Erwin Vocab (1-4)

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to augment

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to increase, to make bigger

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to glean

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to pick out little by little

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panache

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great style, flair and flamboyance

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to vex

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to irk, to exasperate, to trouble and annoy, to peeve

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to irk

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to bother and annoy, to vex, to peeve, to exasperate

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irksome

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troublesome, irritating

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to peeve

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to annoy or bother, to vex, to irk, to exasperate

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peeved

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hacked off, irritated

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peevish

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whining and complained with irritation and annoyance

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a peeve

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something that bothers and vexes

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to exasperate

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to irritate and annoy and frustrate, to vex, to irk, to peeve

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compunction

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a sense of guilt or remorse

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the orient/oriental

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Asian culture and nations, Asian

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occident/occidental

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the west, western civilizations

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to mitigate

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to soften or reduce the harsh effects of something

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to exonerate

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to free or clear from blame or guilt

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culpable

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guilty

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tangible or palpable

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so intense as to seem physically touchable, perceptibly through touch

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impalpable or intangible

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not able to be physically touched

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poignant

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deeply emotionally moving, bittersweet

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nuance

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a shade or slight, subtle variation of meaning, color, feeling

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clarion

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clear in sound or meaning as a trumpet call

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stentorian

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at times rather pompously yet grandly and powerfully loud

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vitriolic

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viciously caustic, scathing

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vitriol

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caustic substance that will eat away at something

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to burgeon or to proliferate

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to expand and spread rapidly

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to decimate

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to destroy a large percentage of something

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embargo

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a blockade, a prohibition, an obstacle formally preventing something from happening

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hegemony

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political and ideological power of a stronger nation over another

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to nullify

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to cancel or void

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protectorate

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a weaker nation dominated and "protected" by a stronger nation

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quid pro quo

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equal exchange - you do something for me, i do something for you

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blithe

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happy, mirthful, merry, almost giddily glad

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paradigm

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model or structure of truth accepted without question, model

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orthodox

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utterly conventional, nonradical

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hauberk

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armor, esp tunic of chain metal

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corselet

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armor covering trunk of body

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mead

Back 38

alcoholic drink made from honey

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sanguinary

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bloody, bloodthirsty, covered profusely with blood, causing great bloodshed

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sanguine

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cheerful, optimistic, hopeful

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an enigma

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deep mystery or puzzle

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enigmatic

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mysterious, inscrutable

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inscrutable

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cannot be figured out, mysterious

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conundrum

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puzzle, puzzling prolem

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to eviscerate

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to disembowerl, rip the guts from

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visceral

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instinctive, having a gut reaction

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cerebral

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intellectual, appealing to reason

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ethereal

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light, airy, delicate, heavenly, angelic

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heinous

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really, totally horribly bad, odious, highly criminal in nature

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meretricious

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cheaply showy, flashy and trashy

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daunted

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intimidated

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daunting

Back 52

intimidating

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to daunt

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to intimidate

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undaunted

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NOT intimidated

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to behoove

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to do something fitting that is in one's best interests

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angst

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ongoing anxiety and worry

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to lament something

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to express sadness, to complain sadly

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the lament

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an expression of sorrow

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woe

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despair

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woes

Back 60

vexations, problems, trouvles

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woeful

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sad, full of sorrow

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doleful or dolorous

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sad, sorrowful

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melancholy

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sadness, depressed, sorrowful

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dirge

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solemn, dignified, slow funeral march

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antecedent

Back 65

that which comes before

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armistice

Back 66

a formal cease fire, a truce

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belligerent or pugnacious or truculent

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hostile, aggressively willing to fight

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bellicose

Back 68

waging or preparing to wage war, agressively militant and hostile

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clandestine or covert

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hidden, secret, undercover

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overt

Back 70

in the open, ostensible, apparent

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panacea

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a cure all, a fix for everything, the "silver bullet"

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anathema

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a curse, seomthing accursed and loathsome and hated

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plethora

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a great number, a vast amount

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myriad

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countless, beyond enumeration, a huge number

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to annihilate

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to destroy utterly

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to obliterate

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to utterly wipe out, to annihilate

