Journey To The Center Of The Earth-Vocabulary

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Parchment

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noun skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on; a superior paper resembling sheepskin

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Bitumen

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noun any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons

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Lignite

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noun intermediate between peat and bituminous coal

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Specious

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adj. plausible but false; based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

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inflammable

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adj. easily ignited

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metallic

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adj. containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal; noun a yarn made partly or entirely of metal; a fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal

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Anthracite

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noun a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat

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Chronicle

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noun a record or narrative description of past events; verb record in chronological order; make a historical record

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Biography

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noun an account of the series of events making up a person's life

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Modification

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noun slightly modified copy; not an exact copy; the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase; the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment); an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another

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Verbal

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adj. communicated in the form of words; prolix; relating to or having facility in the use of words; expressed in spoken words; of or relating to or formed from a verb; of or relating to or formed from words in general

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Parchment

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noun skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on; a superior paper resembling sheepskin

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Bitumen

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noun any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons

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Lignite

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noun intermediate between peat and bituminous coal

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Specious

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adj. plausible but false; based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

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inflammable

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adj. easily ignited

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metallic

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adj. containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal; noun a yarn made partly or entirely of metal; a fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal

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Anthracite

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noun a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat

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Chronicle

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noun a record or narrative description of past events; verb record in chronological order; make a historical record

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Biography

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noun an account of the series of events making up a person's life

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Modification

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noun slightly modified copy; not an exact copy; the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase; the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment); an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another

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Verbal

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adj. communicated in the form of words; prolix; relating to or having facility in the use of words; expressed in spoken words; of or relating to or formed from a verb; of or relating to or formed from words in general

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Manuscript

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noun the form of a literary work submitted for publication; handwritten book or document

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Runic

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adj. relating to or consisting of runes

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Irreverent

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adj. showing lack of due respect or veneration; not revering god; characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality

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Prostrate

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adj. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; lying face downward; verb render helpless or defenseless; throw down flat, as on the ground; get into a prostrate position, as in submission

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Unintelligible

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adj. poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; not clearly understood or expressed

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Facsimile

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noun duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio; an exact copy or reproduction; verb send something via a facsimile machine

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Polyglot

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adj. having a command of or composed in many languages; noun a person who speaks more than one language

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Dialect

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noun the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

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Sorrel

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adj. of a light brownish color; noun a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color; large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces; East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber; any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine; any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis

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Moselle

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noun German white wine from the Moselle valley or a similar wine made elsewhere

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Conscientiously

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adv. with extreme conscientiousness

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Stentorian

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adj. used of the voice

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Dictate

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noun a guiding principle; an authoritative rule; verb say out loud for the purpose of recording; rule as a dictator; issue commands or orders for

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St Michael

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noun (Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews

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Incomprehensible

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adj. difficult to understand; incapable of being explained or accounted for

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Succession

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noun acquisition of property by descent or by will; the action of following in order; a group of people or things arranged or following in order; (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established; a following of one thing after another in time

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Cryptogram

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noun a piece of writing in code or cipher

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Obliterated

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adj. reduced to nothingness

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Alchemist

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noun one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone

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Cipher

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noun a message written in a secret code; a secret method of writing; a person of no influence; a quantity of no importance; verb make a mathematical calculation or computation; convert ordinary language into code

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Virgil

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noun a Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC)

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Haphazard

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adj. marked by great carelessness; dependent upon or characterized by chance; adv. without care; in a slapdash manner

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Ingenious

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adj. showing inventiveness and skill; skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends; (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

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Impudent

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adj. marked by casual disrespect; improperly forward or bold

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Convey

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verb make known; pass on, of information; transmit a title or property; transfer to another; serve as a means for expressing something; go or come after and bring or take back; take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

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Logographic

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adj. of or relating to logograms or logographs

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Oedipus

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noun (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles

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Indecipherable

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adj. impossible to determine the meaning of; not easily deciphered

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Inevitable

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adj. incapable of being avoided or prevented; invariably occurring or appearing; noun an unavoidable event

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Presentiment

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noun a feeling of evil to come

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Utrecht

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noun a city in the central Netherlands

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Naiad

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noun (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains; submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water

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Negress

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noun a Black woman or girl

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Unintelligible

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adj. poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; not clearly understood or expressed

