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octave
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noun: A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other.
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accustom
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verb: To make familiar by use.
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migrant
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adjective: Wandering.
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able-bodied
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adjective: Competent for physical service.
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pneumatic
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adjective: Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
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lattice
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noun: Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars.
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unction
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noun: The art of anointing as with oil.
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perspicuous
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adjective: Lucid.
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fulsome
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adjective: Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.
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metallurgy
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noun: The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.
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antiquate
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verb: To make old or out of date.
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transgress
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verb: To break a law.
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locative
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adjective: Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs.
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inadmissible
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adjective: Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony.
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despair
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noun: Utter hopelessness and despondency.
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ravine
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noun: A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
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momentous
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adjective: Very significant.
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volition
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noun: An act or exercise of will.
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resplendent
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adjective: Very bright.
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recure
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verb: To cure again.
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transferee
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noun: The person to whom a transfer is made.
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succumb
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verb: To cease to resist.
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apiary
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noun: A place where bees are kept.
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pervasion
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noun: The state of spreading through every part.
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symphonic
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adjective: Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
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infamy
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noun: Total loss or destitution of honor or reputation.
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overreach
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verb: To stretch out too far.
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synchronism
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noun: Simultaneousness.
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narrator
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noun: One who narrates anything.
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requiem
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noun: A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
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arrange
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verb: To put in definite or proper order.
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assay
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noun: The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.
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sedulous
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adjective: Persevering in effort or endeavor.
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later
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aderb: At a subsequent time.
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disburden
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verb: To disencumber.
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overdose
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noun: An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic.
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colloquial
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adjective: Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
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poetic
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adjective: Pertaining to poetry.
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bumptious
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adjective: Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
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antiphon
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noun: A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
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irrigant
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adjective: Serving to water lands by artificial means.
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ceremonious
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adjective: Observant of ritual.
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natal
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adjective: Pertaining to one's birth.
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consecrate
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verb: To set apart as sacred.
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sinecure
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noun: Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
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deficiency
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noun: Lack or insufficiency.
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complex
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adjective: Complicated.
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robust
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adjective: Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
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abundant
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adjective: Plentiful.
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tyro
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noun: One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
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translucence
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noun: The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
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overtone
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noun: A harmonic.
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offhand
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aderb: Without preparation.
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incompressible
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adjective: Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure.
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differentia
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noun: Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species.
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underrate
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verb: To undervalue.
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complication
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noun: An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
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compliment
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verb: To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
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alabaster
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noun: A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
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inevitable
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adjective: Unavoidable.
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pupilage
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noun: The state or period of being a student.
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airy
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adjective: Delicate, ethereal.
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objector
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noun: One who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling.
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outreach
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verb: To reach or go beyond.
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dedication
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noun: The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
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outlandish
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adjective: Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.
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protuberate
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verb: To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
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anthracite
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noun: Hard coal.
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reversion
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noun: A return to or toward some former state or condition.
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courageous
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adjective: Brave.
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reliquary
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noun: A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
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vertex
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noun: Apex.
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transfusible
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adjective: Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
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plutocracy
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noun: A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
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monotony
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noun: A lack of variety.
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caption
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noun: A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
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incipient
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adjective: Initial.
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evert
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verb: To turn inside out.
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apostasy
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noun: A total departure from one's faith or religion.
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augur
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verb: To predict.
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witling
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noun: A person who has little understanding.
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precipitate
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verb: To force forward prematurely.
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curator
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noun: A person having charge as of a library or museum.
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virulent
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adjective: Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.
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derisible
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adjective: Open to ridicule.
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typographical
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adjective: Pertaining to typography or printing.
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chastity
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noun: Sexual or moral purity.
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zodiac
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noun: An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets.
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magisterial
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adjective: Having an air of authority.
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lewd
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adjective: Characterized by lust or lasciviousness.
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abbot
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noun: The superior of a community of monks.
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well-doer
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noun: A performer of moral and social duties.
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subversion
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noun: An overthrow, as from the foundation.
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florid
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adjective: Flushed with red.
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habitable
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adjective: Fit to be dwelt in.
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seance
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noun: A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
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hibernal
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adjective: Pertaining to winter.
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pretentious
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adjective: Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
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outstretch
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verb: To extend.
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sphericity
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noun: The state or condition of being a sphere.
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nefarious
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adjective: Wicked in the extreme.
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perspire
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verb: To excrete through the pores of the skin.
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prostrate
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adjective: Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
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awry
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aderb: Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
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leaflet
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noun: A little leaf or a booklet.
