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Abrasion |
1. damage to skin caused by scraping 2. process of scraping or rubbing |
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Adumbrate |
outline; indicate |
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Cognitive |
concerned with thinking or perceiving |
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Deign |
condescend |
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Fervid |
passionate |
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Gall |
1. bitterness (bad feeling) 2. confidence 3. abnormal growth on a plant |
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Levee |
1. raised bank of a river 2. morning reception held by a monarch |
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Preternatural |
unnatural; abnormal |
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Quell |
suppress |
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Score |
written form of music |
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Abut |
to adjoin |
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Consternation |
worry and concern |
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Gavel |
judge's hammer |
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Lien |
right to sell property held as a security; legal hold on job etc. |
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Parenthesis |
remarks deviating from the main point (round brackets in punctuation) |
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Sinewy |
vigorous; having well-developed muscles |
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Steep |
to soak in water |
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Tamp |
to plug; press loose matter down tightly |
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Venturing |
1. hazarding; risking; putting forward 2. going somewhere (venturesome means courageous or willing to take risks) |
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Wry |
1. twisted or bent to one side 2. dryly humorous |
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Arduous |
hard |
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Decimated |
kill or destroy a large part of (originally one tenth) |
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Fledge |
1. grow feathers 2. leave nest (fledgling is an inexperienced person or a baby bird) |
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Gouge |
cut or dig out |
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Picayune |
insignificant; of little value |
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Riveting |
fascinating |
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Soliloquy |
solo speech |
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Supplicant |
person who requests or begs for something |
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Transcendental |
supernatural; going beyond normal experience |
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Veritable |
true; genuine |
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Condescension |
talking down to someone |
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Divest |
remove; take off |
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Eddy |
circular current |
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Epaulet |
shoulder decoration |
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Fallacy |
wrong idea |
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Fringe |
1. decorative border with tassels 2. to form an edge |
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Leaven |
to make light; modify; cause bread to rise using yeast etc |
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Patronize |
1. to talk down to; condescend 2. to be a customer of |
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Prominent |
1. eminent 2. protruding 3. obvious |
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Statute |
law |
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Antipathy |
hatred |
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Aver |
affirm |
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Expatiate |
speak or write at great length |
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Flag |
1. to lose energy 2. to signal |
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Flail |
1. tool used to thresh grain 2. to thresh 3. to wave arms about wildly |
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Indicted |
accused (of crime) |
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Loll |
laze around; hang out (when used of the tongue) |
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Malign |
slander |
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Secure |
1. to fix firmly 2. to obtain |
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Talon |
long pointed nail or claw |
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Abeyance |
state of inactivity; disuse |
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Disarm |
1. take away weapons 2. win over to one's side |
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Elaborate |
1. complex and detailed 2. to expand on |
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Foment |
1. stir up 2. bathe with hot liquids (medical) |
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Jockeying |
maneuvering; struggling to get ahead of others |
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Minutiae |
small details |
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Rue |
regret |
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Somatic |
concerned with the body |
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Stinting |
holding back; limiting the supply |
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Temperate |
moderate |
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Allure |
1. attraction 2. to attract |
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Caulk |
treat with substance such as tar to make water-tight |
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Conscript |
1. person enlisted compulsorily into the armed forces 2. to enlist compulsorily |
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Desultory |
aimless; inconsistent in effort |
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Elegy |
poem concerned with death; praise of a dead person |
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Fallow |
uncultivated |
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Forbearing |
tolerant |
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Hegemony |
political domination; complete authority |
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Improbity |
lack of honesty or integrity |
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Qualm |
hesitation or fear |
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Assay |
1. try 2. assess purity |
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Chauvinist |
someone excessively patriotic |
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Discrete |
separate; discontinuous |
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Enlist |
1. sign up for the army 2. obtain |
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Fabricated |
made up; false; manufactured |
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Fulminate |
1. attack loudly in words; denounce thunderously 2. explode noisily |
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Hawser |
thick rope or cable |
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Jibe |
agree with; compliment; match up with |
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Peer |
1. an equal 2. to stare at 3. nobleman |
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Stickler |
one who is strict about rules or details |
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Cloture |
closure; terminating a debate by voting |
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Congruent |
matching |
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Dally |
waste time; flirt |
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Dissemble |
avoid the truth |
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Dote |
be excessively fond of |
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Errant |
1. wandering 2. wrong 3. straying from accepted standards |
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Fervent |
passionate |
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Stomach |
to tolerate |
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Synapse |
junction between two nerve cells |
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Undercutting |
offering lower price; undermining |
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Arson |
deliberate, criminal starting of fires |
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Carrion |
dead flesh; carcasses |
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Intelligible |
can be understood |
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Ironclad |
cannot be altered; firm |
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Lint |
fluff; soft material used to cover wounds |
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Pretension |
assumed attitude of superiority; arrogance |
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Pundit |
expert |
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Pyre |
ceremonial fire |
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Sate |
satisfy |
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Syncopation |
type of musical rhythm with missed beats |