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Admonish
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To scold or rebuke in a mild but earnest manner
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Allegory
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A story representing something else
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Ambrosia
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Mythology: food eaten by the gods to make them immortal
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Amity
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Friendly relations
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Amorphous
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Without a clear shape, form, or structure/not obviously belonging to a certain type or category
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Anthropomorphism
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Putting a human characteristic onto something non-human like a god in mythology or a pretend animal in childrens stories
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Archaic
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Belonging or relating to something ancient/from a much earlier period/old-fashioned & out of use
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Ardor
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Extremely intense, strong feelings
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Balm
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1. soothing oil 2. Something with a soothing effect 3. a pleasant smell
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Beguile
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To charmingly hold someones attention or devotion
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Bastion
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Someone or something thats a strong supporter or defender of something
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Benign
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1. having a kind and gentle appearance 2. not a threat to life or long-term health
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Boor
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Someone who behaves in an ill-mannered way
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Carnage
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A widespread massacre or slaughter normally of human beings
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Collectivism
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Usually done under the government, it is the system of control over the distribution of farms and factories by the nations people
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Common Enemy
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People coming together against something or someone
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Continuum
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Two things or a series of things that blend into each other so gradually you cannot tell when one becomes the other (like the colors in a rainbow)
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Covenant
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A solemn agreement
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Cuirass
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1. A piece of armor made of leather or metal for the upper body covering the chest and sometimes the back 2. any protective covering
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Cusp
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A point or a pointed end of something
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Deference
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Polite respect/putting someone elses interests first
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Deify
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1. To make someone into a god 2. to honor someone or something as if it were a god
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Dissemble
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The act of concealing your true nature, and putting on a fake front to conceal facts, feelings, or intentions
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Duplicity
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the quality of having 2 opposite sides
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Effigy
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Statue/model of someone that is disliked, which is then abused (like put on fire or something)
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Equivocal
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Uncertain/ambiguous
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Estrange
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To cause someone to not be friendly and distance themselves from someone.
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Execration
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1. A curse 2. something that is cursed and/or detested 3.the act of execrating someone or something, or the state of being execrated
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Exulted
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To be extremely happy, sometimes because of someone elses loss.
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Frivolous
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Something silly and trivial, lacking any real intellectual substance
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Gall
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Boldness with lack of respect
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Glutton
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Someone greedy who over eats and over drinks
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Harangue
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To criticize or try to persuade someone in an overly forceful way
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Implacable
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Impossible to reduce in strength or force
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Incongruous
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Which does not fit with the rest; which seems out of place
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Inexorable
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Which cannot be changed/influenced
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Insatiable
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impossible to satisfy
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Insidious
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Quietly treacherous; working secretly to do harm
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Insolent
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Showing a lack of respect in speech or behavior
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Lethargy
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(feeling of) unwillingness to do anything; lack of energy
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Lucid
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1. clearly/easily understood 2. able to think clearly
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Malingering
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To fake illness to avoid work
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Multifarious
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Many different things/parts/people
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Muse
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Greek Mythology: The 9 goddesses that inspired different creative arts (like artists and writers etc.)
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Myriad
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very large number
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Nebulous
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Vague, not clear
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Nectar
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Greek and Roman mythology: A drink that makes the gods maintain their beauty and immortality
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Oblique
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Indirect/Not straight forward
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Oligarchy
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(country with a) government by a few powerful people
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Omnipotent
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All-powerful
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Omniscient
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Knowing or seeming to know everything
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Orthodoxy
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Being conformed to the social un-written rules and appropriateness
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Palpable
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1. Which can be felt 2. Obvious or easily observed
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Paradox
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Thing which appears to contradict itself but may really be true
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Pedantic
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Paying too much attention to the correct rules and details
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Peerless
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Incomparable/without an equal
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Phantasm
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A supposed being like a ghost or a spirit that can be seen but doesn't have physical substance
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Pommel
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1. The handle of a sword 2. The knob that curves upwards on the front part of a western horse saddle
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Proletariat
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The working/labor class of people
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Punctilious
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extremely attentive to details
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Pyre
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A pile of burning word, especially on which someone dead is burned ceremonially
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Rancor
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Resentment
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Rectify
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To correct/to make right
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Respite
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Resting briefly for recovery from exertion/A temporary delay
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Rogue
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Someone dishonest
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Sanguine
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a blood red color
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Spurious
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False: Not being what it claims to be
