
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noun: Satisfaction.
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positive
|
adjective: Free from doubt or hesitation.
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sympathize
|
verb: To share the sentiments or mental states of another.
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indigence
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noun: Poverty.
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accursed
|
adjective: Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
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ungainly
|
adjective: Clumsy.
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devout
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adjective: Religious.
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perseverance
|
noun: A persistence in purpose and effort.
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repartee
|
noun: A ready, witty, or apt reply.
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inchoative
|
noun: That which begins, or expresses beginning.
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obstruct
|
verb: To fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part.
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corrode
|
verb: To ruin or destroy little by little.
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memorable
|
adjective: Noteworthy.
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vortex
|
noun: A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center.
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missive
|
noun: A message in writing.
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raptorial
|
adjective: Seizing and devouring living prey.
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tangent
|
adjective: Touching.
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parlance
|
noun: Mode of speech.
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fluent
|
adjective: Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas.
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excursion
|
noun: A journey.
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Christendom
|
noun: That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed.
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inaccessible
|
adjective: Difficult of approach.
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dragoon
|
noun: In the British army, a cavalryman.
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congeal
|
verb: To coagulate.
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Hibernian
|
adjective: Pertaining to Ireland, or its people.
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jocular
|
adjective: Inclined to joke.
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contort
|
verb: To twist into a misshapen form.
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gaseous
|
adjective: Light and unsubstantial.
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exotic
|
adjective: Foreign.
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perfectible
|
adjective: Capable of being made perfect.
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myth
|
noun: A fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact.
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antispasmodic
|
adjective: Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
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|
sedition
|
noun: Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
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enthrone
|
verb: To invest with sovereign power.
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pervious
|
adjective: Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
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ingenuous
|
adjective: Candid, frank, or open in character or quality.
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exigent
|
adjective: Urgent.
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sensual
|
adjective: Pertaining to the body or the physical senses.
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tack
|
noun: A small sharp-pointed nail.
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invoke
|
verb: To call on for assistance or protection.
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refract
|
verb: To bend or turn from a direct course.
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papyrus
|
noun: The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
|
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|
coxswain
|
noun: One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer.
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pall
|
verb: To make dull by satiety.
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subjection
|
noun: The act of bringing into a state of submission.
|
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nimble
|
adjective: Light and quick in motion or action.
|
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rigor
|
noun: Inflexibility.
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|
conjecture
|
noun: A guess.
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descendant
|
noun: One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc.
|
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|
bigamist
|
noun: One who has two spouses at the same time.
|
|
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inference
|
noun: The derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law.
|
|
|
lexicography
|
noun: The making of dictionaries.
|
|
|
emigrate
|
verb: To go from one country, state, or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another.
|
|
|
souvenir
|
noun: A token of remembrance.
|
|
|
manor
|
noun: The landed estate of a lord or nobleman.
|
|
|
seminar
|
noun: Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.
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altercate
|
verb: To contend angrily or zealously in words.
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mechanics
|
noun: The branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces.
|
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accessible
|
adjective: Approachable.
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regiment
|
noun: A body of soldiers.
|
|
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pyrotechnic
|
adjective: Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture.
|
|
|
operate
|
verb: To put in action and supervise the working of.
|
|
|
eclipse
|
noun: The obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body.
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utmost
|
noun: The greatest possible extent.
|
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probe
|
verb: To search through and through.
|
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dun
|
verb: To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment.
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|
regress
|
verb: To return to a former place or condition.
|
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|
replica
|
noun: A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original.
|
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credulous
|
adjective: Easily deceived.
|
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|
phonogram
|
noun: A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound.
|
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deter
|
verb: To frighten away.
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|
imperturbable
|
adjective: Calm.
|
|
|
anthology
|
noun: A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.
|
|
|
emaciate
|
verb: To waste away in flesh.
|
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immigrate
|
verb: To come into a country or region from a former habitat.
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valid
|
adjective: Founded on truth.
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culpable
|
adjective: Guilty.
|
|
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premier
|
adjective: First in rank or position.
|
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fungible
|
adjective: That may be measured, counted, or weighed.
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|
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tremor
|
noun: An involuntary trembling or shivering.
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|
magistracy
|
noun: The office or dignity of a magistrate.
|
|
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inflexible
|
adjective: That can not be altered or varied.
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|
|
tapestry
|
noun: A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings.
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rejuvenate
|
verb: To restore to youth.
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|
formidable
|
adjective: Difficult to accomplish.
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|
|
dispensation
|
noun: That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power.
|
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|
observance
|
noun: A traditional form or customary act.
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complaisance
|
noun: Politeness.
|
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|
carcass
|
noun: The dead body of an animal.
|
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granary
|
noun: A storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked.
|
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reconsider
|
verb: To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action.
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|
mitigate
|
verb: To make milder or more endurable.
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|
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immaterial
|
adjective: Of no essential consequence.
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percipient
|
noun: One who or that which perceives.
|
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neophyte
|
adjective: Having the character of a beginner.
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pedigree
|
noun: One's line of ancestors.
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verdant
|
adjective: Green with vegetation.
|
|
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severance
|
noun: Separation.
|
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|
absent-minded
|
adjective: Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
|
|
|
physiology
|
noun: The science of organic functions.
|
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exaggerate
|
verb: To overstate.
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neocracy
|
noun: Government administered by new or untried persons.
|
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|
recourse
|
noun: Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble.
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contender
|
noun: One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry.
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parsimonious
|
adjective: Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
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foursome
|
adjective: Consisting of four.
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defray
|
verb: To make payment for.
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suspense
|
noun: Uncertainty.
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germinate
|
verb: To begin to develop into an embryo or higher form.
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sapience
|
noun: Deep wisdom or knowledge.
|
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endue
|
verb: To endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual.
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renunciation
|
noun: An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
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dilemma
|
noun: A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary.
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intracellular
|
adjective: Occurring or situated within a cell.
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dissent
|
noun: Disagreement.
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tenacious
|
adjective: Unyielding.
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|
metronome
|
noun: An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music.
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flora
|
noun: The aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district.
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alien
|
noun: One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
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virtu
|
noun: Rare, curious, or beautiful quality.
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gladden
|
verb: To make joyous.
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gregarious
|
adjective: Not habitually solitary or living alone.
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incoherent
|
adjective: Not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements, or details.
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shrivel
|
verb: To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
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penchant
|
noun: A bias in favor of something.
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stingy
|
adjective: Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
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|
caricature
|
noun: a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted.
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purl
|
verb: To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
|
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sequent
|
adjective: Following in the order of time.
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gyroscope
|
noun: An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation.
|
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dialect
|
noun: Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district.
|
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hilarious
|
adjective: Boisterously merry.
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taut
|
adjective: Stretched tight.
|
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abstemious
|
adjective: Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food.
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granular
|
adjective: Composed of small grains or particles.
|
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diffident
|
adjective: Affected or possessed with self-distrust.
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liquidate
|
verb: To deliver the amount or value of.
|
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legislative
|
adjective: That makes or enacts laws.
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|
abscission
|
noun: The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
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cynosure
|
noun: That to which general interest or attention is directed.
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incapacity
|
noun: Want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage.
|
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permutation
|
noun: Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items.
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listless
|
adjective: Inattentive.
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dimly
|
aderb: Obscurely.
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proselyte
|
noun: One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
|
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executor
|
noun: A person nominated by the will of another to execute the will.
|
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negligible
|
adjective: Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery.
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autumnal
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to autumn.
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disallow
|
verb: To withhold permission or sanction.
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syllabication
|
noun: Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
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sibilant
|
adjective: Made with a hissing sound.
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procrastination
|
noun: Delay.
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|
equivalent
|
adjective: Equal in value, force, meaning, or the like.
|
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latency
|
noun: The state of being dormant.
|
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involution
|
noun: Complication.
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nowadays
|
aderb: In the present time or age.
|
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|
reclaim
|
verb: To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of.
|
|
|
percussion
|
noun: The sharp striking of one body against another.
|
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disunion
|
noun: Separation of relations or interests.
|
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fluctuation
|
noun: Frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another.
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nauseate
|
verb: To cause to loathe.
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ampersand
|
noun: The character &; and.
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tiresome
|
adjective: Wearisome.
|
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obviate
|
verb: To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
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difference
|
noun: Dissimilarity in any respect.
|
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comprehension
|
noun: Ability to know.
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autonomous
|
adjective: Self-governing.
|
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baffle
|
verb: To foil or frustrate.
|
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flippant
|
adjective: Having a light, pert, trifling disposition.
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psychopathic
|
adjective: Morally irresponsible.
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|
safeguard
|
verb: To protect.
|
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eligible
|
adjective: Qualified for selection.
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imperceptible
|
adjective: Indiscernible.
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continuance
|
noun: Permanence.
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autarchy
|
noun: Unrestricted power.
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reprieve
|
verb: To grant a respite from punishment to.
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apathy
|
noun: Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
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adjunct
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noun: Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.
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batter
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noun: A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery.
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illogical
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adjective: Contrary to the rules of sound thought.
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indict
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verb: To find and declare chargeable with crime.
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depression
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noun: A falling of the spirits.
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fresco
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noun: The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings.
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trebly
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aderb: Triply.
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obligatory
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adjective: Binding in law or conscience.
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foreshore
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noun: That part of a shore uncovered at low tide.
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sanguineous
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adjective: Consisting of blood.
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statuette
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noun: A figurine.
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inexplicable
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adjective: Such as can not be made plain.
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phenomenal
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adjective: Extraordinary or marvelous.
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anemia
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noun: Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.
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redundant
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adjective: Constituting an excess.
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muddle
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verb: To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink.
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accept
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verb: To take when offered.
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illegitimate
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adjective: Unlawfully begotten.
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implicit
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adjective: Implied.
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fungous
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adjective: Spongy.
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off
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adjective: Farther or more distant.
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tenant
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noun: An occupant.
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turgid
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adjective: Swollen.
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incontrovertible
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adjective: Indisputable.
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consign
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verb: To entrust.
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geology
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noun: The department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth.
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conspicuous
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adjective: Clearly visible.
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diatomic
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adjective: Containing only two atoms.
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liquor
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noun: Any alcoholic or intoxicating liquid.
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encourage
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verb: To inspire with courage, hope, or strength of mind.
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mutilate
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verb: To disfigure.
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residue
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noun: A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
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humanize
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verb: To make gentle or refined.
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impede
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verb: To be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of.
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amplitude
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noun: Largeness.
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moralize
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verb: To render virtuous.
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depositor
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noun: One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited.
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irreducible
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adjective: That can not be lessened.
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analogous
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adjective: Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
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grievous
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adjective: Creating affliction.
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bodice
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noun: A women's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist.
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reliant
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adjective: Having confidence.
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polycracy
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noun: The rule of many.
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acetic
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adjective: Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar.
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heifer
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noun: A young cow.
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peccant
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adjective: Guilty.
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perjury
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noun: A solemn assertion of a falsity.
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petulant
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adjective: Displaying impatience.
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stealth
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noun: A concealed manner of acting.
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sebaceous
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adjective: Pertaining to or appearing like fat.
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centurion
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noun: A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
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stanchion
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noun: A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
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forego
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verb: To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of.
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gastritis
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noun: Inflammation of the stomach.
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datum
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noun: A premise, starting-point, or given fact.
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trepidation
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noun: Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
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lactic
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adjective: Pertaining to milk.
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percolator
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noun: A filter.
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grotto
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noun: A small cavern.
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gradation
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noun: A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series.
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counting-house
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noun: A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
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overweight
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noun: Preponderance.
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fallacy
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noun: Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning.
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presentient
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adjective: Perceiving or feeling beforehand.
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lithe
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adjective: Supple.
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precipice
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noun: A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
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angular
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adjective: Sharp-cornered.
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bronchus
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noun: Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs.
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aqueduct
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noun: A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
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reactionary
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adjective: Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.
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enormity
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noun: Immensity.
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conducive
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adjective: Contributing to an end.
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subterranean
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adjective: Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth.
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malign
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verb: To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely.
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transference
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noun: The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
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mockery
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noun: Ridicule.
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testimonial
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noun: A formal token of regard, often presented in public.
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negate
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verb: To deny.
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fusible
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adjective: Capable of being melted by heat.
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rejoin
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verb: To reunite after separation.
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economize
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verb: To spend sparingly.
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meander
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verb: To wind and turn while proceeding in a course.
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bauble
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noun: A trinket.
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singe
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verb: To burn slightly or superficially.
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encroach
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verb: To invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another.
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distemper
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noun: A disease or malady.
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malady
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noun: Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one.
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position
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noun: The manner in which a thing is placed.
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collier
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noun: One who works in a coal-mine.
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wizen
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verb: To become or cause to become withered or dry.
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malleable
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adjective: Pliant.
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quartet
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noun: A composition for four voices or four instruments.
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revise
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verb: To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
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landholder
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noun: Landowner.
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trickery
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noun: Artifice.
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surmise
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verb: To conjecture.
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misinterpret
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verb: To misunderstand.
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divulgence
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noun: A divulging.
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sublingual
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adjective: Situated beneath the tongue.
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admittance
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noun: Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
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significance
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noun: Importance.
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generate
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verb: To produce or cause to be.
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peaceable
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adjective: Tranquil.
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eminence
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noun: An elevated position with respect to rank, place, character, condition, etc.
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cereal
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adjective: Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
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epiphany
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noun: Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity.
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sacrilegious
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adjective: Impious.
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gait
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noun: Carriage of the body in going.
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skeptic
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noun: One who doubts any statements.
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quantity
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noun: Magnitude.
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satire
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noun: The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
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liberalism
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noun: Opposition to conservatism.
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precarious
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adjective: Perilous.
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sibilate
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verb: To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
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garnish
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verb: In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment.
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gamble
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verb: To risk money or other possession on an event, chance, or contingency.
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original
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adjective: Not copied nor produced by imitation.
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deplete
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verb: To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
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extempore
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aderb: Without studied or special preparation.
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aggregate
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noun: The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
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zephyr
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noun: Any soft, gentle wind.
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external
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noun: Anything relating or belonging to the outside.
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herbarium
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noun: A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study.
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benevolent
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adjective: Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being.
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neural
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adjective: Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system.
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denominate
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verb: To give a name or epithet to.
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sequester
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verb: To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life.
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submarine
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adjective: Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
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acumen
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noun: Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.
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seclude
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verb: To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others.
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witticism
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noun: A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment.
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amply
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aderb: Sufficiently.
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possessor
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noun: One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property.
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berth
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noun: A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc.
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almanac
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noun: A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
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typography
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noun: The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter.
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luxuriance
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noun: Excessive or superfluous growth or quantity.
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seignoir
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noun: A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir.
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foreordination
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noun: Predestination.
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malediction
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noun: The calling down of a curse or curses.
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whereupon
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aderb: After which.
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habitual
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adjective: According to usual practice.
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annihilate
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verb: To destroy absolutely.
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repulsive
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adjective: Grossly offensive.
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patter
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verb: To mumble something over and over.
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elucidate
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verb: To bring out more clearly the facts concerning.
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courser
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noun: A fleet and spirited horse.
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visualize
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verb: To give pictorial vividness to a mental representation.
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cosmopolitan
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adjective: Common to all the world.
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ardent
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adjective: Burning with passion.
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advocacy
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noun: The act of pleading a cause.
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facsimile
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noun: An exact copy or reproduction.
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imitation
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noun: That which is made as a likeness or copy.
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consignee
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noun: A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
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heedless
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adjective: Thoughtless.
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composure
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noun: Calmness.
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pastoral
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adjective: Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
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abnormal
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adjective: Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
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pentagram
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noun: A figure having five points or lobes.
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indignant
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adjective: Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness.
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shriek
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noun: A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
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perspiration
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noun: Sweat.
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belate
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verb: To delay past the proper hour.
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languor
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noun: Lassitude of body or depression.
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inadequate
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adjective: Insufficient.
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galvanize
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verb: To imbue with life or animation.
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bevel
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noun: Any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
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pedestal
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noun: A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
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exterior
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noun: That which is outside.
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minion
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noun: A servile favorite.
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arraign
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verb: To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
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hazard
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noun: Risk.
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finery
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noun: That which is used to decorate the person or dress.
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chateau
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noun: A castle or manor-house.
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perpetuate
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verb: To preserve from extinction or oblivion.
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insinuate
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verb: To imply.
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appraise
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verb: To estimate the money value of.
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socialist
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adjective: One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital.
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amalgamate
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verb: To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
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defalcate
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verb: To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
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itinerate
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verb: To wander from place to place.
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parity
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noun: Equality, as of condition or rank.
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truthful
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adjective: Veracious.
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mercenary
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adjective: Greedy
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head foremost
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aderb: Precipitately, as in diving.
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insatiable
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adjective: That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably.
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rapine
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noun: The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
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promoter
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noun: A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
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verily
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aderb: In truth.
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resumption
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noun: The act of taking back, or taking again.
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non-combatant
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noun: One attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting.
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acreage
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noun: Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
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oscillate
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verb: To swing back and forth.
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eschew
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verb: To keep clear of.
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auspice
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noun: favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance.
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cabinet
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noun: The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
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material
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noun: That of which anything is composed or may be constructed.
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predominance
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noun: Ascendancy or preponderance.
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providential
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adjective: Effected by divine guidance.
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upheave
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verb: To raise or lift with effort.
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betrothal
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noun: Engagement to marry.
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bide
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verb: To await.
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prevaricate
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verb: To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.
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livelihood
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noun: Means of subsistence.
