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Fission |
A splitting apart |
The power released in the ___ of the atom |
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Abate |
Make or become less |
Watch the storm ___ |
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Enhance |
Add, increase the value or desirability of |
Make improvements to ___ the value |
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Definitive |
Conclusive, final, limiting |
The ___ biography of Lincoln |
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Amenable |
Willing to accept authority, tractable |
A leader who is ___ to reason |
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Felicity |
Happiness, aptness |
A state of great ___ |
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Disavow |
Deny responsibility for |
___ any share in the plot |
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Curtail |
Cut short, lessen |
To ___ the curtail |
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Excise |
Cut out, remove; type of tax |
To ___ passages from the book |
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Choleric |
Easily made angry |
Difficult to get along with a(n) ___ person |
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Call in question, attack as false |
Impugn |
___ my honesty |
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Onus |
Burden, responsibility |
Put the ___ on another |
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Heresy |
Opinion different from accepted belief |
Be accused of ___ |
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Salient |
Prominent, striking |
The ___ feature of the new plan |
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Flamboyant |
Showy, ornate, flamelike |
Actor given to a(n) ___ style |
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Intemperate |
Not moderate, lacking self-control |
His ___ outbursts of uncontrollable anger |
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Gauche |
Awkward, lacking social graces |
___ young man, self-conscious in company |
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Presentiment |
Vague sense of approaching misfortune |
A(n) ___ that her son had been wounded |
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Nonparreil |
Having no equal, peerless |
Of beauty ___, one of nature's most favored |
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Ignoble |
Mean, low, base |
Missing true greatness because of ___ aims in life |
