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105 Cards in this Set
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imperceptible
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exhibiting keen awareness of one's environment through physical sensation; very slight, subtle, not perceived
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dragooning
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vb. forcing or attempting to force into submission; compelling or coercing
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truculent
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adj. feeling or showing ferocity; aggressively self-assertive
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shiftless
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adj. lazy, inefficient, lacking in resourcefulness
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mordant
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adj. caustic, acerbic, scathing, penetrating, biting
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dissolution
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n. closure, disbanding, termination, suspernsion, conclusion
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emanating
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adj. originating, starting, coming, beginning, stemming, springing, deriving
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diffidently
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adv. shyly, self-effacingly, timidly, hesitantly
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illusory
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adj. deceptive, unreal, illusive; producing, based on, or having the nature of delusion
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petulant
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adj. impatient or irratible; peevish
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fatious
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adj. complacently stupid or inane; silly, foolish
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sublime
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adj, n, v. elevated or lofty in thoughts, language, etc.
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impervious
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adj. incapable of being penetrated
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pedagogy
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n. the function or work of a teacher
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atoll
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n. a ring shaped coral reef of a string of closely spaced small coral islands
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pariah
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n. somebody dispised and avoided by other people
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rend
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v. to tear apart forcibly
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pusillanimous
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adj. cowardly
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demur
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v. to object
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condole
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v. to express sympathy
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noisome
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adj. harmful or offensive esp. to the sense of smell
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ken/ kenning
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n. range of sight or understanding
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wanton
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adj. done maliciously or unjustifiable; extravagant or excessive; lascivious, lewd
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consternation
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n. a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion
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apathy
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n. abscence or supression of passion, emotion, or excitement
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empathy
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n. the identification of feelings or thoughts of another
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conjecture
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n. the formation or expression of an opinion or theory wihtout sufficient evidence or proff
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obsequiously
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adv. in a complying or fawning manner
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ensconded
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v. to be settled or established
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tractable
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adj. capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled; docile, easily handled, managed, or wrought; malleable
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taciturn
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adj. temperamentally disinclined to talk
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intimated
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past tense v. communicated delicately and indirectly, hinted
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whelp
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v. to give birth to; to bring forth
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retinue
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n. a group of retainers or attendants
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incumbent
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ajd. required; obligatory; holding a specified office, lying, resting or pressing with its weight on something else
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intermet
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n. the act or ritual of interring
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pervade
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v. to spred throughout; permeate
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salient
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adj. projecting or jutting beyond a line; stiking, conspicuous, prominent, noticeable
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inveigle
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v. to lead astry or win over by deceitful flattery; to obtain by cajolery
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contentious
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adj. always ready to argue; quarrelsome
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convalescence
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n. gradual recover after illness; the perious of such recovery
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droll
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adj. amusingly odd, whimsically comical
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irate
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adj. arising from anger
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mire
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n. heavy and often deep mud or slush
v. to stick or sing in or as if in mud |
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castrate
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v. to deprive of sex glands
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disparage
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v. to lower in rank or reputation, degrade; belittle
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staunch
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adj. firm, strong, steadfast, loyal, resolute
v. to stop a liquid from flowing; to stop a wound from bleeding |
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alacrity
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n. cheerful readiness
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din
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n. a lound confused mixture of noises
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pernicious
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adj. destructive, very harmful
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topid
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adj. lethargic, sluggish
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lurid
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adj. vivid, glaring, shocking, sensational
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auspicious
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adj. showing promise, favorable
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impassively
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adj. in a manner not susceptible to pain or suffering; apathetically, in an unmoved manner
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deference
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adj. submission or sourteous yielding to the opinion, wished, or judement of another; courteous respect
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dirge
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n. a slow, mournful musical composition; a funeral hymn or lament; a mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work
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transgress
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v. to go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); to act in violation of
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untrammeled
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adj. not limited or restricted, unrestrained
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entrails
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n. internal parts, organs
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welter
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n. a confused mass, a jumble
v. to wallow, roll, or toss about, as in mus or high seas |
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knave
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n. an unprincipled, crafy fellow; a male servant
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countenance
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n. appearance, especially of the face; face or facial feature; support or approval
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cogitation
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n. thoughtful consideration, meditation, a serious thought
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construe
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v. interpret, to make sense of, analyze the structure or; translate
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dank
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adj. aisagreeably dark or humid
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render
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v. to submit or present; to make available or provide; to give what is due or awed, to return, to surrender
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augur
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v. to predict or fortell from omens
n. a seer or prophet |
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unassailiable
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adj. impossible to dispute or to disapprove; undeniable
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rend
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v. to tear at something violently out of anguish or rage; to distress somebody
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(at) bay
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n. a position of no escape
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proscription
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n. the act of condemning or forbidding something, the condition of having been denounced or exiled
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garrulous
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adj. excessively talkative
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penchant
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n. inclination, strong liking
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refractory
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adj. obstinate; resistant to treatment
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abscond
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v. to hide, run away, esp to avoid punishment for a wrongdoing
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cache
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n. a secret hiding place; a store of weapons or treasures, a store of food left for use by travelers to place in a chachet
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canard
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n. false, deliberately made up word or story
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collusion
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n. secret agreement for a decietful peace, conspiracy
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connive
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v. to cooperate secretly with someone for a deceitful purpose; conspire
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duplicity
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n. double-dealing; hypocritical deception
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subterfuge
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n. trick or plan to conceal one's true objective; strategem, deception
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inchoate
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adj. just begun, only party in existence, incomplete
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tyro
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n. beginner in learning something, novice; neophyte
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tome
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n. one volume, or "cut", of a work of two or more volumes; any heavy, large, or scholarly book
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postprandial
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adj. occurring after a meal, after dinner
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prescient
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adj. seeming to have knowledge of events before they occur; gifted with foresight
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decry
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v. to depreciate officially or publicly; to express strong disapproval of; disparage
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perturbed
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v/ adj. distrubed greatly in mind; disquiet; thrown into confusion; disorder, discomposed
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tenor
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n. a drift of something spoken or written; an exact copy of a writing
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abject
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adj. cast down in spirit; showing utter hopelessness or resignation
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prate
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v. to talk longly and idly
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raucous
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adj. disagreeable harsh or strident; hoarse; boisterously disorderly
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licentious
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adj. lacking legal or moral restraints; marked by disregard for strict rules of correctless
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abeyance
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n. a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested; temporary inactivity; suspension
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lugubriously
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adv. mournfully (esp. exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful, dismally)
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truncated
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adj. cut short; lacking an expected or normal element at the beginning or end
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extricated
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v. to distinguish from a related thing; to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty; to free or umbind from what hold back-- implies care or ingenuity
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mendacious
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adj. given to or characterized by decption or fasehood which often is not intended to genuinely mislead or delude
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temerity
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n. unreasonable or foolheardy contempt of danger or opposition; an act or instance of temerity
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portent
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n. somthing that foreshadows a coming event
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succinct
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adj. marked by compace precise expression without wasted words
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rancor
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n. bitter, deep-seeded ill will
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forbearance
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n. a refraining from the enforcement of something that is due
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credulity
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n. inclination toward belief on slight evidence
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prosaic
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adj. laking imagination or excitement; factual, dull
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