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Stupefaction

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noun the action of stupefying; making dull or lethargic; a feeling of stupefied astonishment; marginal consciousness

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Indefatigable

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adj. showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality

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Practicability

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noun the quality of being usable

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Envious

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adj. showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages

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Rival

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noun the contestant you hope to defeat; verb be the rival of, be in competition with; be equal to in quality or ability

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glacier

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noun a slowly moving mass of ice

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Icelandic

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adj. of or relating to Iceland or its people or culture and language; noun a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Iceland

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Fjord

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noun a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway

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Longitude

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noun the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich

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Latitude

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noun scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction; the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself; an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator; freedom from normal restraints in conduct

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Incandescent

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adj. emitting light as a result of being heated; characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance

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Hypothetical

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adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; noun a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.

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Speculation

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noun a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits; continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

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Terrestrial

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adj. operating or living or growing on land; of this earth; concerned with the world or worldly matters; of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air

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nucleus

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noun a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction; any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord; the positively charged dense center of an atom; (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail; a small group of indispensable persons or things

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Paradoxical

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adj. seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true

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Oxidized

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adj. combined with or having undergone a chemical reaction with oxygen

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Crater

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noun a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb; a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus; a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano

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Incidentally

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adv. in an incidental manner; introducing a different topic; by the way

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Phenomenon

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noun any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning; a remarkable development

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Terminus

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noun either end of a railroad or bus route; (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome; station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods; the ultimate goal for which something is done; a place where something ends or is complete

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Chancery

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noun an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records; a court with jurisdiction in equity

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Propitious

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adj. presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs or success

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Council

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noun a meeting of people for consultation; a body serving in an administrative capacity; (Christianity) an assembly or theologians and bishops and other representative of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine

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Copenhagen

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noun the capital and largest city of Denmark; located on the island of Zealand

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Denmark

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noun a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea

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Curse

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noun profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; a severe affliction; an evil spell; an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group; something causes misery or death; verb utter obscenities or profanities; wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; heap obscenities upon; exclude from a church or a religious community

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Monotony

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noun constancy of tone or pitch or inflection; the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety

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Steamer

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noun a ship powered by one or more steam engines; a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it; an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe; a clam that is usually steamed in the shell; verb travel by means of steam power

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Occupant

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noun someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

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Berth

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noun a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers; a job in an organization; a place where a craft can be made fast; verb provide with a berth; come into or dock at a wharf; secure in or as if in a berth or dock

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Quarter

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noun clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent; piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp; a district of a city having some distinguishing character; an unspecified person; a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar; a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds); a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds); one of the four major division of the compass; a fourth part of a year; three months; one of four periods into which the school year is divided; a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; one of four periods of play into which some games are divided; the rear part of a ship; one of four equal parts; verb divide by four; divide into quarters; divide into quarters; provide housing for (military personnel); pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him

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Curator

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noun the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)

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Savant

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noun someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

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Obliging

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adj. showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

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Idle

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adj. not in active use; not in action or at work; not having a job; lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; silly or trivial; not yielding a return; without a basis in reason or fact; noun the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling; verb run disconnected or idle; be idle; exist in a changeless situation

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Scoured

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adj. worn away as by water or ice or wind

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Quay

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noun wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline

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Sublime

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adj. lifted up or set high; inspiring awe; of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; worthy of adoration or reverence; verb vaporize and then condense right back again; change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting

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Alder

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noun north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant; wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc

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Willow

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noun a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers; any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix

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Ascent

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noun an upward slope or grade (as in a road); the act of changing location in an upward direction; a movement upward

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Depredation

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noun an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding; (usually plural) a destructive action

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Equilibrium

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noun a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head; a stable situation in which forces cancel one another; a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates; equality of distribution

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Optical

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adj. of or relating to or involving light or optics; relating to or using sight; of or relating to or resembling the eye

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illusion

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noun something many people believe that is false; an erroneous mental representation; an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers; the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

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Vertiginous

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adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling

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Coadjutor

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noun an assistant to a bishop

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Foresail

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noun the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel

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Brigantine

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noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast

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Topsail

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noun a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast

