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Abdicate
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To give up formally, as an office, duty, power, or claim
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Abet
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To encourage or assist, especially in wrongdoing
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Abhor
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To regard with horror or loathing, to hate intensly.
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Abject
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Wretched, Miserable;Mean-spirited, Base; Comple and unreleived
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Absolve
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To clear of guilt or blame
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Abstain
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To refrain from completely and voluntarily
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Academic
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Pertaining to a college or other institution or learning. Theoretical, unrealistic
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Accede
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To yield to, to enter upon an office or duty
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Acclimate
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To get used to
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Addiction
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A habit-forming practice or pursuit, usually one that is bad for ones health.
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Adjourn
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To close formally, to put off to another time
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Adverse
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Hostile in purpose or effect, unfavorable
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Advocate
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To speak or argue in favor of, a person who pleads in the interest of another
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Aesthetic
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Pertaining to a sense of beauty
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Affable
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Courteous and agreeable in manner
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Affectation
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A pretentious display of mannors or sentiments that are not genuine.
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Affluent
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Prosperous, wealthy
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Agenda
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A list or program of things to be done or acted upon.
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Aggregate
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Total sume or sum total of parts, to gather or merge into a whole, total
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Agile
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Swift and light in action, movement, or thought
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Alienate
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To cause hostility or indifference where love, friendliness, or interest was.
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Allege
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To claim that something is true but without offering proof.
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Allude
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To refer to indirectly
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Ambience
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The surrounding or pervading atmosphere, spirit of the environment
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Ambivalent
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Wavering or uncertain because of the ability to make a choice.
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Amnesty
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An official pardon granted to offenders against the government offenses.
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Anachronism
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The misplacing of an object or event ina period to which it does not belong.
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Anarchy
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Absence of governmental authority, social and politcal disorder.
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Anathema
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A curse or strong denunciation; the person or thing being cursed.
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Anecdote
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A breif account of some interesting or amusing incident, biographical
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Anomaly
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A devation from what is normal or expected
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Apathy
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Lack of feeling, emotion, or interest.
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Appall
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To fill with intense horror, fear, or dismay
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Apprehend
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To arrest or take into custody, understand the meaning of, fear or anxiety
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Arbitrary
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Subject to or determined by one's judgement, excersise of the will, jugdement
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Arbitrate
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To act as an impartial judge in a dispute
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Array
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To line up, dress up; An imposing grouping, rich and beautiful attire
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Articulate
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To pronounce distinctly, to express well in words, expressed clearly
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Askew
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Out of line or position; dissaprovingly, scornfully
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Assimilate
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To absorb fully or make one's own, to adapt fully or to make like.
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Astute
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Keen of mind and judgement, especially in practical matters.
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Asylum
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An institution that shelters and cares for retards, place offering protection
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Atone
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To make up for or repent
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Atrocity
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A savagely cruel, brutal, or inhuman deed; a monstrasity
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Atrophy
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A failure to develop normally, to waste away, progressive wasting away
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Attrition
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A gradual wearing down or weakening of resistance, gradual, often decrease
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Augment
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To make greater; to become greater
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Augur
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Someone who can forcast the future through signs, to predict the future
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Austere
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Rigidly severe; severely simple or bare.
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Authentic
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Genuine, trustworthy.
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Avarice
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An excessive desire to acquire and possess wealth; greed and stinginess
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Avid
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Extremely eager, anxious, enthusiastic.
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Badger
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To tease; to annoy with a constant string of petty tornments.
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Baffle
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To puzzle completely, to prevent from achieving a goal
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Banal
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Made stale by constant use or repetition
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Belligerent
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Warring, actually engaged in a war; a party engaged in a war. Warlike, hostile
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Benign
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Gentle, Kindly. Wholesome or favorable.
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Bicker
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To engage in petty quarreling.
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Bizarre
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Weird or Fantastic.
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Bland
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Mild or gentle; Lacking interest or liveliness, flat.
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Bleak
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Desolate, windswept, and bare. Cold and gloomy; unpromising.
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Blight
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To check or destroy the growth of. Something that impair growth.
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Blithe
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Merry and carefree; overly unconcerned, reckless.
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Boisterous
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Noisy and rowdy.
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Bombastic
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Pompous or inflated in language.
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Boorish
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Rude or unrefined.
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Boycott
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To refuse to buy, use , or deal with as a way of protest.
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Brash
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Overly bold, hasty, and thoughtless.
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Bravado
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A boastful or swaggering show of false bravery; false courage.
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Brusque
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Overly short or abrupt.
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Bungle
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To mismanage or make a mess of.
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Bureaucracy
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A complicated system of administrative agencies and officials. The officials.
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Buttress
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A support or reinforcement. To support or reinforce.
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Cajole
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To persuade or obtain by flattery or deceit.
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Callous
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Unfeeling or insensitive.
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Calumny
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A false statement deliberately made up to injure a person.
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Candid
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Fair and impartial. Frank or outspoker. Informal or unposed.
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Cantankerous
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Foul-tempered and quarrelsome.
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Captious
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Quick to find petty faults or raise trifling objections. Trap, confuse, show up.
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Catholic
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Broad or widely inclusive. General or universal; worldwide.
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