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abut
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border on; adjoin.
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bane
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casue of death, ruin, or distress.
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deign
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to think it beneath one's dignity; condescend; give.
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eke
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to supplement; to manage to make a living with difficulty; to use frugally.
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knell
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to ring in a slow, solemn way; toll; to call or announce by a mournful ringing; an omen of death or failure.
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mete
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to allot, distribute, or apportion.
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moot
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discussion or argument of a hypothetical law case; debatable; so hypothetical as to be meaningless.
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mulct
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to punish by a fine or by depriving of something; to extract by fraud or deceit.
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plumb
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perfectly vertical; directly; to test or sound with a plumb line (measure); to discover the facts of; to fathom, solve, or understand.
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quail
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to draw back in fear; lose heart or courage; cower.
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roil
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to make a liquid cloudy or muddy; to stir up or agitate; to make angry; rile.
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shunt
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to move or turn to one side; to shift or switch from one track to another.
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svelte
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slender and graceful; suave; polished.
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thrall
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a slave or bondman; a person under the moral or psychological domination of something or someone; slavery.
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tryst
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an appointment,as by lovers; to meet.
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