English (October 4, 2007)

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Abysmal

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(adj.) extremely or hopelessly bad or severe

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Amicable

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(adj.) characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable

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Amorphous

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(adj.) lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless

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Aspire

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(v.) to long, aim, or seek ambitiously

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Audacious

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(adj.) extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless

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extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive

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Aversion

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(n.) a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy

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Awry

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(adj. or adv.) away from the expected or proper direction; amiss; wrong

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Bawdy

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(adj.) indecent; lewd; obscene

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(n.) coarse or indecent talk or writing

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Belabor

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(v.) to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary

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Beleaguer

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(v.) to surround with military forces

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Boisterous

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(adj.) rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained

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Bombastic

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(adj.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious

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Boorish

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(adj.) of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive

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Catalyst

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(n.) a person or thing that precipitates an event or change

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Construe

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(v.) to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret

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Debacle

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(n.) a general breakup or dispersion; sudden downfall or rout

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Decorum

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(n.) dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

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Distraught

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(adj.) mentally deranged; crazed

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Doleful

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(adj.) sorrowful; mournful; melancholy

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Effigy

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(n.) a representation or image, esp. sculptured, as on a monument

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Erudite

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(adj.) characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly

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Extol

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(v.) to praise highly; laud; eulogize

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Fathom

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(n.) a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters)

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(v.) to penetrate to the truth of; comprehend; understand

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Fluctuate

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(v.) to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly

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Frugal

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(adj.) economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful

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Furtive

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(adj.) taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret

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Gambit

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(n.) any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage

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a remark made to open or redirect a conversation

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Generic

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(adj.) of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general

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Gouge

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(v.) to dig or force out with or as if with a gouge

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Grovel

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(v.) to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility

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Headlong

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(adv.) without delay; hastily

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(adj.) undertaken quickly and suddenly; made precipitately; hasty

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Homage

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(n.) respect or reverence paid or rendered

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Kinetic

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(adj.) pertaining to motion

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Lament

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(v.) to feel or express sorrow or regret for

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(n.) an expression of grief or sorrow

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Lithe

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(adj.) bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible

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Magnitude

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(n.) size; extent; dimensions

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Manifest

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(adj.) readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain

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(v.) to make clear or evident to the eye or the understanding; show plainly

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(n.) a list of the cargo carried by a ship, made for the use of various agents and officials at the ports of destination

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Meager

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(adj.) deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate

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Nefarious

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(adj.) extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous

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Obdurate

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(adj.) unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding

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Oblique

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(adj.) indirectly stated or expressed; not straightforward

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Primordial

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(adj.) constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary

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Query

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(n.) a question; an inquiry

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(v.) to ask or inquire about

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Remiss

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(adj.) negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.

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Rudimentary

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(adj.) primitive; elementary

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Secular

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(adj.) not pertaining to or connected with religion

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Slough

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(n.) an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region

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Subdue

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(v.) to overpower by superior force; overcome

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Transcendent

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(adj.) going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding

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Ungainly

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(adj.) not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy

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(adv.) in an awkward manner