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Abase
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To lower in rank or self esteem; to humble oneself; to degrade
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Abash
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to disconcert; to destroy self possession or self confidence of
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Abdicate
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to cast off; discard; to relinquish; to renounce
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Abject
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cast down in spirit
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Arbitrary
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based on or determinded by individual preference or convenience rather tahn by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something; existing or coming about seemingly at random; capricious
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Arbitrate
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to decide; determine
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Averse
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having an active feeling of repugnance or distaste; disinclined
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Bandy
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to bat to and fro; to toss from side to side or pass about from one to another often in a careless or inappropriate manner
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Bode
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foretell; to indicate by signsl presage
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Circumscribe
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to constrict the range or activity of deginitely and clearly; to define or mark off carefully; to surround by as if by a boundary
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Dale
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valley; vale
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Decry
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to depreciate officially or publicly; to express strong disapproval of
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Deft
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characterized by facility and skill;
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Despotic
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of or relating to a ruler with absolute power
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Dotage
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a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness
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Effete
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no longer fertile; having lost chracter, vitality, or strength; marked by weakness or decadence; delicate from pampered existance
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Epistle
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formal or elegant letter
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Extort
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to obtain from a person by force intimidation or undue or illegal power; to gain by compelling argument or ingenuity
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Exult
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to leap for joy; rejoice
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Facile
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easily accomplished or attained; superficial;ready, fluent; poised assured; readily manifested and often lacking sincerity or depth
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Gaunt
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excessively thin and angular
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Genial
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favorable to growth or comfort; mild; gracious
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Glut
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oversupply; excessive amount
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Guerdon
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reward; recompense
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Haggard
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wild in appearance having worn or emaciated appearance; gaunt
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Hale
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free from defect disease or infirmity; sound; retaining exceptional health and vigor; healthy
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Nonage
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minority; a period of youth; lack of maturity
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Remit
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to lay aside party or wholly; to desist from; slacken or relax; to release from the guilt or penalty of; to cancel or refrain from inflicting; postpone
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Resilient
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capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture; tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change; elastic
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Surfeit
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an overabundant supply; excess; disgust caused by excess
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Vale
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Valley; Dale; world
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Cabal
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the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united to bring about an overturn or usurpation especially in public affairs; a group involved in this; plot
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Cadre
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frame; framework; nucleus or core group especially of trained personnel able to assume control and to train others; group of people having some unifying relationship
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Canon
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a regulation or dogma decreed by a church council; an accepted principle or rule; a criterion or standard of judgment; the authentic works of a writer
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Cant
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affected singsong or whing speech; jargon; a set or stock phrase
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Clew
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a ball of thread, yarn, or cord; a combo of lines by which a hammock is suspended
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Corporeal
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substantial; material;having or relating to a physical material body
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Corpulent
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having a large bulky body; obese
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Dudgeon
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a fit state of indignation
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Emit
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to give off or out; eject; to issue with authority; publish; to give utterance or voice to
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Hiatus
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a break in or as if in a material object a gap; an interruption in time or continuity
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Ignoble
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of low birth or common origin; plebian; mean
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Innate
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native; inborn; belonging to the essential nature of something; inherent
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Inter
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to deposit in the earth or in a tomb
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Jape
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to say or do something jokingly or mockingly; to make mocking fun of
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Junta
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a council or commitee for political or governmental purposes; especially a group of persons controlling a governement esp. after a revolutionary seizure of power
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keep
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custody; charge; fortress castle; prison jail; one whose job is to ;
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Ken
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the range of vision;SIGHT; the range of perception
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Loge
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a small compartment; booth; small partitioned area;
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Lucre
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monetary gain
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Municipal
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of or relating to internal affairs of a major political unit;having local self government; restricted to one locality
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Nascent
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coming or having recently come into existence
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Ordnance
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military supplies including weapons etc; a service of the army charge with the procuring, distributing, and safekeeping; cannon artillery
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Ovate
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shaped like an egg
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Plastic
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formative; creative; pliable; artifical
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Pogrom
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an organized massacre of helpless people;
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Preclude
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to rule out in advance; to make impossible by necssary consequence
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Quail
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wither, decline; to give way; falter; cower
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Quittance
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discharge from debt or obligation; recompense requittal
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Statute
