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epic
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noun: A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc.
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supernumerary
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adjective: Superfluous.
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kingship
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noun: Royal state.
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negation
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noun: The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
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battalion
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noun: A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
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essence
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noun: That which makes a thing to be what it is.
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solar
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adjective: Pertaining to the sun.
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preservation
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noun: Conservation.
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constable
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noun: An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
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formula
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noun: Fixed rule or set form.
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rigorous
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adjective: Uncompromising.
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commotion
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noun: A disturbance or violent agitation.
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proceed
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verb: To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption.
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morbid
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adjective: Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
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courtesy
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noun: Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
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proclamation
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noun: Any announcement made in a public manner.
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protrude
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verb: To push out or thrust forth.
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desert
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verb: To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
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sordid
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adjective: Of degraded character or nature.
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detract
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verb: To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation.
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midsummer
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noun: The middle of the summer.
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epigram
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noun: A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation.
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ossify
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verb: to convert into bone.
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hackney
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verb: To make stale or trite by repetition.
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salient
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adjective: Standing out prominently.
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nit
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noun: The egg of a louse or some other insect.
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improvident
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adjective: Lacking foresight or thrift.
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aboveboard
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aderb: Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
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supple
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adjective: Easily bent.
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codicil
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noun: A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
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antiquary
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noun: One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
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monetary
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adjective: Financial.
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lactation
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noun: The secretion of milk.
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transmute
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verb: To change in nature, substance, or form.
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abhorrent
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adjective: Very repugnant; hateful.
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felicity
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noun: A state of well-founded happiness.
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inhospitable
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adjective: Not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously.
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nonpareil
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noun: One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
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sympathetic
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adjective: Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others.
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lackadaisical
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adjective: Listless.
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protoplasm
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noun: The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
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precede
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verb: To happen first.
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paly
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adjective: Lacking color or brilliancy.
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impoverish
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verb: To make indigent or poor.
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inefficient
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adjective: Not accomplishing an intended purpose.
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malcontent
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noun: One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
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variable
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adjective: Having a tendency to change.
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defame
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verb: To slander.
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loam
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noun: A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay.
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ennoble
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verb: To dignify.
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alliance
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noun: Any combination or union for some common purpose.
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anonymous
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adjective: Of unknown authorship.
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impair
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verb: To cause to become less or worse.
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temporal
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adjective: Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
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disbeliever
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noun: One who refuses to believe.
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sequence
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noun: The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
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hypnotize
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verb: To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions.
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rotund
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adjective: Round from fullness or plumpness.
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enfeeble
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verb: To debilitate.
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vogue
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noun: The prevalent way or fashion.
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indolent
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adjective: Habitually inactive or idle.
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accusatory
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adjective: Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
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commemorate
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verb: To serve as a remembrance of.
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manlike
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adjective: Like a man.
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dogmatic
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adjective: Making statements without argument or evidence.
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landlord
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noun: A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements.
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embezzle
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verb: To misappropriate secretly.
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hardihood
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noun: Foolish daring.
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venous
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adjective: Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
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missal
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noun: The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
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evasion
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noun: Escape.
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mystic
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noun: One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth.
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burgher
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noun: An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
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lenient
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adjective: Not harsh.
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alkali
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noun: Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
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metaphysics
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noun: The principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science.
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hesitant
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adjective: Vacillating.
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prelacy
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noun: A system of church government.
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necromancer
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noun: One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead.
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conversant
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adjective: Thoroughly informed.
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subsist
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verb: To be maintained or sustained.
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intricacy
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noun: Perplexity.
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faction
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noun: A number of persons combined for a common purpose.
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palette
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noun: A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
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tolerate
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verb: To passively permit or put up with.
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degenerate
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verb: To become worse or inferior.
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disinterested
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adjective: Impartial.
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baize
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noun: A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
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bumper
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noun: A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
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hale
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adjective: Of sound and vigorous health.
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inconsequential
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adjective: Valueless.
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allege
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verb: To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.
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monosyllable
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noun: A word of one syllable.
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nostrum
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noun: Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
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alacrity
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noun: Cheerful willingness.
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terminal
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adjective: Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
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appall
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verb: To fill with dismay or horror.
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prohibitory
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adjective: Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
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refusal
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noun: Denial of what is asked.
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liniment
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noun: A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.
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hawthorn
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noun: A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges.
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confectionery
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noun: The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
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postscript
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noun: Something added to a letter after the writer's signature.
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leonine
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adjective: Like a lion.
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impotent
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adjective: Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual.
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accumulate
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verb: To become greater in quantity or number.
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pathos
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noun: The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
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forbearance
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noun: Patient endurance or toleration of offenses.
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ill-natured
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adjective: Surly.
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transcript
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noun: A copy made directly from an original.
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reckless
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adjective: Foolishly headless of danger.
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retrograde
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verb: To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
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trammel
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noun: An impediment.
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psychotherapy
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noun: The treatment of mental disease.
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esthetic
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adjective: Pertaining to beauty, taste, or the fine arts.
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mane
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noun: The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion.
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contemptuous
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adjective: Disdainful.
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martial
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adjective: Pertaining to war or military operations.
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suggestible
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adjective: That can be suggested.
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latent
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adjective: Dormant.
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itinerant
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adjective: Wandering.
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illuminate
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verb: To supply with light.
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deflect
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verb: To cause to turn aside or downward.
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Antichrist
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noun: Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power.