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Sortie
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1. A small military force making an attack into enemy territory 2. the people on the sortie
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Tumult
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A violent or noisy commotion
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Torpor
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Lack of energy/Laziness
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Totalitarianism
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A government that refuses to allow the existence of opposition
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Truism
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Saying which is quite obviously true, and therefore need not be said
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Ulcer
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A sore on the body
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Vile
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Extremely unpleasant/bad
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Versatile
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1. With many uses 2. able to move easily from one skill, task, or subject to another
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Visceral
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Going and doing something by instinct and not doing what seems logical
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Votive
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Given or offered to fulfill an oath or a vow
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Wafted
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Moved or floated gently through the air
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Wanton
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Without discipline or restraint, especially in sexual behavior
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Hubris
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excessive pride or arrogance
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Ignominy
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A loss of dignity or honor
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archetype
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The ideal thing of that type
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Connotation
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Implied, additional, deeper meaning
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denotation
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The basic meaning of a word
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Impetus
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Something that provides energy or motivation or accomplish or undertake something
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Pathos
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A quality in something that arouses emotions of pity
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Ethos
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Lessons on issues like right, wrong, and what's honorable
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animus
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unfriendly attitude/hostility
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Incendiary
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having to do w/ fire
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Expidient
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Appropriate/Advisable
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Enumerate
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To list off a number of individual things
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Munificence
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genorosity
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Concubine
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A women who lives with a man in an active relationship but is not married to him
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Dolorous
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Involving sorrow or pain
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Parricide
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The murder of a parent or a king
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Tithe
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10% of someone's income given to support their church
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admonition
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a mild but earnest rebuke
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Sage
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Someone who is regarded as being wise and experienced
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malignant
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full of hate and wanting to do evil
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Panoply
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an impressive display of something
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Nocturnal
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Occurring at night, as opposed to during the day
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subjective
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Based on someones opinions or feelings rather than facts or evidence
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objective
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free of any bias or prejudice caused by personal feelings
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Poignant
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causing a sharp sense of sadness, pity, or regret
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Inculcate
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To fix something firmly in someones mind by repetition
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pretend in is incoming information cul=accumulated and ate means your brain ate it.
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soothsayer
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someone who predicts the future
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sooth = truth, so a its a sayer of the truth...though its not really possible in this case. this case=the meaning of the word
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Visage
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someone's face or facial expressions
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VIS can remind you of vision...and you can normally tell someone's AGE by looking at their face
plus if you replace the s and the g you get the word face |
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portend
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to be an indication or omen that something is going to happen, espcially something unpleasent
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think of OMEN and how PORTEND kinda sounds like predicting
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Rebuke
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to criticize or reprimand somebody, usual sharply
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how could you NOT know this one!!
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Audacity
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boldness or daring
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sentace: I had audacity when to started school.
think of it as auda being the name of someone daring, and then city being what auda has to accomplish |
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melee
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a noisy conufsed fight
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think of me and how my insides are always fighting and getting me all confused and being noisy and not letting me think of anything else
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Parsimonious
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very frugal or ungenerous
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Sentance: the parsimonious girl wouldn't give any money to me.
Word Roots: just think how SIMON is selfish |
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bulwark
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a wall-like structure built to keep out attackers
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Sentance: the bulwark only stoped the trojans for a little while
Roots: the BULl tries to break the WARK (tho i dont know what the fuck a wark is) |
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impregnable
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Too strong to be captured or opened by force
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4 ex.: an impregnable fortress
roots: im = not pregnable = can be captured or attacked think of pregnable like volnerable |
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Promontory
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a point of land which juts out into the sea
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4 ex.: we parked our ships onto the promontory
roots: the PRO MOuNtainer made NoTORY of the unusual sight of the NoTORY land that when flipped over 90degrees would look like a mountain |
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Odious
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inspiring hatred, contempt, or disgust
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4 ex.: the odious face of the guy was so horrible you couldn't stand to look @ it.
Roots: Odie from garfield is a dog i couldn't stand to have around |
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talisman
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a magical object believed to bring powers to whoever has it
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4 ex.: when hera got aphrodite's talisman she could go entice zeus
roots: TALIS is an object that helps MAN |
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sovereign
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1. [noun] the ruler or head of a state (like a king or queen) 2. [adj.] independent, self-governing and not ruled by any other state
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sentance (w/ adj.): the sovereign country was much better now then when Germany was control over it
roots: it's a type of REIGN over the people |
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subjugate
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To bring someone, especially a people or nation, under the control of another
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4 ex.: the achians subjugate the trojans
roots: something acts as a SUBstitue ruler |
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Concentric
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with a common middle point
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concentric.....think center
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parsimony
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very frugal or stingy
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4 ex.: the screwge was filled with parsimony and although he was the riches person ever he never helped the poor once.
