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135 Cards in this Set
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Jaunty
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Sprightly in manner and appeareance
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knell
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an indication of the end or failure (a bell)
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exiguous
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excessively scanty
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evanescent
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tending to vanish like vapor
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fluvial
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of relating to or living in a stream or river
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miasma
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a vaporous exhalation; emanation or atmosphere
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anodyne
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serving to assuage pain; not likely to arouse tensions
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vacuity
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an empty space; the state, a fact or quality of being
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prolix
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unduly or drawn out; wordy
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insouciant
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lighthearted unconcern
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adroit
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having or showing skill, cleverness, or resoucefulness
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obstreperous
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stubbornly resistant to control
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censoriuos
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marked by or given to censure
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invidious
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tending to cause disconnect, animosity or envy
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dissolute
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lacking restraint and marked by indulgence in things
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factitious
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produced by humans rather than natural forces
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miasma
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an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt
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obstreperous
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stubbornly resistant to control
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obstreperous
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stubbornly resistant to control
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invidious
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of an unpleasant or objectionable nature
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indemnify
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to compensate for, or secure against a loss or damage
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maritime
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of the sea
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penury
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severe poverty
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servile
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cravenly submissive
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empyreal
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celestial; sublime
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peroration
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the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration;
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veldt
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a grassland especially of southern Africa usually with scattered shrubs or trees
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serpentine
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subtly wily or tempting; winding or turning one way and another
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somnambulism
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sleepwalking
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abjure
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to renounce upon oath; to reject solemnly; to abstain from
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aquisitive
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strongly desirous of acquiring and possessing
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welter
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to rise and fall or toss about in or with waves; to become deeply sunk, soaked, or involved; to be in turmoil
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pied
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of two or more colors in blotches; also; wearing or having a parti-colored coat
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vituperative
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characterized by verbal abuse
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proletariat
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the lowest social or economic class of a community; the laboring class; especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live
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bourgeois
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of, relating to, or characteristic of the townsman or of the social middle class; marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity; dominated by commercial and industrial interests
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profusion
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abundance
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fetters
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constrain
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prediliction
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to love more; prefer
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louche
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not reputable or decent
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parietal
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of or relating to the walls of a part or cavity; of, relating to, or forming the upper posterior wall of the head;the regulations governing the visiting privileges of members of the opposite sex in campus dormitories
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acrid
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sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor; deeply or violently bitter
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impervious
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not allowing entrance or passage; not capable of being damaged or harmed; not capable of being affected or disturbed
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fetters
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constrains
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repose
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to lie at rest; to lie dead; to remain still or concealed; to take a rest
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profundity
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intellectual depth; something profound or abstruse; the quality or state of being profound or deep
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cabalistic
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a traditional, esoteric, occult, or secret matter; esoteric doctrine or mysterious art
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disavow
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to deny responsibility for; to refuse to acknowledge
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recondite
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hidden from sight; difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend; of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure
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pernicious
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highly injurious or destructive
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preternatural
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existing outside of nature; exceeding what is natural or regular; inexplicable by ordinary means
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fetid
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having a heavy offensive smell
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claimant
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one that asserts a right or title
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drollery
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something that is droll; especially : a comic picture or drawing; the act or an instance of jesting or burlesquing; whimsical humor
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captious
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marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections; calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument
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laberinthine
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of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth; of, relating to, affecting, or originating in the internal ear
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hidebound
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having a dry skin lacking in pliancy and adhering closely to the underlying flesh; having an inflexible or ultraconservative character
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imbroglio
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a confused mass; an intricate or complicated situation; an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding; a violently confused or bitterly complicated altercation
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imbibe
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to receive into the mind and retain; to assimilate or take into solution; to take in or up
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proviso
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an article or clause that introduces a condition; a conditional stipulation
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obsequious
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marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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abstemious
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marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol
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inter
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to deposit a dead body in the earth or in a tomb
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insipid
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lacking taste or savor; lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge
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bomb
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fail
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foray
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raid; a brief excursion or attempt especially outside one's accustomed sphere
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valediction
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an act of bidding farewell
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aphorism
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a concise statement of a principle; a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment
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pithy