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absorption
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noun: The act or process of absorbing.
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dialogue
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noun: A formal conversation in which two or more take part.
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intellect
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noun: The faculty of perception or thought.
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peter
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verb: To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
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pincers
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noun: An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
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punitive
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adjective: Pertaining to punishment.
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municipal
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adjective: Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government.
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dearth
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noun: Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
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expansion
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noun: Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like.
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neurology
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noun: The science of the nervous system.
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plea
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noun: An argument to obtain some desired action.
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separate
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verb: To take apart.
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insecure
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adjective: Not assured of safety.
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disrupt
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verb: To burst or break asunder.
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proportionate
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adjective: Being in proportion.
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benediction
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noun: a solemn invocation of the divine blessing.
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interact
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verb: To act reciprocally.
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imperious
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adjective: Insisting on obedience.
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monotone
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noun: The sameness or monotony of utterance.
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thermal
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adjective: Of or pertaining to heat.
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animadvert
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verb: To pass criticism or censure.
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juggle
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verb: To play tricks of sleight of hand.
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obesity
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noun: Excessive fatness.
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reprehand
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verb: To find fault with.
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surfeit
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verb: To feed to fullness or to satiety.
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vindicatory
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adjective: Punitive.
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valedictory
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noun: A parting address.
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confidant
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noun: One to whom secrets are entrusted.
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linear
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adjective: Of the nature of a line.
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domineer
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verb: To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
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conscience
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noun: The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct.
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intrepid
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adjective: Fearless and bold.
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notorious
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adjective: Unfavorably known to the general public.
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callosity
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noun: The state of being hard and insensible.
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propriety
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noun: Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
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unify
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verb: To cause to be one.
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reconstruct
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verb: To rebuild.
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norm
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noun: A model.
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repudiate
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verb: To refuse to have anything to do with.
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divest
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verb: To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment.
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depreciation
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noun: A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
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nil
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noun: Nothing
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peddle
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verb: To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
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extemporaneous
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adjective: Done or made without much or any preparation.
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resonance
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adjective: Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
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lucid
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adjective: Mentally sound.
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intelligence
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noun: Capacity to know or understand.
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torpor
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noun: Apathy.
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subacid
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adjective: Somewhat sharp or biting.
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evict
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verb: To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree.
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quite
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aderb: Fully.
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vehement
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adjective: Very eager or urgent.
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extortion
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noun: The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion.
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similar
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adjective: Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
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conceit
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noun: Self-flattering opinion.
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innocuous
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adjective: Harmless.
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extraneous
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adjective: Having no essential relation to a subject.
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disciple
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noun: One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine.
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discriminate
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verb: To draw a distinction.
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somnolent
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adjective: Sleepy.
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annotate
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verb: To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.
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recur
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verb: To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
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animalcule
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noun: An animal of microscopic smallness.
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translucent
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adjective: Allowing the passage of light.
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effluvium
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noun: A noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter.
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humanitarian
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noun: A philanthropist.
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adversity
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noun: Misfortune.
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lapse
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noun: A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
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unisonant
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adjective: Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
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commingle
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verb: To blend.
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defamation
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noun: Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another.
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confessor
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noun: A spiritual advisor.
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jurisdiction
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noun: Lawful power or right to exercise official authority.
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transact
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verb: To do business.
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averse
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adjective: Reluctant.
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subjugate
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verb: To conquer.
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vociferance
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noun: The quality of making a clamor.
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conjunction
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noun: The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
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postgraduate
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adjective: Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
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demagnetize
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verb: To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
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mollify
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verb: To soothe.
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homonym
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noun: A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
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sidereal
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adjective: Pertaining to stars or constellations.
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maneuver
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verb: To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy.
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culvert
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noun: Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
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decimate
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verb: To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
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infringe
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verb: To trespass upon.
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reliance
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noun: Dependence.
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amateur
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adjective: Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
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sylph
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noun: A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
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effrontery
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noun: Unblushing impudence.
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reclusory
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noun: A hermitage.
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utilitarianism
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noun: The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
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rankle
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verb: To produce irritation or festering.
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insignificance
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noun: Lack of import or of importance.
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archetype
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noun: A prototype.
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edible
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adjective: Suitable to be eaten.
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disenfranchise
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verb: To deprive of any right privilege or power
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peninsular
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adjective: Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
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artless
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adjective: Ingenuous.
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ordeal
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noun: Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc.
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rendition
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noun: Interpretation.
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analogy
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noun: Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
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eccentric
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adjective: Peculiar.
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covey
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noun: A flock of quails or partridges.
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tentative
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adjective: Done as an experiment.
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agglomerate
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verb: To pile or heap together.
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antipathize
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verb: To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
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boatswain
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noun: A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
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comport
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verb: To conduct or behave (oneself).
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appellate
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adjective: Capable of being appealed to.
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omniscient
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adjective: Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge.
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ascribe
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verb: To assign as a quality or attribute.
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efficacy
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noun: The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it.
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breech
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noun: The buttocks.
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opprobrium
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noun: The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil.
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connoisseur
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noun: A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art.
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insular
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adjective: Pertaining to an island.
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expanse
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noun: A continuous area or stretch.
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blemish
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noun: A mark that mars beauty.
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lingo
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noun: Language.
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cryptogram
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noun: Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
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stratum
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noun: A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
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dramatist
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noun: One who writes plays.
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drowsy
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adjective: Heavy with sleepiness.
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cycloid
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adjective: Like a circle.
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