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Abhor
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Utterly detest; to loathe; to hate
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Abhorrent
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loathsome; repugnant; not admirable
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Acquit
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to relieve from accusation; to pronounce not guilty
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Acquittal
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the pronouncement of not guilty; exculpation
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Admonish
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to warn of a fault; to caution; to reprove gently
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ambrosial
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extremely pleasing in taste or smell; delicious
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complexity
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Difficulty; intricacy; opposite of simplicity
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confine
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to shut up; imprison; keep in narrow, cramped quarters
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confinement
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imprisonment
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consign
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to hand over, commit; give transfer, deliver by signing over
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decade
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a period of ten years
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detonate
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to explode with suddenness and violence; to cause to explode
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detonation
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an explosion
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effrontery
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shameless boldness; insolence; gall; temerity
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ephemeral
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lasting one day only; fleeting; short-lived; transitory
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excruciating
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causing great pain ot anguish; unbearably painful
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forbearance
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act of refraining; abstaining; leniency; patience
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gullible
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easily deceived or cheatedl credulous
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haggle
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to argue or dispute over a price in a petty way
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hamper
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to interfere with; to hinder; impede
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immersion
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absorption; state of being deeply engrossed
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insomnia
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inability to sleep; abnormal wakefulness; sleeplessness
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insomniac
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a person suffering from sleeplessness
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lapse
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accidental mistakel a trivial fault; become invalid
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nettlesome
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irritating; causing annoyance or vexation
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oblivion
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condition of being forgotten or unknown
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probe
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critical inquiry into suspected illegal activity; investigation
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Prodigious
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extrordinary in amount or size; enormousl gigantic
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prodigy
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A person of extrordinary talent or ability; a wonder
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render
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to hand down officially; to deliver a verdict; to give
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residue
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what is left over after a part is taken; remainder, rest
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rejuvenate
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to make young or youthful again; give new vigor to; refresh
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repast
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food for one occasion of easting; a meal
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replenish
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to bring back to condition of being full; to refill
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salutary
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favorable to health; healthful; beneficial
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score
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group or set of twenty; twenty
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snub
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to treat with disdain or comtempt; to slight; insult
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scutinize
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to examine very closely; to inspect
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Scrutiny
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ab examination or inspection; a review
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supersede
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to force out of use; to displace; supplant, replace
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sweltering
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to suffer from oppressive heat
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sweltering
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oppressively hot; torrid
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suture
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a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body
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unruffled
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not upset or agitated; calm; cool; collected
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unwieldy
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hard to handle because of size; weightl cumbersome
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unwieldiness
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bulkiness
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unwittingly
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unintentionally; by accident; inadvertently
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withdraw
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to take back or remove; to retreat or leave
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withdrawl
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departure; the opposite of approach
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zany(n)
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a clown or buffon
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zany(adj)
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having characteristics of a clown
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ameliorate
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to become better; to make better; improve
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amelioration
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improvement
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baffle
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frustrating; bewildering
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baffle(corrected version)
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bewilder;perplex; fill with confusion; puzzle; frustrate
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cinema
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movies, motion picture industry
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cinematography
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the art of making motion pictures
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conserve
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to keep from waste, loss of decay; to save
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conservation
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preservation from loss, injury or waste
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conservationist
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one who advocates the saving of our natural resources
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despise
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lookdown on with contempt; loathe; regard as inferior
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despicable
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worthy of contempt; contemtible; opposite of praiseworthy
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detriment
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injury, damage, or something that causes it; disadvantage
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detrimental
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injurious to health
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ebullient
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overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberant
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ebulliece
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exuberance
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exaggerate
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overstate, go beyond the limits of actual truth
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exaggeration
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overstatement; opposite of an understatement
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exotic
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introduced from another country; foreign; strange
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exhort
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arouse by wordsl advise strongly; urge
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exhortation
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urgent recommendation or advice
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expertise
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specialized skill or technical knowledge; know-how;
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folly
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lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking
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formerly
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in an earlier period; previously
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finicky
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excessively concerned with trifles or details; fussy; particular
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gall
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make sorw; irritate mentally; annoy; vex; nerve
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harmonious
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friendly; amicable
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ignoramous
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a stupid person or dunce
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impediment
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something that hinders or obstructs; hindrance; obstacle
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inane
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lacking significance of sense; pointless, silly, insipip
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indolent
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disposed to avoid exertion; lazy; idle; lethargic
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indemnify
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compensate for loss, damage, injury; reimburse; repay
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intact
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untouched by anything that damages or diminishes
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invalidate
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abolish, annul
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invalid
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having no effect or force
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noncarcinogenic
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not producing, not tending to produce cancer
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occident
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countries of America and Europe; the west
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parsimonious
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unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy
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parsimony
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stinginess, opposite of generosity
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peruse
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read; look at fairly attentively; study
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raze
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destroy utterly by tearing down; demolish; level to the ground
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reticence
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restraint in communicating; opposite of frankness
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retire
