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snobbish
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one who blatantly imitates, fawningly admires, or vulgarly seeks association with those regarded as social superiors
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he was rich and snobbish
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grope
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to look for something blindly or uncertainly
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he groped his way toward the entrance
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prick (v)
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to pierce slightly with a sharp point
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his ears were pricked for any sounds of footsteps
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undulate
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to form or move in waves : FLUCTUATE
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the undulating body of the snake
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travesty
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a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation
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some horrible travesty of a pet dog
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fortnight
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a period of 14 days : two weeks
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there was still a fortnight to go before he could leave
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knead (v)
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to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands like kneading dough
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he kneaded his forehead with his knuckles
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fiend
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a devil or a demon
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they were like soul-sucking fiends
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puppy fat
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a fat look associated with toddlers that disappears with age
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she claimed his poundage was just puppy fat
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fixture
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something that is fixed or attached (as to a building) as a permanent appendage or as a structural part like a plumbing fixture
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the light fixture on the ceiling
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twitter
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to tremble with agitation : FLUTTER
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the owl was twittering madly
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don (v)
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to put on (an article of clothing)
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they don Muggle clothing during the holydays
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perspire
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to emit matter through the skin
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he was perspiring slightly in his suit
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tin-pot
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cheap or trivial of its kind : PETTY
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some broken tin-pot car
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chippings
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fragments that fall when cutting or hewing with an edged tool
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a cloud of rubble and loose chippings
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indignation
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anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean
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he said goodbye in mild indignation
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sideboard
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a piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for holding articles of table service
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the ornament on top of the sideboard
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lanky
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ungracefully tall and thin
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he was stokier than the other two and had a lank body
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cotton on (v)
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to come to understand
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"all right" he said, cottoning on
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sanctimonious
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hypocritically pious or devout
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in a sanctimonious manner
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groggy
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weak and unsteady on the feet or in action
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he spoke groggily
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incognito
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with one's identity concealed
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we need to go incognito
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lie-in
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an act of lying down (as in a public place) in organized protest or as a means of forcing compliance with demands
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they had a bit of a lie-in
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unobtrusive
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not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : INCONSPICUOUS
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they have to be unobtrusive things so people think it's just litter
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dank
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unpleasantly moist or wet like a dank basement
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the dank lane toward the village
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dilute
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to make thinner or more liquid by admixture like diluted wine; also to diminish in strength
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dilluting to dark blue
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crest
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the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave
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the crest of the hill
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manky
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inferior and worthless
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a manky old boot
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confection
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the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components: CONCOCTION
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a confection of striped silk
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crochet
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To make a piece of needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle.
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crocheted covers on the chairs
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spangled
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covered with beads or jewels or sequins
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a spangled banner stretched between their tents
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hillock
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a small natural hill: MOUND
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oddly shaped hillocks sprouted out of the earth
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bedeck (v)
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COVER
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the tents were bedecked with plants
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haggard
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Pale and exhausted, as because of worry or sleeplessness: HOLLOW-EYED, WAN, GAUNT
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a haggard-looking wizard
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double take
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a delayed reaction indicating surprise
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he did the smallest of double takes when he saw him
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spoilsport
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PARTYPOOPER
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don't be spoilsport
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jot down
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write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of
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he began jotting down their names on a list
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on the warpath
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hostile or belligerent mood
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he seems to be on the warpath with you
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vestige
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an indication that something has been present: TRACE
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vestiges of pretence
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preen (v)
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dress or groom with elaborate care
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preening themselves before the ball
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gong
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a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer: CHIME, BELL
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a booming gong sounded somewhere
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sport (v)
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wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
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he was sporting a beard
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oval
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rounded like an egg: ELLIPTICAL
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the long oval field
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suffuse
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cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across: PERFUSE
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it was suffused with a golden light
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high jinks
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noisy and mischievous merrymaking
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he getting up to all sorts of high jinks
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racket (v)
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celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
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if he goes racketing around like this…
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gabble
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rapid and indistinct speech: GIBBER, JABBER, PRATTLE, BLABBER
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he gabbled loudly and excitedly
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cadge
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obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling: SCROUNGE, SCHNORR
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they tried to cadge all the best places
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racket (n)
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a loud and disturbing noise; also an illegitimate enterprise
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discordant sounds were added to the racket
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green-clad
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dressed in green
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green-clad supporters
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feint
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deceive by a mock action
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the midfielder feinted to shoot
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plough
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move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
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he only got ploughed
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blare (v)
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make a strident sound: BLAST
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the national anthem blared from all sides
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forlorn
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marked by or showing hopelessness
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a dispirited and forlorn attempt
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mime (v)
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act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only
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he had to mime in order to communicate with him
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vociferous
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conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry: BLATANT, CLAMOROUS
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arguing vociferously
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trample
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tread or stomp heavily or roughly
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trampling the tents as they went
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etch (v)
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cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible
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the form etched against the black sky
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taut
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subjected to great tension; stretched tight
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he was taut with rage
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levitate
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be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity: HOVER
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they levitated him in the air
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quibble
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argue over petty things: BICKER, SQUABBLE, KNIT-PICK
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quibbling over such small matters
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en-suite
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In or as part of a series or set
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a room and its furniture that were decorated en suite; en suite decorations
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lash (v)
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beat severely with a whip or rod: FLOG, WELT, WHIP
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rain lashed against the window
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ferret (v)
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search and discover through persistent investigation
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she's been ferreting around all week and interviewing people
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trepidation
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a feeling of alarm or dread
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in some trepidation, he opened it
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back-to-front
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inside-out (?)