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Euphemism
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a word or a phrase that's used to replace something that could be considered offensive
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lecher
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a man who behaves in a lustful way that's regarded disapprovingly
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demure
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looking or behaving in a modest, serious manner
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harrowed
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to break up land by pulling a harrow over it
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4 ex.: the farmer harrowed his farm before planting crap in it
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brazen
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made of brass or resembling it
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Calamity
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a disastrous situation
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dirge
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a song of mourning or lament, especially for a funeral
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convivial
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enjoyable because of its friendliness
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gleaner
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a. someone who obtains information in small amounts over a period of time
b. the person that goes over a feild that has been harvested and gathers any of the usable crops that remain |
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Vexation
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The state of being provoked to iribility or anxiety
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Cline
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a continuum between two extremes
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Satiate
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to satisfy or gratify a desire
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brawn
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very strong muscles
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abjure
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to formally renounce something
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intimate
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Marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
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conciliate
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to work with conflicting sides trying to bring them to come to an agreement
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derisive
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showing contempt or ridicule
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embroil
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to involve someone or yourself in conflict
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coddle
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to be overprotective of someone
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goad
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to drive someone to do something
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victuals
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food
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Clarion
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medieval trumpet
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Addle
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To confuse or befuddle someone, or to become confused or befuddled
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evoke
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to bring to mind a memory or feeling, especially from the past
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demonic
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related to or resembling a demon
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bane
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something that causes misery
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citadel
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fortress used as a place of refuge
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copious
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produced or existing in large quantities
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graven
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fixed firmly in someone's mind
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astute
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clever and perceptive, especially for personal benefit
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poltroon
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an offensive term for someone regarded as a coward
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bereft
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deprived of someone or something loved or valued
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ephemeral
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lasting for only a short period of time
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arbiter
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someone who has the authority to settle a dispute or decide an issue
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Scourge
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something that causes suffering
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intrepid
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fearless and persistent on the pursuit of something
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Furtive
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secretive
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taciturn
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uncommunicative by nature
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Glade
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clearing w/o trees or bushes in a forest
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Realism
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a practical understanding and acceptance of the actual nature of the world, rather than an idealized view of it
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Immoral
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contrary to accepted moral principles
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amoral
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not concerned or cooperative with morals
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autonomy
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political independence and self-government
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reticent
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reserved and unwilling to communicate or reveal very much
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flotsam
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wreckage and debris found floating in water from a ship
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Jetsam
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cargo which has been discarded to lighten the load of a ship in distress
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Ostentatious
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a boastful display of wealth and sucess
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inimical
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not favorable
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litany
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prayers during worship for the blessing of god
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pugnacious
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inclined to fight or be aggresive
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Synergy
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The working together of 2 or more to create a result which is greater than the sum of their individual capabilities
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Prevaricate
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to evade the truth
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Fastidious
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picky about small details being just right
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Garret
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an attic room immediately below the roof
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Tremulous
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trembling or quavering, especially because of nervousness
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Presentiment
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feeling that something (especially bad) will soon happen
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trifle
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something trivial
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emaciate
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to make or to become extremely thin
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consumption
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the act of eating or drinking
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bravado
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boldness or courage
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tribulation
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harship that causes misery or distress
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Titular
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having a particular title without the power to exercise the functions usually associated with it
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condescending
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behaving towards people in a way that shows you consider yourself superior
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Indignant
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angry because of something (or someone) unjust
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haughty
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behaving in an arrogant or condescending way
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Rend
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to violently tear
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Bacchus
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the god of wine
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aversion
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a strong feeling of dislike
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Ikon
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an image of a holy person (also spelled "icon")
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Monomania
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an obsessive preocupation in a single thing/idea/thought
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Morose
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gloomy
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morbid
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showing interest in morose subjects (such as murder, death, accidents, etc.)
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melancholy
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thoughtful or gentle sadness
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delirium
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a state of mental disturbance
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Consternation
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a feeling of dismay which is caused by something unexpected
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diffident
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lacking self-confidence and rather shy
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Slovenly
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not concerned with personal hygiene and tidiness (offensive term)
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Providential
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resulting from god's guidance
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superciliously
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arrogantly indifferent
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languidly
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lacking energy
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disconcerted
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taken aback
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repugnant
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offensive and completely unacceptable
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Enigma
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something or someone that's not easily understood
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Affable
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friendly and easy to talk to
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foppish
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a man who's ridiculously concerned with his appearance
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superflous
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more than nescessary
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solicitude
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expressed conern
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Reproof
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the act of criticizing someone for doing something wrong
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Pecuniary
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involving money
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depraved
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morally corrupted
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corpulent
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obese.
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requiem
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a peice of music written to commemorate someone who has died
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Pernicious
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causing great harm
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Mitigation
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to make an offence more excusable
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conflagration
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a large destructive fire
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aberration
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a change from what's normal or desirable
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