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withdraw from active duty or business; go to bed
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retort
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anser; reply sharply or angrily; a quick witty reply
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scuffle
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a brawl or fight; to wrestle; grapple
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spurn
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to thrust aside with disdain or contempt; reject
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stipend
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fized pay for services; salary; regular allowance
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surveillance
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close watch over a person, group, area; supervision
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subversion
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sabotage, undermining
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tepid
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moderately warm; lukewarm
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tractable
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easily led, taught, controlled; yielding; docile
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wager
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a bet; to gamble; to bet
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wrane
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decrease in power or size; dwindle; decline; sink
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ascetic
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a person who shuns pleasure and lives simply; self denying
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attenuate
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to make thin; to weaken
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adulation
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a humorous imitation
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apiary
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a place where bees are kept
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aviary
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a place where birds are kept
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antidote
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a remedy for a poison or evil
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acclain
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to welcome with approval; to applaud loudlyq
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banter
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playful teasing; joking; raillery
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blissful
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perfectly happy, very happy
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buoyant
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able to float; cheerful
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complacement
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too pleased with oneself-often unaware of possile defects; smug
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chagrin
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excessive praise; flattery
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chagrin(correct version
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embarrassment; mortification; dissapointment
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cherubic
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chubby and innocent look; like a child angel
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cajolery
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persuasion by flattery; wheelding; coaxing
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compunction
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regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm
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convalescent
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a person recovering from sickness
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caricature
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humorous imitation
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adulation(correct version
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excessive praise; flattery
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droll
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odd and laughter provoking
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derogatory
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expressing low self esteem; belittling; disparaging
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delectable
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very pleasing to taste; delightful
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dejected
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sad; in low spirits; depressed
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ecstasy
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a state of overwhelming joy; rapture
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eulogize
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to praise or extol; to laud or glorify
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emaciated
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made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness
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fulsome
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offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting
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fester
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to form pus; to rankle; to rot or putrefy
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facetious
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in the habit of joking; said in jest without serious intent
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flippant
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taking serious matters lightly
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gala
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characterized by festivity
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glum
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moody, gloomy, dour
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halycon
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calm, peaceful
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hypochondriac
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one who is morbidly anxious about personal health; one suffering from imagined illness
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immunity
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resistance to a disease; freedom from an obligation
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irony
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humor, whose intended meaning is the opposite of the words used
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lamentable
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pitiable; rueful
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lackey
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a follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant; a toady; a syncophant
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jubilant
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showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant
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malignant
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threating to cause deathq
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libel
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false and defamatory printed/written statement
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menagerie
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a place where animals are kept and trained; a collection of wild animals
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harlequin
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a buffoon or a clown
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nostalgia
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homesickness; longing for the past
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obesity
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excessive body weight
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pathos
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the quality of events in literature. Music that arouses pity
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parasite
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an animal or person living on others
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pudgy
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short and plump; chubby
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regimen
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a set of rules to improve health
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sullen
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resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy
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sycophant
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a parasitic flatterer; a boot licker; a truckler
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scavenger
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an animal or a person removing refuse or decay
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stigma
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a mark of disgrace
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svelte
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slender; lithe
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sarcasm
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sneering langauge intended to hurt a person's feelings
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satire
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language or writng that exposes follies or absured by holding them up to ridicule
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travesty
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a imitation that makes a serious thing seem rediculous
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toxic
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poisonous
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unguent
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a salve or ointment
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virulent
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extremely poisonous; deadly; venomous; very bitter
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virus
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a disease causing substance too small to be seen through microscope; corruptive force
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adjacent
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lying near or next to; brodering; adjoining
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adolescent
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a teenager of the teenage period
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amorphous
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shapeless; having no definate form; unorganized
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antediluvian
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belonging to the time before the Biblical flood
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bias
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opinion formed before there are grounds for it; prejiduce
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bow
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the forwward part of the ship; the prow
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bigoted
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intolerant; narrow minded
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brine
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salty water; the sea or ocean; the deep
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carrion
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decaying flesh of a carcas
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cogitate
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to think over, consider with care, to ponder
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crone
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a withered old woman
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crux
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the most important point; the essential part
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concave
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curved inward; creating a hollow space
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dipsomnia
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uncontrollable craving for alcohol; alcoholism
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diffident
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lacking self confidence; unduly timid and shy
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deduce
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derive by reasoning; infer
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dilemma
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situation requiring a choice between two equally bad alternatives
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doldrums
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windless part of the ocean near the equator
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egoism
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excessive concern for oneself; selfishness; conceit
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environs
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districts surrounding a place; the suburbs
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forebear
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forefather or ancestor
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fallible
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liable to be mistaken
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flotsam
