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Complex, ornate design
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Arabesque (n)
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Air, a bee, and a skew line combined in a picture would be an arabesque design
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Mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates
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Arcane (adj)
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Are Cane and Able's life mysterious or known only to initiates?
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outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time
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Archaic (adj)
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The Arch of Noah is from a primitive time.
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Strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort
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Arduous (adj)
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Arduous, Hard-uous
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Impudent (shameless); in every way, being completely such, barefaced, utter
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Arrant (adj)
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Are ants shameless?
It is shameless to rant at one's parents |
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To suspend, to engage
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Arrest (v)
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When arrested, one's license in suspended
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Completely without guile; natural, without artificiality
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Artless (adj)
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art less of artificiality = natural
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One who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion
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Ascetic (n)
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Severity, rigor; roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability
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Asperity (n)
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Asperity - Severity
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