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to congratulate
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express one's pleasure to another person at that person's success
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express one's pleasure...
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gracious
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pleasant; courteous; kindly
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grateful
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feelin or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliged
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gratitude
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to gratify
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to give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction
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give
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gratis
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without charge or payment; free
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libre
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immortality
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1. eternal life
2. lasting fame |
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moribund
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dying; newar death
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mortal
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1. destined to die
2. human 3. causing death; fatal |
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mortal
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human being; person; individual
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mortality
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1. death rate
2. mortal nature |
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mortician
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undertaker
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mortification
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shame; humiliation; embarrasment
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to mortify
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embarass; shame; humiliate
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mortuary
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funeral home
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rigor mortis
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stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death
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corporal
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bodily
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corporation
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body authorized by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties
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corps
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1. organized body of persons
2. branch of the military |
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corpus
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general collection of body of writings, laws, etc.
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corpuscle
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1. blood cell
2. minute particle |
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corpus delecti
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1. facts proving that a crime has been commited
2. body of the victim in a murder case |
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esprit de corps
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spirit of a body of persons; group spirit
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habeas corpus
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1. writ requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person's detention
2. right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment |
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to incorporate
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combine so as to form one body
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aqueduct
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artificial channel for conducting water over a distance
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conducive
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tending to lead to; contributive; helpful
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to conduct
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to lead; to guide; to escort
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deduction
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1. taking away; subtraction
2. reasoning from the general to the particular |
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duct
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tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc.
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ductile
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1. able to be drawn out or hammered thin
2. easily led; docile |
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induce
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to lead on; to move by persuasion
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to induct
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to admit as a member; to initiate
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induction
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1. ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation
2. reasoning from the particular to the general |
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seduction
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enticement; leading astray into wrongdoing
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to traduce
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malign; slander; vilify; calumniate
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viaduct
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bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, etc.
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consecutive
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following in regular order; succssive
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consequence
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1. that which follows logically; result
2. importance, as a person of <i> consequence </i> |
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to execute
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1. to follow through to completion; to carry out
2. to put to death |
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inconsequential
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of no consequence; trivial; unimportant
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non sequitur
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statement that does not follow from previous statements
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to persecute
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to oppress; to harass; to annoy
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to prosecute
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1. to follow to the end or until finished
2. to conduct legal proceedings against; to sue |
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sequel
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something that follows; continuation
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sequence
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the following of one thing after another
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sequential
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arranged in sequence
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