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mythology
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noun: The whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes.
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biography
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noun: A written account of one's life, actions, and character.
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aphorism
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noun: Proverb.
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bountiful
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adjective: Showing abundance.
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inglorious
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adjective: Shameful.
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resonance
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noun: The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
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tinge
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noun: A faint trace of color.
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matter of fact
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noun: Something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality.
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requital
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noun: Adequate return for good or ill.
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forgo
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verb: To deny oneself.
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waif
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noun: A homeless, neglected wanderer.
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accompany
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verb: To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
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ancestry
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noun: One's ancestors collectively.
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felicitate
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verb: To wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event.
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employee
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noun: One who works for wages or a salary.
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coalescence
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noun: The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
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anarchy
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noun: Absence or utter disregard of government.
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diversion
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noun: Pastime.
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procedure
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noun: A manner or method of acting.
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decapitate
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verb: To behead.
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principle
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noun: A general truth or proposition.
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contrite
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adjective: Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
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bristle
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noun: One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc.
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depth
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noun: Deepness.
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excerpt
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noun: An extract or selection from written or printed matter.
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doleful
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adjective: Melancholy.
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episode
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noun: An incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it.
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ghastly
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adjective: Hideous.
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sensitive
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adjective: Easily affected by outside operations or influences.
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vivisection
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noun: The dissection of a living animal.
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craving
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noun: A vehement desire.
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concordance
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noun: Harmony.
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lifelike
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adjective: Realistic.
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extradite
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verb: To surrender the custody of.
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cosmography
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noun: The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
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strait
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noun: A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
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check
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verb: To hold back.
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consumptive
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adjective: Designed for gradual destruction.
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monogram
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noun: A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a
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decasyllable
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noun: A line of ten syllables.
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docket
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noun: The registry of judgments of a court.
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facility
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noun: Ease.
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originate
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verb: To cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of.
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brooch
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noun: An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
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acute
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adjective: Having fine and penetrating discernment.
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rejuvenescence
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noun: A renewal of youth.
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hussar
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noun: A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
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rectify
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verb: To correct.
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incipience
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noun: Beginning.
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gesture
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noun: A movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion.
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forfend
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verb: To ward off.
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chiffon
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noun: A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
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arbiter
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noun: One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters.
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loquacious
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adjective: Talkative.
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centenary
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adjective: Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years.
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loathe
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verb: To abominate.
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excretion
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noun: The getting rid of waste matter.
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mouthful
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noun: As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise.
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diffusible
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adjective: Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly.
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submergence
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noun: The act of submerging.
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heteromorphic
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adjective: Deviating from the normal form or standard type.
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infallible
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adjective: Exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement.
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necessary
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adjective: Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result.
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reverent
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adjective: Humble.
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incitement
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noun: That which moves to action, or serves as an incentive or stimulus.
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reiterate
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verb: To say or do again and again.
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visage
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noun: The face, countenence, or look of a person.
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exuberance
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noun: Rich supply.
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guy
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noun: Stay-rope.
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mordacious
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adjective: Biting or giving to biting.
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verbose
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adjective: Wordy.
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recognize
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verb: To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
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breach
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noun: The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
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liner
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noun: A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.
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macrocosm
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noun: The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related.
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emergence
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noun: A coming into view.
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inwardly
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aderb: With no outward manifestation.
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reimburse
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verb: To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
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monsieur
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noun: A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir.
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narrate
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verb: To tell a story.
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acknowledge
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verb: To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of.
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illumine
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verb: To make bright or clear.
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oratory
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noun: The art of public speaking.
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Anglo-Saxon
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noun: The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.
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seduce
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verb: To entice to surrender chastity.
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faun
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noun: One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet.
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broadcast
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adjective: Disseminated far and wide.
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aggression
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noun: An unprovoked attack.
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distrainor
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noun: One who subjects a person to distress.
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pantheism
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noun: The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
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boorish
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adjective: Rude.
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exhume
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verb: To dig out of the earth (what has been buried).
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ramose
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adjective: Branch-like.
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corpuscle
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noun: A minute particle of matter.
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theologian
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noun: A professor of divinity.
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recurrent
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adjective: Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
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opportune
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adjective: Especially fit as occurring, said, or done at the right moment.
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dejection
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noun: Melancholy.
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lithesome
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adjective: Nimble.
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navel
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noun: The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
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entreaty
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noun: An earnest request.
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evangelical
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adjective: Seeking the conversion of sinners.
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recollect
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verb: To recall the knowledge of.
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prescript
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adjective: Prescribed as a rule or model.
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negotiable
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verb: To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property.
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pennant
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noun: A small flag.
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antipodes
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noun: A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
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succeed
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verb: To accomplish what is attempted or intended.
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stultify
|
verb: To give an appearance of foolishness to.
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operetta
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noun: A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act.
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spinous
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adjective: Having spines.
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usage
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noun: Treatment.
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weak-kneed
|
adjective: Without resolute purpose or energy.
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patriarch
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noun: The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
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overrun
|
verb: To infest or ravage.
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wield
|
verb: To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command.
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nihilist
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noun: An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known.
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inactive
|
adjective: Inert.
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regale
|
verb: To give unusual pleasure.
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prelate
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noun: One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
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bravado
|
noun: An aggressive display of boldness.
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caucus
|
noun: A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
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anecdote
|
noun: A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
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oaken
|
adjective: Made of or from oak.
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prefatory
|
adjective: Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
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demise
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noun: Death.
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hideous
|
adjective: Appalling.
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misogyny
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noun: Hatred of women.
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transcend
|
verb: To surpass.
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speculate
|
verb: To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
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perspicacious
|
adjective: Astute.
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neuter
|
adjective: Neither masculine nor feminine.
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vegetate
|
verb: To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties.
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equanimity
|
noun: Evenness of mind or temper.
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beatify
|
verb: To make supremely happy.
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endemic
|
adjective: Peculiar to some specified country or people.
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cartilage
|
noun: An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
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abrupt
|
adjective: Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
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ladle
|
noun: A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids.
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indulgence
|
noun: The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another.
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neology
|
noun: The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
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insurgence
|
noun: Uprising.
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somnolence
|
noun: Oppressive drowsiness.
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exorbitant
|
adjective: Going beyond usual and proper limits.
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altruist
|
noun: One who advocates or practices altruism.
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antiphony
|
noun: An anthem or other composition sung responsively.
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sensuous
|
adjective: Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
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critique
|
noun: A criticism or critical review.
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vulnerable
|
adjective: Capable of receiving injuries.
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succulent
|
adjective: Juicy.
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frailty
|
noun: Liability to be broken or destroyed.
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papacy
|
noun: The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
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inject
|
verb: To introduce, as a fluid, by injection.
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dilatory
|
adjective: Tending to cause delay.
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capillary
|
noun: A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
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dominance
|
noun: Ascendancy.
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juridical
|
adjective: Assumed by law to exist.
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irreligious
|
adjective: Indifferent or opposed to religion.
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disparity
|
noun: Inequality.
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infernal
|
adjective: Akin to or befitting hell or its occupants.
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susceptible
|
adjective: Easily under a specified power or influence.
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coalition
|
noun: Combination in a body or mass.
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bacterium
|
noun: A microbe.
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benignity
|
noun: Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
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personnel
|
noun: The force of persons collectively employed in some service.
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retort
|
noun: A retaliatory speech.
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equestrian
|
adjective: Pertaining to horses or horsemanship.
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medley
|
noun: A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole.
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edify
|
verb: To build up, or strengthen, especially in morals or religion.
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obsequious
|
adjective: Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
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implicate
|
verb: To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
|
|
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recidivist
|
noun: A confirmed criminal.
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supplicant
|
noun: One who asks humbly and earnestly.
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pomposity
|
noun: The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
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|
frivolity
|
noun: A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice.
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illuminant
|
noun: That which may be used to produce light.
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trisect
|
verb: To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
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|
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well-to-do
|
adjective: In prosperous circumstances.
|
|
|
gamut
|
noun: The whole range or sequence.
|
|
|
preoccupy
|
verb: To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
|
|
|
candor
|
noun: The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
|
|
|
overshadow
|
verb: To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
|
|
|
divination
|
noun: The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden.
|
|
|
low-spirited
|
adjective: Despondent.
|
|
|
operative
|
adjective: Active.
|
|
|
prima
|
adjective: First.
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|
|
inchoate
|
adjective: Incipient.
|
|
|
optic
|
noun: Pertaining to the eye or vision.
|
|
|
modernity
|
noun: The state or character of being modern.
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|
|
indispensable
|
adjective: Necessary or requisite for the purpose.
|
|
|
literature
|
noun: The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively.
|
|
|
control
|
verb: To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
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|
|
quietus
|
noun: A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
|
|
|
rampant
|
adjective: Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
|
|
|
sapiential
|
adjective: Possessing wisdom.
|
|
|
receivable
|
adjective: Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
|
|
|
balsam
|
noun: A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
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|
|
preferable
|
adjective: More desirable than others.
|
|
|
banal
|
adjective: Commonplace.
|
|
|
abscond
|
verb: To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
|
|
|
unguent
|
noun: Any ointment or lubricant for local application.
|
|
|
illiterate
|
adjective: Having little or no book-learning.
|
|
|
divergent
|
adjective: Tending in different directions.
|
|
|
relevant
|
adjective: Bearing upon the matter in hand.
|
|
|
factious
|
adjective: Turbulent.
|
|
|
refringent
|
adjective: Having the power to refract.
|
|
|
olfactory
|
adjective: of or pertaining to the sense of smell.
|
|
|
unbelief
|
noun: Doubt.
|
|
|
wrest
|
verb: To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing.
|
|
|
secant
|
adjective: Cutting, especially into two parts.
|
|
|
foreordain
|
verb: To predetermine.
|
|
|
pinnacle
|
noun: A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
|
|
|
adoration
|
noun: Profound devotion.
|
|
|
stagy
|
adjective: Having a theatrical manner.
|
|
|
diurnal
|
adjective: Daily.
|
|
|
effuse
|
verb: To pour forth.
|
|
|
secession
|
noun: Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
|
|
|
unutterable
|
adjective: Inexpressible.
|
|
|
unaffected
|
adjective: Sincere.
|
|
|
paternal
|
adjective: Fatherly.
|
|
|
hospitality
|
noun: The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
|
|
|
ministration
|
noun: Any religious ceremonial.
|
|
|
seismograph
|
noun: An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.
|
|
|
fragile
|
adjective: Easily broken.
|
|
|
eventual
|
adjective: Ultimate.
|
|
|
amicable
|
adjective: Done in a friendly spirit.
|
|
|
loneliness
|
noun: Solitude.
|
|
|
brittle
|
adjective: Fragile.
|
|
|
corporeal
|
adjective: Of a material nature; physical.
|
|
|
apprehend
|
verb: To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law.
|
|
|
abrasion
|
noun: That which is rubbed off.
|
|
|
pharmacy
|
noun: The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
|
|
|
enrapture
|
verb: To delight extravagantly or intensely.
|
|
|
moderation
|
noun: Temperance.
|
|
|
torrid
|
adjective: Excessively hot.
|
|
|
deport
|
verb: To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
|
|
|
upcast
|
noun: A throwing upward.
|
|
|
immiscible
|
adjective: Separating, as oil and water.
|
|
|
countercharge
|
verb: To accuse in return.
|
|
|
raillery
|
noun: Good-humored satire.
|
|
|
adjutant
|
adjective: Auxiliary.
|
|
|
antemundane
|
adjective: Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
|
|
|
requisite
|
adjective: Necessary.
|
|
|
aristocracy
|
noun: A hereditary nobility
|
|
|
inlet
|
noun: A small body of water leading into a larger.
|
|
|
continuation
|
noun: Prolongation.
|
|
|
mediate
|
verb: To effect by negotiating as an agent between parties.
|
|
|
foretell
|
verb: To predict.
|
|
|
possess
|
verb: To own.
|
|
|
conjugation
|
noun: The state or condition of being joined together.
|
|
|
foliage
|
noun: Any growth of leaves.
|
|
|
dissentient
|
noun: One who disagrees.
|
|
|
topography
|
noun: The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
|
|
|
exempt
|
adjective: Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others.
|
|
|
monarchy
|
noun: Government by a single, sovereign ruler.
|
|
|
compress
|
verb: To press together or into smaller space.
|
|
|
delineate
|
verb: To represent by sketch or diagram.
|
|
|
distill
|
verb: To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.
|
|
|
fallow
|
noun: Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest.
|
|
|
inconsiderable
|
adjective: Small in quantity or importance.
|
|
|
mien
|
noun: The external appearance or manner of a person.
|
|
|
unsettle
|
verb: To put into confusion.
|
|
|
decent
|
adjective: Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
|
|
|
magnetize
|
verb: To make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily.
|
|
|
estrange
|
verb: To alienate.
|
|
|
seethe
|
verb: To be violently excited or agitated.
|
|
|
extraordinary
|
adjective: Unusual.
|
|
|
fiscal
|
adjective: Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government.
|
|
|
wile
|
noun: An act or a means of cunning deception.
|
|
|
stimulant
|
noun: Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action.
|
|
|
officiate
|
verb: To act as an officer or leader.
|
|
|
illusive
|
adjective: Deceptive.
|
|
|
extinct
|
adjective: Being no longer in existence.
|
|
|
origin
|
noun: The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be.
|
|
|
buttress
|
noun: Any support or prop.
|
|
|
rescind
|
verb: To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
|
|
|
mulatto
|
noun: The offspring of a white person and a black person.
|
|
|
enfranchise
|
verb: To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote.
|
|
|
professor
|
noun: A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college.
|
|
|
alias
|
noun: An assumed name.
|
|
|
loot
|
verb: To plunder.
|
|
|
adamant
|
noun: Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
|
|
|
likely
|
adjective: Plausible.
|
|
|
emphasis
|
noun: Any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word.
|
|
|
cartridge
|
noun: A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
|
|
|
supplant
|
verb: To take the place of.
|
|
|
juicy
|
adjective: Succulent.
|
|
|
secondly
|
aderb: In the second place in order or succession.
|
|
|
arrogate
|
verb: To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.
|
|
|
thermomelectric
|
adjective: Denoting electricity produced by heat.
|
|
|
valorous
|
adjective: Courageous.
|
|
|
magnanimous
|
adjective: Generous in treating or judging others.
|
|
|
invidious
|
adjective: Showing or feeling envy.
|
|
|
affect
|
verb: To act upon
|
|
|
irresponsible
|
adjective: Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities.
|
|
|
levity
|
noun: Frivolity.
|
|
|
excellency
|
noun: A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials.
|
|
|
virtuoso
|
noun: A master in the technique of some particular fine art.
|
|
|
fernery
|
noun: A place in which ferns are grown.
|
|
|
sedentary
|
adjective: Involving or requiring much sitting.
|
|
|
emerge
|
verb: To come into view or into existence.
|
|
|
sleight
|
noun: A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation.
|
|
|
electrolysis
|
noun: The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current.
|
|
|
symphony
|
noun: A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
|
|
|
minority
|
noun: The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided.
|
|
|
oration
|
noun: An elaborate or formal public speech.
|
|
|
abstruse
|
adjective: Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
|
|
|
excel
|
verb: To be superior or distinguished.
|
|
|
intuition
|
noun: Instinctive knowledge or feeling.
|
|
|
seer
|
noun: A prophet.
|
|
|
alienate
|
verb: To cause to turn away.
|
|
|
dyne
|
noun: The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
|
|
|
discontinuance
|
noun: Interruption or intermission.
|
|
|
wiry
|
adjective: Thin, but tough and sinewy.
|
|
|
egotism
|
noun: Self-conceit.
|
|
|
collective
|
adjective: Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
|
|
|
telescope
|
verb: To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
|
|
|
delusion
|
noun: Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring.
|
|
|
antemeridian
|
adjective: Before noon.
|
|
|
lea
|
noun: A field.
|
|
|
apposite
|
adjective: Appropriate.
|
|
|
derrick
|
noun: An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
|
|
|
urbanity
|
noun: Refined or elegant courtesy.
|
|
|
crass
|
adjective: Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
|
|
|
discredit
|
verb: To injure the reputation of.
|
|
|
cajolery
|
noun: Delusive speech.
|
|
|
intoxicate
|
verb: To make drunk.
|
|
|
intermit
|
verb: To cause to cease temporarily.
|
|
|
duplicity
|
noun: Double-dealing.
|
|
|
thrall
|
noun: One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
|
|
|
orator
|
noun: One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech.
|
|
|
prohibitionist
|
noun: One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
|
|
|
monomania
|
noun: The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
|
|
|
enamor
|
verb: To inspire with ardent love.
|
|
|
imperfectible
|
adjective: That can not be perfected.
|
|
|
invulnerable
|
adjective: That can not be wounded or hurt.
|
|
|
regnant
|
adjective: Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
|
|
|
observatory
|
noun: A building designed for systematic astronomical observations.
|
|
|
ointment
|
noun: A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists.
|
|
|
maltreat
|
verb: To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively.
|
|
|
adherent
|
adjective: Clinging or sticking fast.
|
|
|
recessive
|
adjective: Having a tendency to go back.
|
|
|
venison
|
noun: The flesh of deer.
|
|
|
ponder
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verb: To meditate or reflect upon.
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canine
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adjective: Characteristic of a dog.
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thearchy
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noun: Government by a supreme deity.
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dilate
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verb: To enlarge in all directions.
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quiet
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adjective: Making no noise.
