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burdensome, involving hardship or difficulty
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onerous
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ANTONYMS - light, easy, undemanding, untaxing
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common, prevelent, widespread, happening often, plentiful, abundant, replete
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rife
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ANTONYMS - devoid of, lacking
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the parts of any subject or dicipline that are learned first; the earliest stages of anything
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rudiments
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(v) to set apart, separate for a special purpose; to take possession of and hold in custody
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sequester
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(v) to get rid of something unwanted, delete, to sift through to obtain what is desirable, to remove the chaft from the wheat by blowing air on it; to blow on; fan
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winnow
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pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty
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aesthetic
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no longer in existence or functioning; dead
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defunct
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ANTONYMS - alive, extant
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to frustrate, thwart or defeat; to confuse, perplex or embarrass
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discomfit
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to take up and support; to become attached to; adopt; to marry
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espouse
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ANTONYMS - renounce, repudiate, disavow
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an object believed to have magical powers, an object of unreasoning devotion or reverence
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fetish
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(adj.) living together in a herd or group; sociable, seeking the company of others
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gregarious
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ANTONYMS - aloof, introverted, reclusive
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(adj.) marked by a persistent absence of good luck
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hapless
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ANTONYMS - lucky, charmed, fortunate
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faultless, beyond criticism or blame
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impeccable
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ANTONYMS - grimy, soiled, spotted, sullied
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to trouble with demands, to beg for insistently
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importune
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to insert between other parts or things, to present as an addition or correction
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imterpolate
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