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his robes were back-to-front
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brave (v)
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face and withstand with courage: WEATHER, ENDURE
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he braved the telephone in the village
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wistful
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showing pensive sadness: PENSIVE
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looking wistfully at the train
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chivvy
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annoy continually or chronically: HARASS, MOLEST, HASSLE, CHIVY
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she chivvied them toward the entrance
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procession
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the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
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the procession of carriages
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thunderclap
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a single sharp crash of thunder
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the sound of thunderclap
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specter
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a mental representation of some haunting experience
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the specter of a head was formed by the tree
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shroud
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burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
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he was shrouded in black traveling cloak
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draught
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a large and hurried swallow
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he took a draught from the hip flask
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tack up
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fix to; attach
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he tacked up a poster over the bedside table
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pewter
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any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)
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clouds of pewter gray
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pus
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a fluid product of inflammation
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pus came out as the plant was squashed
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pint
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a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
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pint
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stopper (v)
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close or secure with or as if with a stopper
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stoppering the last bottle with a cork
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baleful
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deadly or sinister: BANEFUL, MENACING
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baleful influence
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rivet (v)
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direct one's attention on something
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he was riveted by the news
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tussle
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disorderly fighting: SCUFFLE
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he was involved in a tussle with several students
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tentatively
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under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon: PROVISIONAL, PROBATIONARY
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his hand rose tentatively into the air
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recoil
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QUAIL, WINCE, FLINCH
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he recoiled slightly as he heard the news
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lap up
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take up with the tongue: LICK like the cat lapped up the milk
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just lie to her and she'll lap it up
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insrcutable
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of an obscure nature: MYSTIC, CRYPTIC, MYSTIFYING
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he stared inscrutably at her
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regurgitate
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feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food
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he swallowed the mouse and regurgitated its bones
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nestle
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move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position: CUDDLE, SNUGGLE
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every breed of owl was nestled on perches in the room
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mill around
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move about in a confused manner
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students were all milling around a large sign hung on the wall
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imperious
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HAUGHTY, PRIDEFUL, OVERBEARING, LORDLY
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imperiously
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unctuous
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unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech: SMARMY, OILY
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a fruity, unctuous praise
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smarm up
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excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
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he kept smarming up to the teacher for extra points
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fawn over
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try to gain favor by cringing or flattering: SUCK UP
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he had fans fawning over him all the time
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bristle (v)
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react in an offended or angry manner
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she bristled at her in fury
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hew
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strike with an axe; cut down, strike
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a roughly hewn wooden object
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patter
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a quick succession of light rapid sounds
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listening to the gentle patter of rain drops on the window
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straggle
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a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons)
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his students were straggling along behind him
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char (v)
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burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color: SCORCH
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a charred piece of parchment
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brooding
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persistent morbid meditation on a problem
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a hunched-up and brooding figure
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bamboozle
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conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end: HOODWINK, LEAD BY THE NOSE
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all you need is a charm to bamboozle that goblet
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reverie
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absentminded dreaming while awake: DAYDREAM
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he seemed to come out of a deep reverie
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waylay
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wait in hiding to attack: AMBUSH, LURK
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the attempted to waylay him
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moor (v)
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secure in or as if in a berth or dock
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the ship is moored
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gawp (v)
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look with amazement; look stupidly: GAWK, GOGGLE, GAPE
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everyone gawped at him
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intone (v)
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utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
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she kep intoning "ignore them"
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din (n)
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a loud harsh or strident noise: CACOPHONY, BLARE, TUMULT, COMMOTION
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he couldn't hear anything in the confused din
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pauchy
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having a large belly: POTBELLIED
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a paunchy man
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dingbat
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a silly empty-headed person
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an obsolete dingbat
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temperamental
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subject to sharply varying moods: MOODY, ERRATIC
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I find it makes for rather temperamental wands
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gore (v)
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wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
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he nearly gored me with his horn
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desist (v)
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choose not to consume: REFRAIN, ABSTAIN
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he got a patronizing look and desisted
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straggler
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someone who strays or falls behind: STRAYER
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they forced the stragglers out of the room
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disobliging
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intentionally unaccommodating: UNCOOPERATIVE
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a disobliging habit of doing the oposite
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snide
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expressive of contempt: SNEERING
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snide comments
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molten
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reduced to liquid form by heating
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a wave of molten panic
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unruffled
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free from emotional agitation or nervous tension: UNPERTURBED, UNFLUSTERED
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haughty and unruffled
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askance
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directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy: SIDELONG, SQUINT-EYED
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she was looking askance at him
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harebrained
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MAD, INSANE
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a harebrained scheme
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yowling
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utter shrieks, as of cats: HOWL
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a horrible yowling and screeching
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sinew