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gallant

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adj. unflinching in battle or action; having or displaying great dignity or nobility; being attentive to women like an ideal knight; lively and spirited; noun a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance; a man who attends or escorts a woman

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Hamlet

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noun a community of people smaller than a village; the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father; a settlement smaller than a town

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Tower

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noun a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building; a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships; anything tall and relatively thin that approximates the shape of a column or tower; verb appear very large or occupy a commanding position

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Danish

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adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Denmark or the Danes; noun a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark; light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese

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Cape

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noun a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter; a strip of land projecting into a body of water

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Portland

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noun largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state; freshwater port and largest city in Oregon; located in northwestern Oregon on the Willamette River which divides the city into east and west sections; renowned for its beautiful natural setting among the mountains

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Perforated

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adj. having a number or series of holes; having a hole cut through

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Quay

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noun wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline

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Scud

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noun the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale); verb run before a gale; run or move very quickly or hastily

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Horace

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noun Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)

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Manuscript

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noun the form of a literary work submitted for publication; handwritten book or document

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Dismal

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adj. causing dejection

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Turf

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noun range of jurisdiction or influence; the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own; surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots; verb cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots

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Lilliputian

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adj. tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; (informal) small and of little importance; very small; noun a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift; a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)

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Wallflower

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noun remains on sidelines at social event; perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum; any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers

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Congregation

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noun the act of congregating; an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

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Environs

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noun an outer adjacent area of any place; the area in which something exists or lives

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Cod

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adj. payable by the recipient on delivery; adv. collecting the charges upon delivery; noun major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters; lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached; the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves); verb harass with persistent criticism or carping; fool or hoax

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Vernacular

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adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; noun the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language); a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

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Chiefly

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adv. for the most part

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Reserved

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adj. cool and formal in manner; marked by self-restraint and reticence; set aside for the use of a particular person or party

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Scandinavia

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noun a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian; the peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden

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Alchemist

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noun one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone

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Illustrious

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adj. having or conferring glory; widely known and esteemed; having or worthy of pride

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Heresy

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noun a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion; any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

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Seldom

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adv. not often

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Diabolical

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adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil

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Eider

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noun duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females

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Volubly

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adv. in a chatty manner

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Indolent

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adj. (of tumors e.g) slow to heal or develop and usually painless; disinclined to work or exertion

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Ingenuous

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adj. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; lacking in sophistication or worldliness

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Affirmation

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noun a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand; (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds); the act of affirming or asserting or stating something; a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something

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Avarice

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noun reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins); extreme greed for material wealth

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Edification

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noun uplifting enlightenment

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Barometer

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noun an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure

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Chronometer

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noun an accurate clock (especially used in navigation)

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Topographical

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adj. concerned with topography

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Cordial

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adj. sincerely or intensely felt; showing warm and heartfelt friendliness; diffusing warmth and friendliness; noun strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal

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Centaur

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noun (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse; a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross

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Dilapidated

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adj. in deplorable condition

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Porphyry

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noun any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals

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Debris

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noun the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

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Frugal

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adj. avoiding waste

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Propulsion

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noun the act of propelling; a propelling force

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Fjord

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noun a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway

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Babylon

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noun the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia

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Causeway

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noun a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand; verb pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles; provide with a causeway

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causeway

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noun a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand; verb pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles; provide with a causeway

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Hebrides

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noun a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland

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cave

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noun a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea; verb explore natural caves; hollow out as if making a cave or opening

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Vaulted

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adj. having a hemispherical vault or dome

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Rector

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noun a person authorized to conduct religious worship

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Shrew

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noun small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles; a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman

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Tithe

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noun an offering of a tenth part of some personal income; a levy of one tenth of something; verb pay a tenth of one's income, especially to the church; pay one tenth of; pay tithes on, especially to the church; levy a tithe on (produce or a crop); exact a tithe from

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Sobriety

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noun abstaining from excess; moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs; a manner that is serious and solemn; the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol

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Imprudent

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adj. lacking wise self-restraint; not prudent or wise

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Alluvial

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adj. of or relating to alluvium

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Hexagonal

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adj. having six sides or divided into hexagons

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Pumice

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noun a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive; verb rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen

