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able to get and retain ideas of information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
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acquisitive
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I am an acquisitive shopper
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to claim or take without right
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arrogate
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Someone arrogated my rampage flipflops downtown
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hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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banal
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teen angst is banal
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to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
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belabor
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sometimes teachers belabor the point
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism
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carping
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moms can be carping about little annoying things
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holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
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coherent
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when i'm talking in my sleep, i don't speak coherently
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to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
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congeal
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gravy congeals. eew.
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to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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emulate
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freshmen try to emulate upperclassmen!
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a formal expression of praise; a lavish tribute
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encomium
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the Kolve book was sort of an encomium
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to avoid, shun, keep away from
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eschew
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i have started to eschew carrie since she became a druggie
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relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
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germane
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people make a lot of un-germane comments in our english class
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so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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insatiable
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i am an insatiable shopper
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refusing to compromise; irreconcilable
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intransigent
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i was intransigent about going to EHS weekend
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offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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invidious
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the slytherins are invidious towards the gryffindors
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generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
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largesse
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my dad demonstrates his largesse when he takes me shopping
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a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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reconnaissance
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dr. spearman and nilsen do reconnaissance rounds over the grounds at mixers
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to establish by evidence, prove, to give concrete or substantial form to
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substantiate
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it is important to substantiate your evidence in papers
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habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
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taciturn
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yewoon is taciturn
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to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
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temporize
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when putting something off, i often temporize
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capable of being held or defended
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tenable
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castle walls were often tenable
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to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
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accost
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i was accosted by a half-naked man on the streetcorner
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a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
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animadversion
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i hope i don't get many animadversions regarding my APUS essay
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desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
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avid
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i am avid for chocolate
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having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
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brackish
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seawater is brackish
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swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
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celerity
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hunter runs with celerity
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straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
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devious
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when scampering around WFS campus with hunter, i am devious
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in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type
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gambit
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ron made a gambit in the HP
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a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent
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halcyon
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i want to be carried away by a peaceful halcyon
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pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
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histrionic
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newman can be histrionic
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deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife
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incendiary
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a kid with a magnifying glass in the sun is incendiary
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a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction
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maelstrom
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the WFS boys call me a form of a maelstrom
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nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
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myopie
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i am ridiculously myopic
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open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
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overt
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it was overt that i was a girlfriend of a student at the EHS game
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tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
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pejorative
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mean teachers are often pejorative in regards to your work
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the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable
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propriety
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jane austen characters have propriety
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improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
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sacrilege
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throwing things at an altar is sacreligious
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without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
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summarily
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i wish people would make their announcements more summarily at assembly
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asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petition, suitor
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suppliant
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"will you marry me?" asked the suppliant
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an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish
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talisman
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a rabbit's foot is a talisman
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to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
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undulate
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to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints
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articulate
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i am often articulate in french class
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to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry
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cavort
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i love to cavort around the lawn
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belief, mental acceptance
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credence
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the Nicene Creed
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to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate
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decry
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if i could, i would publicly decry george bush
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to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression
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dissemble
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i dissembled myself behind a mask
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very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict
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distraught
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i am distraught about taking down our tinfoil
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a formal statement of commendation; high praise
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eulogy
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i would give a eulogy to hunter
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to remove from a grave; to bring to light
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exhume
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people are exhumed in that Ed Wood movie with johnny depp
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lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable
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feckless
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constance is feckless
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dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision
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murky
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the water was murky
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wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards
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nefarious
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voldemort is nefarious
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stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative
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piquant
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thai food is piquant
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developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic
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primordial
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dinosaurs emerged from the primordial ooze!
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nearness in place or time; kinship
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propinquity
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i feel a propinquity to hunter's family
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not usual or expected; not in character
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unwonted
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singing karaoke would be unwonted behavior for me
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founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical
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utopian
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BNW was a utopia
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language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression
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verbiage
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liz thought that kavalier & clay was full of verbiage
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green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgment
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verdant
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grass and babies are verdant
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having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity
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viscous
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gel is viscous, eew
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the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v.) to waste away
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atrophy
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voldemort's skin atrophied really fast when harry touched him
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a fortified place, stronghold
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bastion
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a castle is a bastion
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a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant
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concord
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hunter and i are almost never not in concord
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complete or perfect in the highest degree; (v.) to bring to a state of completion or perfection
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consummate
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sometimes i feel like my life is consummate
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disorder, confusion; (v.) to throw into disorder
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disarray
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hunter's room was in disarray
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urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency
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exigency
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the paper was due in 15 minutes; i was in a state of exigency
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floating debris; homeless, impoverished people
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flotsam
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sometimes i want to drop out of school and become street flotsam
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frenzied, highly agitated
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frenetic
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LB was frenetic this weekend
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to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers
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glean
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i gleaned candy bit by bit before halloween
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a type of game bird; a complaint (v.) to complain, grumble
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grouse
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i saw a grouse flying! / i grouse about APUS
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to imprison, confine, jail
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incarcerate
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my father was incarcerated!!
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obligatory, required; (n.) one who holds specific office at the time spoken of
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incumbent
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it is obligatory that i take 6 exams
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humorous, jesting, jolly, joking
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jocular
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hunter's family is jocular
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ridiculous, laughable, absurd
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ludicrous
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it is ludicrous that chemistry was my favorite class
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biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
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mordant
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snape is caustic
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a prickly or stinging plant; (v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely
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nettle
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pooh was ambushed by a nettle; it nettled him
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consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
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pecuniary
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you are only in this for pecuniary reasons
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contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited
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pusillanimous
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malfoy is pusillanimous
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in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting
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recumbent
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i love to be recumbent on my bed
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a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end
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stratagem
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amelie devised stratagems
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sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses)
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acuity
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i experience acuity in english-related subjects
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to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially
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delineate
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i delineated a picture of hunter
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marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles
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depraved
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cheney is depraved
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to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring
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enervate
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torture enervates a person
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intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret
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esoteric
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the grail is esoteric
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fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive
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fecund
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hunter's pepper plant Isabella was fecund
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an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness
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fiat
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i made a fiat that my parents buy me a fiat
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a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion
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figment
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it was just a figment of piglet's depraved imagination
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to acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use
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garner
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the squirrel garnered nuts for the winter
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to set apart as holy or sacred,sanctify, or consecrate; to honor greatly, revere
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hallow
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i hallow my drawings so that they don't get dirty or ripped
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a particularity that serves to distinguish or identify
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idiosyncrasy
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nikki has many peculiar idiosyncracies
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earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary
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mundane
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rousseau said that in nature, one can stop thinking about the mundane
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a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate gradation or shade of difference
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nuance
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the flowers were nuanced with white and purple
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conceited, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate
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overweening
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king midas was overweening
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a strong attraction or inclination
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penchant
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i have a penchant towards RHB III
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according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation; alleged
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reputed
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hunter & i are reputed to be a good couple
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reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy
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sophistry
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Iraq was sophistry
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costly, rich, magnificent
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sumptuous
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i want a sumptuous gown for formal
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present or existing everywhere
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ubiquitous
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Moby-Dick is ubiquitous!
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shame and disgrace
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ignominy
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i experienced ignominy when the juice was squirted in my face
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to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke
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evince
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i evinced myself under the sheet
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