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Exodus
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A departure, usually of large numbers of people.
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Exotic
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Foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual.
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Expedient
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a. Advantageous to one's interest or purpose
b. An emergency course of action; a means to an end |
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Exploit
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a. To use to the greatest possible advantage, often selfishly.
b. A brilliant or heroic deed. |
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Expound
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To explain in detail
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Fabricate
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a. To assemble or construct from separate parts.
b. To make up with the intention of deceiving |
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Facetious
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Not menat seriously; playful or humorous
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Facsimile
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a. An exact copy.
b. Reproduced exactly |
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Fallacy
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a. Faulty reasoning; an error in logic
b. A false or mistaken notion |
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Fathom
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a. A unit of length roughly equal to six feet and used primarily in the measurement of marine depths
b. To get to the bottom of, to understand |
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Fatuous
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Unconsciously foolish, stupid, or absurd
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Feasible
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Possible; both doable and workable
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Feign
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To pretend or give a false appearance of
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Felicitous
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Agreeably suited to the purpose or occasion; aptly or gracefully expressed.
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Fetish
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a. An object believed among primitive peoples to have magical powers.
b. An object or unreasonably excessive attention or reverence. |
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Fiasco
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A complete failure
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Fickle
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LIkely to change for no apparent reason; inconstant.
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Filch
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To steal slyly, especially small things.
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Finesse
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a. skill delicacy, or subtlety in doing something or handling a situation.
b. To accomplish by subtle or skillful maneuvering |
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Flagrant
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Extremely and deliberately conspicuous, glaring
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Flaunt
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To show off in a conspicuous or offensive way.
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Flout
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To treat openly with scorn or contempt
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Fluctuate
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To change continually from one position to another.
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Foible
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A minor, often amusing, fault or weakness in character.
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Forestall
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To secure an advantage or prevent a loss by previous action
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Formidable
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a. Arousing fear or admiration because of the unusual size or superiority of the thing involved.
b. Difficult to do because of the size of the job involved. |
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Fortuitous
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Occurring by chance or accident.
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Frugal
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a. Thrifty or economical in the use of money
b. Involving little expense; meager |
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Fulsome
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Excessive and, for that reason, offensive to good taste and obviously insincere.
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Futile
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Incapable of producing the desired result; unsuccessful or ineffective.
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Garble
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To distort in such a way as to make unintelligible.
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Glout
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To regard with excessive or malicious satisfaction.
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Goad
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a. A long pointed stick used for driving animals; anything that spurs a person on.
b. To drive or urge on. |
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Graphic
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a. Relating to a drawn or pictorial representation; visual.
b. Giving a clear and effective picture; vivid. |
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Gratuitous
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a. Freely given; done without recompense
b. Uncalled-for; unjustified |
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Gregarious
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a. Tending to form or move in a heard or other group; social
b. Enjoying the company of others; sociable |
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Grimace
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a. A twisted facial expression indicating pain, disgust, or disapproval
b. To contort the features of the face in order to indicate pain, disgust, or disapproval. |
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Grope
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To feel around for.
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Grueling
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Extremely demanding and exhausting
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Gruesome
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Causing great shock, horror, and repugnance
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Gullible
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Easily cheated or deceived
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Haggard
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Worn and exhausted from anxiety, disease, huger, or fatigue
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Harangue
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a. A long, emotional public address designed to arouse strong feelings or spur the audience on to action
b. To deliver a harangue |
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Harbinger
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a. A forerunner
b. To herald the approach of |
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Haughty
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Scornfully superior and aloof.
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Heinous
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Grossly wicked or vile
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Ignominy
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Dishonor or disgrace usually resulting from some sort of shameful conduct.
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Illicit
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Unlawful, illegal
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Immaculate
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Entirely free of stain, blemish, fault, or error; spotless
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Immunity
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Exemption from something, especially a disease.
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Immutable
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Not subject to change or modification
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Impasse
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A deadlock or dead end
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Impediment
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A hindrance or obstruction
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Impervious
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Incapable of being penetrated or affected.
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Implacable
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Incapable of being pacified or appeased; inflexible.
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Implicit
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a. Understood, implied.
b. Absolute, unquestioning |
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Impugn
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To call into question; to cast doubt on
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Incarcerate
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To put in jail or otherwise confine
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Incense
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To make violently angry.