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wearisome
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adjective: Fatiguing.
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mawkish
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adjective: Sickening or insipid.
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redolent
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adjective: Smelling sweet and agreeable.
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chameleon
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adjective: Changeable in appearance.
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foresail
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noun: A square sail.
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baton
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noun: An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
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resuscitate
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verb: To restore from apparent death.
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genitive
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adjective: Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like.
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noisome
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adjective: Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
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autocracy
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noun: Absolute government.
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conservative
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adjective: Adhering to the existing order of things.
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dentifrice
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noun: Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
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loch
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noun: A lake.
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intrinsic
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adjective: Inherent.
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debase
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verb: To lower in character or virtue.
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irritate
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verb: To excite ill temper or impatience in.
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authentic
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adjective: Of undisputed origin.
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invalid
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noun: One who is disabled by illness or injury.
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contradictory
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adjective: Inconsistent with itself.
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redemption
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noun: The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
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transitory
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adjective: Existing for a short time only.
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finite
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adjective: Limited.
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witchcraft
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noun: Sorcery.
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literacy
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noun: The state or condition of knowing how to read and write.
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academician
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noun: A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
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didactic
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adjective: Pertaining to teaching.
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bulrush
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noun: Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
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eloquent
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adjective: Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech.
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thermoelectricity
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noun: Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
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parable
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noun: A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
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landmark
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noun: A familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track
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assess
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verb: To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid).
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sequel
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noun: That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened.
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inimical
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adjective: Adverse.
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exposition
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noun: Formal presentation.
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huckster
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noun: One who retails small wares.
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antitoxin
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noun: A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
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commission
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verb: To empower.
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duration
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noun: The period of time during which anything lasts.
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abscess
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noun: A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
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ruth
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noun: Sorrow for another's misery.
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intercession
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noun: Entreaty in behalf of others.
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script
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noun: Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
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progression
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noun: A moving forward or proceeding in course.
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convolution
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noun: A winding motion.
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manifesto
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noun: A public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions, or
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substantive
|
adjective: Solid.
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exclude
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verb: To shut out purposely or forcibly.
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trenchant
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adjective: Cutting deeply and quickly.
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disciplinary
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adjective: Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
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annuity
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noun: An annual allowance, payment, or income.
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rancor
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noun: Malice.
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alley
|
noun: A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
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version
|
noun: A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion.
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diabolic
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adjective: Characteristic of the devil.
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revere
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verb: To regard with worshipful veneration.
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weal
|
noun: Well-being.
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epitome
|
noun: A simplified representation.
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oratorio
|
noun: A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures.
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resistant
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adjective: Offering or tending to produce resistance.
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clearance
|
noun: A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
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reorganize
|
verb: To change to a more satisfactory form of organization.
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corroborate
|
verb: To strengthen, as proof or conviction.
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carouse
|
verb: To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
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darkling
|
aderb: Blindly.
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persecution
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noun: Harsh or malignant oppression.
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evoke
|
verb: To call or summon forth.
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misty
|
adjective: Lacking clearness
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beset
|
verb: To attack on all sides.
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persevere
|
verb: To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
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depress
|
verb: To press down.
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complicate
|
verb: To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
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circumlocution
|
noun: Indirect or roundabout expression.
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arboriculture
|
noun: The cultivation of trees or shrubs.
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equitable
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adjective: Characterized by fairness.
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skiff
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noun: Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
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preordain
|
verb: To foreordain.
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kinsfolk
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noun: pl. Relatives.
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soprano
|
noun: A woman's or boy's voice of high range.
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corruptible
|
adjective: Open to bribery.
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menagerie
|
noun: A collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition.
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impulsive
|
adjective: Unpremeditated.
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inkling
|
noun: A hint.
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proviso
|
noun: A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
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emergent
|
adjective: Coming into view.
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overhang
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noun: A portion of a structure which projects or hangs over.
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abridgment
|
noun: A condensed form as of a book or play.
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uproarious
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adjective: Noisy.
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reticence
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noun: The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
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avarice
|
noun: Passion for getting and keeping riches.
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misuse
|
verb: To maltreat.
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transfer
|
verb: To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
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diffusion
|
noun: Dispersion.
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forecourt
|
noun: A court opening directly from the street.
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specious
|
adjective: Plausible.
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profuse
|
adjective: Produced or displayed in overabundance.
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administrator
|
noun: One who manages affairs of any kind.
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incoercible
|
adjective: Incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled.
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diagnosis
|
noun: Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease.
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accommodate
|
verb: To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
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bibulous
|
adjective: Fond of drinking.
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officious
|
adjective: Intermeddling with what is not one's concern.
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tact
|
noun: Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
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truism
|
noun: A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
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globular
|
adjective: Spherical.
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rife
|
adjective: Abundant.
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altruism
|
noun: Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
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expectorate
|
verb: To cough up and spit forth.
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divagation
|
noun: Digression.
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requite
|
verb: To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.
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voluble
|
adjective: Having great fluency in speaking.
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adumbrate
|
verb: To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
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betroth
|
verb: To engage to marry.
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retract
|
verb: To recall or take back (something that one has said).
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|
equilibrium
|
noun: A state of balance.
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|
clarify
|
verb: To render intelligible.
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timorous
|
adjective: Lacking courage.
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braggart
|
noun: A vain boaster.
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deluge
|
verb: To overwhelm with a flood of water.
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|
crustacean
|
adjective: Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.
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misnomer
|
noun: A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
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coercion
|
noun: Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
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conduit
|
noun: A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
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multiform
|
adjective: Having many shapes, or appearances.
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conveyance
|
noun: That by which anything is transported.
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differential
|
adjective: Distinctive.
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affectation
|
noun: A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
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sheer
|
adjective: Absolute.
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|
biology
|
noun: The science of life or living organisms.
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circumnavigate
|
verb: To sail quite around.
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magnificent
|
adjective: Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action.
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alternate
|
noun: One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
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projection
|
noun: A prominence.
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Christ
|
noun: A title of Jesus
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effectual
|
adjective: Efficient.
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|
Catholicism
|
noun: The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
|
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Arthurian
|
adjective: Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.
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egoist
|
noun: One who advocates or practices egoism.
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supplicate
|
verb: To beg.
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|
moderator
|
noun: The presiding officer of a meeting.
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|
Briticism
|
noun: A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British.
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unconscious
|
adjective: Not cognizant of objects, actions, etc.
|
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subservient
|
adjective: Servilely following another's behests.
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lingua
|
noun: The tongue.
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|
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blaze
|
noun: A vivid glowing flame.
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frugal
|
adjective: Economical.
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|
|
left-handed
|
adjective: Using the left hand or arm more dexterously than the right.
|
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consort
|
noun: A companion or associate.
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|
|
elasticity
|
noun: That property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed.
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|
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abdicate
|
verb: To give up (royal power or the like).
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|
|
addle
|
verb: To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
|
|
|
ravage
|
verb: To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
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|
|
underworld
|
noun: Hades.
|
|
|
dispossess
|
verb: To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
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prediction
|
noun: A prophecy.
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|
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induct
|
verb: To bring in.
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|
|
motto
|
noun: An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith.
|
|
|
theorist
|
noun: One given to speculating.
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|
|
extrude
|
verb: To drive out or away.
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|
botany
|
noun: The science that treats of plants.
|
|
|
variegate
|
verb: To mark with different shades or colors.
|
|
|
crustaceous
|
adjective: Having a crust-like shell.
|
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turpitude
|
noun: Depravity.
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|
perspicacity
|
noun: Acuteness or discernment.
|
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cajole
|
verb: To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
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|
grapple
|
verb: To take hold of.
|
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|
memento
|
noun: A souvenir.
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|
|
circumscribe
|
verb: To confine within bounds.
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|
|
claimant
|
noun: One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
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|
premature
|
adjective: Coming too soon.
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|
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convertible
|
adjective: Interchangeable.
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|
|
exclamation
|
noun: An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling.
|
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brazier
|
noun: An open pan or basin for holding live coals.
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|
|
microphone
|
noun: An apparatus for magnifying faint sounds.
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|
|
rigmarole
|
noun: Nonsense.
|
|
|
inexpressible
|
adjective: Unutterable.
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|
|
waive
|
verb: To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim.
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|
|
blockade
|
noun: The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces.
|
|
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laudable
|
adjective: Praiseworthy.
|
|
|
convalescence
|
noun: The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
|
|
|
demonstrable
|
adjective: Capable of positive proof.
|
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|
superfluous
|
adjective: Being more than is needed.
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concurrent
|
adjective: Occurring or acting together.
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|
copious
|
adjective: Plenteous.
|
|
|
degrade
|
verb: To take away honors or position from.
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|
|
alleviate
|
verb: To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
|
|
|
ogre
|
noun: A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings.
|
|
|
venom
|
noun: The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete.
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delirious
|
adjective: Raving.
|
|
|
secretary
|
noun: One who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others.
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|
|
pacify
|
verb: To bring into a peaceful state.
|
|
|
assailant
|
noun: One who attacks.
|
|
|
enact
|
verb: To make into law, as by legislative act.
|
|
|
intangible
|
adjective: Not perceptible to the touch.
|
|
|
demobilize
|
verb: To disband, as troops.
|
|
|
retroactive
|
adjective: Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
|
|
|
gynecocracy
|
noun: Female supremacy.
|
|
|
injunction
|
noun: Mandate.
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abject
|
adjective: Sunk to a low condition.
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|
affluence
|
noun: A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
|
|
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horde
|
noun: A gathered multitude of human beings.
|
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|
legible
|
adjective: That may be read with ease.
|
|
|
overpower
|
verb: To gain supremacy or victory over by superior power.
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|
irritancy
|
noun: The quality of producing vexation.
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|
|
octogenarian
|
adjective: A person of between eighty and ninety years.
|
|
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involve
|
verb: To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively.
|
|
|
facet
|
noun: One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem.
|
|
|
tendency
|
noun: Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end.
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|
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witless
|
adjective: Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
|
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|
magnificence
|
noun: The exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth, or power.
|
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|
remission
|
noun: Temporary diminution of a disease.
|
|
|
coronet
|
noun: Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.
|
|
|
transpire
|
verb: To come to pass.
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|
|
inedible
|
adjective: Not good for food.
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|
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knighthood
|
noun: Chivalry.
|
|
|
vacuous
|
adjective: Empty.
|
|
|
recrudescence
|
noun: The state of becoming raw or sore again.
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avert
|
verb: To turn away or aside.
|
|
|
panel
|
noun: A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
|
|
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obligate
|
verb: To hold to the fulfillment of duty.
|
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|
cohesion
|
noun: Consistency.
|
|
|
optometry
|
noun: Measurement of the powers of vision.
|
|
|
disservice
|
noun: An ill turn.
|
|
|
alter
|
verb: To make change in.
|
|
|
nocturnal
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to the night.
|
|
|
conformance
|
noun: The act or state or conforming.
|
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mete
|
verb: To apportion.
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|
|
fervid
|
adjective: Intense.
|
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lunar
|
adjective: Pertaining to the moon.
|
|
|
convalesce
|
verb: To recover after a sickness.
|
|
|
solvent
|
adjective: Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
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|
decagon
|
noun: A figure with ten sides and ten angles.
|
|
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unwise
|
adjective: Foolish.
|
|
|
agrarian
|
adjective: Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.
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mead
|
noun: A meadow.
|
|
|
venial
|
adjective: That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.
|
|
|
proscenium
|
noun: That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
|
|
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egregious
|
adjective: Extreme.
|
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|
slothful
|
adjective: Lazy.
|
|
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miscreant
|
noun: A villain.
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|
homologous
|
adjective: Identical in nature, make-up, or relation.
|
|
|
staid
|
adjective: Of a steady and sober character.
|
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|
felony
|
noun: One of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment.
|
|
|
delicacy
|
noun: That which is agreeable to a fine taste.
|
|
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financial
|
adjective: Monetary.
|
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|
gauge
|
noun: An instrument for measuring.
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jargon
|
noun: Confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech.
|
|
|
exhilarate
|
verb: To fill with high or cheerful spirits.
|
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|
happy-go-lucky
|
adjective: Improvident.
|
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|
Neolithic
|
adjective: Pertaining to the later stone age.
|
|
|
deportment
|
noun: Demeanor.
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|
sextuple
|
adjective: Multiplied by six.
|
|
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menace
|
noun: A threat.
|
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|
inquisitor
|
noun: One who makes an investigation.
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disillusion
|
verb: To disenchant.
|
|
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guile
|
noun: Duplicity.
|
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likelihood
|
noun: A probability.
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laudation
|
noun: High praise.
|
|
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penance
|
noun: Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of
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kilometer
|
noun: A length of 1,000 meters.
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|
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possessive
|
adjective: Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
|
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|
aspiration
|
noun: An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach.
|
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imaginary
|
adjective: Fancied.
|
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access
|
noun: A way of approach or entrance; passage.
|
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persiflage
|
noun: Banter.
|
|
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bight
|
noun: A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.
|
|
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philanthropic
|
adjective: Benevolent.
|
|
|
honorarium
|
noun: A token fee or payment to a professional man for services.
|
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|
arcade
|
noun: A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it.
|
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inextensible
|
adjective: Of unchangeable length or area.
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apostate
|
adjective: False.
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evade
|
verb: To avoid by artifice.
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batten
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noun: A narrow strip of wood.
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superficial
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adjective: Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
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uncommon
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adjective: Rare.
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infusion
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noun: The act of imbuing, or pouring in.
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cohesive
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adjective: Having the property of consistency.
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insufficient
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adjective: Inadequate for some need, purpose, or use.
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oblong
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adjective: Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated
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peccadillo
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noun: A small breach of propriety or principle.
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anxious
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adjective: Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter.
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fortify
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verb: To provide with defensive works.
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masquerade
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noun: A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised.
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perusal
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noun: The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully.
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efflorescent
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adjective: Opening in flower.
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seclusion
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noun: Solitude.
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polytechnic
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adjective: Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts.
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corpse
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noun: A dead body.
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reflector
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noun: A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction.
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peccable
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adjective: Capable of sinning.
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trajectory
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noun: The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
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acetate
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noun: A salt of acetic acid.
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metropolitan
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adjective: Pertaining to a chief city.
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terrify
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verb: To fill with extreme fear.
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orate
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verb: To deliver an elaborate or formal public speech.
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denunciation
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noun: The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
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dissolve
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verb: To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture.
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noticeable
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adjective: Perceptible.
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drachma
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noun: A modern and an ancient Greek coin.
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dendrology
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noun: The natural history of trees.
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propulsion
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noun: A driving onward or forward.
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cygnet
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noun: A young swan.
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intrusion
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noun: The act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment.
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reproof
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noun: An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
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resent
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verb: To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
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fixture
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noun: One who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position.
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eccentricity
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noun: Idiosyncrasy.
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Artesian well
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noun: A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
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truculent
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adjective: Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
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seminary
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noun: A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
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introversion
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noun: The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally.
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lithograph
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noun: A print made by printing from stone.
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obstetrician
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noun: A practitioner of midwifery.
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ascendant
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adjective: Dominant.
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discord
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noun: Absence of harmoniousness.
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concession
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noun: Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim.
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observant
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adjective: Quick to notice.
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coronation
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noun: The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch.
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caitiff
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adjective: Cowardly.
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renovate
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verb: To restore after deterioration, as a building.
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irritant
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noun: A mechanical, chemical, or pathological agent of inflammation, pain, or tension.
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inquisitive
|
adjective: Given to questioning, especially out of curiosity.
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tripod
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noun: A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
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ribald
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adjective: Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
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nominee
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noun: One who receives a nomination.
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vie
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verb: To contend.
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vapid
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adjective: Having lost sparkling quality and flavor.
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compute
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verb: To ascertain by mathematical calculation.
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nestling
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adjective: Recently hatched.
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burgess
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noun: In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia.
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autonomy
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noun: Self-government.
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inhume
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verb: To place in the earth, as a dead body.
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coercive
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adjective: Serving or tending to force.
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retrench
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verb: To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
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declamation
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noun: A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public.
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suave
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adjective: Smooth and pleasant in manner.
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deceitful
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adjective: Fraudulent.
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precise
|
adjective: Exact.
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restitution
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noun: Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
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fraudulent
|
adjective: Counterfeit.
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importunate
|
adjective: Urgent in character, request, or demand.
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confidence
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noun: The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another.
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countervail
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verb: To offset.
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involuntary
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adjective: Unwilling.
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accomplice
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noun: An associate in wrong-doing.
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polytheism
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noun: The doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one.
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instigate
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verb: To provoke.
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butte
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noun: A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
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Anglophobia
|
noun: Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
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luminosity
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noun: The quality of giving or radiating light.
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florist
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noun: A dealer in flowers.
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mettlesome
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adjective: Having courage or spirit.
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atonement
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noun: Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
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scintillate
|
verb: To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
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subtrahend
|
noun: That which is to be subtracted.
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stagnation
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noun: The condition of not flowing or not changing.
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homophone
|
noun: A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
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redress
|
verb: To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
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proctor
|
noun: An agent acting for another.
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tranquilize
|
verb: To soothe.
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militate
|
verb: To have weight or influence (in determining a question).
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acid
|
noun: A sour substance.
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album
|
noun: A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
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gambol
|
noun: Playful leaping or frisking.
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guise
|
noun: The external appearance as produced by garb or costume.
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opposite
|
adjective: Radically different or contrary in action or movement.
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mediocre
|
adjective: Ordinary.
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risible
|
adjective: capable of exciting laughter.
