More Words Derived From Latin

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congratulate

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express one's pleasure to another person at that person's success

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gracious

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pleasant; courteous; kindly

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grateful

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feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliged

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gratify

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give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction

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gratis

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without charge or payment; free

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gratitude

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thankfulness

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gratuitous

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given freely; unwarranted

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gratuity

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present of money in return for a favor or service; tip

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ingrate

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ungrateful person

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ingratiate

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establish in the favor or good graces of another

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immortal

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not subject to death

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immortality

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eternal life or everlasting fame

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moribund

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dying; near death

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mortal

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destined to die; human; causing death, fatal

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mortality

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death rate, mortal nature

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mortician

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undertaker

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mortification

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shame; humiliation; embarrassment

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mortify

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embarrass; shame; humiliate

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mortuary

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funeral home

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rigor mortis

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stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death

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corporal

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bodily

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corporation

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body authorized by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties

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corps

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organized body of persons; branch of the military

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corpse

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dead body

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corpulent

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bulky; obese

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corpus

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general collection or body of writings, laws, etc.

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corpuscle

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blood cell, minute particle

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corpus delicti

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facts proving that a crime has been committed; body of victim in a murder case

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esprit de corps

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spirit of a body of persons; group spirit

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habeas corpus

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writ requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that persons's detention, right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment

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incorporate

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combine so as to form one body

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aqueduct

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artifical channel for conducting water over a distance

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conducive

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tending to lead to; contributive; helpful

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conduct

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lead; guide; escort

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deduction

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taking away; subtraction; resoning from the general to the particular

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duct

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tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc.

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ductile

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able to be drawn out or hammered thin; easily led; docile

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induce

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lead on; move by persuasion

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induct

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admit as a member; initiate

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induction

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ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation; reasoning from the particular to the general

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seduction

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enticement; leading astray into wrongdoing

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traduce

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malign; slander; vilify; calumniate

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viadcut

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bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, etc.

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consecutive

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following in regular order; successive

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consequence

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that which follows logically; result; importance

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execute

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follow through to completion; carry out; put to death

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inconsequential

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of no consequence; trivial; unimportant

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non sequitur

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statement that does not follow from previous statements

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persecute

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oppress; harass; annoy

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prosecute

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follow to the end or until finished; conduct legal proceedings against; sue

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sequel

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something that follows; continuation; cons3equence; outcome

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sequence

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following of one thing after another; succession; orderly series

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sequential

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arranged in a sequence; serial

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concur

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agree; be of the same opinion; happen together; coincide

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concurrent

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running together; occuring at the same time; simultaneous

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currrent

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now in progress; prevailing; flow

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curriculum

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course of study in school or college

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cursive

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running or flowing

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cursory

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running over hastily; superficially done

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discursive

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wandering from one topic to another; rambling; digeressive

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excursion

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going out or forth; expedition

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incur

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meet with something undesirable; bring upon oneself

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incursion

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rushing into; hostile invasion; raid

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precursor

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forerunner; predecessor

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recur

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happen again

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aggressive

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disposed to attack; militant; assertive; pushing

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egress

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means of going out; exit

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gradation

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change by steps or stages; act of grading

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grade

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step; stage; degree; rating

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gradient

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rate at which a road, railroad track, temperature, voltage, etc. rises or falls; slope; inclination

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gradual

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step-by-step; proceeding by small stages or degrees

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graduate

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complete all the steps of a course and receive a diploma or degree

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graduated

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arranged in regular steps, stages, or degrees

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progressive

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going forward to something considered better

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regressive

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disposed to move backward; retrogressive

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retrograde

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going backward; becoming worse

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retrogression

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act of going from a better to a worse state; deterioration

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transgress

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step beyond the limits or barriers; go beyond; break a law; violate

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biped

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two-footed animal

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centipede

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wormlike animal with one pair of legs on most of its segments

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expedite

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facilitate; accelerate or speed up