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Inception
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The beginning of something
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Indigent
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Impoverished; needy
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Ingenious
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Showing remarkable originality, imagination, inventiveness, or skill; clever
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Inherent
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Existing as a natural or essential part of.
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Innovation
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Something new; a change
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Instigate
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To stir up or urge on
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Insuperable
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Incapable of being overcome
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Intervene
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To come between; to involve oneself in
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Intrepid
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Fearless and bold.
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Inveigh
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To protest bitterly or vehemently
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Irony
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Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually happens.
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Jeopardize
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To endanger
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Jettison
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To throw overboard; to discard
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Judicious
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Having or exhibitng sound judgment
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Justify
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To show to be just, right, valid, or free of blame
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Lackadaisical
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Sorely lackign in spirit, energy, or purpose
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Legacy
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Something left to a person in a will; something handed down from the past
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Liability
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a. A debt or obligation, especially of a financial nature.
b. A hindrance or handicap |
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Libel
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a. A public statement or picture that damages a person by falsely impugning his or her character, motives, or actions, or by unjustly exposing the person to public censure or ridicule.
b. To slander publicly |
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Litigation
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Legal action; a lawsuit
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Lucid
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Clear and intelligible to the understanding; mentally competent
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Lucrative
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Profitable
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Lurk
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To sneak; to lie hidden or in wait.
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Lush
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a. Luxuriant, plentiful; luxurious, opulent
b. Overelaborate or overripe |
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Malapropism
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An unconscious and usually ludicrous misuse of a word.
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Malice
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A desire to cause harm or suffering; deep-seated ill will.
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Mammoth
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a. An extinct form of elephant; a giant or colussus
b. Gigantic |
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Mandatory
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Requried, obligatory
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Medium
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The means by which some goal is achieved or the person through hwom it is realized
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Mercenary
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a. A hirelin, especially a hired professional soldier
b. Motivated solely by a desire for material gain |
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Moot
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a. Debatable and therefore unresolved
b. To bring up for discussion |
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Morass
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A swamp or bog; a confused or degradign situation that is difficult to get out of.
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Motley
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a. A kind of multicolored cloth; a garment made from this cloth, especially the costume worn by a court jester or clown.
b. Multicolored; diverse or varied |
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Mundane
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Worldly (as opposed to spiritual); humdrum or everyday
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Myriad
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Countless, innumerable
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Narcissistic
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Dominated by an excessive love or admiration of oneself.
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Nebulous
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Hazy, vague, or indistinct
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Negligible
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Too small to be significant
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Nepotism
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Unwarrented favoritism shown to relatives or friends by someone in high office
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Nomadic
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Wandering, roving
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Nominal
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a. Existing in name only
b. Insignificantly small |
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Nostalgia
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A longign to retrun to a sentimentalized past; homesickness
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Novice
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a. A person who has just entered a religious order on a probationary basis
b. A beginning of any kind |
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Nuance
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A slight or subtle variation in meaning, expression, tone, feeling, color, or the like.
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Obscene
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Offensive to accepted standards of decency; repulsive
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Obsequious
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Excessively submissive to another person's wishes or ideas, often for purely self-interested reasons
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Obsession
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An irrational preoccupation with an idea or feeling that usually results in severe anxiety
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Obsolete
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No longer in use; outmoded
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Officious
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Excessively forward in offering unwanted or unnecessary help or advice; meddlesome
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Ominous
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Foreshadowing evil; menacing or threatening
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Opportune
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Suitable, appropriate, or timely
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Ostensible
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Apparent or professed
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Ostracize
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To banish or exclude from a group; to shun
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Pandemonium
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General disorder, confusion, noise, and commotion
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Paradox
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a. A seemingly self-contradictory statement that, on closer examination, proves worthy of belief
b. Someone or something that is full of contradictions and inconcsistencies |
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Paraphrase
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a. To restate in other words or another form, often in order to clarify meaning or avoid difficulties.
b. A restatement in other words or another form |
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Parochial
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a. Located in, or supported by, a parish
b. Restricted in scope or range; narrow or limited |
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Parody
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a. A comic imitation of the style, form, or content of a serious piece of work
b. A performance that is so bad as to constitute a mockery of the thing it is intended to represent c. To imitate in a mocking or unworthy way |
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Pensive
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Immersed in deep, often melancholy, thought
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