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a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government; an acot of a corporationor of its founder intended as a permanent rule
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Succor
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relief; aid; help
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Wont
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accustomed; used; inclined; apt
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Arrogate
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to claim or seize without justification; assume; to claim on behalf of another
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Atrophy
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decrease in sixe or wasting away of a body part or tissue; degeneration
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Carouse
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to drink liquor; engage in dissolute behavior
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Caulk
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to stop and make tight against leakage
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Exhume
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disinter; to bring back from neglect or obscurity
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Forswear
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to make a liar of oneself under or as if under oath; to swear falsely;
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Rack
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a framework for holding fodder for livestock; instrument of torture;
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Respite
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a period of temporary delay; an interval of rest or relief
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Revel
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to take part in a revel; CAROUSE; to take intense pleasure or satisfaction
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Roseate
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resembling a rose; overly optimistic
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Sadism
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a perversion in which gratification is obtained by the infliction of physical or mental pain on others; delight in cruelty
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Salve
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an unctuous adhesive substance for application to wounds or sores; soothing influence or agency
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Scion
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a detached living portion of a plant joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft; descendant; child
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Scruple
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qualm; an ethical consideration or principle that inhibits action; to show relucatnce:hesitate
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Sortie
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a sudden issusing of troops; FORAY RAID
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Stint
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to stop or desist; confine;
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Stocky
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compact; thick in build;
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Surly
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arrogant; crabbed; menacing or threatening in appearance
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Tedium
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the quality or state of being tedious; boredom; a tedious period of time
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Temper
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to dilute, qualify, or soften by influence of something else; moderate; gvern restrain; mollify; toughen; to mix oil with colors in making paint ready for use
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Temperate
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marked by moderation; not extreme or excessive; mild; moderate in indulgence of appetite or desire; marked by absence of extravagance
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Upshot
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final result; outcome
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Vapid
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flat dull; lacking liveliness tang briskness or force
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Wrest
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to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements; to gain with difficulty by or as if by force, violence, or determined labor
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Zealot
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memeber of a fantical sect arising in Judea during first century AD; a sealous person; a fanatical partisan
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Careen
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to sway from side to side; to cause to heel pver; to put on a beach in order to clean caulk etc
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Conciliate
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to gain by pleasing acts; to make compatible; reconcile; appease; to become friendly or agreeable; pacify
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Deferent
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showing or expressing respect and esteem due a superior or an elder; for another's wises
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Enigma
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an obscure speech' something hard to understand or explain; an inscrutable or mysterious person; mystery
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Gild
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to overlay with or as if with gold; to give money;
covered with gold or gilt gold or something resembles gold; money |
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Lucid
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suffused with light; luminous; intelligible; clear; having full use of one's faciulcties; sane; clear to the understanding
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Mean
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occupying middle postion; average; intermediary; humble; dull; lacking in mental discrimination; contemptible; base; excellent effective; sordid;ignoble; abject
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Mendacious
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givien to or characterized by deception or falsehood
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Mien
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appearance; aspect; demeanor
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Mode
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prevailing fashion or style; a form or manner of expression; style; a rhythmical scheme;
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Naught
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nothing; zero; none
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Nebulous
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indistinct; vague
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Obloquy
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a strongly condemnatory utterance; abusive language; the conition of one that is discredited; bad repute; abuse
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Officious
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kind obliging; dutiful; volunteering one's services when not needed; meddlesome; impertinent
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Pare
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to trim off an outside excess or irregular part of
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Peal
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the loud ringing of bells; a complete set of changes on a give number of bells; a loud sound or succession of sounds;
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Quaff
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to drink deeply
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Rend
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to remove from place by violence; wrest; to split or tear apart in pieces; to lacerate mentally or emotionally; to pierce with sound; TEAR
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Rogue
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VAGRANT; TRAMP; dishonest worthless person: SCOUNREL a mischievous person ; scamp
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Salient
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moving by leaps or by springs; jetting upwards; a projecting beyond a line; PROMINENT
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Swagger
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BOAST; BRAG to conduct oneself in an arrogant manner; bully; ostentatious display or bravado; self condfident outlook
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Tableau
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a graphic description or representation; picture
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Argot
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an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
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Caprice
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a sudden impulsive seemingly unmotivated notion or action; a sudden change or series of change
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Circumspect
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careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences; prudent
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Dirge
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song or hymm of grief or lamentation
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Dredge
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to dig gather or pull out with or as if with a dredge; to bring to light by deep searching; an apparatus usually in the form of an oblong iron frame with an attached bag net used especially for gathering fish and shellfish; a machine for removing earth
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Edict
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a proclamation having the force of law; order; command;
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Expend
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spend; utilize; to make use of for a specific purpose; to pay out;
