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(noun) A roughly built, often filthy cabin.

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(noun) A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.

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(verb) To inhabit a filthy place, like a hut

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(noun) A sailor′s work song.

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(adjective) Showy.

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(null) Gay; showy.

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(noun) A public house, or place where liquor is sold.

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(null) To visit the grog-***** habitually; drink frequently or habitually at a public-house.

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(noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

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(verb-transitive) To go over (a limit or boundary); violate

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(verb) To disregard, skip, or miss something.

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(verb-intransitive) To pass over, away, or off.

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(noun) A road or other pathway which passes over another road, railroad, or other path.

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(null) To pass over; cross.

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(null) To pass by; pass by without notice or regard; omit to notice or include; overlook.

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(null) To surpass.

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(verb-transitive) To graze or shift (the feet), as in embarrassment.

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(noun) The back part of the neck

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(null) To graze slightly.

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(null) To roughen the surface of by hard usage; spoil the gloss, polish, or finish of.

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(verb) walk without lifting the feet

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(verb) poke at with the foot or toe

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(noun) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel

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(verb) mar by walking without lifting your feet off ground

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(noun) A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including miniature, long-haired, and short-haired varieties.

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(noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows

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(verb-intransitive) To economize severely.

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(verb-transitive) To be excessively sparing with or of.

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(verb-transitive) To cut or make too small or scanty.

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(verb) To make too small or short; to contract; to shorten.

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(verb) To limit; to put on short income or money.

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(adjective) Short; scanty; Made small

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(verb) exist in a small income or money

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(adjective) Informal Expensive: a ******* restaurant.

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(adjective) having a high price

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(noun) Law An allowance for support made under court order to a divorced person by the former spouse, usually the chief provider during the marriage. ****** may also be granted without a divorce, as between legally separated persons.

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(noun) A means of livelihood; maintenance.

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(noun) The means to support life.

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(noun) A small, crudely built cabin.

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(idiom) ***** up Slang To sleep together or live in sexual intimacy without being married.

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(idiom) ***** up Slang To live, room, or stay at a place: I'm *****ing up with my cousin till I find a place of my own.

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(verb) To live in or with; to ***** up.

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(verb) To feed upon waste.

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(verb-transitive) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.

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(verb-transitive) To wander beggar-like, without home

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(noun) a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction

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(noun) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.

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(noun) Grain fallen after harvest.

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(noun) A strolling bum; a shiftless or worthless fellow.

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(verb) make one's home in a particular place or community

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(noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling

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(verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly

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(noun) Chiefly British An apartment or room leased to a tenant.

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(noun) Law Property, such as land, rents, or franchises, held by one person leasing it from another.

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(noun) a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one

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(noun) any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned

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(noun) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.

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(noun) A holding; a parcel of land held by an owner; like one home in a dwelling with many homes, all rented.

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(noun) A dwelling inhabited by a tenant

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(noun) One of a number of apartments or sets of apartments in one building, each occupied by a separate family, and containing the conveniences of a common dwelling-house.

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(noun) a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

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(noun) An open, low shed.

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(verb) To put in a poor cottage or a small, mean house

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(verb-transitive) To put in a small mean house, or in an open shelter for cattle or storing produce

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(noun) An open shed for sheltering cattle, or for protecting produce, farming implements, etc., from the weather.

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(noun) A poor cottage; a small mean house; a filthy place that is lived in.

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(noun) A canopy with hanging sides over a statue; a niche for a statue.

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(noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling

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(verb) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.

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(verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries)

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(verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

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(verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

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(noun) A walker

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(noun) One who walks about; a walker.

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(noun) An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also per*****.

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(noun) One who walks about.

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(noun) One of a succession of platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.

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(noun) A place for slaughtering animals for meat.

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(verb-intransitive) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak

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(noun) A footstool.

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(noun) A bench; especially, a bench or stall in a market on which goods are exposed for sale. Specifically plural The tables or stalls on or in which butchers expose meat for sale; hence, a fresh-or meat-market.

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(noun) plural A slaughter-house; a place of butchery: sometimes treated as a singular.

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(null) To slaughter

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(null) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if with weak knees.

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(noun) An unsteady, lazy walk

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(verb) walk by dragging one's feet

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(noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

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(noun) The back of the neck.

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(noun) The back part of the neck.

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(noun) A tablecloth.

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(verb) To bombard with napalm.

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(noun) The back upper part of the neck, technically called nucha: generally in the phrase ***** of the neck.

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(noun) An imaginary gnomelike creature to whom mechanical problems, especially in aircraft, are attributed.

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(noun) A maker of mischief.

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(noun) A mythical creature reputed to be mechanically inclined and mischievously inclined to damage or dismantle machinery.

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(noun) Any mysterious, unknown source of trouble or mischief.

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(noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

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(adjective) Barely sufficient: paid ***** attention to the lecture.

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(adjective) Falling short of a specific measure: a ***** cup of sugar.

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(adjective) Inadequately supplied; short: We were ***** of breath after the lengthy climb.

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(verb-transitive) To give an inadequate portion or allowance to: had to ***** the older children in order to nourish the newborn.

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(verb-transitive) To limit, as in amount or share; stint: Our leisure time is *****ed by this demanding job.

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(verb-transitive) To deal with or treat inadequately or neglectfully;

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(adjective) very little, very few

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(adjective) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose;not enough

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(verb-transitive) To limit; to treat with less respect; to give less to;

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(verb-transitive) To cut short; to make small, narrow

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(adverb) with difficulty; hardly there; very little

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(verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

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(adjective) Stingy; miserly.

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(noun) A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.

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(noun) A person meanly stingy and yearns for more money; one who spends very little;

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(verb) To be excessively stingy, and be unwilling to spend money even for necessary means

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(noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

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(adjective) Of or in accord with the latest fad or fashion: ***** clothes.