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the wreckoage of a ship or its cargo, floating on the sea; driftage
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grave
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deserving serious attention; weighty; monumentous
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hoary
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white or gray with age; ancient
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heterodox
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rejecting accepted doctrines and beliefs
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hyptothetical
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supposed; having the characteristics of a supposition
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inebriated
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drunk, intoxicated
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illusion
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a misleading appearance; a false impression
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immaculate
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spotless, absolutely clean pure, faultless
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juvenile
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youthful or immature
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leeward
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in the direction away from the wind
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mariner
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seamen
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matriarchq
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mother and ruler of the family
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malleable
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capable of being shaped by hammering; adaptable
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nugatory
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of little or no value; trifling; worthless; useless
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ostentatious
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done to impress others; showy; pretentious
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octogenarian
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a person in his 80s
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obsolete
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no longer in use; out of date
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patriarch
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father and ruler of the family
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plausible
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superficially true or reasonable; apparently trustworthy
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posthumous
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published after the authors death; occuring after death
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primeval
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pertaining to the world's first ages; primitive
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puberty
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physical beginning of manhood or womanhood
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preposterous
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senseless; absurd; irrational
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rotund
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to round out; plump; full-toned
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relevant
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bearing upon the matter in hand; pertinent
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speculate
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to reflect, mediate, conjecture
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superannuated
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retired on pension; extremely old
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septuagenarian
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person in his 70s
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teetotaler
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person who totally abstains from drinking intoxicating beverages
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veteran
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ex member of the armed services
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vain
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conceited; empty; worthless; futile
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vanity
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the opposite of humilty
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yore
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long ago
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amorphous
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shapeless; having no definate shape; disorganized
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apathy
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lack of feeling, emotion, interest, excitement; indifference
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anatomy
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dissection of plants, animals for the purpose of studying structure
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atom
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smallest particle of an element
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antipodes
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parts of the globe
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anarchy
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total absence of rule of government; confusion; disorder
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apogee
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farthest point from the Earth in the orbit of a satellite
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chiropodist
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one who treats the ailments of the human foot
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dichotomy
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cutting or divsion into two
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endocrine
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secreting internally
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exocrine
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secreting externally
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endocrditis
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inflammation of the lining of the heart
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exogamy
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marriage outside of the tribe, caste, or social group
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exotic
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excitingly strange; not native but introduced from a foreign country
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empathy
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the complete understanding of another feelings
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geography
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the study of the Earth's surface, climate, continents, and people
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geology
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science dealing with the Earth's history as recorded in rocks
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geometry
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mathematics dealing with lines, angles, surfaces, and planes
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geotropism
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response to Earth's gravity; growing of roots downward in the ground
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heterochromatic
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having a variety of colors
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homogeneous
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of the same kind; similar; uniform
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homonym
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word that sounds like another but differs in meaning and spelling
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homophonic
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having the same sound
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heterodox
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rejecting accepted doctrines and/or beliefs
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hyperglycemia
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excess of sugar in the blood
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hypertension
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abnormally high blood pressure
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hyperactive
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overactive
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hyperbole
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extravagant exaggeration of statement
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hypodermic
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injected under the skin
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hypothesis
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a theory or suppostion assumed as a basis of reasoning
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hierarchy
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body of rulers or officials grouped into ranks, each subordinate to the other
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lobotomy
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brain surgery
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metamorphosis
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change of form
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masectomy
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surgical removal of a breat
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matriarchy
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form of social organization where the mother rules the family
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monarchy
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state ruled by a single person(king or queen)
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oligarchy
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form of government in which few people have the power
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oerimeter
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the whole outer boundary or measurement of a surface, figure
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periscope
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instrument permitting those in a submarine a view of the surface
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peristalsis
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wave like contractions that moves food through the intestines
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peritontitis
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inflammation of he membrane lining the abdominal cavity
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phlebotomy
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opening of a vein to diminish blood supply
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podium
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dais or raised platform
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psychopathic
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pertaining to mental disease; insane
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tome
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a scholarly book
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tonsillectomy
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surgical removal of the tonsils
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tracheotomy
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the surgical operation of cutting into the trachea
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telepathy
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transfer of thoughts and feelings of one person to another through no apparent means of communication
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tripod
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utensil, stool, or caldron having three legs
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myopia
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nearsigted
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perigee
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closest point to the Earth in the orbit of a satellite
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unipod
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one-legged support
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arcophobia
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fear of heights
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agoraphobia
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fear of wide open spaces
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amoral
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without a sense of moral responsibility
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amorphous
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having no definate shape; shapeless; disorganized
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audophile
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lover of music
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anemia
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lack of normal number of red blood cells
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anesthesia
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loss of feeling/sensation from ether or chloroform
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anhydrous
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without water
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anonymous
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nameless; of unknown origin
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aseptic
