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176 Cards in this Set
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congratulate
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express one's pleasure to another person at that person's success
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gracious
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pleasant, courteous, kindly (ungracious)
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grateful
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feeling or experiencing gratitude, thankful
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gratify
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give or be a source of pleasure
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gratis
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without charge or payment, free
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gratitude
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thankfulness (ingratitude)
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gratuitous
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given freely; unwarrented as a gracious remark
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gratuity
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present of money in return for a favor or service, tip
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ingrate
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ungrateful person
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ingratiate
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establish oneself in the favor or good graces of another
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immortal
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not subject to death (mortal)
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immortality
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eternal life (mortality)
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moribund
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dying, near death
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mortal
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destined to die, human, causing death; human being, person
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mortality
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death rate, mortal nature
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mortician
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undertaker
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mortification
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shame, humiliation, embarrassment
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corporal
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bodily, as corporal punishment
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corporation
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body authorized by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties
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corps
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organized body of persons such as military
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corpse
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dead body
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corpulent
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bulky, obese, fat
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corpus
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general collection or body of writings, laws
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corpuscle
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blood cell, minute particle
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corpus delicti
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facts proving that a crime has been committed; body of victim in a murder case
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esprit de corps
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spirit of a body of persons, group spirit
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habeas corpus
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writ requiring a detailed person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person's detention; right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment
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incorporate
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combine so as to form one body
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mortify
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embarrass, shame
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mortuary
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funeral home
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rigor mortis
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stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death
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aqueduct
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artificial channel for conducting water over a distance
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conductive
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tending to lead to, contributive, helpful
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conduct
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lead, guide, escort
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deduction
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taking away, subtraction, reasoning from the general to the particular
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duct
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tube or charmed for conducting a liquid, air
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ductile
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able to be drawn out or hammered thin like metal
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induce
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lead on, move by persuasion.
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induct
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admit as a member, initiate
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induction
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ceremony by which one is made a member
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seduction
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enticement, leading astray into wrongdoing
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traduce
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malign, slander
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viaduct
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bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river etc
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consecutive
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following in regular order, successive
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consequence
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that which follows logically, result
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execute
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follow through to completion, carry out; put to death
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inconsequential
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of no consequence, unimportant
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non sequitur
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statement that does not follow from the previous statements
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persecute
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oppress, harass, annoy
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prosecute
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follow to the end or until finished, conduct legal proceedings against, sue
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sequel
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something that follows, continuation, out come
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sequence
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the following of one thing after another, succession
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sequential
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arranged in a sequence
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concur
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agree, be of the same opinion; coincide
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concurrent
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running together, at the same time
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current
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now in progress, prevailing; flow as in electrical or river
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curriculum
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course of study in school
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cursive
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running or flowing as in handwriting
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cursory
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running over hastily, cursory glance
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discursive
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wandering from one topic to another, rambling
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excursion
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going out or forth, expedition
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incur
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meet with something undesirable; bring upon oneself
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incursion
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rushing into; hostile invasion
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precursor
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forerunner, predecessor
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recur
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happen again
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aggressive
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disposed to attack, assertive, pushing
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egress
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means of going out, exit (access)
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gradation
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change by steps or stages; act of grading
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grade
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step, stage, degree, rating
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gradient
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rate at which something rises or falls like a slope
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gradual
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step by step, proceding small stages (abrupt)
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graduate
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complete all the steps of a course and receive a diploma or degree
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graduated
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arranged in regular steps, stages
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progressive
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going forward to something considered better (reactionary, retrogressive)
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regressive
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disposed to move backward
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retrograde
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going backward; becoming worse
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retrogression
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act of going from a better to a worse state, deterioration
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transgress
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step beyond the limits or barriers, break a law, violate
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biped
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two footed animal
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centipede
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hundred legs, wormlike animal with of legs on each of its segments
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expedite
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facilitate; accelerate or speed up
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impede
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hinder, block
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impediment
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obstacle; defect
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millipede
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wormlike animal with 2 pairs of legs on each segment
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pedal
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lever acted on by the foot
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pedestal
