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Skollie

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n. a gangster or thug

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Patronizing

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adj. displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner

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Repugnant

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adj. distasteful, objectionable, or offensive

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Annealment

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n. a slow cooling process

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Progeniture

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n. a begetting or birth

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Coagulate

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v. To change from a fluid to a thickened mass; to curdle

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Complicity

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n. the state of being an accomplice

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Stoep

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n. a small porch or set of steps at the front of the house.

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Euphorbia

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n. A plant of the genus "euphorbia", comprising the spurges.

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Spluttery

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adj. Tending to make repeated or sporadic spitting sounds.

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Gambol

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v. To skip about as in dancing or playing; to frolic

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Dextrous

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adj. skillful in the use of hands or body

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Aperture

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n. An opening as in a hole, slit, or crack.

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Rime

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n. An opaque coating of tiny white ice particles

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Arrhythmia

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n. Any disturbance of the rhythm of a heartbeat.

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Bleat

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v. To utter the cry of a goat, sheep, or calf, or a sound similar to such a cry.

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Importune

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v. To demand with urgency or persistance

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Caul

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n. An amniotic membrane, enclosing a fetus, used metaphorically

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Waylay

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v. To intercept or attack from ambush in order to seize, rob, or slay

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Pogrom

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n. An organized massacre, esp. of Jews

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Phylacteries

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n. Cubes containing Torah worn by Orthodox Jewish men

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Cenotaph

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n. A monument erected in honor of a person whose body is buried elsewhere

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Cossack

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n. a person belonging to one of the Slavic groups living in southern Russia, forming elite corps of horsement