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(noun) One who is drawn to and represents the latest trends

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(adjective) Of, intended for, or relating to high-income consumers: an ***** neighborhood; ***** fashions.

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(verb-transitive) To raise to a higher level; upgrade.

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(verb-transitive) To redesign or market for higher-income consumers: "the ****ing of TV dinners [to] savory, low-calorie entrées” ( Bernice Kanner).

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(adjective) Marked by wealth or quality; high-class.

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(verb) To increase in size, to scale up.

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(adjective) appropriate for people with good incomes

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(noun) Informal An allowance for support made under court order and given usually by one person to his or her former lover or live-in companion after they have separated. Not the married one.

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(noun) A form of repay paid to a former partner in a nonmarital relationship.

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(noun) support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends

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(noun) The act or process of transmitting

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(noun) A person without a permanent home who moves from place to place.

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(adjective) Aimless; drifting.

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(adjective) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

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(adjective) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

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(noun) One who is without a settled home; one who goes from place to place; a wanderer; not necessarily in a bad sense.

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(noun) An idle, worthless stroller from place to place without, fixed habitation or visible means of earning an honest livelihood; in law, an idle, worthless bum.

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(noun) A homeless person

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(noun) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.

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(noun) Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.

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(noun) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or widespread area.

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(verb) To walk with heavy footsteps.

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(verb) To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).

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(noun) a heavy footfall

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(verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

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(noun) a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

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(verb) travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition

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(noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

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(noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

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(verb-intransitive) Chiefly British To jeer or shout at a player, speaker, or team.

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(verb-intransitive) Australian To shout support for a team.

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(noun) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building

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(verb) To jeer and mock; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.

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(verb) To cheer for a team; to jeer at the opposition team or at the umpire (after an adverse decision).

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(noun) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.

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(noun) A large building, or a collection of huts or cabins, especially within a common inclosure, in which large numbers of men are lodged.

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(noun) A straw-thatched roof supported by four posts, under which hay is kept, and which is capable of being raised or lowered at pleasure.

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(verb) live in *****s

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(verb) laugh at with contempt and derision

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(noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel

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(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

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(noun) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service. Uttar Pradesh was long the ***** of India's foremost political dynasty

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(noun) Something over which one has rights or exercises control.

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(noun) An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.

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(noun) a piece of land held under the feudal system

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(noun) A room on the top floor of a house, typically under a pitched roof; an attic.

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(noun) An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.

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(noun) A turret; a watchtower.

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(noun) A lookout; a watch-tower; a turret or battlement.

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(noun) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

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(noun) Act of waiting; delay.

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(noun) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.

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(verb-transitive) to foreshow.

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(verb-intransitive) To be ominous.

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(noun) Stay; residing in a place; residence for a time.

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(noun) A place of residence; a dwelling; a habitation.

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(noun) Delay: as, “fled away without *****,” Spenser.

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(noun) An omen; a foreboding.

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(noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

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(verb) To invade; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.

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(verb-transitive) To cut in; to make furrows in or upon.

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(null) To make a cut or furrow in; cut.

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(null) To surround as with a shallow depression or ditch.

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(null) To fortify with a shallow depression or ditch; strengthen or protect by walls of defense: as, to ***** a camp or an army.

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(null) To cut down or deepen the valley of (a stream).

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(verb) fix firmly or securely

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(noun) An instrument that gauges the approximate distance traveled on foot by registering the number of steps taken.

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(noun) A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.

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(noun) An instrument by which paces are numbered as a person walks, and the distance traveled is thus approximately recorded.

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(noun) Someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.

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(verb) To multiply stick or jab, as with pins into a *****.

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(noun) A two-wheeled, one-horse carriage that has two seats and a folding top.

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(noun) An automobile with a folding top; a convertible coupe.

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(noun) An automobile with a retractable top.

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(noun) Properly, a covered one-horse carriage with two wheels: now often made with four wheels and a calash top.

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(verb) To lie close together.

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(noun) A white person.

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(verb-transitive) To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

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(verb-intransitive) To lie close together; to fit; often with in, into, with, or together.

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(noun) A fairy; an elf.

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(noun) Faith; fidelity; loyalty.

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(noun) Any of a class of drugs (chiefly lactones or pyrroles) that lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood by inhibiting an enzyme involved in its biosynthesis.

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(noun) a medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase

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(noun) An object of obsessive, usually exaggerated fear or anxiety: "Boredom, laziness and failure . . . These *****s, magnified by imagination, keep [the workaholic] running” ( Dun's Review).

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(noun) A recurring or persistent problem: "the *****s that have plagued vision systems: high price and slow throughput” ( Lawrence A. Goshorn).

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(noun) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc.

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(noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children

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(noun) Something that encompasses a wide variety of items or situations: a word that serves as a ***** for a bewildering array of computer accessories.

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(noun) Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.

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(noun) an enclosure or receptacle for miscellaneous articles that are uncared of

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(noun) Informal An estimate based on uncertain thought

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(noun) an estimate based on little information, being little better than a guess.

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(null) cloudy.

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(adjective) resembling a cloud

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(noun) A reduction or decrease: a ***** in car sales.

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(verb) diminish in size or intensity

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(verb) reduce heavily or suddenly; decline markedly

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(noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality

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(adjective) Of or having to do with atoms

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(adjective) Consisting of many separate, often disparate elements: an ***** culture.

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(adjective) Divided into separate elements;

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(adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements;

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(adjective) Logically capable of being proven false.

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(adjective) able to be proven right or wrong, and therefore testable.

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(noun) A person who would not give anything to others, and who does not spend much even for his own welfare

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(noun) An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions.

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(noun) An ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.