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rote
|
noun: Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention.
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gratuity
|
noun: That which is given without demand or claim. Tip.
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relinquish
|
verb: To give up using or having.
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octavo
|
noun: A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves.
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bulwark
|
noun: Anything that gives security or defense.
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annals
|
noun: A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
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reform
|
noun: Change for the better.
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winsome
|
adjective: Attractive.
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significant
|
adjective: Important, especially as pointing something out.
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evolve
|
verb: To unfold or expand.
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sensation
|
noun: A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
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meddlesome
|
adjective: Interfering.
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extradition
|
noun: The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government.
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subtle
|
adjective: Discriminating.
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simile
|
noun: A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself.
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preparation
|
noun: An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event.
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vacate
|
verb: To leave.
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parse
|
verb: To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.
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remonstrate
|
verb: To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
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generosity
|
noun: A disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily.
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confederacy
|
noun: A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid.
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asperity
|
noun: Harshness or roughness of temper.
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polyhedron
|
noun: A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four.
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mordant
|
adjective: Biting.
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anachronism
|
noun: Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
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salacious
|
adjective: Having strong sexual desires.
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prominent
|
adjective: Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
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autopsy
|
noun: The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.
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photometer
|
noun: Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
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circumference
|
noun: The boundary-line of a circle.
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vernacular
|
noun: The language of one's country.
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diagnose
|
verb: To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena.
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cursive
|
adjective: Writing in which the letters are joined together.
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legislate
|
verb: To make or enact a law or laws.
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intramural
|
adjective: Situated within the walls of a city.
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rivulet
|
noun: A small stream or brook.
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effete
|
adjective: Exhausted, as having performed its functions.
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logic
|
noun: The science of correct thinking.
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indigestion
|
noun: Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment.
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quarter
|
noun: One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
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inexorable
|
adjective: Unrelenting.
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rendezvous
|
noun: A prearranged place of meeting.
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excrescence
|
noun: Any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development.
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priggish
|
adjective: Conceited.
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recreate
|
verb: To refresh after labor.
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regretful
|
adjective: Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
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|
declarative
|
adjective: Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation.
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|
|
brotherhood
|
noun: Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.
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confinement
|
noun: Restriction within limits or boundaries.
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|
metaphor
|
noun: A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other.
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annex
|
verb: To add or affix at the end.
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incomprehensible
|
adjective: Not understandable.
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pioneer
|
noun: One among the first to explore a country.
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bellicose
|
adjective: Warlike.
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subconscious
|
adjective: Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception.
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regent
|
noun: One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
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bestride
|
verb: To get or sit upon astride, as a horse.
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esquire
|
noun: A title of dignity, office, or courtesy.
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remunerate
|
verb: To pay or pay for.
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comprise
|
verb: To consist of.
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fungus
|
noun: A plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom.
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repugnant
|
adjective: Offensive to taste and feeling.
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verity
|
noun: Truth.
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|
|
judicature
|
noun: Distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment.
|
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irresistible
|
adjective: That can not be successfully withstood or opposed.
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overlord
|
noun: One who holds supremacy over another.
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grantee
|
noun: The person to whom property is transferred by deed.
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temerity
|
noun: Recklessness.
|
|
|
opponent
|
noun: One who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or sport.
|
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|
quibble
|
noun: An utterly trivial distinction or objection.
|
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|
alteration
|
noun: Change or modification.
|
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prefix
|
verb: To attach at the beginning.
|
|
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pitiless
|
adjective: Hard-hearted.
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scintilla
|
noun: The faintest ray.
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designate
|
verb: To select or appoint, as by authority.
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travesty
|
noun: A grotesque imitation.
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disreputable
|
adjective: Dishonorable or disgraceful.
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acquittal
|
noun: A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
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lovable
|
adjective: Amiable.
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assonate
|
verb: To accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
|
|
|
photoelectric
|
adjective: Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
|
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|
employer
|
noun: One who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay.
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extensive
|
adjective: Extended widely in space, time, or scope.
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|
|
sibilance
|
noun: A hissing sound.
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prototype
|
noun: A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit.
|
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brogue
|
noun: Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people.
|
|
|
abrogate
|
verb: To abolish, repeal.
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discover
|
verb: To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived.
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|
archaism
|
noun: Obsolescence.
|
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|
assuage
|
verb: To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
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antique
|
adjective: Pertaining to ancient times.
|
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enlist
|
verb: To enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment.
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ramify
|
verb: To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
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counterbalance
|
verb: To oppose with an equal force.
|
|
|
intercept
|
verb: To interrupt the course of.
|
|
|
denominator
|
noun: Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
|
|
|
mesmerize
|
verb: To hypnotize.
|
|
|
populace
|
noun: The common people.
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inland
|
adjective: Remote from the sea.
|
|
|
nucleus
|
noun: A central point or part about which matter is aggregated.
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lingual
|
adjective: Pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance.
|
|
|
parish
|
noun: The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
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|
|
reaction
|
noun: Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation.
|
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|
obstetrics
|
noun: The branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during
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|
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statecraft
|
noun: The art of conducting state affairs.
|
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|
reciprocity
|
noun: Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
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puissant
|
adjective: Possessing strength.
|
|
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isobar
|
noun: A line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment.
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rapacious
|
adjective: Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
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tercentenary
|
adjective: Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
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|
foolery
|
noun: Folly.
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|
salvage
|
noun: Any act of saving property.
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proscribe
|
verb: To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation.
|
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|
contemporary
|
adjective: Living or existing at the same time.
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conceive
|
verb: To form an idea, mental image or thought of.
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allusion
|
noun: An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
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stratagem
|
noun: Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
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forethought
|
noun: Premeditation.
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|
semiconscious
|
adjective: Partially conscious.
|
|
|
dexterity
|
noun: Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.
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regality
|
noun: Royalty.
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advisory
|
adjective: Not mandatory.
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abomination
|
noun: A very detestable act or practice.
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bask
|
verb: To make warm by genial heat.
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|
nestle
|
verb: To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
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exemplary
|
adjective: Fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation.
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summary
|
noun: An abstract.
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foppery
|
noun: Dandyism.
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|
epicycle
|
noun: A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle.
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|
granulate
|
verb: To form into grains or small particles.
|
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playwright
|
noun: A maker of plays for the stage.
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remiss
|
adjective: Negligent.
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Epicurean
|
adjective: Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.
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coagulate
|
verb: To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
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|
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superb
|
adjective: Sumptuously elegant.
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accelerate
|
verb: To move faster.
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|
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pugnacious
|
adjective: Quarrelsome.
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protuberant
|
adjective: Bulging.
|
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|
seize
|
verb: To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly.
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|
isochronous
|
adjective: Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.
|
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chancery
|
noun: A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
|
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|
abhorrence
|
noun: The act of detesting extremely.
|
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studious
|
adjective: Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
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expeditious
|
adjective: Speedy.
|
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excavate
|
verb: To remove by digging or scooping out.
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|
photometry
|
noun: The art of measuring the intensity of light.
|
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giver
|
noun: One who gives, in any sense.
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discussion
|
noun: Debate.
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|
semicircle
|
noun: A half-circle.
|
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distiller
|
noun: One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors.
|
|
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tractable
|
adjective: Easily led or controlled.
|
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hindmost
|
adjective: Farthest from the front.
|
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potent
|
adjective: Physically powerful.
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inestimable
|
adjective: Above price.
|
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regimen
|
noun: A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
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compensate
|
verb: To remunerate.
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proximately
|
aderb: Immediately.
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antilogy
|
noun: Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
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beatitude
|
noun: Any state of great happiness.
|
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|
philanthropy
|
noun: Active humanitarianism.
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frivolous
|
adjective: Trivial.
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obsolescence
|
noun: The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse.
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pristine
|
adjective: Primitive.
|
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pedal
|
noun: A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines.
|
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depository
|
noun: A place where anything is kept in safety.
|
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minutia
|
noun: A small or unimportant particular or detail.
|
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encumber
|
verb: To impede with obstacles.
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belligerent
|
adjective: Manifesting a warlike spirit.
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radical
|
noun: One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
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glutinous
|
adjective: Sticky.
|
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perceive
|
verb: To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
|
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longevity
|
noun: Unusually prolonged life.
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resonate
|
verb: To have or produce resonance.
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treacherous
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adjective: Perfidious.
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aggrandize
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verb: To cause to appear greatly.
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proscription
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noun: Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
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importation
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noun: The act or practice of bringing from one country into another.
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eject
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verb: To expel.
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transferable
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adjective: Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another.
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umbrage
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noun: A sense of injury.
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parricide
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noun: The murder of a parent.
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sycophant
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noun: A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
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consummate
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verb: To bring to completion.
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element
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noun: A component or essential part.
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absorb
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verb: To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.
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logician
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noun: An expert reasoner.
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ridiculous
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adjective: Laughable and contemptible.
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manumission
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noun: Emancipation.
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rationalism
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noun: The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
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disinfectant
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noun: A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases.
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estimable
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adjective: Worthy of respect.
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reparable
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adjective: Capable of repair.
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loath
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adjective: Averse.
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paronymous
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adjective: Derived from the same root or primitive word.
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repulse
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noun: The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
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expiate
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verb: To make satisfaction or amends for.
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reciprocate
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verb: To give and take mutually.
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impartial
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adjective: Unbiased.
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obstruction
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noun: Hindrance.
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promissory
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adjective: Expressing an engagement to pay.
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drudgery
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noun: Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation.
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telltale
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adjective: That gives warning or information.
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illicit
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adjective: Unlawful.
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obtrusive
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adjective: Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
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invariable
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adjective: Unchangeable.
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zenith
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noun: The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness.
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acquisition
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noun: Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
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paragon
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noun: A model of excellence.
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alcohol
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noun: A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
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overdo
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verb: To overtax the strength of.
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antenatal
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adjective: Occurring or existing before birth.
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aerostatics
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noun: The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
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triplicate
|
adjective: Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
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opportunity
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noun: Favorable or advantageous chance or opening.
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eliminate
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verb: To separate and cast aside.
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gosling
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noun: A young goose.
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liable
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adjective: Justly or legally responsible.
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scruple
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noun: Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty.
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dissemble
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verb: To hide by pretending something different.
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arbitrary
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adjective: Fixed or done capriciously.
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rue
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verb: To regret extremely.
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assignee
|
noun: One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
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subtend
|
verb: To extend opposite to.
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diffidence
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noun: Self-distrust.
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fanatic
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noun: A religious zealot.
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malignant
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adjective: Evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief.
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scholarly
|
adjective: Characteristic of an erudite person.
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efficiency
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noun: The state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty.
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Sol
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noun: The sun.
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mendicant
|
noun: A beggar.
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stupor
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noun: Profound lethargy.
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gallant
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adjective: Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit.
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demurrage
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noun: the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
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prowess
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noun: Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
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glimpse
|
noun: A momentary look.
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quiescence
|
noun: Quiet.
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extinguish
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verb: To render extinct.
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cat-o-nine-tails
|
noun: An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
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foist
|
verb: To palm off.
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deceive
|
verb: To mislead by or as by falsehood.
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deteriorate
|
verb: To grow worse.
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prickle
|
verb: To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
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comestible
|
adjective: Fit to be eaten.
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repute
|
verb: To hold in general opinion.
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vendor
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noun: A seller.
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luminescence
|
noun: Showing increase.
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polar
|
adjective: Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
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cataract
|
noun: Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
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maze
|
noun: A labyrinth.
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concerto
|
noun: A musical composition.
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auriferous
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adjective: Containing gold.
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begrudge
|
verb: To envy one of the possession of.
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penetrate
|
verb: To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
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reunite
|
verb: To unite or join again, as after separation.
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clamorous
|
adjective: Urgent in complaint or demand.
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orthogonal
|
adjective: Having or determined by right angles.
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irreparable
|
adjective: That can not be rectified or made amends for.
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irrefrangible
|
adjective: That can not be broken or violated.
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improvise
|
verb: To do anything extemporaneously or offhand.
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investigator
|
noun: One who investigates.
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glacier
|
noun: A field or stream of ice.
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decorous
|
adjective: Suitable for the occasion or circumstances.
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underling
|
noun: A subordinate.
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pentahedron
|
noun: A solid bounded by five plane faces.
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locomotion
|
noun: The act or power of moving from one place to another.
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entwine
|
verb: To interweave.
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nominal
|
adjective: Trivial.
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contemplate
|
verb: To consider thoughtfully.
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furtive
|
adjective: Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief.
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euphemism
|
noun: A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted.
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hydrous
|
adjective: Watery.
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dissatisfy
|
verb: To displease.
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monograph
|
noun: A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject.
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votary
|
adjective: Consecrated by a vow or promise.
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rudimentary
|
adjective: Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
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replete
|
adjective: Full to the uttermost.
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afresh
|
aderb: Once more, after rest or interval.
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desperate
|
adjective: Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair.
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aroma
|
noun: An agreeable odor.
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paleontology
|
noun: The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
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decameter
|
noun: A length of ten meters.
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thoroughfare
|
noun: A public street or road.
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befog
|
verb: To confuse.
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anteroom
|
noun: A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
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rupture
|
verb: To separate the parts of by violence.
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broach
|
verb: To mention, for the first time.
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misbehave
|
verb: To behave ill.
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ingratiate
|
verb: To win confidence or good graces for oneself.
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sumptuous
|
adjective: Rich and costly.
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console
|
verb: To comfort.
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unsophisticated
|
adjective: Showing inexperience.
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referrer
|
noun: One who refers.
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ardor
|
noun: Intensity of passion or affection.
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corruption
|
noun: Loss of purity or integrity.
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reproduction
|
noun: The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
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wane
|
verb: To diminish in size and brilliancy.
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generally
|
aderb: Ordinarily.
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cant
|
verb: To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
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personality
|
noun: The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual.
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beneficent
|
adjective: Characterized by charity and kindness.
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execration
|
noun: An accursed thing.
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distraught
|
adjective: Bewildered.
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resistance
|
noun: The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
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excusable
|
adjective: Justifiable.
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elusion
|
noun: Evasion.
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bureau
|
noun: A chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
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maniac
|
noun: a person raving with madness.
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|
bibliography
|
noun: A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
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|
bombardier
|
noun: A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
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digress
|
verb: To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter.
|
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credible
|
adjective: Believable.
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separable
|
adjective: Capable of being disjoined or divided.
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grindstone
|
noun: A flat circular stone, used for sharpening tools.
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well-bred
|
adjective: Of good ancestry.
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needy
|
adjective: Being in need, want, or poverty.
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dissever
|
verb: To divide.
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conscript
|
verb: To force into military service.
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mausoleum
|
noun: A tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions.
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convulse
|
verb: To cause spasms in.
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objective
|
adjective: Grasping and representing facts as they are.
|
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despondent
|
adjective: Disheartened.
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braze
|
verb: To make of or ornament with brass.
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ineligible
|
adjective: Not suitable to be selected or chosen.
|
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|
death's-head
|
noun: A human skull as a symbol of death.
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nonentity
|
noun: A person or thing of little or no account.
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symmetry
|
noun: Relative proportion and harmony.
|
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accessory
|
noun: A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
|
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aggress
|
verb: To make the first attack.
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inmost
|
adjective: Deepest within.
|
|
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inopportune
|
adjective: Unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time.
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|
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crucible
|
noun: A trying and purifying test or agency.
|
|
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perceptible
|
adjective: Cognizable.
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|
ingratitude
|
noun: Insensibility to kindness.
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virulence
|
noun: Extreme poisonousness.
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irony
|
noun: Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment.
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remembrance
|
noun: Recollection.
|
|
|
cranium
|
noun: The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain.
|
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omission
|
noun: Exclusion.
|
|
|
corroboration
|
noun: Confirmation.
|
|
|
deify
|
verb: To regard or worship as a god.
|
|
|
prolix
|
adjective: Verbose.
|
|
|
piece
|
noun: A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass.
|
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engross
|
verb: To occupy completely.
|
|
|
fathom
|
noun: A measure of length, 6 feet.
|
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corollary
|
noun: A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration.
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Calvary
|
noun: The place where Christ was crucified.
|
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Decameron
|
noun: A volume consisting of ten parts or books.
|
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|
barograph
|
noun: An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
|
|
|
determination
|
noun: The act of deciding.
|
|
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ground
|
noun: A pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk.
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aliment
|
noun: That which nourishes.
|
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|
anatomy
|
noun: That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
|
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determinate
|
adjective: Definitely limited or fixed.
|
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slight
|
adjective: Of a small importance or significance.
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|
scribe
|
noun: One who writes or is skilled in writing.
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|
endurable
|
adjective: Tolerable.
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incidentally
|
aderb: Without intention.
|
|
|
inure
|
verb: To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or exposure.
|
|
|
variance
|
noun: Change.
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|
|
whimsical
|
adjective: Capricious.
|
|
|
veto
|
noun: The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment.
|
|
|
benefice
|
noun: A church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service.
|
|
|
indicator
|
noun: One who or that which points out.
|
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gourmand
|
noun: A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
|
|
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encompass
|
verb: To encircle.
|
|
|
dead-heat
|
noun: A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner.
|
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incongruous
|
adjective: Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion.
|
|
|
moccasin
|
noun: A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin.
|
|
|
stigma
|
noun: A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
|
|
|
maritime
|
adjective: Situated on or near the sea.
|
|
|
contusion
|
noun: A bruise.
|
|
|
prehensible
|
adjective: Capable of being grasped.
|
|
|
criterion
|
noun: A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion.
|
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|
amphibious
|
adjective: Living both on land and in water.
|
|
|
juror
|
noun: One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice.
|
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|
brigand
|
noun: One who lives by robbery and plunder.
|
|
|
accompanist
|
noun: One who or that which accompanies.
|
|
|
ripplet
|
noun: A small ripple, as of water.