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possessing muscular strength: HEFTINESS
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sinewy, scaly-black dragon
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enraptured
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hold spellbound: ENCHANT, ENTHRALL, RAVISH
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gazing, enraptured at him
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imbue (v)
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PENETRATE, RIDDLE, PERMEADE
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something that imbues the dragon's think hide
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squiggly
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wavy and twisting
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an extra-squiggly, golden television aerial
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crescendo
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(music) a gradual increase in loudness
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the panic rising into a crescendo inside him
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stave off
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prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening: FEND OFF, HEAD OFF, WARD OFF, DEFLECT, OBVIATE
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stave the dragon off
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elated
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exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits: GLEEFUL, JUBILANT
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feeling more elated than he thought possible
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prise (v)
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to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open: PRY, JIMMY
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he prised the egg open, he jimmied the lock
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peckish
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easily irritated or annoyed: PEEVISH, NETTLESOME, CRANKY, TESTY, TETCHY, IRRITABLE
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a peckish behavior
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sleet
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a mixture of rain and snow: HAIL
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winter brought wind and sleet to Hogwarts
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pitch
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be at an angle: SLOPE, INCLINE
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the ship was pitching in the high winds
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wit
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BRAINPOWER, MENTAL CAPACITY
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they had to be careful and needed their wits about them
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specs
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GLASSES
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an old bat in outsize specs
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curtsy
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bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting
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bowing and curtsying
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forage (v)
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collect or look around for (food): SCROUNGE
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unlike him, she had not foraged for cloths
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codger
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used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man
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he called him a barmy old codger
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cinch
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BREEZE, PICNIC, SNAP, WALKOVER
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this task would be a cinch compared to the last one
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slam dunk
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something that is a sure to occur; a foregone conclusion
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the invasion was a slam dunk
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complacent
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contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions: SELF-SATISFIED
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don't get complacent just because you won
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garland
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adorn with bands of flowers or leaves
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garlands of mistletoe
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strike up
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start playing
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the band struck up a slow, mournful tune
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ungainly
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lacking grace in movement or posture: CLUMSY, UNWIELDY, AWKWARD
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he was doing an ungainly two-step with her
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mulish
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unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack: HARDHEADED
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mulish boy he was
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accost
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speak to someone: ADDRESS
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they accosted him
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consignment
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LOAD, CARGO, SHIPMENT
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smuggling a consignment of flying carpets
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husky
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deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
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a husky "I love you"
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shifty
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characterized by insincerity or deceit: EVASIVE, DEVIOUS
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he looked extremely shifty
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slanting
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having an oblique or slanted direction: SLOPED
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slanting eyes
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elope
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run away secretly with one's beloved: RUN OFF
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she doesn't seem the type to elope
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chuffed
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very pleased
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he was dead chuffed
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pilfering
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make off with belongings of others
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a filthy pilfering poltergeist
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dilate
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become wider
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his nostrils were dilating
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chirrup
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make high-pitched sounds
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the birds were chirping in the bushes
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size up
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to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail: SCRUTINIZE
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he had the impression she was sizing him up
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saucy
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SASSY, IMPUDENT, OVERBOLD
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saucy tricks
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hack
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cut away
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he began to hack at the ropes
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tally
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MATCH, FIT, CORRESPOND
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it tallied with the other account
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smitten
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ENAMORED, INFATUATED
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he is smitten with her
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bluster on
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BOAST, TOUT, BRAG, VAUNT
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blustering on about how much she hates her
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rave
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talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner: RANT, JABBER, RABBIT ON
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he was just raving
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polish off
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kill intentionally and with premeditation
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he should have polished him off at the same time
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apparition
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a ghostly appearing figure: SPECTER, PHANTOM
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apparitions and premonitions
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clairvoyant
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perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
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clairvoyant vibrations in her room
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start (v)
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STARTLE
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he yelled so loudly that she started
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seethe
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be noisy with activity; also be in an agitated emotional state like seethe with anger
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the seething mass within the pensive
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reel
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revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis: SPIN
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his mind was reeling
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sprain (v)
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twist suddenly the ligaments: WRENCH, TWIST
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sprained his ankle
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exultant
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JUBILANT, TRIUMPHANT
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his expression was rapt and exultant
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seamless
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IMMACULATE
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a seamless performance
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cavort (v)
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play boisterously (in a carefree manner) : ROMP, SKYLARK
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to cavort in masks at the carnaval
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addle (v)
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mix up or confuse: MUDDLE, PUDDLE
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his brain has not been addled
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muse (v)
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REFLECT, MULL OVER, MEDITATE, PONDER, CHEW OVER
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his musings were interrupted
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décor
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decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior
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this adds to the décor of the house
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flabbergast
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overcome with amazement
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they were flabbergasted
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goad
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to ride, guide, or urge on with or as if with spurs
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he goaded him to victory
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