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(noun) A guy who would not give money to others and spends too economically

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(adjective) Impossible to overcome: ***** difficulties.

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insurmountable

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(adjective) Informal Lively or energetic; brisk.

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(adjective) Informal Smart or chic.

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(adjective) rapid and without delay

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(adjective) irritable

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(adjective) Tidy; well-dressed; sharp.

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(adjective) quick and energetic

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(adjective) apt to speak irritably

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(adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

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(adjective) Pleasing in personality or appearance; attractive.

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(adjective) Having a pleasing appearance or manner; attractive; handsome; friendly;

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(null) Having a well-formed body or person; of good appearance; presentable.

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(adjective) Not straightforward; shifty: a ***** character.

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(adjective) Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring: achieved success by ***** means.

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(adjective) Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout: a ***** route.

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(adjective) Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.

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(noun) Calmness of mind;

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(noun) The act of restraining; the process of lessening.

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(noun) The state or quality of being moderate or keeping a due mean between opposite extremes; freedom from excess; temperance; due restraint.

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(noun) Habitual slowness of thought, speech, or action; great deliberation.

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(adjective) Habitually untalkative.

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(null) Silent or reserved in speech; saying little; not inclined to speak or converse.

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(adjective) habitually reserved and uncommunicative

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(adjective) Excessively nervous or excited; agitated.

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(adjective) elaborate; overdone

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(null) Worked too hard or too much.

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(null) Worked up or excited to excess; overexcited: as ***** feelings, imagination, etc.

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(noun) A granary.

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(noun) An accumulation or collection of something.

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(noun) A granary; a store of grain.

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(verb) To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.

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(verb) To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.

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(verb) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact;

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(verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

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(adjective) Lacking conviction or enthusiasm; indifferent: gave only ***** support to the candidate.

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(adjective) Of a temperature between warm and cool.

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(adjective) Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).

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(noun) The act or posture of sitting astride.

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(noun) A noncommittal position.

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(idiom) ***** the fence Informal To be undecided or uncommitted.

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(verb) To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something.

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(verb) To form a disorderly sprawl.

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(verb) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range.

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(verb) be noncommittal

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(noun) One who insists on something unyieldingly, adament about small things: a ***** for neatness.

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(noun) Something puzzling or difficult.

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(noun) One who overlooks a duel; an umpire.

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(noun) someone who insists on something

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(noun) A method of execution formerly practiced in Spain, in which a tightened iron collar is used to strangle or break the neck of a condemned person.

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(noun) The iron collar used for an execution.

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(noun) A cord or wire used for strangling.

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(noun) something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation

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(verb) to execute by strangulation

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(noun) The instrument by means of which punishment is inflicted.

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(verb) strangle with an iron collar

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(adjective) Having no flaws; perfect

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(adjective) Incapable of sin or wrongdoing.

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(adjective) Perfect, without faults, flaws or errors

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(verb) To determine the value of (a variable or expression).

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(verb-transitive) To make explicit the quantity of.

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(verb) express as a number or measure or quantity

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(noun) An evildoer; a villain.

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(adjective) Lacking in conscience or moral principles;

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(adjective) Holding an incorrect religious belief.

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(noun) One who has behaved badly, or illegally.

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(noun) One not restrained by moral principles;

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(noun) One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.

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(noun) a person without moral scruples

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(adjective) Fraught with uncertainty or doubt; undecided.

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(adjective) Arousing doubt; doubtful: a ***** distinction.

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(adjective) Of questionable character: ***** profits.

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(adjective) In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided.

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(adjective) Of uncertain event or issue.

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(adjective) not convinced

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(adjective) having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure

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(adjective) showing ill will and a desire to hurt

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(noun) A sudden desire; a fancy. As in 'on a *****'

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(noun) Arbitrary thought or impulse: governed by *****.

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(noun) A sudden turn or start of the mind

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(noun) In Greek myth, a female tree spirit.

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(noun) a deity or nymph of the woods

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(noun) Inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork.

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(noun) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

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(noun) Interpretation of signs and omens.

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(verb) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.

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(noun) Suspicious surmise; derogatory supposition or presumption.

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(null) To form (an opinion or notion) upon probabilities or upon slight evidence; guess: generally governing a clause.

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(verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

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(noun) Slang An old person, especially an eccentric old man.

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(noun) An old person, usually a male.

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(adjective) Disagreeably aggressive or forward.

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(adjective) Aggressively ambitious; overly bold or determined.

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(noun) A small or elusive supernatural being;

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(noun) A specter or ghost.

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(noun) Meteorology A large, dim, red flash that appears above active thunderstorms in conjunction with lightning.

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(noun) The faculty of thought and feeling; the wit; the mind.

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(noun) Frame of mind; mood; humor; spirits: sometimes in the plural.

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(adjective) Melancholy or sullen.

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(adjective) Having or marked by a tendency to be bitter: a ***** expression on his face.

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(adjective) containing lead, or suffering from lead poisoning

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(adjective) gloomy, depressed, dull

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(adjective) sardonic, bitter, disdainful

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(adjective) Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.

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(adjective) Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull;

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(adjective) bitter or scornful

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(noun) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.

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(noun) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

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(noun) One who or that which sinks or causes to sink.\

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(noun) Communication by means of gesture and facial expression: Some tourists make themselves understood abroad by *****.

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(verb-intransitive) To express oneself in actions and no words.

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(noun) A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.

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(noun) One who expresses his meaning by action without words; a player who employs only action—mimicry, gestures, movements, and posturing—in presenting his part.

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(adverb) on foot; walking

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(adjective) currently in progress

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(adjective) traveling by foot

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(adjective) Covered with iron, steel, or some metal, armor-plated

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(adjective) Solid or certain; not able to be disputed or questioned; irrefutable.

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(noun) A metal-plated ship, vessel, or vehicle

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(noun) An armor-plated warship.

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(adjective) Rigorous; unbreakable; severe; exacting; inflexible.

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(verb-transitive) To be an omen of: heavy seas that *****d trouble for small craft.

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(verb-transitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to foreshow.

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(verb-intransitive) To foreshow something;

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(noun) An omen; a foreshadowing.

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(noun) A bid; an offer.

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(noun) A stop; a halting; delay.

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(verb) indicate by signs

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(adjective) Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions.

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(adjective) Having very strong opinions.

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(adjective) strict in your opinions

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(noun) An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods.

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(noun) Chiefly British A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.

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(noun) A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection.

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(noun) A raised causeway.

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(verb-transitive) To protect, enclose, or provide with an enclosure.

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(noun) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

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(verb-transitive) To surround or protect with a ***** or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

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(verb-intransitive) To work as a ditcher; to dig.

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dike

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(noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

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(adjective) Marked with bars or stripes: ***** prison cells; ***** plumage on a bird.

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(adjective) Having bars, striped.

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(adjective) Prevented.

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(adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action

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(verb-transitive) To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; belittle.

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(verb) To ridicule, mock, discredit.

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(verb-transitive) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.

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(verb-transitive) To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to undervalue.

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(noun) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

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(verb) express a negative opinion of

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(noun) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.

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(noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

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(noun) One who avoids or neglects work or responsibility: "In terms of their outlook on the future, *****s regard tomorrow with a studied cynicism or . . . don't even conceive of one” ( Julie Caniglia).

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(noun) One who tries to evade military service in wartime;

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(noun) A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.

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(noun) A landing place on a river;

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(noun) The act of rising.

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(noun) An embankment on the margin of a river, to confine it within its natural channel: as, the *****s of the Mississippi.

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(noun) A landing-place for vessels;

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(noun) The act or time of rising.

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(noun) A general or miscellaneous assemblage of guests, without reference to the time of day; a reception: as, the president's *****.

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(noun) a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)

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(noun) Informal A container, such as a pail or pitcher, that is used for carrying beer.

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(noun) A four-wheeled cab.

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(noun) a small iceberg just large enough to be hazardous for shipping

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(noun) Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a North Vietnamese soldier or guerrilla in the Vietnam War.

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(noun) A penis.

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(verb) To play a soft drop shot.

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(verb) To carry someone on a bicycle: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.

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(adjective) Trim; neat.

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(noun) either of a married couple who both are employed and have no children. The term is often used as the prototype of midde-class persons with higher-than-average disposable income.

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(noun) a ball hit softly that falls to the ground just beyond the net.

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(noun) an Asian person, especially a Vietnamese; -- used contemptuously, considered disparaging and offensive.

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(null) Neatly dressed; trim; tidy.

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(noun) Virginity.

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(noun) Celibacy.

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(noun) The state of abstaining from sexual intercourse before or outside of marriage; avoidance of sexual sins; moral purity.

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(noun) The unmarried life; celibacy.

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(noun) An ugly, mischievous elf or goblin.

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(noun) An object or a source of fear, dread, or harassment; "A foolish consistency is the ***** of little minds” ( Ralph Waldo Emerson).

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(noun) A small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans

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(adjective) Dispirited and depressed; dejected.

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(adjective) Sad because of a recent disappointment.

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(adjective) Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side.

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(adjective) Characteristically self-composed and sensible.

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(adjective) exercising or showing good judgment or common sense; sensible.

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(noun) A person who is present at an event without participating in it.

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(noun) One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.

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(noun) A scoundrel; a rascal.

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(noun) ​A wild and reckless person (especially a boy); a scoundrel.

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(noun) A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless.

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(noun) Equipment or furnishings.

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(noun) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.

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(noun) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.

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(noun) A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out.

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(noun) An outfit; provision of means or materials for carrying out a purpose; furniture for efficient service or action; an equipment: specifically applied to the outfit of a ship or an army, including supplies of all kinds for the former, and munitions of war for the latter.

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(noun) Furniture; dress; other belongings

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(noun) Equality.

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(adjective) quick; giddy; thoughtless

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(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface

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(noun) a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall)

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(adjective) Informal Given to prying into the affairs of others;

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(adjective) Informal Prying; inquisitive.

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(noun) A person who held land from a feudal lord and received protection in return for homage and allegiance.

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(adjective) slavish; servile.

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(verb-transitive) to subject to control; to enslave.

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(noun) One holding lands by the obligation to render military service or its equivalent to his superior; a ***** of the first order—that is, one holding directly from the king.

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vassal

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(noun) A subject; a dependent; a retainer; a servant; one who attends on or does the will of another.

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vassal

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(adjective) Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.

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(noun) One that differs from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes differ from accepted social standards.

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deviant

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(noun) A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.

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deviant

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(adjective) having behavior or characteristics differing from that which is normal or expected, especially in an undesirable or socially disapproved manner.

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deviant

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(adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm

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deviant

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(noun) A miserly person.

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churl

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(adjective) rough; selfish.

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churl

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(noun) a peasant; a countryman or laborer.

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churl

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(noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

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churl

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(noun) a bad-tempered person

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churl

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(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

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churl

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(noun) A state of vexation caused by a perceived slight or indignity; a feeling of wounded pride.

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pique

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(verb-transitive) To provoke; arouse: The portrait *****d her curiosity.

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pique

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(verb-transitive) To pride (oneself): He *****d himself on his stylish attire.

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pique

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(noun) A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.

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pique

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(noun) A feeling of enmity between two entities; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride.

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pique

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(verb) To wound the pride of; to sting; to excite to anger.

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pique

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(verb-transitive) To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick.

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pique

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(verb-intransitive) To cause annoyance or irritation.

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pique

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(noun) A point or peak.

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pique

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(adjective) Unhappy; dissatisfied

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disgruntled

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(adjective) frustrated.

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disgruntled

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(adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction

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disgruntled

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Front 454

(verb-transitive) To make or become nervous or upset.

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(noun) A state of agitation, confusion, or excitement.

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fluster

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(verb-intransitive) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.

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(noun) Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.

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fluster

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(noun) Confusion or embarrassment caused by surprise; mental confusion and excitement or perturbation

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fluster

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(adjective) Rough or surly in manner; Rude

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(adjective) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature; harsh

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crusty

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(noun) A homeless young person with poor cleanliness.

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crusty

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(noun) Dried eye mucus.

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crusty

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(null) Like crust; of the nature of crust; hard: as, a ***** surface or substance.

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crusty

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(adjective) Extremely angry; enraged.

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irate

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(adjective) Characterized or occasioned by anger: an ***** phone call.

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irate

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(adjective) Angry; incensed; enraged.

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irate

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(noun) An act of devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin or other wrongdoing.

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penance

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(noun) A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.

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penance

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(noun) Pain; sorrow; suffering.

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penance

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(noun) Any act performed by a person to atone for an offense to another; an act of atonement.

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penance

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(adjective) Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.

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dogmatic

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(adjective) Asserting beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.

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dogmatic

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(adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

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dogmatic

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(adjective) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles

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dogmatic

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(adjective) Law Delivered orally to witnesses rather than written: a ***** will.

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nuncupative

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(adjective) Oral; not written.

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nuncupative

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(adjective) Existing only in name.

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nuncupative

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Front 478

(verb) To crush and destroy something by walking on it.

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trample

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(verb) To treat someone harshly.

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trample

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(noun) the sound of heavy footsteps

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trample

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(null) To beat or tread down by the tramping or stamping of feet, or by frequent treading; crush by treading under foot; tread upon or tread down, literally or figuratively.

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trample

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(verb) walk on and flatten

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trample

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(noun) the sound of heavy treading or stomping

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trample

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(adjective) Ill-tempered, irritated

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peevish

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(adjective) Constantly complaining; whining.

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peevish

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(adjective) Easily vexed; hard to please; apt to complain;

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peevish

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(adjective) Silly; childish; trifling.

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peevish

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(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed

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peevish

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(noun) One who polishes shoes as an occupation.

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shoeblack

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(noun) large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers

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shoeblack

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(adjective) Easily angered; bad-tempered.

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choleric

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(adjective) Easily irritated; inclined to anger.

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choleric

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(adjective) Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.

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choleric

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(noun) A person suffering from cholera.

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choleric

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Front 495

(noun) A lesbian.

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tribade

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(noun) a female homosexual

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tribade

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(adjective) Harboring ill will or enmity.

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malicious

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(adjective) Proceeding from hatred or ill will;

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malicious

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(adjective) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse.

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malicious

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(verb-intransitive) To pry into the private affairs of others, especially by prowling about.

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snoop

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(verb) To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.

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snoop

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(noun) One who pokes into the affairs of others in a hidden way

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snoop

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(verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly

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snoop

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Front 504

(noun) An accomplice, (seemingly archaic)

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feodary

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(noun) An employee, as in a hotel or on a ship, who performs personal services for guests or passengers.

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valet

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(verb-intransitive) To work as an employee who performs personal services for guests and passengers

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valet

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(noun) A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.

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valet

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(noun) A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person; a body servant.

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valet

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Front 509

(noun) A kind of stick with a point of iron.

Back 509

valet

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(verb) serve as a personal attendant to

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valet

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Front 511

(noun) The district administered or governed by a prefect.

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prefecture

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(noun) The residence or housing of a prefect.

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prefecture

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(noun) The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.

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prefecture

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Front 514

(noun) Injustice; unfairness.

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inequity

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(noun) injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards

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inequity

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Front 516

(adjective) Gay or lesbian.

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homophile

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(adjective) Actively concerned with the rights of gay men or lesbians.

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homophile

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(adjective) Of or pertaining to the “***** movement”, a gay activist movement that used this term in English.

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homophile

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(noun) A gay man or lesbian, one who has a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender; used to emphasize love over sex.

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homophile

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Front 520

(verb-intransitive) To lie in hiding, as out of cowardice or bad conscience;

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skulk

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(verb-intransitive) To move about stealthily.

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skulk

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Front 522

(verb-intransitive) To evade work or obligation;

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skulk

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Front 523

(noun) One who hides, lurks, or practices evasion.

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skulk

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Front 524

(verb-intransitive) To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way;

Back 524

skulk

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Front 525

(noun) A number of foxes together; hence, a number of other animals or of persons together: as, a ***** of thieves.

Back 525

skulk

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Front 526

(adjective) Morally instructive.

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didactic

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(adjective) Excessively moralizing.

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didactic

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Front 528

(adjective) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

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didactic

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Front 529

(noun) A treatise on teaching or education.

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didactic

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Front 530

(adjective) Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; instructive; teaching some moral lesson.

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didactic

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(adjective) excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish to be instructed; -- of people.

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didactic

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(noun) A treatise on teaching or education.

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didactic

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Front 533

(noun) A small mischievous elf or spirit in Irish folklore; it is often depicted in literature as a dwarfish bearded old man; -- legend tells that if a ***** is captured, he will reveal the location of his hidden pot of gold.

Back 533

leprechaun

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Front 534

(adjective) Informal Preparatory: a college ***** course; did extensive ***** work for the interview.

Back 534

prep

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Front 535

(noun) Informal Preparation: Daily practices are the best ***** for the upcoming track meet.

Back 535

prep

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Front 536

(noun) Chiefly British The *****aring of lessons; homework.

Back 536

prep

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Front 537

(verb-intransitive) To be enrolled in and attend a *****aratory school.

Back 537

prep

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Front 538

(verb-transitive) To *****are (someone) for a medical examination or surgical procedure.

Back 538

prep

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Front 539

(verb-transitive) To *****are or prime: ***** a surface for painting.

Back 539

prep

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Front 540

(verb) To *****are.

Back 540

prep

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Front 541

(noun) An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.

Back 541

labyrinth

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Front 542

(noun) Something highly intricate or convoluted in character, composition, or construction: a ***** of rules and regulations.

Back 542

labyrinth

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Front 543

(noun) A maze, especially underground or covered.

Back 543

labyrinth

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Front 544

(verb) To enclose in a complex structure full of interconnecting passages and confusing ways

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labyrinth

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Front 545

(noun) An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance.

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labyrinth

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Front 546

(noun) Any confused complication of objects, lines, ideas, etc.; any thing or subject characterized by intricate turnings or windings; a perplexity.

Back 546

labyrinth

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Front 547

(noun) Reluctance or an inability to make up one's mind;

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indecision

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Front 548

(noun) The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist.

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indecision

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Front 549

(noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action

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indecision

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Front 550

(noun) A collection or totality; an aggregate.

Back 550

lump

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Front 551

(noun) A person regarded as ungainly or dull-witted.

Back 551

lump

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Front 552

(adjective) Not broken or divided into parts: a ***** payment.

Back 552

lump

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Front 553

(verb-intransitive) To move heavily.

Back 553

lump

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Front 554

(idiom) ***** in (one's) throat A feeling of constriction in the throat caused by emotion.

Back 554

lump

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Front 555

(noun) Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster; a mound, hill, or group.

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lump

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Front 556

(noun) A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.

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lump

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Front 557

(noun) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass

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lump

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Front 558

(noun) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

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lump

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Front 559

(verb-intransitive) To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

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lump

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Front 560

(verb-intransitive) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.

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lump

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Front 561

(verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

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lump

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Front 562

(noun) an awkward stupid person

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lump

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Front 563

(verb) put together indiscriminately

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lump

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Front 564

(adjective) Based on or involving suppositions; not factual evidence

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conjectural

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Front 565

(adjective) Dependent on guesswork; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.

Back 565

conjectural

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Front 566

(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

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conjectural

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Front 567

(verb-transitive) To prohibit; forbid.

Back 567

proscribe

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Front 568

(verb) To forbid or prohibit.

Back 568

proscribe

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Front 569

(verb) To banish or exclude.

Back 569

proscribe

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Front 570

(verb-transitive) To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile.

Back 570

proscribe

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Front 571

(null) To publish the name of, as condemned to death and liable to confiscation of property.

Back 571

proscribe

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Front 572

(null) To denounce and condemn as dangerous; reject utterly; interdict; prohibit.

Back 572

proscribe

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Front 573

(verb) command against

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proscribe

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Front 574

(verb) To reduce the force of something;

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bate

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Front 575

(verb) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation; as, with *****d breath.

Back 575

bate

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Front 576

(verb) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.

Back 576

bate

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Front 577

(verb) To mastur*****.

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bate

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Front 578

(verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments

Back 578

bate

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Front 579

(verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of

Back 579

bate

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Front 580

(verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons

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bate

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Front 581

(noun) A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.

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retinue

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Front 582

(noun) The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants;

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retinue

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Front 583

(noun) Something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book.

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addendum

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Front 584

(noun) A postscript.

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addendum

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Front 585

(noun) Music A combination of three or more pitches sounded simultaneously.

Back 585

chord

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Front 586

(noun) Harmony, as of color.

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chord

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Front 587

(noun) A line segment that joins two points on a curve.

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chord

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Front 588

(noun) An emotional feeling or response: Her words struck a sympathetic ***** in her audience.

Back 588

chord

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Front 589

(verb) To accord; to harmonize together.

Back 589

chord

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Front 590

(noun) A main horizontal member of a bridge-truss.

Back 590

chord

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Front 591

(adjective) Blurred or dimmed by or as if by tears: ***** eyes.

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bleary

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Front 592

(adjective) Vaguely outlined; indistinct.

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bleary

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Front 593

(adjective) Exhausted; worn-out.

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bleary

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Front 594

(adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline

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bleary

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Front 595

(noun) A short nail with a thick head used to protect the soles of shoes or boots.

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hobnail

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Front 596

(verb) To fit with short nails at the soles of a shoe or boot.

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hobnail

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Front 597

(verb) To tread down roughly, as with shoes with nails studded in the soles.

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hobnail

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Front 598

(noun) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing horses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

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hobnail

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Front 599

(null) Incapable of being climbed or mounted.

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unscalable

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Front 600

(adjective) incapable of being ascended or climbed

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unscalable

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Front 601

(verb-transitive) To reject the validity or authority of: "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but *****d it” ( Joyce Carol Oates).

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repudiate

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Front 602

(verb-transitive) To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: *****d the accusation.

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repudiate

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Front 603

(verb) To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.

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repudiate

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Front 604

(verb) To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.

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repudiate

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Front 605

(verb) To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).

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repudiate

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Front 606

(verb-transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim.

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repudiate

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Front 607

(verb) refuse to acknowledge, or recognize as valid

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repudiate

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Front 608

(verb-intransitive) To make steady progress; prosper.

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thrive

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Front 609

(verb) To grow vigorously, to flourish.

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thrive

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Front 610

(verb) To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.

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thrive

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Front 611

(verb-intransitive) To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate.

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thrive

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Front 612

(verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

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thrive

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Front 613

(adjective) Marked by shame or disgrace: "It was an ***** end ... as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt” ( Angus Deming).

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ignominious

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Front 614

(adjective) Deserving disgrace or shame;

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ignominious

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Front 615

(adjective) Degrading; debasing: "The young people huddled with their sodden gritty towels and ***** goosebumps inside the gray-shingled bathhouse” ( John Updike).

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ignominious

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Front 616

(noun) A liveried male servant; a footman.

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lackey

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Front 617

(noun) A servile follower;

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lackey

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Front 618

(verb) To attend, wait upon, serve obediently like a slave

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lackey

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Front 619

(noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

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lackey

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Front 620

(noun) A college course designed to give a student supervised practical knowledge of a subject previously studied theoretically.

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practicum

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Front 621

(verb) To criticise ; to defame.

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denigrate

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Front 622

(verb) To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade

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denigrate

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Front 623

(verb) To blacken.

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denigrate

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Front 624

(verb-transitive) To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

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denigrate

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Front 625

(verb-transitive) Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame.

Back 625

denigrate

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Front 626

(adjective) Tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment: ***** accusations.

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invidious

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Front 627

(adjective) Containing or implying a slight; discriminatory: ***** distinctions.

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invidious

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Front 628

(adjective) Envious.

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invidious

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Front 629

(adjective) envious, jealous

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invidious

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Front 630

(adjective) Likely to or intended to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy or resentment; hateful; offensive.

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invidious

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Front 631

(adjective) Tending to mislead; deceptive: ***** testimony.

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fallacious

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Front 632

(adjective) Deceptive or misleading.

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fallacious

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Front 633

(adjective) intended to deceive

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fallacious

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Front 634

(noun) One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain.

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stoic

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Front 635

(adjective) Seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive: "***** resignation in the face of hunger” ( John F. Kennedy).

Back 635

stoic

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Front 636

(adjective) not affected by pain or distress

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stoic

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Front 637

(noun) A person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.

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stoic

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Front 638

(adjective) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or bad fortune without complaint.

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stoic

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Front 639

(verb-transitive) To tear or wear off the skin of; abrade.

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excoriate

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Front 640

(verb-transitive) To censure strongly; denounce: an editorial that *****d the administration for its inaction.

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excoriate

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Front 641

(verb) To wear off the skin of;

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excoriate

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Front 642

(verb) To strongly denounce or criticise.

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excoriate

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Front 643

(verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading

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excoriate

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Front 644

(adjective) Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences: a ***** economic forecast; ***** threats.

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dire

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Front 645

(adjective) Urgent; desperate: in ***** need; ***** poverty.

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dire

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Front 646

(verb-intransitive) To surrender under specified conditions; come to terms.

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capitulate

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Front 647

(verb-intransitive) To give up all resistance; acquiesce.

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capitulate

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Front 648

(verb) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.

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capitulate

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Front 649

(verb) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, to make peace.

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capitulate

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Front 650

(verb) To agree terms of surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.

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capitulate

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Front 651

(verb) surrender under agreed conditions

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capitulate

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Front 652

(noun) One who shrinks, or sneaks, as from danger, duty, or work.

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skulker

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Front 653

(noun) someone waiting in concealment

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skulker

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Front 654

(noun) someone avoiding their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

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skulker

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Front 655

(noun) The act or process of composing, setting up, or establishing.

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constitution

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Front 656

(noun) The composition or structure of something; makeup.

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constitution

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Front 657

(noun) The physical makeup of a person: Having a strong *****, she had no trouble climbing the mountain.

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constitution

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Front 658

(noun) The system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature, functions, and limits of a government or another institution.

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constitution

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Front 659

(noun) the act of forming or establishing something

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constitution

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Front 660

(verb-intransitive) To join in an effort for a common cause:

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rally

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Front 661

(verb-intransitive) To recover abruptly from a setback or disadvantage: The stock market declined, then *****ed. The home team *****ed in the ninth inning to win the game.

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rally

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Front 662

(noun) A gathering, especially one intended to inspire enthusiasm for a cause: a political *****.

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rally

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Front 663

(noun) A reassembling, as of dispersed troops.

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rally

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Front 664

(verb-intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.

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rally

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Front 665

(verb-intransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness;

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rally

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Front 666

(verb-intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

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rally

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Front 667

(noun) A political mass meeting.

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rally

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Front 668

(noun) A tendency downward, especially in business or economic activity.

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downturn

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Front 669

(noun) A downward trend, or the beginnings of one; a decline.

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downturn

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Front 670

(noun) a worsening of business or economic activity

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downturn

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Front 671

(noun) An open automobile having a single seat in the front for two or three people and a rumble seat or luggage compartment in the back.

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roadster

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Front 672

(noun) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.

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roadster

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Front 673

(noun) A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.

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roadster

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Front 674

(noun) A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.

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roadster

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Front 675

(noun) One who drives much; a coach driver.

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roadster

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Front 676

(noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse

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roadster

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Front 677

(verb-transitive) To drink (liquid) or engage in drinking liquid in great gulps.

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swig

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Front 678

(noun) A drink; sip.

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swig

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Front 679

(verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught

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swig

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Front 680

(verb) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat

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swig

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Front 681

(noun) a large and hurried swallow

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swig

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Front 682

(noun) A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface;

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chasm

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Front 683

(noun) A pronounced difference of opinion, interests, or loyalty.

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chasm

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Front 684

(noun) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a fissure.

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chasm

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Front 685

(adjective) Reducing pain or severity; ***** treatment for an incurable disease.

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alleviative

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Front 686

(adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

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alleviative

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Front 687

(adjective) Impossible to capture or enter by force: an ***** fortress.

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impregnable

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Front 688

(adjective) Difficult or impossible to attack, challenge, or refute with success: an ***** argument.

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impregnable

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Front 689

(adjective) Too strong to be penetrated.

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impregnable

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Front 690

(adjective) Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable

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impregnable

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Front 691

(noun) Informal An *****na or *****nus.

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alum

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Front 692

(noun) A compact or close-knit body of people: "formed a solid ***** in defense of the Constitution and Protestant religion” ( G.M. Trevelyan).

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phalanx

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Front 693

(noun) A formation of infantry carrying overlapping shields and long spears, developed by Philip II of Macedon and used by Alexander the Great.

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phalanx

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Front 694

(noun) a large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.

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phalanx

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Front 695

(noun) In zoology, a group or series of animals, of indeterminate classificatory value; one of several groups which may be interposed above genera and below classes or orders.

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phalanx

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Front 696

(adjective) Bitter; unforgiving.

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rancorous

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Front 697

(adjective) showing deep-seated resentment

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rancorous

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Front 698

(adjective) Rather posh, elegant.

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swanky

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Front 699

(noun) An active or clever young fellow.

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swanky

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Front 700

(noun) Any weak fermented drink; cheap beer.

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swanky

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Front 701

(adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant

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swanky

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Front 702

(noun) Heated, often violent dissension; bitter conflict.

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strife

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Front 703

(noun) A struggle, fight, or quarrel.

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strife

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Front 704

(noun) Conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope.

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strife

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Front 705

(noun) The act of trying hard; earnest endeavor.

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strife

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Front 706

(noun) Exertion or contention for superiority;

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strife

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Front 707

(noun) violent contention; fight; battle.

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strife

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Front 708

(noun) lack of agreement or harmony

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strife

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Front 709

(noun) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

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augur

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Front 710

(noun) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.

Back 710

augur

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Front 711

(verb-intransitive) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue.

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augur

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Front 712

(verb-transitive) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens;

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augur

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Front 713

(noun) the social non-verbal behaviours (such as body language and facial expressions) that characterise a person

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demeanor

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Front 714

(noun) Management; treatment; conduct.

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demeanor

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Front 715

(noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people

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demeanor

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Front 716

(verb) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)

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spurn

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Front 717

(verb-transitive) To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

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spurn

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Front 718

(verb-intransitive) To kick or toss up the heels.

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spurn

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Front 719

(verb-intransitive) To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

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spurn

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Front 720

(noun) A kick; a blow with the foot.

Back 720

spurn

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Front 721

(noun) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

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spurn

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Front 722

(adjective) Hypothetical; supposed.

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supposititious

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Front 723

(adjective) Substituted for the genuine, counterfeit.

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supposititious

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Front 724

(adjective) Imaginary; fictitious, pretended to exist.

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supposititious

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Front 725

(adjective) Constant in application or attention; diligent: an ***** worker who strove for perfection. See Synonyms at busy.

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assiduous

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Front 726

(adjective) Unceasing; persistent: ***** research.

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assiduous

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Front 727

(adjective) marked by care and persistent effort

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assiduous

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Front 728

(noun) A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners;

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fop

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Front 729

(noun) One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress;

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fop

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Front 730

(noun) A man who is ostentatiously nice in manner and appearance; one who invites admiration by conspicuous dress and manners.

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fop

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Front 731

(adjective) Of illegitimate birth.

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spurious

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Front 732

(adjective) false, not authentic, not genuine

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spurious

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Front 733

(adjective) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; counterfeit;

Back 733

spurious

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Front 734

(adjective) Not legitimate; bastard.

Back 734

spurious

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Front 735

(verb-intransitive) To argue or contend stubbornly, especially about trivial or petty points.

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stickle

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Front 736

(verb) To argue or struggle for.

Back 736

stickle

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Front 737

(noun) The current below a waterfall.

Back 737

stickle

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Front 738

(verb-intransitive) To separate combatants by intervening.

Back 738

stickle

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Front 739

(verb-transitive) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.

Back 739

stickle

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Front 740

(noun) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.

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stickle

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Front 741

(noun) An attendant or servant.

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varlet

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Front 742

(noun) A rogue or scoundrel.

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varlet

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Front 743

(noun) A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant;

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varlet

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Front 744

(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

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varlet

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Front 745

(noun) An overhanging or extremely steep mass of rock, such as the face of a cliff.

Back 745

precipice

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Front 746

(noun) The brink of a dangerous or disastrous situation: on the ***** of defeat.

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precipice

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Front 747

(noun) A very steep cliff.

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precipice

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Front 748

(noun) A headlong fall or descent.

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precipice

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Front 749

(noun) A headlong fall; an abrupt descent.

Back 749

precipice

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Front 750

(noun) Dignified or magnificent display; splendor: the solemn ***** of a military funeral.

Back 750

pomp

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Front 751

(noun) Vain or ostentatious display.

Back 751

pomp

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Front 752

(verb) To make a vain display; to show off.

Back 752

pomp

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Front 753

(noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display

Back 753

pomp

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Front 754

(noun) An argument or a fight.

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hassle

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Front 755

(noun) Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.

Back 755

hassle

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Front 756

(noun) An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.

Back 756

hassle

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Front 757

(verb) To trouble, to bother, to annoy.

Back 757

hassle

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Front 758

(verb) To pick a fight or start an argument.

Back 758

hassle

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Front 759

(noun) disorderly fighting; an angry dispute or disturbance.

Back 759

hassle

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Front 760

(verb-intransitive) To expend excessive time and energy trying to accomplish a task.

Back 760

hassle

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Front 761

(verb) annoy continually or chronically

Back 761

hassle

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Front 762

(adjective) Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false: a ***** argument.

Back 762

specious

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Front 763

(adjective) Deceptively attractive.

Back 763

specious

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Front 764

(adjective) Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.

Back 764

specious

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Front 765

(adjective) Beautiful, pleasing to look at.

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specious

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