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|
|
abyss
|
noun: Bottomless gulf.
|
|
|
verbiage
|
noun: Use of many words without necessity.
|
|
|
tantamount
|
adjective: Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
|
|
|
invert
|
verb: To turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction.
|
|
|
genealogy
|
noun: A list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants.
|
|
|
skepticism
|
noun: The entertainment of doubt concerning something.
|
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fugacious
|
adjective: Fleeting.
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lough
|
noun: A lake or loch.
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Omnipotent
|
adjective: Possessed of unlimited and universal power.
|
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incite
|
verb: To rouse to a particular action.
|
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progeny
|
noun: Offspring.
|
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|
pluperfect
|
adjective: Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.
|
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|
lexicographer
|
noun: One who makes dictionaries.
|
|
|
sequestrate
|
verb: To confiscate.
|
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|
impliable
|
adjective: Capable of being inferred.
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penury
|
noun: Indigence.
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habitude
|
noun: Customary relation or association.
|
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|
discolor
|
verb: To stain.
|
|
|
cardinal
|
adjective: Of prime or special importance.
|
|
|
misdemeanor
|
noun: Evil conduct, small crime.
|
|
|
muleteer
|
noun: A mule-driver.
|
|
|
buoyancy
|
noun: Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
|
|
|
intellectual
|
adjective: Characterized by intelligence.
|
|
|
monologue
|
noun: A story or drama told or performed by one person.
|
|
|
scabbard
|
noun: The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
|
|
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guinea
|
noun: An English monetary unit.
|
|
|
assassinate
|
verb: To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
|
|
|
vaudeville
|
noun: A variety show.
|
|
|
frightful
|
adjective: Apt to induce terror or alarm.
|
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|
entail
|
verb: To involve; necessitate.
|
|
|
sonorous
|
adjective: Resonant.
|
|
|
amphitheater
|
noun: An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
|
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wavelet
|
noun: A ripple.
|
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|
malefactor
|
noun: One who injures another.
|
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|
bawl
|
verb: To proclaim by outcry.
|
|
|
tortuous
|
adjective: Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
|
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|
decoy
|
noun: Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation.
|
|
|
obsolescent
|
adjective: Passing out of use, as a word.
|
|
|
noisy
|
adjective: Clamorous.
|
|
|
accuracy
|
noun: Exactness.
|
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prudery
|
noun: An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
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|
retention
|
noun: The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession.
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unnatural
|
adjective: Artificial.
|
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irritable
|
adjective: Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation.
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halcyon
|
adjective: Calm.
|
|
|
molt
|
verb: To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
|
|
|
placate
|
verb: To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
|
|
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qualm
|
noun: A fit of nausea.
|
|
|
hospitable
|
adjective: Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness.
|
|
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lawgiver
|
noun: A legislator.
|
|
|
castigate
|
verb: To punish.
|
|
|
eulogy
|
noun: A spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character.
|
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|
denude
|
verb: To strip the covering from.
|
|
|
quay
|
noun: A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
|
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aristocrat
|
noun: A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.
|
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congest
|
verb: To collect into a mass.
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curtail
|
verb: To cut off or cut short.
|
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outrigger
|
noun: A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support.
|
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referee
|
noun: An umpire.
|
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sagacious
|
adjective: Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
|
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arrogant
|
adjective: Unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc.
|
|
|
benignant
|
adjective: Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
|
|
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option
|
noun: The right, power, or liberty of choosing.
|
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occurrence
|
noun: A happening.
|
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ablution
|
noun: A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
|
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|
dismount
|
verb: To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like.
|
|
|
explicate
|
verb: To clear from involvement.
|
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rearrange
|
verb: To arrange again or in a different order.
|
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|
bestial
|
adjective: Animal.
|
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|
denouement
|
noun: That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up.
|
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improper
|
adjective: Not appropriate, suitable, or becoming.
|
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accede
|
verb: To agree.
|
|
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tolerance
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noun: Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
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preference
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noun: An object of favor or choice.
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clairvoyance
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noun: Intuitive sagacity or perception.
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derive
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verb: To deduce, as from a premise.
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protector
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noun: A defender.
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accouter
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verb: To dress.
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interpose
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verb: To come between other things or persons.
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realism
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noun: The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist.
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understate
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verb: To fail to put strongly enough, as a case.
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annalist
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noun: Historian.
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chromatic
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adjective: Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
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suffrage
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noun: The right or privilege of voting.
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peerless
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adjective: Of unequaled excellence or worth.
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arboretum
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noun: A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
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travail
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noun: Hard or agonizing labor.
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superfluity
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noun: That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
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actionable
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adjective: Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
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adherence
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noun: Attachment.
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digraph
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noun: A union of two characters representing a single sound.
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drastic
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adjective: Acting vigorously.
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savage
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noun: A wild and uncivilized human being.
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treachery
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noun: Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
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superintendence
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noun: Direction and management.
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pseudonym
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noun: A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
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opulent
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adjective: Wealthy.
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predicate
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verb: To state as belonging to something.
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conformable
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adjective: Harmonious.
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catholicity
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noun: Universal prevalence or acceptance.
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idealize
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verb: To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard.
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specimen
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noun: One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
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partisan
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adjective: Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
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clarion
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noun: A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
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spasmodic
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adjective: Convulsive.
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extravagance
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noun: Undue expenditure of money.
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bedaub
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verb: To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
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incidence
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noun: Casual occurrence.
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kiln
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noun: An oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying industrial products.
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tranquility
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noun: Calmness.
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tactician
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noun: One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
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artifice
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noun: Trickery.
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floral
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adjective: Pertaining to flowers.
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semiannual
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adjective: Recurring at intervals of six months.
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chronometer
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noun: A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
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sophistical
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adjective: Fallacious.
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cosmos
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noun: The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement.
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corporate
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adjective: Belonging to a corporation.
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out-and-out
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aderb: Genuinely.
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expatriate
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verb: To drive from one's own country.
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overproduction
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noun: Excessive production.
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constituency
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noun: The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
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siren
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noun: A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
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disjunctive
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adjective: Helping or serving to disconnect or separate.
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misdeed
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noun: A wrong or improper act.
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trio
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noun: Three things grouped or associated together.
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entrench
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verb: To fortify or protect, as with a trench or ditch and wall.
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amatory
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adjective: Designed to excite love.
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pentagon
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noun: A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
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olive-branch
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noun: A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace.
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morality
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noun: Virtue.
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badger
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verb: To pester.
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peddler
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noun: One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
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contrive
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verb: To manage or carry through by some device or scheme.
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inverse
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adjective: Contrary in tendency or direction.
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elocution
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noun: The art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading.
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gamester
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noun: A gambler.
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malevolence
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noun: Ill will.
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permeate
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verb: To pervade.
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hosiery
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noun: A stocking.
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exodus
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noun: A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people.
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convivial
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adjective: Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking.
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contribution
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noun: The act of giving for a common purpose.
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encore
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noun: The call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance.
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anticlimax
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noun: A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
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bolster
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verb: To support, as something wrong.
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Achillean
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adjective: Invulnerable.
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superheat
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verb: To heat to excess.
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liberate
|
verb: To set free or release from bondage.
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vinery
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noun: A greenhouse for grapes.
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ante
|
verb: In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
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outbreak
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noun: A sudden and violent breaking forth, as of something that has been pent up or restrained.
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auburn
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adjective: Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
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bilateral
|
adjective: Two-sided.
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relegate
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verb: To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
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radiance
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noun: Brilliant or sparkling luster.
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aloof
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aderb: Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
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extricate
|
verb: Disentangle.
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expedient
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adjective: Contributing to personal advantage.
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insolence
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noun: Pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others.
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monitory
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noun: Admonition or warning.
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quackery
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noun: Charlatanry
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terminate
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verb: To put an end or stop to.
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sinister
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adjective: Evil.
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free trade
|
noun: Commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs.
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adulterant
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noun: An adulterating substance.
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discomfort
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noun: The state of being positively uncomfortable.
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doubly
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aderb: In twofold degree or extent.
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subservience
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noun: The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
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recoil
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verb: To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
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inchmeal
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aderb: Piecemeal.
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supine
|
adjective: Lying on the back.
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maintenance
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noun: That which supports or sustains.
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dehydrate
|
verb: To deprive of water.
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lucrative
|
adjective: Highly profitable.
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twinge
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noun: A darting momentary local pain.
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disavow
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verb: To disclaim responsibility for.
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infinity
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noun: Boundless or immeasurable extension or duration.
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finality
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noun: The state or quality of being final or complete.
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counterpart
|
noun: Something taken with another for the completion of either.
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Quixotic
|
adjective: Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
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speculator
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noun: One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
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mountainous
|
adjective: Full of or abounding in mountains.
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contaminate
|
verb: To pollute.
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nutriment
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noun: That which nourishes.
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component
|
noun: A constituent element or part.
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alderman
|
noun: A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
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commodity
|
noun: Something that is bought and sold.
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citadel
|
noun: Any strong fortress.
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hexangular
|
adjective: Having six angles.
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culinary
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen.
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infrequent
|
adjective: Uncommon.
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attest
|
verb: To certify as accurate, genuine, or true.
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odium
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noun: A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
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preponderate
|
verb: To exceed in influence or power.
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immoral
|
adjective: Habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices.
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convolve
|
verb: To move with a circling or winding motion.
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transient
|
noun: One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
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ligneous
|
adjective: Having the texture of appearance of wood.
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exhaustion
|
noun: Deprivation of strength or energy.
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marine
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea.
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intelligible
|
adjective: Comprehensible.
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alto
|
noun: The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
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urchin
|
noun: A roguish, mischievous boy.
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crevasse
|
noun: A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
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disclaim
|
verb: To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to.
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ready
|
adjective: In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion.
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mettle
|
noun: Courage.
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stifle
|
verb: To smother.
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protege
|
noun: One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.
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heptarchy
|
noun: A group of seven governments.
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prim
|
adjective: Stiffly proper.
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oversee
|
verb: To superintend.
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monolith
|
noun: Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece.
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relapse
|
verb: To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
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ebullient
|
adjective: Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling.
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inviolable
|
adjective: Incapable of being injured or disturbed.
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deplorable
|
adjective: Contemptible.
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expulsion
|
noun: Forcible ejection.
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pauper
|
noun: One without means of support.
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exemplify
|
verb: To show by example.
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endear
|
verb: To cause to be loved.
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distend
|
verb: To stretch out or expand in every direction.
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irrefragable
|
adjective: That can not be refuted or disproved.
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monstrosity
|
noun: Anything unnaturally huge or distorted.
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displace
|
verb: To put out of the proper or accustomed place.
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ordnance
|
noun: A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
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incompetence
|
noun: General lack of capacity or fitness.
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Occident
|
noun: The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions.
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sparse
|
adjective: Thinly diffused.
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participant
|
noun: One having a share or part.
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conversion
|
noun: Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another.
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pleasant
|
adjective: Agreeable.
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recant
|
verb: To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
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massacre
|
noun: The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings.
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nuisance
|
noun: That which annoys, vexes, or irritates.
|
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editorial
|
noun: An article in a periodical written by the editor and published as an official argument.
|
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avocation
|
noun: Diversion.
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desultory
|
adjective: Not connected with what precedes.
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perspective
|
noun: The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view.
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laxative
|
adjective: Having power to open or loosen the bowels.
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buoyant
|
adjective: Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
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nebula
|
noun: A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance.
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expository
|
adjective: Pertaining to a formal presentation.
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enjoin
|
verb: To command.
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privity
|
noun: Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter.
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quarrelsome
|
adjective: Irascible.
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nunnery
|
noun: A convent for nuns.
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expect
|
verb: To look forward to as certain or probable.
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ire
|
noun: Wrath.
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compunction
|
noun: Remorseful feeling.
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deprave
|
verb: To render bad, especially morally bad.
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prohibition
|
noun: A decree or an order forbidding something.
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forthright
|
aderb: With directness.
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gastronomy
|
noun: The art of preparing and serving appetizing food.
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glazier
|
noun: One who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows.
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shrewd
|
adjective: Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
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extrajudicial
|
adjective: Happening out of court.
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|
expostulate
|
verb: To discuss.
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canto
|
noun: One of the divisions of an extended poem.
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refringency
|
noun: Power to refract.
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inventive
|
adjective: Quick at contrivance.
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siege
|
noun: A beleaguerment.
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ecstatic
|
adjective: Enraptured.
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impudence
|
noun: Insolent disrespect.
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conquer
|
verb: To overcome by force.
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synod
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noun: An ecclesiastical council.
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audacious
|
adjective: Fearless.
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paralysis
|
noun: Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
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fortitude
|
noun: Patient courage.
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harbinger
|
noun: One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing.
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blithesome
|
adjective: Cheerful.
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mannerism
|
noun: Constant or excessive adherence to one manner, style, or peculiarity, as of action or
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variant
|
noun: A thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance.
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allotment
|
noun: Portion.
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allegory
|
noun: The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
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preclude
|
verb: To prevent.
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pique
|
verb: To excite a slight degree of anger in.
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vista
|
noun: A view or prospect.
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fluential
|
adjective: Pertaining to streams.
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possession
|
noun: The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
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donor
|
noun: One who makes a donation or present.
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ordination
|
noun: A consecration to the ministry.
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imbroglio
|
noun: A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife.
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altitude
|
noun: Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
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discipline
|
verb: To train to obedience.
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amorous
|
adjective: Having a propensity for falling in love.
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insentient
|
adjective: Lacking the power of feeling or perceiving.
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prescient
|
adjective: Foreknowing.
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competent
|
adjective: Qualified.
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privy
|
adjective: Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction.
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insight
|
noun: Intellectual discernment.
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vainglory
|
noun: Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
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ministry
|
noun: A service.
|
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primer
|
noun: An elementary reading-book for children.
|
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tenet
|
noun: Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
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provocation
|
noun: An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment.
|
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callow
|
adjective: Without experience of the world.
|
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sentience
|
noun: Capacity for sensation or sense-perception.
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introspect
|
verb: To look into.
|
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potentate
|
noun: One possessed of great power or sway.
|
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bric-a-brac
|
noun: Objects of curiosity or for decoration.
|
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fulminate
|
verb: To cause to explode.
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enthusiastic
|
adjective: Full of zeal and fervor.
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gossamer
|
adjective: Flimsy.
|
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dermatology
|
noun: The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases.
|
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parallelism
|
noun: Essential likeness.
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piecemeal
|
aderb: Gradually.
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laud
|
verb: To praise in words or song.
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sense
|
noun: The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or action.
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inceptive
|
adjective: Beginning.
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gaily
|
aderb: Merrily.
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incompatible
|
adjective: Discordant.
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metonymy
|
noun: A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes.
|
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secretive
|
adjective: Having a tendency to conceal.
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fruition
|
noun: Fulfillment.
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laudatory
|
adjective: Pertaining to, expressing, or containing praise.
|
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abnegate
|
verb: To renounce (a right or privilege).
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foresee
|
verb: To discern beforehand.
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dissipation
|
noun: The state of being dispersed or scattered.
|
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diatribe
|
noun: A bitter or malicious criticism.
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demulcent
|
noun: Any application soothing to an irritable surface
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Britannia
|
noun: The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
|
|
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irreverential
|
adjective: Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
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ludicrous
|
adjective: Laughable.
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dowry
|
noun: The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage.
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inconstant
|
adjective: Changeable.
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jugular
|
adjective: Pertaining to the throat.
|
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agile
|
adjective: Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
|
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ichthyosaurs
|
noun: A fossil reptile.
|
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naturally
|
aderb: According to the usual order of things.
|
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provincial
|
adjective: Uncultured in thought and manner.
|
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imperil
|
verb: To endanger.
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neopaganism
|
noun: A new or revived paganism.
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supersede
|
verb: To displace.
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querulous
|
adjective: Habitually complaining.
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unlawful
|
adjective: Illegal.
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pact
|
noun: A covenant.
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medial
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to the middle.
|
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semicivilized
|
adjective: Half-civilized.
|
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optician
|
noun: One who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses.
|
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resistless
|
adjective: Powerless.
|
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solstice
|
noun: The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination.
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symphonious
|
adjective: Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
|
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pommel
|
verb: To beat with something thick or bulky.
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leisure
|
noun: Spare time.
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ampere
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noun: The practical unit of electric-current strength.
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deceit
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noun: Falsehood.
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trident
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noun: The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
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pavilion
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noun: An open structure for temporary shelter.
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reinstate
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verb: To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
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plasticity
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noun: The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be
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perambulate
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verb: To walk about.
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nude
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adjective: Naked.
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systematic
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adjective: Methodical.
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unavoidable
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adjective: Inevitable.
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hypothesis
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noun: A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion.
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merciless
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adjective: Cruel.
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anthropology
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noun: The science of man in general.
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eulogize
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verb: To speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character.
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Baconian
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adjective: Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.
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domain
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noun: A sphere or field of action or interest.
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subvert
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verb: To bring to ruin.
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tutelar
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adjective: Protective.
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archangel
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noun: An angel of high rank.
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glacial
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adjective: Icy, or icily cold.
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intercessor
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noun: A mediator.