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Imperceptibly

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adv. in an imperceptible manner or to an imperceptible degree

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Subterranean

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adj. lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed); being or operating under the surface of the earth

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Tufa

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noun a soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime; hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash

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Chasm

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noun a deep opening in the earth's surface

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Scale

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noun a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals; an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks; a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass; (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave); a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin; a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin; relative magnitude; the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it; an ordered reference standard; a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners); verb size or measure according to a scale; measure with or as if with scales; remove the scales from; pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard; climb up by means of a ladder; reach the highest point of; take by attacking with scaling ladders; measure by or as if by a scale

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Precipice

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noun a very steep cliff

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Undulation

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noun wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves; (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth; an undulating curve

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Ecstasy

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noun a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; a state of elated bliss; street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine

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Transparent

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adj. easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety); transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; free of deceit; so thin as to transmit light

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Circumference

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noun the size of something as given by the distance around it; the length of the closed curve of a circle; the boundary line encompassing an area or object

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Blunderbuss

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noun a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle

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Aperture

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noun an man-made opening; usually small; a device that controls amount of light admitted; a natural opening in something

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Diameter

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noun the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference; a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface)

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Radius

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noun the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere; the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm; a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius; a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere); support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim

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Unintelligible

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adj. poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; not clearly understood or expressed

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Consternation

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noun fear resulting from the awareness of danger

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Gnomon

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noun indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial

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sundial

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noun timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial

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Tantamount

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adj. being essentially equal to something

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Vexation

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noun the act of troubling or annoying someone; something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; anger produced by some annoying irritation; the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed

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Indifference

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noun unbiased impartial unconcern; the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally; the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern; apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

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Abyss

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noun a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)

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Sonorous

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adj. full and loud and deep

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Prudent

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adj. careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment

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Void

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adj. containing nothing; lacking any legal or binding force; noun an empty area or space; the state of nonexistence; verb clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something; excrete or discharge from the body; take away the legal force of or render ineffective; declare invalid

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Vertigo

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noun a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall

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Perpendicular

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adj. extremely steep; intersecting at or forming right angles; at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; noun an extremely steep face; a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting; a straight line at right angles to another line; a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point

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Facilitate

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verb make easier; increase the likelihood of (a response); be of use

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Equilibrium

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noun a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head; a stable situation in which forces cancel one another; a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates; equality of distribution

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Primordial

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adj. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state

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Manometer

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noun a pressure gauge for comparing pressures of a gas

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Barometer

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noun an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure

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vain

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adj. unproductive of success; characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

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Agile

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adj. moving quickly and lightly; mentally quick

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Celsius

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noun Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)

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Fahrenheit

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noun German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)

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coil

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noun a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit; tubing that is wound in a spiral; a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb; a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine; a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals); verb wind around something in coils or loops; make without a potter's wheel; to wind or move in a spiral course

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Imperceptible

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adj. impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses

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Deviate

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adj. markedly different from an accepted norm; noun a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior; verb turn aside; turn away from; cause to turn away from a previous or expected course; be at variance with; be out of line with

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Fatigue

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noun (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work; used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress; labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); verb exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; get tired of something or somebody

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Gneiss

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noun a laminated metamorphic rock similar to granite

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Wraithlike

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adj. lacking in substance

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Serenity

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noun a disposition free from stress or emotion; the absence of mental stress or anxiety

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Subside

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verb wear off or die down; sink down or precipitate; sink to a lower level or form a depression; descend into or as if into some soft substance or place

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setter

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noun a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point; one who sets written material into type

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Prodigious

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adj. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; of momentous or ominous significance

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Resentment

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noun a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

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Sullen

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adj. darkened by clouds; showing a brooding ill humor

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Inextricable

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adj. not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied

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Labyrinth

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noun complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost; a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium

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Primeval

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adj. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state

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Covetous

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adj. showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

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Torment

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noun the act of harassing someone; a severe affliction; intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; extreme mental distress; a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; unbearable physical pain; verb torment emotionally or mentally; treat cruelly; subject to torture

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Despair

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noun the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well; a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; verb abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

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Reproach

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noun a mild rebuke or criticism; disgrace or shame; verb express criticism towards