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Sesquipedalian
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long-winded
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Equivalence
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the condition of being equal or equivalent in value
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worth
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Acrimonious
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(typically of speech or a debate) angry and bitter.
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Inured
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accustom (someone) to something
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especially something unpleasant.
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Intractable
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hard to control or deal with.
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Erudite
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having or showing great knowledge or learning.
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Capricious
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given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.
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Decorous
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in keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained.
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Inveterate
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having a particular habit
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activity
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Timorous
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showing or suffering from nervousness
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fear
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Cowed
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cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation.
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Turgid
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swollen and distended or congested
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Repatriate
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send (someone) back to their own country
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Interdict
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an authoritative prohibition.
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Expurgate
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remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
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Appropriate
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take (something) for one's own use
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typically without the owner's permission.
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Indigence
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a state of extreme poverty
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Penury
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extreme poverty; destitution.
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Deleterious
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causing harm or damage
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Pernicious
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having a harmful effect
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especially in a gradual or subtle way.
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Precocity
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exceptionally early or premature development
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Parsimony
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extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.
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Ignobility
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inferior quality
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Probity
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the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.
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Odium
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general or widespread hatred or disgust directed toward someone as a result of their actions.
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Maladroit
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bungling; clumsy
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Florid
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rosy cheeked
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Doyenne
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a woman who is the most respected or prominent person in a particular field.
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Disseminated
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spread or disperse (something
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especially information) widely.
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Harried
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feeling strained as a result of having demands persistently made on one; harassed.
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Stolid
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calm
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dependable
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Intransigent
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unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.
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Petulant
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(of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
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Fastidious
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nit-picky
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Querulous
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picking fights.
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Garrulous
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xcessively talkative
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especially on trivial matters.
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Staid
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sedate
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respectable
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Untenable
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especially of a position or view) not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
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Redress
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remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation).
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Craven
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contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly
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Subsumes
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include or absorb (something) in something else
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Attenuated
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unnaturally thin
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Hewing
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conform or adhere to.
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Machinating
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engage in plots and intrigues; scheme.
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Umbrage
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annoyance
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Diminution
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the act of decreasing or reducing something
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Batiste
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a fine
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light linen or cotton fabric resembling cambric.
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Eyelet
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a small round hole in leather or cloth for threading a lace
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string
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Organdy
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fine translucent cotton or silk fabric that is usually stiffened and used for women's clothing.
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Billiken
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a charm doll
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Bedstead
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1. e framework of a bed on which the mattress is placed.
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Verdure
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lush green vegetation
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Aperture
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opening hole or gap
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Papist
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roman catholic
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Insolently
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ldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting
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Beam
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smile radiantly
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Debouched
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to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country
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as a body of troops
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Superfluous
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more than required
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brogans a
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heavy
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sturdy shoe
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Complaint
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an illness or medical condition
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especially a relatively minor on
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Rapture
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a feeling of intense pleasure or joy
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Passel
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a large group of people or things of indeterminate number; a pack.
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Effluvium
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an unpleasant or harmful odor
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secretion
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Sally
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a sudden charge out of a besieged place against the enemy
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Laggard
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a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.
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Sebaceous
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variant spelling of fetus
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Albumen
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egg white
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or the protein contained in it.
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Campbellite
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a mildly pejorative term referring to adherents of certain religious groups that have historic roots in the Restoration Movement
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among whose most prominent 19th century leaders were Thomas and Alexander Campbell.
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Exhibited
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publicly display (a work of art or item of interest) in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair.
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Dissipated
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verindulging in sensual pleasures.
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Oleaginous
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rich in
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covered with
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Incredulity
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the state of being unwilling or unable to believe something
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Abysm
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a literary or poetic term for abyss
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Hyperbolic
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anguage) exaggerated;
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Pug
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am or clay mixed and worked into a soft
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plastic condition without air pockets for making bricks or pottery.
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Impertinent
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not showing proper respect;
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Loblolly
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pine tree of the southern US that has very long slender needles and is an important source of timber.
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Chinaberry
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a tall tree of the mahogany family native to Asia and Australasia
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bearing fragrant lilac flowers and yellow berries. It has become naturalized in parts of North America.
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Gable
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part of a wall that encloses the end of a pitched roof
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Unflagging
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tireless
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Ammoniac
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a strong-smelling gum resin obtained from the stems of the N Asian umbelliferous plant Dorema ammoniacum and formerly used as an expectorant
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stimulant
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Perception
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the state of being or process of becoming aware of something through the senses.
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Hame
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ne of the two curved wooden or metal pieces of a harness that fits around the neck of a draft animal and to which the traces are attached.
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Sibilance
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characterized by
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or producing a hissing sound like that of (s) or (sh)
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Jalousies
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a blind or shutter made of a row of angled slats
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Paling
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a fence made from pointed wooden or metal stakes.
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Peevish
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easily irritated
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especially by unimportant things.
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scimitar a
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short sword with a curved blade that broadens toward the point
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used originally in Eastern countries.
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Tuffet
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a tuft or clump of something.
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Rubiginous
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rust colored
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Ruminatively
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To reflect on over and over again.
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Faculty
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an inherent mental or physical power.
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Aprehension
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nderstanding; grasp.
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Ruefully
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causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable:
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Speculatively
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theoretical
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rather than practical
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Ectoplasmic
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a supernatural viscous substance that is supposed to exude from the body of a medium during a spiritualistic trance and form the material for the manifestation of spirits.
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Vicissitude
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a change of circumstances or fortune
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typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
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