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having substance and point : tersely cogent
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ebullience
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the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings
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vigilante
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a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily
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appropriate
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to take exclusive possession of; to set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use; to take or make use of without authority or right
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cistern
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an artificial reservoir (as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (as rainwater; a large usually silver vessel formerly used (as in cooling wine) at the dining table; a fluid-containing sac or cavity in an organism
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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; also : a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues
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propituous
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favorably disposed; being of good omen
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incise
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to cut into; to carve figures, letters, or devices into
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scepter
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a staff or baton borne by a sovereign as an emblem of authority; royal or imperial authority
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simper
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to smile in a silly manner
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misanthrope
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a person who hates or distrusts mankind
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bantam
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small, diminuative; pertly combative
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fatuous
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complacently or inanely foolish
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daphanous
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insubstantial; vague; characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through; characterized by extreme delicacy of form
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adage
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a saying often in metaphorical form that embodies a common observation
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tortuous
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winding <a tortuous path>; tricky or crooked
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helical
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of, relating to, or having the form of a helix; spiral
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sepal
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one of the modified leaves comprising a calyx
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abjure
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to renounce upon oath; to reject solemnly; to abstain from
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sagacious
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shrewd; keen in sense perception; caused by or indicating acute discernment
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divination
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the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers; unusual insight : intuitive perception
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avarice
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greediness; cupidity
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antebellum
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existing before a war
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flout
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to treat with contemptuous disregard
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eddy
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a current of water or air running contrary to the main current; whirlpool
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foppish
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foolish; silly
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lumen
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measurement of light; the cavity of a tubular organ <the lumen of a blood vessel>; the bore of a tube (as of a hollow needle or catheter)
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prosaic
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dull, unimaginative; everyday, ordinary
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sampler
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decorative piece of needlework typically having letters or verses embroidered on it in various stitches as an example of skill
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machination
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scheming or crafty action or artful design intended to accomplish some usually evil end
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epitaph
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an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there; a brief statement commemorating or epitomizing a deceased person or something past
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indemnify
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to secure against hurt, loss, or damage; to make compensation to for incurred hurt, loss, or damage
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elision
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the use of a speech form that lacks a final or initial sound which a variant speech form has (as 's instead of is in there's) b : the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable in a verse to achieve a uniform metrical pattern; the act or an instance of omitting something
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emend
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to correct usually by textual alterations
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waggish
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mischievous merriment; jest
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vend
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to sell especially as a hawker or peddler; to sell by means of vending machines; to utter publicly
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vendable
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saleable
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surreptitious
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done, made, or acquired by stealth; acting or doing something clandestinely
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minatory
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having a menacing quality
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felicitous
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very well suited or expressed; pleasant
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insouciance
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lighthearted unconcern
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mountebank
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a person who sells quack medicines from a platform; a boastful unscrupulous pretender
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levy
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to impose or collect by legal authority <levy a tax>; to enlist or conscript for military service
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grouse
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bird; to complain or grumble
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effrontery
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shameless boldness
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temerity
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unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition
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insolent
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insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct
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limpid
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marked by transparency; clear and simple in style; absolutely serene and untroubled
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solidity
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the quality or state of being solid; something solid
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capitulation
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a set of terms or articles constituting an agreement between governments; the act of surrendering or yielding; the terms of surrender
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halcyon
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bird; calm, peaceful, happy, golden; prosperous
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unflappable
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marked by assurance and self-control
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apocryphal
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of doubtful authenticity
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hallow
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to make holy or set apart for holy use; to respect greatly
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encomium
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glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise; also : an expression of this
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epistle
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one of the letters adopted as books of the New Testament;a formal or elegant letter
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fervid
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very hot; burning; impassioned
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antipathy
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settled aversion or dislike
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rune
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any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3d to the 13th centuries
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annals
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historical records : CHRONICLES
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ab·ro·gate
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to abolish by authoritative action : ANNUL to treat as nonexistent
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accretion
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the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup
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apposite
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highly pertinent or appropriate
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approbation
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an act of approving formally or officially; COMMENDATION, PRAISE
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avow
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to declare assuredly; to declare openly, bluntly, and without shame
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chary
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discreetly cautious
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patina
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an appearance or aura that is derived from association, habit, or established character; a superficial covering or exterior
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