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ponderous
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adjective: Unusually weighty or forcible.
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choleric
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adjective: Easily provoked to anger.
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usury
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noun: The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law.
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tacit
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adjective: Understood.
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devious
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adjective: Out of the common or regular track.
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crevice
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noun: A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces.
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exhaust
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verb: To empty by draining off the contents.
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comprehensive
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adjective: Large in scope or content.
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immersion
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noun: The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid.
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terse
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adjective: Pithy.
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liqueur
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noun: An alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances.
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accompaniment
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noun: A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part.
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vigilance
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noun: Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger.
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pendulum
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noun: A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock.
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predecessor
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noun: An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
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conciliate
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verb: To obtain the friendship of.
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irreverence
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noun: The quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
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prolific
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adjective: Producing offspring or fruit.
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vegetative
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adjective: Pertaining to the process of plant-life.
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sarcasm
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noun: Cutting and reproachful language.
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efflorescence
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noun: The state of being flowery, or a flowery appearance.
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cacophony
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noun: A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
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Titanic
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adjective: Of vast size or strength.
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intricate
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adjective: Difficult to follow or understand.
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instructive
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adjective: Conveying knowledge.
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outcast
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noun: One rejected and despised, especially socially.
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entrails
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noun: pl. The internal parts of an animal.
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arrangement
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noun: The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order.
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introductory
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adjective: Preliminary.
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stupendous
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adjective: Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
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inroad
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noun: Forcible encroachment or trespass.
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scrupulous
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adjective: Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong.
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grandeur
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noun: The quality of being grand or admirably great.
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defensive
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adjective: Carried on in resistance to aggression.
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luxuriate
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verb: To live sumptuously.
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lawmaker
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noun: A legislator.
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assent
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verb: To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion.
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reticent
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adjective: Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
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imply
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verb: To signify.
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hypocrite
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noun: One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs.
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acquaintance
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noun: Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
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bewilder
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verb: To confuse the perceptions or judgment of.
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fumigate
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verb: To subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection.
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infirmity
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noun: A physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw.
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verbatim
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aderb: Word for word.
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sapient
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adjective: Possessing wisdom.
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assessor
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noun: An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.
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flagrant
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adjective: Openly scandalous.
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caste
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noun: The division of society on artificial grounds.
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canary
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adjective: Of a bright but delicate yellow.
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epidemic
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noun: Wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region.
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flection
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noun: The act of bending.
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effect
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noun: A consequence.
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inapt
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adjective: Awkward or slow.
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curable
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adjective: Capable of being remedied or corrected.
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leniency
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noun: Forbearance.
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embolism
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noun: An obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel.
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tenor
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noun: A settled course or manner of progress.
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afoot
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aderb: In progress.
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machinery
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noun: The parts of a machine or engine, taken collectively.
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festive
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adjective: Merry.
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wholly
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aderb: Completely.
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remodel
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verb: Reconstruct.
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ingraft
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verb: To set or implant deeply and firmly.
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melodious
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adjective: Characterized by a sweet succession of sounds.
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armful
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noun: As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
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multiplicity
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noun: the condition of being manifold or very various.
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militia
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noun: Those citizens, collectively, who are enrolled and drilled in temporary military organizations.
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suggestive
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adjective: Stimulating to thought or reflection.
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retch
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verb: To make an effort to vomit.
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adverse
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adjective: Opposing or opposed.
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obstreperous
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adjective: Boisterous.
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preempt
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verb: To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
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sapid
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adjective: Affecting the sense of taste.
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virile
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adjective: Masculine.
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perfunctory
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adjective: Half-hearted.
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distillation
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noun: Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile.
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recitation
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noun: The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.
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vociferous
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adjective: Making a loud outcry.
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serviceable
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adjective: Durable.
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pedagogics
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noun: The science and art of teaching.
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captivate
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verb: To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
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untimely
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adjective: Unseasonable.
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Martian
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adjective: Pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet.
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stiletto
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noun: A small dagger.
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rhapsody
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noun: Rapt or rapturous utterance.
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ultramundane
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adjective: Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life.
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frigid
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adjective: Lacking warmth.
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conjugal
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adjective: Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
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poignancy
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noun: Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief.
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eugenic
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adjective: Relating to the development and improvement of race.
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feminine
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adjective: Characteristic of woman or womankind.
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Jingo
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noun: One of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy.
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epitaph
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noun: An inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead.
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cornucopia
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noun: The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity.
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onset
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noun: An assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification.
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bole
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noun: The trunk or body of a tree.
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bomb
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noun: A hollow projectile containing an explosive material.
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physiognomy
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noun: The external appearance merely.
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judicious
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adjective: Prudent.
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diverse
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adjective: Capable of various forms.
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novellette
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noun: A short novel.
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blazon
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verb: To make widely or generally known.
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affiliate
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noun: Some auxiliary person or thing.
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aspirant
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noun: One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place.
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forgery
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noun: Counterfeiting.
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fealty
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noun: Loyalty.
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militarism
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noun: A policy of maintaining great standing armies.
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deign
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verb: To deem worthy of notice or account.
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cadence
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noun: Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.
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accost
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verb: To speak to.
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metempsychosis
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noun: Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast.
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plenitude
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noun: Abundance.
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prescience
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noun: Knowledge of events before they take place.
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detriment
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noun: Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss.
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peremptory
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adjective: Precluding question or appeal.
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creamery
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noun: A butter-making establishment.
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pervert
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noun: One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false.
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caustic
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adjective: Sarcastic and severe.
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volant
|
adjective: Flying or able to fly.
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astute
|
adjective: Keen in discernment.
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prophesy
|
verb: To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
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chaos
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noun: Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion.
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decalogue
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noun: The ten commandments.
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acrimonious
|
adjective: Full of bitterness.
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retrospective
|
adjective: Looking back on the past.
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salutation
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noun: Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.
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dastard
|
noun: A base coward.
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egotist
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noun: One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences.
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preestablish
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verb: To settle or arrange beforehand.
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recapitulate
|
verb: To repeat again the principal points of.
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fondle
|
verb: To handle tenderly and lovingly.
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patronymic
|
adjective: Formed after one's father's name.
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connive
|
verb: To be in collusion.
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quintet
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noun: Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
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frolicsome
|
adjective: Prankish.
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indignity
|
noun: Unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment.
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nurture
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noun: The process of fostering or promoting growth.
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transfusion
|
noun: The act of pouring from one vessel to another.
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pageant
|
noun: A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
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epidermis
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noun: The outer skin.
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lurid
|
adjective: Ghastly and sensational.
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emphasize
|
verb: To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words.
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debonair
|
adjective: Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner.
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sequacious
|
adjective: Ready to be led.
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biograph
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noun: A bibliographical sketch or notice.
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perfumery
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noun: The preparation of perfumes.
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prospector
|
noun: One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
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impulsion
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noun: Impetus.
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gullible
|
adjective: Credulous.
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repetition
|
noun: The act of repeating.
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judiciary
|
noun: That department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal
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misadventure
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noun: An unlucky accident.
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misapprehend
|
verb: To misunderstand.
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regenerate
|
verb: To reproduce.
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frizzle
|
verb: To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair.
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propeller
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noun: One who or that which propels.
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coddle
|
verb: To treat as a baby or an invalid.
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interrogative
|
adjective: Having the nature or form of a question.
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obese
|
adjective: Exceedingly fat.
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earthenware
|
noun: Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun.
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superintend
|
verb: To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
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predict
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verb: To foretell.
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abidance
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noun: An abiding.
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presumptuous
|
adjective: Assuming too much.
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putrescent
|
adjective: Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
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pillory
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noun: A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn.
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superadd
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verb: To add in addition to what has been added.
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heterogeneity
|
noun: Unlikeness of constituent parts.
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outskirt
|
noun: A border region.
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scholastic
|
adjective: Pertaining to education or schools.
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blatant
|
adjective: Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous.
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ado
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noun: unnecessary activity or ceremony.
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encomium
|
noun: A formal or discriminating expression of praise.
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dutiable
|
adjective: Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty.
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bore
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verb: To weary by tediousness or dullness.
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spinster
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noun: A woman who has never been married.
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torturous
|
adjective: Marked by extreme suffering.
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vulgarity
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noun: Lack of refinement in conduct or speech.
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analyze
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verb: To examine minutely or critically.
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pudgy
|
adjective: Small and fat.
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sedate
|
adjective: Even-tempered.
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emeritus
|
adjective: Retired from active service but retained to an honorary position.
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forfeit
|
verb: To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation.
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amputate
|
verb: To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.
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pseudonymity
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noun: The state or character of using a fictitious name.
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arborescent
|
adjective: Having the nature of a tree.
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defiant
|
adjective: Characterized by bold or insolent opposition.
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monotonous
|
adjective: Unchanging and tedious.
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crusade
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noun: Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
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concede
|
verb: To surrender.
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counter-claim
|
noun: A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
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preponderant
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adjective: Prevalent.
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buffoon
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noun: A clown.
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alcoholism
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noun: A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
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yearling
|
noun: A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old.
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reparation
|
noun: The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong.
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dissertation
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noun: Thesis.
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distinction
|
noun: A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies.
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negligee
|
noun: A loose gown worn by women.
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forerun
|
verb: To go before as introducing or ushering in.
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expand
|
verb: To increase in range or scope.
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dictum
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noun: A positive utterance.
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mealy-mouthed
|
adjective: Afraid to express facts or opinions plainly.
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intermittent
|
adjective: A temporary discontinuance.
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votive
|
adjective: Dedicated by a vow.
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arbor
|
noun: A tree.
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urgency
|
noun: The pressure of necessity.
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exegesis
|
noun: Biblical exposition or interpretation.
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hillock
|
noun: A small hill or mound.
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aggravate
|
verb: To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
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frowzy
|
adjective: Slovenly in appearance.
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tantalize
|
verb: To tease.
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amalgam
|
noun: An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
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opinion
|
noun: A conclusion or judgment held with confidence, but falling short of positive knowledge.
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cauterize
|
verb: To burn or sear as with a heated iron.
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curt
|
adjective: Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
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unbecoming
|
adjective: Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings.
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exceed
|
verb: To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc.
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precedence
|
noun: Priority in place, time, or rank.
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laggard
|
adjective: Falling behind.
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concur
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verb: To agree.
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annual
|
adjective: Occurring every year.
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technicality
|
noun: Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
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partible
|
adjective: Separable.
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partition
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noun: That which separates anything into distinct parts.
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scuttle
|
verb: To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom.
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cower
|
verb: To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
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outlast
|
verb: To last longer than.
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pretension
|
noun: A bold or presumptuous assertion.
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influential
|
adjective: Having the power to sway the will of another.
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metaphysician
|
noun: One skilled in metaphysics.
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electrotype
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noun: A metallic copy of any surface, as a coin.
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donate
|
verb: To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause.
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migratory
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adjective: Wandering.
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sorcery
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noun: Witchcraft.
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theoretical
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adjective: Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
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salutary
|
adjective: Beneficial.
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came
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noun: A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
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logical
|
adjective: Capable of or characterized by clear reasoning.
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creed
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noun: A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief.
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mismanage
|
verb: To manage badly, improperly, or unskillfully.
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denizen
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noun: Inhabitant.
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disavowal
|
noun: Denial.
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aldermanship
|
noun: The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
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explicit
|
adjective: Definite.
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odoriferous
|
adjective: Having or diffusing an odor or scent, especially an agreeable one.
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resistive
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adjective: Having or exercising the power of resistance.
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vicarious
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adjective: Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
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phonology
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noun: The science of human vocal sounds.
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irk
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verb: To afflict with pain, vexation, or fatigue.
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retrace
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verb: To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
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epicycloid
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noun: A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle.
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havoc
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noun: Devastation.
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ration
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verb: To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
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effulgence
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noun: Splendor.
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aggravation
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noun: The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
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conduce
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verb: To bring about.
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hostility
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noun: Enmity.
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tirade
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noun: Harangue.
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enumerate
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verb: To name one by one.
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diminution
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noun: Reduction.
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gumption
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noun: Common sense.
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convalescent
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adjective: Recovering health after sickness.
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commissariat
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noun: The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
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inept
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adjective: Not fit or suitable.
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vegetal
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adjective: Of or pertaining to plants.
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indiscreet
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adjective: Lacking wise judgment.
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pellucid
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adjective: Translucent.
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verify
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verb: To prove to be true, exact, or accurate.
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oakum
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noun: Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope.
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outweigh
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verb: To surpass in importance or excellence.
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disseminate
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verb: To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown.
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orgies
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noun: Wild or wanton revelry.
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principality
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noun: The territory of a reigning prince.
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submission
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noun: A yielding to the power or authority of another.
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shrinkage
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noun: A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension.
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probate
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adjective: Relating to making proof, as of a will.
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countryman
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noun: A rustic.
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decorate
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verb: To embellish.
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inundate
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verb: To fill with an overflowing abundance.
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telephony
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noun: The art or process of communicating by telephone.
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amenable
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adjective: Willing and ready to submit.
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univalence
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noun: Monovalency.
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Nemesis
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noun: A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance.
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velocity
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noun: Rapid motion.
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relish
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verb: To like the taste or savor of.
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assassin
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noun: One who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly.
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nomic
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adjective: Usual or customary.
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antecedent
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noun: One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.
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cogent
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adjective: Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
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ascetic
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adjective: Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion.
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luminary
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noun: One of the heavenly bodies as a source of light.
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racy
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adjective: Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.
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nowhere
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aderb: In no place or state.
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fallacious
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adjective: Illogical.
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emanate
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verb: To flow forth or proceed, as from some source.
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coincident
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adjective: Taking place at the same time.
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typical
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adjective: Characteristic.
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melodrama
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noun: A drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents.
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festal
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adjective: Joyous.
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passible
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adjective: Capable of feeling of suffering.
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antidote
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noun: Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like.
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ultimate
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adjective: Beyond which there is nothing else.
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subjacent
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adjective: Situated directly underneath.
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vertical
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adjective: Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon.
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gratuitous
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adjective: Voluntarily.
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presentment
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noun: Semblance.
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dauntless
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adjective: Fearless.
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predatory
|
adjective: Prone to pillaging.
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supercilious
|
adjective: Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
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icon
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noun: An image or likeness.
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hypodermic
|
adjective: Pertaining to the area under the skin.
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cognizant
|
adjective: Taking notice.
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squalid
|
adjective: Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
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exasperate
|
verb: To excite great anger in.
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borough
|
noun: An incorporated village or town.
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secondary
|
adjective: Less important or effective than that which is primary.
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plenary
|
adjective: Entire.
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engender
|
verb: To produce.
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disputation
|
noun: Verbal controversy.
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ordinal
|
noun: That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third.
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simulate
|
verb: Imitate.
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non-existent
|
noun: That which does not exist.
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transience
|
noun: Something that is of short duration.
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brine
|
noun: Water saturated with salt.
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ballad
|
noun: Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.
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alternative
|
noun: Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
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reseat
|
verb: To place in position of office again.
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caprice
|
noun: A whim.
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medicine
|
noun: A substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties.
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indistinct
|
adjective: Vague.
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hoodwink
|
verb: To deceive.
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piteous
|
adjective: Compassionate.
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quandary
|
noun: A puzzling predicament.
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temporize
|
verb: To pursue a policy of delay.
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inherence
|
noun: The state of being permanently existing in something.
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fetus
|
noun: The young in the womb or in the egg.
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maize
|
noun: Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn.
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complacence
|
noun: Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.
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hiatus
|
noun: A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting.
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inarticulate
|
adjective: Speechless.
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pestilent
|
adjective: Having a malign influence or effect.
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premonition
|
noun: Foreboding.
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leaven
|
verb: To make light by fermentation, as dough.
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brimstone
|
noun: Sulfur.
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generality
|
noun: The principal portion.
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raucous
|
adjective: Harsh.
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dissolute
|
adjective: Lewd.
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convoy
|
noun: A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation.
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punctilious
|
adjective: Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
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impersonate
|
verb: To appear or act in the character of.
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outburst
|
noun: A violent issue, especially of passion in an individual.
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labyrinth
|
noun: A maze.
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homogeneous
|
adjective: Made up of similar parts or elements.
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hesitation
|
noun: Vacillation.
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altar
|
noun: Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
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synopsis
|
noun: A syllabus or summary.
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feudalism
|
noun: The feudal system.
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microscopy
|
noun: The art of examing objects with the microscope.
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deforest
|
verb: To clear of forests.
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dissuade
|
verb: To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading.
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appease
|
verb: To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
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succinct
|
adjective: Concise.
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tireless
|
adjective: Untiring.
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gastric
|
adjective: Of, pertaining to, or near the stomach.
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euphony
|
noun: Agreeableness of sound.
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patriotism
|
noun: Love and devotion to one's country.
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scope
|
noun: A range of action or view.
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animadversion
|
noun: The utterance of criticism or censure.
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deist
|
noun: One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation.
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stolid
|
adjective: Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
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pitiful
|
adjective: Wretched.
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default
|
noun: The neglect or omission of a legal requirement.
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|
day-man
|
noun: A day-laborer.
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mislay
|
verb: To misplace.
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oblivion
|
noun: The state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten.
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educe
|
verb: To draw out.
|
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militant
|
adjective: Of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency.
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genealogist
|
noun: A tracer of pedigrees.
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intestate
|
adjective: Not having made a valid will.
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disinfect
|
verb: To remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases.
|
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athwart
|
aderb: From side to side.
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cudgel
|
noun: A short thick stick used as a club.
