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fetish
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# An object that is believed to have magical or spiritual powers, especially such an object associated with animistic or shamanistic religious practice; an abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation
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connive
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To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude
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subvert
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To destroy completely; ruin; to undermine the character, morals, or allegiance of; corrupt
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coquette
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A woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures; a flirt
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enjoined
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To direct or impose with authority and emphasis; to prohibit or forbid
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subtle
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So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; difficult to understand; abstruse
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seducer
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To lead away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to induce to engage in sex
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grotesque
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Characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner; outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance
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misfit
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Something of the wrong size or shape for its purpose
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degenerates
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Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state; having fallen to an inferior or undesirable state, especially in mental or moral qualities
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sadist
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The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others; the deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty
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latent
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Present or potential but not evident or active
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louts
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An awkward and stupid person; an oaf
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oaf
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A person regarded as stupid or clumsy
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puritanical
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Rigorous in religious observance; marked by stern morality
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neurotic
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Of, relating to, or affected with a neurosis
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philistine
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A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values; one who lacks knowledge in a specific area
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literary
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Of, relating to, or dealing with literature; appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing; bookish or pedantic
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bore
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To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill; to form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing
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aberrant
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Deviating from the proper or expected course; deviating from what is normal; untrue to type
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pugnacity
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Combative in nature; belligerent
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dispirited
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To lower in or deprive of spirit; dishearten
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assertion
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Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof
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pronouncement
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A formal expression of opinion; a judgment; an authoritative statement
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roistered
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To engage in boisterous merrymaking; revel noisily
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