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support or foot of a column or statue; foundation
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pedestrian
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person traveling on foot; commonplace, dull, unimaginative
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velocipede
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child's tricycle; early form of bicycle
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contact
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touching or meeting, connection
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contiguous
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touching, in physical contact
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contingent
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dependent on something else; accidental
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intact
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untouched or uninjured, kept or left whole (defective)
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intangible
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not capable of being percieved by the sense of touch; hard to grasp
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tact
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sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion
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tactful
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having or showing tact, diplomatic (tactless)
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tactile
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pertaining to the sense of touch; tangible
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tangent
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touching only at one point; line or surface meeting a curved line at one point but not passing through it
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tangential
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merely touching slightly connected
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apprehend
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seize or take into custody; understand
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apprehensive
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quick to understand or grasp; fearful of what may come, anxious (confident)
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comprehensible
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able to be grasped mentally
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comprehensive
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including very much, extensive
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prehensile
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adapted for seizing
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reprehend
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find fault with, rebuke
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reprehensible
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deserving of censure, culpable
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abject
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sunk down to a low condition, wretched
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conjecture
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guess, supposition, inference
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dejected
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downcast, discouraged, depressed
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eject
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throw out, expel, evict
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inject
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force, introduce
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interject
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throw in between, insert
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object
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protest, disapprove
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project
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thrust forward
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projectile
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body to be shot or thrown forward
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reject
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discard, refuse to take
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subject
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force someone to undergo something unpleasant, expose
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advert
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turn attention, refer
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aversion
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feeling of repugnance towards something with desire to turn away , dislike
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avert
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prevent; avoid
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controversy
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dispute, debate, quarrel
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convert
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transform
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diversion
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entertainment, amusement
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divert
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turn aside; amuse entertain
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extrovert
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outgoing, focused on outside matters, not insid
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inadvertently
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w/o turning one's mind to the matter at hand, unintentionally
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incontrovertible
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not able to be turned opposite
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introvert
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shy, diffident, focused on inside matters; turn inward
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invert
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turn upside down
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obeserve
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side turned toward observer
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pervert
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turn away from right or truth, give wrong meaning
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perverse
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corrupt
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revert
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return, go back
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versatile
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able to turn with ease from one thing to another, adaptable
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verse
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line of peotry
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vertigo
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condition in which one feels that one's surrounding are turning about, dizziness.
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commitment
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pledge; consignment to a prison
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demise
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death
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emissary
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person sent out on a mission
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emit
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send out give off
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intermittent
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coming and going at intervals
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missile
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weapon capable of being propelled to hit a distant object
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missive
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written message sent, letter
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remiss
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negligent, careless
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remission
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lessening, disappearance, cancellation
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remit
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send money due; forgive
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transmit
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convey, cause something knowledge
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circumlocution
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roundabout way of speaking
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colloquial
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conversational, informal
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elocution
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art of speaking out or reading effectivity in public.
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grandiloquent
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using lofty or pompous words, bombastic
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interlocutor
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questioner, on who participates in a conversation
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eloquent
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speaking against, censure (Praise)
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loquacious
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talkative, garrulous ( praise)
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obloquy
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speaking against, bad prepute (praise)
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auriferous
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bearing or yielding gold
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coniferous
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bearing cones
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odoriferous
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yielding an odor usually fragrant
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pestiferous
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infected with or bearing disease; evil
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proliferous
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producing new growth
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somniferous
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bearing or inducing sleep
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vociferous
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producing a loud outcry, nios
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Grat
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pleasant; thank you, favor
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Mor (mort)
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death
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corp
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body
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duc, duct
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lead, conduct, draw
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Secut (sequ)
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follow
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cur, curr, curs
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run
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gress (grad)
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step, walk, go
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ped
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foot
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tact, tang
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touch
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prehend(prehens)
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seize, grasp
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ject
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throw or cast
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vert, vers
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turn
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mis, miss, mit, mitt
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send
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locut, loqu
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speak, talk
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Fer(ous),
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bearing, producing, yielding
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