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to appease

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to pacify, to placate, to calm down and satisfy

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to cede

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to yield, to give way to, to acknowledge

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to disdain

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to scorn, to treat with contempt

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disdain

Back 80

scorn, contempt

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a trifle

Back 81

thing of little significance or importance

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trifling

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of insignificance, not mattering much at all

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to trifle with

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to treat cavalierly, to use without respecting

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to deign to do

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to be willing to do although you have to power yourself to someone else's level, to condescent

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to condescend

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to deign, to lower oneself to a lower level

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germane

Back 86

relevant, pertinent, related to

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manifestation

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a showing forth, a revealing

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to manifest

Back 88

to show forth, to reveal

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impetus

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a driving force, an inspiration

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impetuous

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heedless, rash, impulsive

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genre

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a type or classification esp of literature, film, art

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parody

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an imitation whose goal is to mock and make fun of the thing imitated, a form of satire

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elegy

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serious poem about death, someone's death

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elegiac

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somber in tone, evoking serious doleful responses

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foil

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as in a contrasting character in literature

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rhetoric

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the use of words to create a specific effect

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rhetorical

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crafted with words to create a specific effect

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paradox

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a seeming contradiction that expresses a higher truth

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hyperbole

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an exaggeration to create a specific effect

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allusion

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a reference (often indirect) to literature, art, film, history etc.

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to allude

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to refer to something

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epiphany

Back 102

a sudden intense moment or flash of profound understanding

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hubris

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excessive pride or arrogance that will offend the gods or other powers

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languid

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lacking energy or motivation, slow moving

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languor

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a lack of energy or spirit, resulting slowness in action or movement

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pecuniary

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having to do with money, fiscal, financial

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impecunious

Back 107

lacking money

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charnel or charnel house

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having to do with dead bodies; a building where bodies were put

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visage

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face or the expression on the face

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countenance

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face or facial expression, visage

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to countenance

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to condone, to give permission (often tacitly or silently)

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hierarchy

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ranking system

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lascivious or libidinous

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having loose indulgent sexual feelings

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licentious

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lascivious or without restraint

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apathy

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total indifference, a complete lack of interest or caring

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ostentatious

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displaying in a showy manner, flaunting

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pretentious

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ostentatious, assuming the air of dignity or rank

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to sully

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to mar, to make dirty, to tarnish

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to taint

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to sully, to mar, to tarnish

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sordid

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vile, dirty, ignoble, mean

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sublime

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noble, lofty, majestic

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to contend

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to argue, to struggle, to compete

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contentious

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argumentative

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contention

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argument, point of thesis being made

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to feign

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to pretend, to fake

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fain

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(I fain would do something) wishfully but what is wished can never occur

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in a trice

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in a moment, in an instant

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pale/paling

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fence, boundary

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beyond the pale

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beyond what is normal, reasonable, or expected

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to equivocate

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to hedge, to sit on the fence, to NOT take a clear stand

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piety

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deep religious devotion

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pious

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profoundly devout

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to vanquish

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to conquer completely

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fallible

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capable of making mistakes

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infallible

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cannot ever make mistakes

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posterity

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generations to come or to follow, descendent of the futre

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verity

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truth

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veracity

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truthfulness

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verisimilitude

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appearance of truth or reality

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obsequious/servile/fawning

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sucking up, brown nosing, slavishly submissive

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cherub

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angel (once scary, now cutesy)

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cherubic

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cute like a little tot angel

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seraph

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big impressed (6 winged) angel

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seraphic

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angelic

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supercilious

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haughty, disdainful of others, exceedingly proud and arrogant

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millinery

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ladies' fine hats

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ambivalent

Back 147

having mixed feelings

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ambiguous

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unclear, hard to ascertain one way or another

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to cogitate on/to ruminate about

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to ponder deeply, to think over long and carefully

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niggardly/miserly/parsimonious

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cheap, stingy, opposite of generous

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posthumous

Back 151

after death (a posthumous award is given after the recipient is dead)

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ubiquitous

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found everywhere, commonly found

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portentous

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full for portents, full of omens, a sign of things to come

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portents

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signs of things to come

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ominous

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threatening, portentous

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omens

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signs of what will come