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trivial
|
adjective: Of little importance or value.
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mite
|
noun: A very small amount, portion, or particle.
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bale
|
noun: A large package prepared for transportation or storage.
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humbug
|
noun: Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead.
|
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|
linguistics
|
noun: The science of languages, or of the origin, history, and significance of words.
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emit
|
verb: To send or give out.
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refractory
|
adjective: Not amenable to control.
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wrangle
|
verb: To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.
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repentance
|
noun: Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
|
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fraternal
|
adjective: Brotherly.
|
|
|
penitence
|
noun: Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
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ambulate
|
verb: To walk about
|
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|
foreign
|
adjective: Belonging to, situated in, or derived from another country.
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|
hustle
|
verb: To move with haste and promptness.
|
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|
concurrence
|
noun: Agreement.
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|
|
intoxicant
|
noun: Anything that unduly exhilarates or excites.
|
|
|
convulsion
|
noun: A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body.
|
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|
landscape
|
noun: A rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation.
|
|
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pyx
|
noun: A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved.
|
|
|
mutation
|
noun: The act or process of change.
|
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eradicate
|
verb: To destroy thoroughly.
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|
|
cadenza
|
noun: An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
|
|
|
cornice
|
noun: An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling.
|
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|
intermediate
|
adjective: Being in a middle place or degree or between extremes.
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accurate
|
adjective: Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
|
|
|
symmetrical
|
adjective: Well-balanced.
|
|
|
ulterior
|
adjective: Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
|
|
|
Calvinism
|
noun: The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin.
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conjoin
|
verb: To unite.
|
|
|
probity
|
noun: Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
|
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impetuous
|
adjective: Impulsive.
|
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|
demonstrator
|
noun: One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner.
|
|
|
omniscience
|
noun: Unlimited or infinite knowledge.
|
|
|
automaton
|
noun: Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
|
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|
contemporaneous
|
adjective: Living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
|
|
|
brandish
|
verb: To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear.
|
|
|
facial
|
adjective: Pertaining to the face.
|
|
|
append
|
verb: To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.
|
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modification
|
noun: A change.
|
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pertinacious
|
adjective: Persistent or unyielding.
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tutorship
|
noun: The office of a guardian.
|
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illiberal
|
adjective: Stingy.
|
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vindicate
|
verb: To prove true, right, or real.
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trait
|
noun: A distinguishing feature or quality.
|
|
|
galore
|
adjective: Abundant.
|
|
|
philosophy
|
noun: The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
|
|
|
prodigy
|
noun: A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities.
|
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minute
|
adjective: Exceedingly small in extent or quantity.
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suspicious
|
adjective: Inclined to doubt or mistrust.
|
|
|
henpeck
|
verb: To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances.
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|
vassal
|
noun: A slave or bondman.
|
|
|
paternity
|
noun: Fatherhood.
|
|
|
conformation
|
noun: General structure, form, or outline.
|
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|
cosmopolitanism
|
noun: A cosmopolitan character.
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|
writing
|
noun: The act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs.
|
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insurrection
|
noun: The state of being in active resistance to authority.
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|
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sterling
|
adjective: Genuine.
|
|
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germane
|
adjective: Relevant.
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|
|
abduction
|
noun: A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally.
|
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|
efface
|
verb: To obliterate.
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|
|
artful
|
adjective: Characterized by craft or cunning.
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permanent
|
adjective: Durable.
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|
harmonious
|
adjective: Concordant in sound.
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|
referable
|
adjective: Ascribable.
|
|
|
lunacy
|
noun: Mental unsoundness.
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|
supposition
|
noun: Conjecture.
|
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|
pungent
|
adjective: Affecting the sense of smell.
|
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|
procrastinate
|
verb: To put off till tomorrow or till a future time.
|
|
|
morale
|
noun: A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like.
|
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intersect
|
verb: To cut through or into so as to divide.
|
|
|
collector
|
noun: One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
|
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voracious
|
adjective: Eating with greediness or in very large quantities.
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tangency
|
noun: The state of touching.
|
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corrosive
|
noun: That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
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potential
|
noun: Anything that may be possible.
|
|
|
dissection
|
noun: The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal.
|
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littoral
|
adjective: Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore.
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plenteous
|
adjective: Abundant.
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stipend
|
noun: A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance.
|
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Antarctic
|
adjective: Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it.
|
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equalize
|
verb: To render uniform.
|
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|
offshoot
|
noun: Something that branches off from the parent stock.
|
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|
fledgling
|
noun: A young bird.
|
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light-hearted
|
adjective: Free from care.
|
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mishap
|
noun: Misfortune.
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dutiful
|
adjective: Obedient.
|
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|
abbey
|
noun: The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
|
|
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superabundance
|
noun: An excessive amount.
|
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|
bosom
|
noun: The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
|
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benison
|
noun: Blessing.
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tyranny
|
noun: Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated.
|
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prodigal
|
noun: One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
|
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|
disparage
|
verb: To regard or speak of slightingly.
|
|
|
diacritical
|
adjective: Marking a difference.
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forth
|
aderb: Into notice or view.
|
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giddy
|
adjective: Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head.
|
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|
machinist
|
noun: One who makes or repairs machines, or uses metal-working tools.
|
|
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submersible
|
adjective: Capable of being put underwater.
|
|
|
impersonal
|
adjective: Not relating to a particular person or thing.
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consistency
|
noun: A state of permanence.
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|
velvety
|
adjective: Marked by lightness and softness.
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debatable
|
adjective: Subject to contention or dispute.
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|
consonance
|
noun: The state or quality of being in accord with.
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|
reconnoiter
|
verb: To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
|
|
|
rondo
|
noun: A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
|
|
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freshness
|
noun: The state, quality, or degree of being fresh.
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maudlin
|
adjective: Foolishly and tearfully affectionate.
|
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Norman
|
adjective: Of or peculiar to Normandy, in northern France.
|
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up-keep
|
noun: Maintenance.
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simultaneous
|
adjective: Occurring, done, or existing at the same time.
|
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retaliate
|
verb: To repay evil with a similar evil.
|
|
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indulgent
|
adjective: Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care.
|
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sinuosity
|
noun: The quality of curving in and out.
|
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accusation
|
noun: A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.
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diversity
|
noun: Dissimilitude.
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promenade
|
verb: To walk for amusement or exercise.
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causal
|
adjective: Indicating or expressing a cause.
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gynecology
|
noun: The science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women.
|
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heinous
|
adjective: Odiously sinful.
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pagan
|
noun: A worshiper of false gods.
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interposition
|
noun: A coming between.
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abominate
|
verb: To hate violently.
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acquiescence
|
noun: Passive consent.
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decaliter
|
noun: A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters.
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immeasurable
|
adjective: Indefinitely extensive.
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transcendent
|
adjective: Surpassing.
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picayune
|
adjective: Of small value.
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propel
|
verb: To drive or urge forward.
|
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proletarian
|
noun: A person of the lowest or poorest class.
|
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foreground
|
noun: That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator.
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sonnet
|
noun: A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
|
|
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perennial
|
adjective: Continuing though the year or through many years.
|
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impermissible
|
adjective: Not permissible.
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salience
|
noun: The condition of standing out distinctly.
|
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upheaval
|
noun: Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition.
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voluptuous
|
adjective: having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality.
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poetaster
|
noun: An inferior poet.
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vivacity
|
noun: Liveliness.
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audition
|
noun: The act or sensation of hearing.
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proficiency
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noun: An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science.
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invalidate
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verb: To render of no force or effect.
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parody
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verb: To render ludicrous by imitating the language of.
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hoarse
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adjective: Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue.
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underlie
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verb: To be the ground or support of.
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durance
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noun: Confinement.
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bolero
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noun: A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing.
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iconoclast
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noun: An image-breaker.
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mischievous
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adjective: Fond of tricks.
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handwriting
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noun: Penmanship.
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parley
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verb: To converse in.
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matricide
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noun: The killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother.
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foreclose
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verb: To bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property.
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misunderstand
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verb: To Take in a wrong sense.
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hydra
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noun: The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules.
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ameliorate
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verb: To relieve, as from pain or hardship
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pyre
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noun: A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.
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infinite
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adjective: Measureless.
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palsy
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noun: Paralysis.
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bridle
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noun: The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins.
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intercede
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verb: To mediate between persons.
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dignitary
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noun: One who holds high rank.
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precedential
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adjective: Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
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idiom
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noun: A use of words peculiar to a particular language.
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technography
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noun: The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
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irreversible
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adjective: Irrevocable.
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blithe
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adjective: Joyous.
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alienation
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noun: Estrangement.
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auricle
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noun: One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
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fancier
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noun: One having a taste for or interest in special objects.
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intermission
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noun: A recess.
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treatise
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noun: An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
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anemometer
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noun: An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
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negligence
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noun: Omission of that which ought to be done.
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inaccurate
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adjective: Not exactly according to the facts.
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fishmonger
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noun: One who sells fish.
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impute
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verb: To attribute.
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alder
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noun: Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
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impregnate
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verb: To make pregnant.
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uppermost
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adjective: First in order of precedence.
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gratify
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verb: To please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need.
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committal
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noun: The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
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cite
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verb: To refer to specifically.
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pollen
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noun: The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant.
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inane
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adjective: Silly.
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infest
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verb: To be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble, or danger.
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embark
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verb: To make a beginning in some occupation or scheme.
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liturgy
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noun: A ritual.
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antediluvian
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adjective: Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
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ostracism
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noun: Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics.
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predominant
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adjective: Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree.
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vignette
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noun: A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
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portfolio
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noun: A portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc.
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minimize
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verb: To reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
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cursory
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adjective: Rapid and superficial.
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condensation
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noun: The act or process of making dense or denser.
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perjure
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verb: To swear falsely to.
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duplex
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adjective: Having two parts.
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disrobe
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verb: To unclothe.
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pompous
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adjective: Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
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ruminant
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adjective: Chewing the cud.
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vincible
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adjective: Conquerable.
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iciness
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noun: The state of being icy.
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contraband
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noun: Trade forbidden by law or treaty.
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underexposed
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adjective: Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography.
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bass
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adjective: Low in tone or compass.
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atrocious
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adjective: Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
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arrear
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noun: Something overdue and unpaid.
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lateral
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adjective: Directed toward the side.
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presage
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verb: To foretell.
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lustrous
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adjective: Shining.
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insuperable
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adjective: Invincible.
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perfidy
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noun: Treachery.
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dislocate
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verb: To put out of proper place or order.
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reprehension
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noun: Expression of blame.
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disobedient
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adjective: Neglecting or refusing to obey.
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fabricate
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verb: To invent fancifully or falsely.
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refute
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verb: To prove to be wrong.
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momentary
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adjective: Lasting but a short time.
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actuate
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verb: To move or incite to action.
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poignant
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adjective: Severely painful or acute to the spirit.
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epode
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noun: A species of lyric poems.
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eminent
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adjective: High in station, merit, or esteem.
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epilogue
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noun: The close of a narrative or dramatic poem.
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inspector
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noun: An official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance.
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centimeter
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noun: A length of one hundredth of a meter.
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unbiased
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adjective: Impartial, as judgment.
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irruption
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noun: Sudden invasion.
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Pan-American
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adjective: Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
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conscious
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adjective: Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks.
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contingent
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adjective: Not predictable.
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coniferous
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adjective: Cone-bearing trees.
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capitulate
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verb: To surrender or stipulate terms.
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sophistry
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noun: Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive.
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gibe
|
verb: To utter taunts or reproaches.
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quadruple
|
verb: To multiply by four.
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plummet
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noun: A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
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millet
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noun: A grass cultivated for forage and cereal.
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bombard
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verb: To assail with any missile or with abusive speech.
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signification
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noun: The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
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misrule
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verb: To misgovern.
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ultimatum
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noun: A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
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supernatural
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adjective: Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power.
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extenuate
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verb: To diminish the gravity or importance of.
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polemics
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noun: The art of controversy or disputation.
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complaisant
|
adjective: Agreeable.
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hydrodynamics
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noun: The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids.
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retrogression
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noun: A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction.
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persist
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verb: To continue steadfast against opposition.
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manufacturer
|
noun: A person engaged in manufacturing as a business.
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deface
|
verb: To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of.
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legitimacy
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noun: Accordance with law.
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islet
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noun: A little island.
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nationality
|
noun: A connection with a particular nation.
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ambrosial
|
adjective: Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
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recede
|
verb: To move back or away.
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ruffian
|
adjective: A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
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intemperance
|
noun: Immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites.
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reproduce
|
verb: To make a copy of.
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macadamize
|
verb: To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone.
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venerate
|
verb: To cherish reverentially.
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aversion
|
noun: A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
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vivify
|
verb: To endue with life.
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feudal
|
adjective: Pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal.
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rightful
|
adjective: Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
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fidelity
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noun: Loyalty.
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patrimony
|
noun: An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
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adhesion
|
noun: The state of being attached or joined.
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nasal
|
adjective: Pertaining to the nose.
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impassable
|
adjective: That can not be passed through or over.
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impolitic
|
adjective: Inexpedient.
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venal
|
adjective: Mercenary, corrupt.
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collusion
|
noun: A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
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inseparable
|
adjective: That can not be separated.
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repel
|
verb: To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
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spheroid
|
noun: A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
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unanimity
|
noun: The state or quality of being of one mind.
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successor
|
noun: One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing.
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complicity
|
noun: Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer.
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triumvir
|
noun: One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
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intolerant
|
adjective: Bigoted.
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incentive
|
noun: That which moves the mind or inflames the passions.
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transmission
|
noun: The act of sending through or across.
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insidious
|
adjective: Working ill by slow and stealthy means.
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tremulous
|
adjective: Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
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henchman
|
noun: A servile assistant and subordinate.
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congregate
|
verb: To bring together into a crowd.
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quarantine
|
noun: The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease.
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opportunist
|
noun: One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends.
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subside
|
verb: To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity.
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cardiac
|
adjective: Pertaining to the heart.
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abet
|
verb: To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
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regicide
|
noun: The killing of a king or sovereign.
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simplify
|
verb: To make less complex or difficult.
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confederate
|
noun: One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
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compression
|
noun: Constraint, as by force or authority.
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sentinel
|
noun: Any guard or watch stationed for protection.
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lave
|
verb: To wash or bathe.
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solecism
|
noun: Any violation of established rules or customs.
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mentality
|
noun: Intellectuality.
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loiterer
|
noun: One who consumes time idly.
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extensible
|
adjective: Capable of being thrust out.
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protrusion
|
noun: The act of protruding.
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infrequence
|
noun: Rareness.
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unlimited
|
adjective: Unconstrained.
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vegetation
|
noun: Plant-life in the aggregate.
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unbearable
|
adjective: Unendurable.
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absence
|
noun: The fact of not being present or available.
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pitiable
|
adjective: Contemptible.
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inveterate
|
adjective: Habitual.
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triple
|
adjective: Threefold.
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unicellular
|
adjective: Consisting of a single cell.
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Stoicism
|
noun: The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
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embargo
|
noun: Authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade.
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cession
|
noun: Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
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imminent
|
adjective: Dangerous and close at hand.
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maxim
|
noun: A principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide.
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persistence
|
noun: A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like.
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impure
|
adjective: Tainted.
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connote
|
verb: To mean; signify.
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aspire
|
verb: To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained.
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pseudapostle
|
noun: A pretended or false apostle.
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foreknowledge
|
noun: Prescience.
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colossus
|
noun: Any strikingly great person or object.
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grantor
|
noun: The maker of a deed.
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kilowatt
|
noun: One thousand watts.
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aeronaut
|
noun: One who navigates the air, a balloonist.
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severely
|
aderb: Extremely.
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iridescence
|
noun: A many-colored appearance.
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obliterate
|
verb: To cause to disappear.
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armory
|
noun: An arsenal.
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spherometer
|
noun: An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces.
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non-resident
|
adjective: Not residing within a given jurisdiction.
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jugglery
|
noun: The art or practice of sleight of hand.
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absolution
|
noun: Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses.
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technology
|
noun: The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
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panorama
|
noun: A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
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viola
|
noun: A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.
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illusion
|
noun: An unreal image presented to the senses.
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extravagant
|
adjective: Needlessly free or lavish in expenditure.
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pertinent
|
adjective: Relevant.
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iota
|
noun: A small or insignificant mark or part.
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eatable
|
adjective: Edible.
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masonry
|
noun: The art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones.
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recover
|
verb: To regain.
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dogma
|
noun: A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority.
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impend
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verb: To be imminent.
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sediment
|
noun: Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
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solder
|
noun: A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
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hydromechanics
|
noun: The mechanics of fluids.
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actuality
|
noun: Any reality.
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termagant
|
adjective: Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
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meager
|
adjective: scanty.
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deviltry
|
noun: Wanton and malicious mischief.
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purloin
|
verb: To steal.
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cabalism
|
noun: Superstitious devotion to one's religion.
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believe
|
verb: To accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
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Bowdlerize
|
verb: To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages.
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nuance
|
noun: A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind.
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pillage
|
noun: Open robbery, as in war.
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kimono
|
noun: A loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan.
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intromit
|
verb: To insert.
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auxiliary
|
noun: One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
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engrave
|
verb: To cut or carve in or upon some surface.
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working-man
|
noun: One who earns his bread by manual labor.
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archipelago
|
noun: Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves.
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biped
|
noun: An animal having two feet.
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maternal
|
adjective: Pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood.