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free from disease causing microorganisms
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atheism
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godlessness; denial of the existence of a supreme being
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atrophy
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lack of growth from disuse/malnourishment
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atypical
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unlike the typical
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bibliophile
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lover of books
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clastrophobia
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fear of enclosed spaces
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dysentery
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diarrhea or inflammation of the large intestine
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dyslexia
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impairment of the ability to read
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dyspepsia
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difficult digestion; indigestion
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dysphagia
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difficult swallowing
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dystopia
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imaginery place in which living conditons are dreadful
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dystrophy
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faulty nutrition
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eugenics
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science deals with improving heredity
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eulogize
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write or speak in praise of someoneq
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euphemism
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substitution of a good expression for an unpleasent one
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euphonious
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pleasing in sound
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euphoria
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sense of great happiness or well-being
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euthanasia
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the controversial practice of mercy killing
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Francophobe
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fear or hatred of the French
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Germanophobia
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fear or hatred of the Germans
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hydrophobia
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fear of water
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misaanthrope
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hater of humanity
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misogamy
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hatre of marriage
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misogyny
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hatred of women
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macrocosm
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a great world; universe
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microbe
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microscopic living plant or animal; microorganism
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microdon
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having very small teeth
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microwave
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oven that cooks quickly by using very short electromagnetic waves
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monocle
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eyeglass for one eye
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monogamy
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marraige with one mate at a time
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monolith
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single stone of large size
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monomania
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excessive concentrastion on one subject or idea
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monotheism
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belief in one god
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phobia
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fear
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monophobia
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fear of being alone
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philanthropist
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lover of humanity
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philatelist
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stamp collector
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philharmonic
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pertainging to a musical organization
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philogyny
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lover of women
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philosopher
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lover or searcher of wisdom, knowledge
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polygamy
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marriage to several mates at a time
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polyarchy
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rule by many
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polyglot
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speaking several languages
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polyphonic
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having many sounds
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polytheism
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belief in multiple gods
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xenophobia
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fear of strangers
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Adonis
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a very handomse young man
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Aegis
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a shield or protection; sponsorship
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amazon
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tall, strong, masculine woman
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atlas
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book of maps
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auroral
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pertaining to the sunrise
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bacchanalian
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jovial or wild with drunkenness
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Cassandra
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a pessimist; one who prophesizes doom, disaster
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chimerical
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fantastic, unreal, impossible
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Draconian
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harsh, severe, iron handed
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echolalia
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automatic and immediate repetition of what others say
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Elysian
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delightful, blissful, heavenly
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Eristic
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song or hymn of praise, joy, triumph
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fauna
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animals, animal life of a particular region
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flora
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plants, plant life of a particular region
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forum
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any place open for discussion and expression of ideas
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hector
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to bully, intimidate with threats
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herculean
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requiring great strength; very difficult
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hermetic
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airtight
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iridescent
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having colors like the rainbow
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jovial
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jolly, merry, good-natured
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labrynthine
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full of confusing passageways; complicated
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laconic
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using words sparingly; terse; concise
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lethargic
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unnaturally drowsy; sluggish; dull
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Lucullan
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sumptuous, luxurious
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marathon
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a long distance foot race of 26 miles 385 yards, an endurace contest
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martial
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pertaining to war; warlike
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mentor
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a wise and trusted advisor; tutor or a coach
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mercurial
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quick, lively, active, vivacious; unstable, capricious, moody
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myrmidon
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an obedient and unquestsioning follower
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narcissistic
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in love with oneself; egocentric
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nectar
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something exceptionally delicious to drink
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nemesis
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due punishment for evil deeds; one who inflicts punishmentq
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odyssey
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any long series of wanderings or travels
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Olympiam
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majestic, godlike, lofty
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paean
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song or hymn of praise, joy, triumph
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palladium
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safeguard or protection
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panic
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unreasoning; sudden fright that grips a multitude
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Phillipic
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better denounciation; tirade
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plutocratic
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great influence because of ones weatlth
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procrustean
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cruel or inflexible in enforcing conformity
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protean
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readily assuming different forms or shapes
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Pyrrhic
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ruinous; gained at too great a cost
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Saturine
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heavy, dull, gloomy;morose
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siren
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a dangerous attractive woman; a woman who sings sweetly
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solon
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a wise lawgiver; a legislator
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spartan
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marked by self-discipline; bravery; ability to endure pain
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stentorian
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very loud
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stygian
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infernal; especially dark; gloomy
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tantalize
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excited a hope but prevented its fufillment; to tease
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terpsichorean
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pertaining to dancing
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thespian
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pertaining to drama or acting
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titanic
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of enormous strength, size, or power
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eristic(correct version)
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prone to controversy
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