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233 Cards in this Set
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pedantic
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bookish showing off learning
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pedestrian
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commonplace trite unremarkable
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pellucid
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transparent easy to understand
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penchant
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strong inclination a liking
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penitent
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feeling or showing regret
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penurious
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poor/stingy
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penury
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extreme poverty
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peregrination
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traveling about wandering
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peremptory
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urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
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perfidious
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treacherous faithless
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perfidy
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treachery breaking of faith
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perfunctory
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done as a duty without care
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perilous
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dangerous
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peripatetic
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wandering
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perish
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be destroyed decay
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perjury
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willful FALSE statement unlawful act
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permeate
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spread into every part of
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pernicious
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harmful injurious
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perpetrate
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be guilty commit (a crime)
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personable
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pleasing in appearance attractive
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perspicacity
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quick judging and understanding
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pertain
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belong as a part have reference
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pest
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destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
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petrified
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taken away power (to think feel act)
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petrify
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to make hard rocklike
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petrous
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like a rock hard stony
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petulant
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unreasonably impatient
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philistine
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a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
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phlegmatic
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calm sluggish temperament unemotional
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picaresque
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involving clever rogues or adventurers
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pied
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of mixed colors
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pinch
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be too tight take between the thumb and finger
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pine
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waste away through sorrow or illness
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pious
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dutiful to parents devoted to religion
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piquant
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agreeably pungent stimulating
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pique
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hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
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pitfall
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covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
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pith
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essential part force soft liquid substance
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pivotal
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of great importance (others depend on it)
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placate
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soothe pacify calm
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plaintive
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mournful melancholy sorrowful
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plaque
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flat metal on a wall as a memorial
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platitude
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a trite or banal statement unoriginality
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plea
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request
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plead
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address a court of law as an advocate
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plethora
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glut
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pliant
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pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
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plod
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continue doing smth without resting
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pluck
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pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
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plumb
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get to the root of
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plummet
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fall plunge steeply
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plunge
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move quickly suddenly and with force
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poignant
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deeply moving keen
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poncho
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large piece of cloth
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ponderous
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heavy bulky dull
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portent
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omen marvelous threatening
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precarious
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uncertain risky dangerous
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precepts
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rules establishing standards of conduct
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preclude
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prevent make impossible
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precursory
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preliminary anticipating
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predilection
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special liking mental preference
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predominate
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have more power than others
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preen
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tidy/show self-satisfaction
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premature
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doing or happening smth before the right time
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preponderance
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greatness in number strength weight
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presage
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warning sign
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presumption
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arrogance
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preternatural
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not normal or usual
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prevalent
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common
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prevaricate
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to equivocate to stray from the truth
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prim
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neat formal
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pristine
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primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
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probity
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uprightness incorruptibility principle
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proclivity
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inclination
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procrastination
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keeping on putting off
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prodigal
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wasteful reckless with money
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prodigious
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enormous wonderful
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profane
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worldly having contempt for God
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profligacy
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shameless immorality
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profligate
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wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
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profundity
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depth
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profuse
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abundant/lavish
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proliferate
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grow reproduce by rapid multification
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prolix
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tiring because too long
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prone
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prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
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propagation
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increasing the number spreading extending
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propinquity
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nearness in time or place affinity of nature
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propitiatory
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conciliatory appeasing mitigating
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propitious
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auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
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prosaic
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everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
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proscribe
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denounce as dangerous
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protracted
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prolonged
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provident
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frugal looking to the future
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provisional
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of the present time only
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provoke
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make angry vax
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prudence
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careful forethought
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prudish
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easily shocked excessively modest
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prune
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dried plum silly person
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pry
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get smth inquire too curiously
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pucker
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wrinkle
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pugnacious
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fond of in the habit of fighting
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puissance
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strength
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punctilious
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precise paying attention to trivialities
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pundit
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pedant authority on a subject
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pungency
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sharpness stinging quality
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purvey
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provide supply
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pusillanimous
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cowardly craven
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putrefaction
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becoming rotten
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pyre
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large pile of wood for burning
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quack
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person dishonestly claiming to smth
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quaff
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drink deeply
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quail
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lose courage turn frightened
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qualm
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feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
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quandary
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state of doubt or perplexity
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quell
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suppress subdue
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quibble
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try to avoid by sophistication
