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Abominable
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hateful, disgusting
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Abhor
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to hate, loathe
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Abide
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to remain, continue, stay
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Abjure
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to abstain from
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Adage
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an old familiar saying
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Anoint
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to apply oil to esp. as a sacred rite
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Appall
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to overcome with horror
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Apparition
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superbatural appearance
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Appease
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to cause to subside
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Assay
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to subject, judge
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Augment
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enlarge
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Augur
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to give promise, to foretell
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Avarice
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excessive desire for wealth
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Bane
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a source, harmful
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Beguile
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to take away from by cheating
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Benediction
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closing blessing
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Bestow
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to give something formally
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Blanch
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to become pale with shock
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Blaspheme
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saying disrespectful things about God
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Braggart
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boaster
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Breach
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breaking of a law or obligation
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Chafe
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to warm by rubbing
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Circumscribe
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to draw a line around
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Cleave
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to divide by force
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Cliche
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a trite phrase or expression
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Colloquial
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characteristic of conversation and esp of formal and informal conversation
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Confound
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to throw into disorder
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Conjure
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to implore earnestly or solemnly
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Corporal
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noncommissioned officer ranking below a sergeant
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Countenance
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the human face
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Coy
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marked by artful playfulness
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Credulous
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easily convinced
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Cumbersome
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hard to handle or manage
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Deft
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quick and neat in action
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Demented
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mad, insane
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Dire
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very horrible, extreme
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Disdain
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the feeling that deserves no attention or respect
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Dispatch
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to attend to rapidly or efficiently
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Disposition
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the act or power of disposing
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Dolorous
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mental suffering or anguish
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Elocution
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the art of effective public speaking
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Embodiment
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give definite form or expression to
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Eminence
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a person of high rank or position
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Entrails
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the insides of an animal
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Epicure
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person with fastidious taste especially in food and wine
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Equivocator
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a person connectedly acquainted with
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Expedite
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to carry out promptly
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Fortify
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to strengthen by military differences
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Fortitude
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a strength of mind that enables a person to meet danger or bear pain
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Franchise
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a special privelege granted to an individual or group
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Fret
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to make by wearing away
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Grapple
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to seize or hold with or as if with a hook implement
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Haggard
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having a worn or emaciated appearance
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Harbinger
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a person sent ahead to provide lodgings; one that foreshadows
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Homely
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lacking beauty or proportion
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Impediment
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something that hinders or obstruct
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Impervious
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incapable of being penetrated
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Implicit
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understood though not directly stated
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Infatuate
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to inspire with a foolish or extravagant love or admiration
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Innovate
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to introduce or as if new;make changes
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Intemperance
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lack of moderation
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Interdict
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to prohibit by decree
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Intrenchant
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to establish solidly
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Invigorate
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to give life and energy to
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Jovial
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full of laughter
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Judicious
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having exercising judgement
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Knell
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to summon, announce
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Languish
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to become dispirited
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Largess
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great generosity especiall with money
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Laud
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celebrate
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Levy
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the imposition or collection of assessment
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Malady
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disease or disorder
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Malice
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desire to cause injury
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Malignity
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harmful,likely to cause death
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manifestation
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easily understood
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Mete
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measure
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Mettle
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quality of temperament
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Minion
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follower or underling
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Mirth
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gladness accompanied with laughter
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Mortify
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to subdue by implicting pain
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Multitude
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a great number
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Niggardly
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a stingy person
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Notion
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an idea or belief especially one that is uncleat and unreasoonable
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Pall
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to lose in interest or attraction
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Palpable
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capable of being touched
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Parley
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conference over matters in dispute
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Pernicious
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very destructive or injurious
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Perseverance
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to persist in spite of difficulties
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Perturbation
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to disturb greatly esp. in mind
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Perverse
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turned away from what is right or good
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Petty
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having a secondary rank
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Piety
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fidelity to natural obligatiions
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Poignant
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painfully affecting the feelings
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Posterity
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the descendants from one ancestor
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Potent
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to produce alot
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Prate
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to talk long and idly
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Pristine
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having a purity of its original state
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Profound
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marked by intellectual depth or insight
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Purgative
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strong laxative
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Purveyor
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supplier usually for buisness
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Quell
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to put an end to by force
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Rabble
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the lowest class of people
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Ratify
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to approve and accept formally
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Ravish
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to seize and take away by violence
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Rebuke
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to reprimand sharply
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Quell
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to put an end to by force
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Rabble
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the lowest class of people
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Ratify
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to approve and accept formally
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Ravish
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to seize and take away by violence
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Rebuke
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to reprimand sharply
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Recoil
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to draw back
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Remorse
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a gnawing distreess arising from a sense of guilt
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Retribution
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something administered or exacted in recompensee
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Rigmarole
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confused or senseless talk
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Rue
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to feel regret
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Scepter
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a staff borne by sovereign as an emblem of authority
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Scorn
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an emotion involving both hatred and anger
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Seditious
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resistance against a government
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Sinister
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crazy
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Soliloquy
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the act of talking to oneself
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Spurn
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to kick away or trample on
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Stealth
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an aircraft design intended to produce a weak radar return
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Subtlety
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hardly noticeable
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Succumb
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to yield to superior strength or force
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Surcease
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a temporary delay
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Surmise
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presume, suppose
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Tantalize
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to tease or torment
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Taper
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a slender wax candle
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tarry
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to stay in or at a place
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Temperate
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not extreme or excessive
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Tempest
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a violent storm
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Trammel
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something impeding activity or freedom
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Transpire
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to become known
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Travail
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to labor hard
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Treatise
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systematic written exposition or agreement
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Trepidation
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nervous agitation
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Trifle
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something of little or no important value
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Undaunted
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undismayed; not discouraged; not forced to abandon purpose or effort
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Usurp
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to use without authority or right; employ wrongfully
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Verity
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something that is true, as a principle, belief, idea, or statement
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Vile
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wretchedly bad
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Voluptuous
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full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment
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Warrant
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authorization, sanction, or justification
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Wrath
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vengeance or punishment as the consequence of anger.
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