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Expiate
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to put an to ; to extinguish the guilt incurred by; to make amends for
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Harry
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ASSAULT; to force to move along by harassing
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Impotent
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lacking in power strength vigor; helpless; sterile; ungovernable
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Laden
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to put a load or burden on or in; LOAD
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Latent
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present and capable of becoming though not now visible obvious or active
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Parry
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to ward off a weapon or blow; to evade or turn aside something; to ward off; to evade esp. by an adroit answer
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Rue
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regret sorrow; to feel penitence remorse or regret for
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Saturnine
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cold and steady in mood; slow to act or change; of a gloomy or surly disposition; having a sardonic aspect
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Throe
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PANG SPASM; a hard or painful struggle
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Vagary
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an erratic unpredictable or extravagant manifestation action or notion; caprice
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Vigil
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a watch formerly kept on the night before a religious feast with prayer or other devotions; the day before a religious feast
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Wraith
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the exactlikeness of a living person seen usually just before death as an apparition; GHOST SPECTER; an insubstantial form or semblance
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Casuistry
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specious argument RATIONALIZATION
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Expatiate
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to move about freely or at will; wander; to speak or write at length or in detail
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Fulminate
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to utter or send out with denunciation
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Maudlin
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drunk enough to be emotionally silly; weakly and effusively sentimental
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Tenable
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reasonable; logical defensible
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Anthology
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a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music; assortment
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Ardor
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an often restless or transitory feeling
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Assiduous
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markey by careful unremitting attention or persistent application; BUSY
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Aural
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of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing
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Berth
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a sufficient distance from a ship; safe distance; accomodation; place to sit or sleep; job position
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Bevy
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a large group or collection
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Callous
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being hardened and thickened having calluses feeling no emotion feelingno sympathy for others
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Censure
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estimate; judge; to find fault with and criticize as blameworthy
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Coddle
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to cook eggs in liquid slowly and gently just below boiling point; to treat with extreme care; pamper
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Condole
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grieve; to express sympathetic sorrow;
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Drone
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PARASITE; remote control vehicle; drudge
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Drove
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a group of animals driven or moving in a body; a large number CROWD
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Ebb
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to recede from the flood; to fall from a higher to a lower level;
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Felicitate
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tomake happy; to consider happy or fortunate;
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Hovel
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Hut; an open shed or shelter; tabernacle; a small wretched and often dirty house
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Indigence
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a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking
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Languor
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weakness in body or mind; listless indolence or inertia
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Moor
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a boggy area; one that is peaty and dominated by grasses and sedges; to secure a boat by mooring; anchor
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Nonentity
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something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination
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Opulence
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WEALTH; AFFLUENCE; abundance; profusion
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Palatable
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agreeable to the palate or tast; agreeable or acceptable to the mind
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Perfidy
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the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal
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Podunk
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a small unimportant and isolated town
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Pommel
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POUND BEAT
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Posthumous
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born after the death of the father; published after the death of the author; following or occuring after death
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Redress
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to set right; REMEDY; to make up for; COMPENSATE AVENGE HEAL CORRECT
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Refuse
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the worthless or useless part of something; trash; leavings; garbage
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Restitution
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an act of restoring or a condition of being restored; a legal action serving to casue restoration of a previous state
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Rhetoric
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the art of speaking or writing effectively; the study of speaking or writing
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Rife
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prevalent especialy to an increasing degree; abundant common; abounding
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Slake
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MODERATE; SATISFY; QUENCH; CRUMBLE; ABATE
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Slothful
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inclined to sloth; indolent
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Stifle
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REPRESS; SMOTHER; DETER
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Stratosphere
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part of the Earth's atmosphere
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Subterranean
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being lying or operating under the surface of the earth; existing or working in secret; hidden
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Vacillate
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to sawy through of equilibrium; FLUCTUATE to waver in mind will or feeling
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Venerate
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to regard with reverential respect or with admiring defereence; to honor with a ritual act of devotion
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Virile
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energetic; vigorous; masterful; masculine; forceful
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Voluble
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rotating; talkative; easily rolling or turning chracterized by ready or rapid speech glib; fluent
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Wallop
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to boil noisily to move with reckless or disorganized haste advance in a headlong rush; wallow flounder; to thrash soundly; to beat by a wide margine; trounce; to hit with force: sock
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Wan
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a suggestive of poor health
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Wane
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to decrease in size extent or degree dwindle as to diminish in phase or intensity to become less brilliant or powerful dim to flow out ebb to fall gradually
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