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quiescence
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state of being passive/motionless
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quiescent
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at rest dormant torpid
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quirk
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habit or action peculiar to smb or smth
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quixotic
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generous unselfish
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quotidian
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banal everyday
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rabble
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mob crowd the lower classes of populace
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raconteur
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person who tells anecdotes
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raffish
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low vulgar base tawdry
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ramify
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to be divided or subdivided to branch out
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rancorous
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feeling bitterness spitefulness
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rant
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use extravagant language
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rapacious
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greedy (esp for money)
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rarefy
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to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
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rave
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act with excessive enthusiasm
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reactionary
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opposing progress
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rebuff
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snub
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recalcitrant
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disobedient
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recant
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take back as being FALSE give up
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recast
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cast or fashion anew
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recidivism
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relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
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reciprocity
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granting of privileges in return for similar
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recitals
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a number of performance of music
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recluse
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person who lives alone and avoids people
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recompense
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make payment to reward punish
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reconcile
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settle a quarrel restore peace
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recondite
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little known abstruse
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recreancy
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cowardice a cowardly giving up
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recuperate
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become strong after illness loss exhaustion
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redeem
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get back by payment compensate
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redoubtable
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formidable causing fear
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refine
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make or become pure cultural
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refractory
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stubborn unmanageable untractable
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refulgent
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shining brilliant
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regale
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to delight or entertain to feast
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regicide
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crime of killing a king
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reiterate
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say or do again several times
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rejuvenation
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becoming young in nature or appearance
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relapse
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fall back again
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remonstrate
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to protest object
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render
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deliver provide represent
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renovate
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restore smth to better condition
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renowned
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celebrated famous
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repast
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meal
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repel
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refuse to accept/cause dislike
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repine
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at be discontented with
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reproach
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scold upbraid
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reprobate
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person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
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repudiate
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disown refuse to accept or pay
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repulsive
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causing a feeling of disgust
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requite
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repay give in return
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rescind
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repeal/annul/cancel
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resigned
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unresisting submissive
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resilience
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quality of quickly recovering the original shape
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resort
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to frequently visit
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restive
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refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
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resuscitation
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coming back to consciousness
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retard
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check hinder
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reticent
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reserved untalkative silent taciturn
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revere
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have deep respect for
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reverent
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feeling or showing deep respect
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riddle
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puzzling person or thing
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rift
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split crack dissension
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rivet
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fix take up secure metal pin
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roll
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call calling of names
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rotund
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rich and deep plump and round
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ruffian
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violent cruel man
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rumple
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make rough
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sagacious
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having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
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salacious
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obscene
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salubrious
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healthful
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salutary
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remedial wholesome causing improvement
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sanctimony
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self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
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sanction
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approval (by authority) penalty
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sanguine
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cheerful confident optimistic
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sanity
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health of mind soundness of judgement
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sash
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long strip worn round the waist
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satiate
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satisfy fully
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saturnine
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gloomy dark sullen morose
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savant
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person of great learning
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savor
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taste flavor smth
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sawdust
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tiny bits of wood
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scabbard
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sheath for the blade
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scent
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smell (esp pleasant)
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scorch
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become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
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scribble
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write hastily
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scurvy
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mean contemptible
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secular
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material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
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sedulous
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persevering
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seminal
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like a seed constituting a source originative
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sententious
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short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
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sequence
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succession connected line of
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sere
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make hard and without feeling
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sermon
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reproving a person for his faults
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serrated
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having a toothed edge
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serration
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having a toothed edge
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servile
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like a slave lacking independence
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sever
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break off
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severance
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severing
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shallow
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little depth not earnest
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shard
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piece of broken earthenware
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sheath
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cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
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shrewd
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astute showing sound judgement
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shrill
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sharp piercing
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shun
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keep away from avoid
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shunt
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send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
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sidestep
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step to one side
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simper
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(give a) silly/self-conscious smile
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sinuous
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winding undulating serpentine
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skiff
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small boat
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skit
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short piece of humorous writing
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slack
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sluggish dull not tight
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slake
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to assuage to satisfy allay
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slate
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king of blue-grey stone propose criticize
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sluggard
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lazy slow-moving person
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slur
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join sounds/words (indistinct)
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smolder
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burn slowly without flame
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snare
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trap
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