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impalpable
|
adjective: Imperceptible to the touch.
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urban
|
adjective: Of, or pertaining to, or like a city.
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panic
|
noun: A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
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excitation
|
noun: Intensified emotion or action.
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stripling
|
noun: A mere youth.
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placid
|
adjective: Serene.
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inundation
|
noun: Flood.
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tarnish
|
verb: To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
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philogynist
|
noun: One who is fond of women.
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derivation
|
noun: That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning.
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archbishop
|
noun: The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church.
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interdict
|
noun: Authoritative act of prohibition.
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vaporizer
|
noun: An atomizer.
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ruminate
|
verb: To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
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decapod
|
adjective: Ten-footed or ten-armed.
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congenial
|
adjective: Having kindred character or tastes.
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gigantic
|
adjective: Tremendous.
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licit
|
adjective: Lawful.
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hemorrhoids
|
noun: pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum.
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resemblance
|
noun: Similarity in quality or form.
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tolerable
|
adjective: Moderately good.
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valediction
|
noun: A bidding farewell.
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instance
|
noun: A single occurrence or happening of a given kind.
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underwrite
|
verb: To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.
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latish
|
adjective: Rather late.
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repressible
|
adjective: Able to be kept under restraint or control.
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bodily
|
adjective: Corporeal.
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bemoan
|
verb: To lament
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proffer
|
verb: To offer to another for acceptance.
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statics
|
noun: The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order.
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ductile
|
adjective: Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread.
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perturbation
|
noun: Mental excitement or confusion.
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assimilate
|
verb: To adapt.
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explosive
|
adjective: Pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak.
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salutatory
|
noun: The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
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promontory
|
noun: A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
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scarcity
|
noun: Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
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amour
|
noun: A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
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lune
|
noun: The moon.
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typify
|
verb: To serve as a characteristic example of.
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unspeakable
|
adjective: Abominable.
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muffle
|
verb: To deaden the sound of, as by wraps.
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static
|
adjective: Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
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network
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noun: Anything that presents a system of cross- lines.
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protocol
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noun: A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
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relent
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verb: To yield.
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protective
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adjective: Sheltering.
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onrush
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noun: Onset.
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jocose
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adjective: Done or made in jest.
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radix
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noun: That from or on which something is developed.
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kerchief
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noun: A square of linen, silk, or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck.
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effeminate
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adjective: Having womanish traits or qualities.
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consecutive
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adjective: Following in uninterrupted succession.
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theocrasy
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noun: The mixed worship of polytheism.
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drought
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noun: Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
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sisterhood
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noun: A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
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contraposition
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noun: A placing opposite.
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confide
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verb: To reveal in trust or confidence.
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diphthong
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noun: The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
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evanesce
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verb: To vanish gradually.
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palatial
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adjective: Magnificent.
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enlighten
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verb: To cause to see clearly.
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usurious
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adjective: Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned.
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peerage
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noun: The nobility.
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readily
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aderb: Without objection or reluctance.
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permanence
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noun: A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature.
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importune
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verb: To harass with persistent demands or entreaties.
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forecast
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verb: To predict.
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preferment
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noun: Preference.
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conformity
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noun: Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
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nautical
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adjective: Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation.
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heresy
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noun: An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles.
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beneficial
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adjective: Helpful.
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maidenhood
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noun: Virginity.
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amity
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noun: Friendship.
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grandiose
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adjective: Having an imposing style or effect.
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account
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noun: A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions.
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sanction
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verb: To approve authoritatively.
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patronize
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verb: To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
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flamboyant
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adjective: Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste.
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conscientious
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adjective: Governed by moral standard.
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protract
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verb: To prolong.
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peripatetic
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adjective: Walking about.
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prehensile
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adjective: Adapted for grasping or holding.
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transparent
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adjective: Easy to see through or understand.
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repress
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verb: To keep under restraint or control.
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vocative
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adjective: Of or pertaining to the act of calling.
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coincidence
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noun: A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
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delectation
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noun: Delight.
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misplace
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verb: To put into a wrong place.
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antedate
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verb: To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
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fiasco
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noun: A complete or humiliating failure.
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nominate
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verb: To designate as a candidate for any office.
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hypnotic
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adjective: Tending to produce sleep.
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inveigh
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verb: To utter vehement censure or invective.
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genteel
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adjective: Well-bred or refined.
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recognizance
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noun: An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
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incinerate
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verb: To reduce to ashes.
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allay
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verb: To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
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optics
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noun: The science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight.
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contumacious
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adjective: Rebellious.
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anterior
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adjective: Prior.
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dominant
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adjective: Conspicuously prominent.
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contemptible
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adjective: Worthy of scorn or disdain.
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flimsy
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adjective: Thin and weak.
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vaccinate
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verb: To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox.
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Parisian
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adjective: Of or pertaining to the city of Paris.
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jubilation
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noun: Exultation.
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necessitate
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verb: To render indispensable.
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upturn
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verb: To throw into confusion.
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pedestrian
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noun: One who journeys on foot.
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refinery
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noun: A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
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brogan
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noun: A coarse, heavy shoe.
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prudence
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noun: Caution.
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feasible
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adjective: That may be done, performed, or effected; practicable.
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suspension
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noun: A hanging from a support.
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skirmish
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noun: Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
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atone
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verb: To make amends for.
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preface
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noun: A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book.
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legacy
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noun: A bequest.
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verification
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noun: The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate.
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hydroelectric
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adjective: Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam.
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levy
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verb: To impose and collect by force or threat of force.
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competence
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noun: Adequate qualification or capacity.
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subterfuge
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noun: Evasion.
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wreak
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verb: To inflict, as a revenge or punishment.
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penetration
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noun: Discernment.
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writhe
|
verb: To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress.
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exit
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noun: A way or passage out.
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morose
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adjective: Gloomy.
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apparition
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noun: Ghost.
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efficacious
|
adjective: Effective.
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erudite
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adjective: Very-learned.
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cipher
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verb: To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
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reluctance
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noun: Unwillingness.
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interrupt
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verb: To stop while in progress.
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convenience
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noun: Fitness, as of time or place.
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foppish
|
adjective: Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners.
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nettle
|
verb: To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in.
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encamp
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verb: To pitch tents for a resting-place.
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reflection
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noun: The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
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posse
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noun: A force of men.
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inexperience
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noun: Lack of or deficiency in experience.
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instill
|
verb: To infuse.
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junta
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noun: A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government.
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hinder
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verb: To obstruct.
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aberration
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noun: Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
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foreigner
|
noun: A citizen of a foreign country.
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polysyllable
|
adjective: Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables.
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tranquil
|
adjective: Calm.
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acidify
|
verb: To change into acid.
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baste
|
verb: To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
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disobedience
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noun: Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction.
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formation
|
noun: Relative disposition of parts.
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suppressible
|
adjective: Capable of being suppressed.
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playful
|
adjective: Frolicsome.
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moratorium
|
noun: An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily.
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denomination
|
noun: A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
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ferocity
|
noun: Savageness.
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homage
|
noun: Reverential regard or worship.
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collision
|
noun: Violent contact.
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forecastle
|
noun: That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds.
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abstinence
|
noun: Self denial.
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entomology
|
noun: The branch of zoology that treats of insects.
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rotary
|
adjective: Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
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resurgent
|
adjective: Surging back or again.
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rein
|
noun: A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
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somber
|
adjective: Gloomy.
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abut
|
verb: To touch at the end or boundary line.
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ichthyology
|
noun: The branch of zoology that treats of fishes.
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missile
|
noun: Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown.
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census
|
noun: An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
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polyarchy
|
noun: Government by several or many persons of what- ever class.
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overleap
|
verb: To leap beyond.
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overpass
|
verb: To pass across or over, as a river.
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qualify
|
verb: To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
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colloquialism
|
noun: Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation.
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pendulous
|
adjective: Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
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profession
|
noun: Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
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fatuous
|
adjective: Idiotic
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valedictorian
|
noun: Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution.
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deduce
|
verb: To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles.
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complement
|
verb: To make complete.
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fulcrum
|
noun: The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns.
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redundance
|
noun: Excess.
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ashen
|
adjective: Pale.
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odorous
|
adjective: Having an odor, especially a fragrant one.
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sanctity
|
noun: Holiness.
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wittingly
|
aderb: With knowledge and by design.
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sirocco
|
noun: hot winds from Africa.
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clothier
|
noun: One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
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parliament
|
noun: A legislative body.
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navigable
|
adjective: Capable of commercial navigation.
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dissentious
|
adjective: Contentious.
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secede
|
verb: To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
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impatience
|
noun: Unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things.
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propagate
|
verb: To spread abroad or from person to person.
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apotheosis
|
noun: Deification.
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junction
|
noun: The condition of being joined.
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submersion
|
noun: The act of submerging.
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obsequies
|
noun: Funeral rites.
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regalia
|
noun: pl. The emblems of royalty.
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foreman
|
noun: The head man.
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academic
|
adjective: Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.
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lethargy
|
noun: Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind.
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obnoxious
|
adjective: Detestable.
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encyclopedia
|
noun: A work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject.
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apology
|
noun: A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.
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necrology
|
noun: A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time.
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stellar
|
adjective: Pertaining to the stars.
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belie
|
verb: To misrepresent.
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judicial
|
adjective: Pertaining to the administration of justice.
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inexcusable
|
adjective: Not to be justified.
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inbred
|
adjective: Innate.
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matrimony
|
noun: The union of a man and a woman in marriage.
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caret
|
noun: A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
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ecstasy
|
noun: Rapturous excitement or exaltation.
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Elizabethan
|
adjective: Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era.
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respondent
|
adjective: Answering.
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infuse
|
verb: To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities.
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epicure
|
noun: One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking.
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redoubtable
|
adjective: Formidable.
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accuse
|
verb: To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error.
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wintry
|
adjective: Lacking warmth of manner.
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dramatize
|
verb: To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner.
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philosophize
|
verb: To seek ultimate causes and principles.
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unison
|
noun: A condition of perfect agreement and accord.
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exert
|
verb: To make an effort.
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aghast
|
adjective: Struck with terror and amazement.
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disconnect
|
verb: To undo or dissolve the connection or association of.
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|
buffoonery
|
noun: Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
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impel
|
verb: To drive or urge forward.
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manumit
|
verb: To set free from bondage.
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ostracize
|
verb: To exclude from public or private favor.
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pendant
|
noun: Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
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influx
|
noun: Infusion.
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poise
|
noun: Equilibrium.
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veracious
|
adjective: Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
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expend
|
verb: To spend.
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entirety
|
noun: A complete thing.
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|
deliquesce
|
verb: To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air.
|
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|
saponaceous
|
adjective: Having the nature or quality of soap.
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narrow-minded
|
adjective: Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments.
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nonchalance
|
noun: A state of mind indicating lack of interest.
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evanescent
|
adjective: Fleeting.
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pantoscope
|
noun: A very wide-angled photographic lens.
|
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affirmative
|
adjective: Answering yes; to a question at issue.
|
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recline
|
verb: To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position.
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unanimous
|
adjective: Sharing the same views or sentiments.
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bigamy
|
noun: The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.
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edict
|
noun: That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action.
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elude
|
verb: To evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice.
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workmanlike
|
adjective: Like or befitting a skilled workman.
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prescription
|
noun: An authoritative direction.
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dishabille
|
noun: Undress or negligent attire.
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deject
|
verb: To dishearten.
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practicable
|
adjective: Feasible.
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personage
|
noun: A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.
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clement
|
adjective: Compassionate.
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ode
|
noun: The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung.
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knavery
|
noun: Deceitfulness in dealing.
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secrecy
|
noun: Concealment.
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frigidarium
|
noun: A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc.
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sensorium
|
noun: The sensory apparatus.
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aerostat
|
noun: A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
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lifetime
|
noun: The time that life continues.
|
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censorious
|
adjective: Judging severely or harshly.
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outrageous
|
adjective: Shocking in conduct.
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extension
|
noun: A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope.
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impersuadable
|
adjective: Unyielding.
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similitude
|
noun: Similarity.
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vocable
|
noun: a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.
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Sybarite
|
noun: A luxurious person.
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outpost
|
noun: A detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise.
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hypnotism
|
noun: An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion.
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nutritive
|
adjective: Having nutritious properties.
|
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lordling
|
noun: A little lord.
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linguist
|
noun: One who is acquainted with several languages.
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petrify
|
verb: To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character.
|
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insurgent
|
noun: One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place.
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necropolis
|
noun: A city of the dead.
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|
syllabic
|
adjective: Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
|
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assassination
|
noun: Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery.
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rookery
|
noun: A place where crows congregate to breed.
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prefer
|
verb: To hold in higher estimation.
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geniality
|
noun: Warmth and kindliness of disposition.
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rampart
|
noun: A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
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biennial
|
noun: A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second.
|
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divinity
|
noun: The quality or character of being godlike.
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Augustinian
|
adjective: Pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.
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pharmacopoeia
|
noun: A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
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Unitarian
|
adjective: Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
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|
vacillate
|
verb: To waver.
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translate
|
verb: To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
|
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furlong
|
noun: A measure, one-eighth of a mile.
|
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fawn
|
noun: A young deer.
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bustle
|
verb: To hurry.
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technique
|
noun: Manner of performance.
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prevalence
|
noun: Frequency.
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idolize
|
verb: To regard with inordinate love or admiration.
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redound
|
noun: Rebound.
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termination
|
noun: The act of ending or concluding.
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impertinence
|
noun: Rudeness.
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indiscernible
|
adjective: Not perceptible.
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irrational
|
adjective: Not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding.
|
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immature
|
adjective: Not full-grown.
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baritone
|
adjective: Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
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diligence
|
noun: Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken.
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poetics
|
noun: The rules and principles of poetry.
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noxious
|
adjective: Hurtful.
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accomplish
|
verb: To bring to pass.
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comparable
|
adjective: Fit to be compared.
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distensible
|
adjective: Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction.
|
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parentage
|
noun: The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
|
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ally
|
noun: A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
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extensor
|
noun: A muscle that causes extension.
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furbish
|
verb: To restore brightness or beauty to.
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heterogeneous
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adjective: Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds.
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litigate
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verb: To cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law.
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intolerance
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noun: Inability or unwillingness to bear or endure.
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inconvenient
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adjective: Interfering with comfort or progress.
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munificent
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adjective: Extraordinarily generous.
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microscopic
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adjective: Adapted to or characterized by minute observation.
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lode
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noun: A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein.
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ingredient
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noun: Component.
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narration
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noun: The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence.
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subliminal
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adjective: Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
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dendroid
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adjective: Like a tree.
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equivocal
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adjective: Ambiguous.
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impromptu
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noun: Anything done or said on the impulse of the moment.
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perhaps
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aderb: Possibly.
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characterize
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verb: To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities.
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excellent
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adjective: Possessing distinguished merit.
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demonstrate
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verb: To prove indubitably.
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outlive
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verb: To continue to exist after.
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confident
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adjective: Assured.
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resource
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noun: That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
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hysteria
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noun: A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying.
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purgatory
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noun: An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering.
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statistician
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noun: One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
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abstain
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verb: To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
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indigenous
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adjective: Native.
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degeneracy
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noun: A becoming worse.
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reprehensible
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adjective: Censurable.
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migrate
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verb: To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another.
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heartrending
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adjective: Very depressing.
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reminiscent
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adjective: Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
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suffuse
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verb: To cover or fill the surface of.
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testament
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noun: A will.
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presumption
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noun: That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved.
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purveyor
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noun: one who supplies
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potion
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noun: A dose of liquid medicine.
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marvel
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verb: To be astonished and perplexed because of (something).
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foible
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noun: A personal weakness or failing.
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penurious
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adjective: Excessively sparing in the use of money.
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invective
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noun: An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach.
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immense
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adjective: Very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity.
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dissimilar
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adjective: Different.
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deposition
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noun: Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court.
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enervate
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verb: To render ineffective or inoperative.
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theology
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noun: The branch of theological science that treats of God.
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vitality
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noun: The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
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disconsolate
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adjective: Grief-stricken.
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filibuster
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noun: One who attempts to obstruct legislation.
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captious
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adjective: Hypercritical.
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incident
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noun: A happening in general, especially one of little importance.
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avalanche
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noun: The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
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derelict
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adjective: Neglectful of obligation.
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addendum
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noun: Something added, or to be added.
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inconsistent
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adjective: Contradictory.
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resilience
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noun: The power of springing back to a former position
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messieurs
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noun: pl. Gentlemen.
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fief
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noun: A landed estate held under feudal tenure.
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superannuate
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verb: To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
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chasm
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noun: A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
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bungle
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verb: To execute clumsily.
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albino
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noun: A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
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separatist
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noun: A seceder.
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mandatory
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adjective: Expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory.
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indefinitely
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aderb: In a vague or uncertain way.
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innumerable
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adjective: Countless.
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ambush
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noun: The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
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beneficiary
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noun: One who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property.
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elicit
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verb: To educe or extract gradually or without violence.
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acquaint
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verb: To make familiar or conversant.
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vituperable
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adjective: Deserving of censure.
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circulate
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verb: To disseminate.
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incombustible
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adjective: That can not be burned.
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condolence
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noun: Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune.
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dilettante
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noun: A superficial amateur.
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unaccountable
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adjective: Inexplicable.
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unfavorable
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adjective: Adverse.
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aver
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verb: To assert as a fact.
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doublet
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noun: One of a pair of like things.
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aye
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aderb: An expression of assent.
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vendible
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adjective: Marketable.
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