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impede

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hinder; obstruct; block

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impediment

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hindrance; obstacle; defect

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millipede

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wormlike animal with two pairs of legs on most of its segments

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pedal

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lever acted on by the foot

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pedestal

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support or foot of a column or statue; foundation

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pedestrian

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person traveling on foot

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pedestrian

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commonplace; unimaginative; dull

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velocipede

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tricycle; early form of bicycle

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contact

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touching or meeting; association; connection

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contiguous

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touching; in physcial contact; adjoining

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contigent

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dependent on something else; accidental

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intact

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untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole

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intagible

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not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch; hard to grasp or define exactly

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tact

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sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a give occasion

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tactful

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having or showing tact; diplomatic

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tactile

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pertaining to the sense of touch; tangible

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tangent

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touching at only one point; line or surface meeting a curved line or surface at one point, but not intersecting it

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tangential

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merely touching; slightly connected; digressive

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apprehend

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seize or take into custody; understand

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apprehensive

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quick to understand or grasp; fearful of what may come; anxious

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comprehensible

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able to be grasped mentally; understandable

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comprehensive

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including very much; extensive

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prehensile

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adapted for seizing

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reprehend

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find fault with; rebuke; reprimand; censure

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reprehensible

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deserving of censure; culpable

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abject

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sunk or cast down to a low condition; downtrodden; deserving contempt

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conjecture

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guess; supposition; inference

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dejected

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downcast; discouraged; depressed

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eject

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throw out; expel; evict

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inject

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force; introduce

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interject

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throw in between; insert; interpose

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object

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protest; disapprove

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project

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thrust; plan

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projectile

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body to be shot or otherwise "thrown forward"

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reject

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discard; refuse to take

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subject

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force to undergo something un pleasant or inconvenient

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advert

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turn attention; refer

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aversion

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feeling of repugnance toward something; strong dislike

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avert

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prevent; avoid

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controversy

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dispute; debate; quarrel

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convert

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transform

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diversion

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entertainment; amusment

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divert

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turn aside; amuse; entertain

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extrovert

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someone "turned outward"

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inadvertently

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without turning one's mind to the matter at hand; unintentionally

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incontrovertible

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not able to be "turned opposite" or disputed; not open to question

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introvert

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someone "turned inward", turn inward

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invert

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turn upside down

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obverse

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side turned toward the observer;

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perverse

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turned away from what is right or good; corrupt; wrongheaded

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pervert

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to turn away from right or truth; give a wrong meaning to

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revert

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return; go back

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versatile

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able to turn with ease from one thing to another; adaptable

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verse

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line of poetry

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vertigo

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condition in which one feels that one's surroundings are turning about; dizziness

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commitment

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consignment

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commitment

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consignment to prison or a mental institution

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demise

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death

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emissary

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person sent out on a mission

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emit

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send out; give off

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intermittent

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coming and going at intervals

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missile

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weapon capable of being propelled to hit a distant object; written message sent; letter

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remiss

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negligen; careless; lax

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remission

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lessening, relieving or disappearance

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remit

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send money due; forgive

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transmit

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coney; cause something to go from one person or place to another

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circumlocution

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roundabout way of speaking

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colloquial

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conversational; informal

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colloquy

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talking together; conference; conversation

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elocution

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art of speaking out or reading effectively in public

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eloquent

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speaking with force and fluency; movingly expressive

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grandiloquent

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using lofty or pompous words; bombastic

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interlocutor

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questioner; one who participates in a conversation

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loquacious

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talkative; garrulous

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obloquy

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speaking against; censure; reproach; bad repute

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auriferous

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bearing or yielding gold

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coniferous

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bearing cones, as the pine tree

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odoriferous

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yielding an odor, usually fragrant

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pestiferous

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infected with or bearing disease; pestilential; evil

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proliferous

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producing new growth rapidly and extensively

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somniferous

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bearing or inducing sleep

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vociferous

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producing a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy