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cliche'
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a trite or hackneyed expression
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clique
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an exclusive group of people
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immorality
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wickedness
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immortality
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imperishable or unending life
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stationary
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immovable
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stationery
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is paper used for writing
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accent
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to stress of emphasize
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ascent
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a climb or rise
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assent
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consent; compliance
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accept
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to take something offered
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except
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other than;but
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advice
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opinion given as to what to do or how to handle a situation
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advise
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to counsel
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affect
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to influence
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effect
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to cause to happen
result |
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allusion
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indrect reference
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illusion
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false idea or conception; belief or opinion not in accord with the facts
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already
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previously
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all ready
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prepared
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altar
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table or stand used in religious rites
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alter
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to change
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capital
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a city where the government meets
money used in a business |
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capitol
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building in which the legislature meets
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choose
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to select
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chose
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past tense of choose
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cite
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to quote
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site
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location
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clothes
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garments
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cloths
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pieces of material
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coarse
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rough;unrefined
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course
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path of action
passage |
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consul
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a person appointed by the goverment to live in a foreign city and represent the citizenry and business interests of his native country there
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council
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a groupused for discussion, advisement
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counsel
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to advise
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decent
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proper; respectable
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descent
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moving down
ancestry |
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device
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plan;scheme
invention |
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devise
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to contrive
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emigrate
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to go away from a country
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immigrate
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to come into a country
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eminent
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prominent
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imminent
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impending
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immanent
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existing within
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fair
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beauiful
just festival |
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fare
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amount of money paid for transportation
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forth
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onward
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fourth
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4th
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its
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possessive form of it
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it's
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contraction of it is
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later
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at a subsequent date
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latter
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second of the two
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lead
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a metal
to show the way |
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led
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past tense of lead
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loose
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free; unrestricted
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lose
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to suffer the loss of
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moral
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virtuous
lesson taught by a story, incident, etc. |
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morale
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mental condition
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of
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from
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off
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away; at a distance
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passed
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having satisfied some requirement
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past
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gone by or elapsed in time
a period of time gone by beyond |
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personal
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private
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personnel
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staff
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principal
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head of a school
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principle
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the ulimate source, origin, or cause of something; a law, truth
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prophecy
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prediction of the future
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prophesy
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to declare or predict
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quiet
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still;calm
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quite
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really; truly
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quit
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to free oneself
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respectfully
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with respect, honor, esteem
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respectively
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in the order mentioned
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straight
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not curved
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strait
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restricted; narrow/ confined
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than
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used most commonly in conparison
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then
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soon afterward
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their
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possessive form of they
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they're
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contraction of they are
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there
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at that place
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to
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in the direction of; toward; as
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too
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more than enough
also |
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two
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one and one
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weather
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the general condition of the atomsphere
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whether
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if it be a case of fact
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who's
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contraction of who is or who has
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whose
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possessive form of who
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your
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possessive form of you
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you're
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contraction of you and are
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