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preposterous
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adjective: Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
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elapse
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verb: To quietly terminate: said of time.
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azure
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noun: The color of the sky.
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bethink
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verb: To remind oneself.
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audible
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adjective: Loud enough to be heard.
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converge
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verb: To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
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ravenous
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adjective: Furiously voracious or hungry.
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microscope
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noun: An instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects.
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auricular
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adjective: Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
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discrepant
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adjective: Opposite.
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floe
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noun: A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice.
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prosody
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noun: The science of poetical forms.
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self-respect
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noun: Rational self-esteem.
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enthrall
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verb: To bring or hold under any overmastering influence.
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liquefy
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verb: To convert into a liquid or into liquid form.
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undue
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adjective: More than sufficient.
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undergarment
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noun: A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments.
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transalpine
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adjective: Situated on the other side of the Alps.
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preparatory
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adjective: Having to do with what is preliminary.
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chronology
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noun: The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
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atrocity
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noun: Great cruelty or reckless wickedness.
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enshrine
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verb: To keep sacred.
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plagiarism
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noun: The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.
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euphonious
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adjective: Characterized by agreeableness of sound.
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prevalent
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adjective: Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
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fickle
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adjective: Unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose.
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protomartyr
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noun: The earliest victim in any cause.
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perforate
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verb: To make a hole or holes through.
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kingling
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noun: A petty king.
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advertiser
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noun: One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
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syneresis
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noun: The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
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acrid
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adjective: Harshly pungent or bitter.
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desist
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verb: To cease from action.
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conductible
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adjective: Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
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indiscriminate
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adjective: Promiscuous.
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transverse
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adjective: Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
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epoch
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noun: A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events.
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remonstrant
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adjective: Having the character of a reproof.
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plausible
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adjective: Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
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soldier
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noun: A person engaged in military service.
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volitive
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adjective: Exercising the will.
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lowly
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aderb: Rudely.
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pyromania
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noun: An insane propensity to set things on fire.
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descry
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verb: To discern.
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bedeck
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verb: To cover with ornament.
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foggy
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adjective: Obscure.
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pestilential
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adjective: having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
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insufficiency
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noun: Inadequacy.
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oust
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verb: To eject.
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replenish
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verb: To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
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prurient
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adjective: Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
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modernize
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verb: To make characteristic of the present or of recent times.
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joggle
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noun: A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
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botanical
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adjective: Connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
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aurora
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noun: A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
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momentum
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noun: An impetus.
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persuade
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verb: To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection.
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ambitious
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adjective: Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
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reformer
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noun: One who carries out a reform.
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expense
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noun: The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength.
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gravity
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noun: Seriousness.
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ligature
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noun: Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
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psychic
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adjective: Pertaining to the mind or soul.
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hard-hearted
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adjective: Lacking pity or sympathy.
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propellant
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adjective: Propelling.
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freethinker
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noun: One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion.
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overture
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noun: An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
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contagious
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adjective: Transmitting disease.
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socialism
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noun: A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
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extremity
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noun: The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position.
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juvenile
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adjective: Characteristic of youth.
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undulate
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verb: To move like a wave or in waves.
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transfigure
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verb: To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
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vagrant
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noun: An idle wanderer.
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gyrate
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verb: To revolve.
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packet
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noun: A bundle, as of letters.
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futile
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adjective: Of no avail or effect.
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flexible
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adjective: Pliable.
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livid
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adjective: Black-and-blue, as contused flesh.
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vendition
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noun: The act of selling.
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literal
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adjective: Following the exact words.
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integrity
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noun: Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle.
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metal
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noun: An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous.
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fiducial
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adjective: Indicative of faith or trust.
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habitant
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noun: Dweller.
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guileless
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adjective: Frank.
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exclusion
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noun: Non-admission.
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glimmer
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noun: A faint, wavering, unsteady light.
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polygamy
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noun: the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
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evolution
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noun: Development or growth.
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infidel
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noun: One who denies the existence of God.
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doe
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noun: The female of the deer.
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nameless
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adjective: Having no fame or reputation.
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conspirator
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noun: One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
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collide
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verb: To meet and strike violently.
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recruit
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verb: To enlist men for military or naval service.
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burnish
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verb: To make brilliant or shining.
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philately
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noun: The study and collection of stamps.
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cohere
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verb: To stick together.
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brethren
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noun: pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
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barometer
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noun: An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
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triplicity
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noun: The state of being triple or threefold.
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pedant
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noun: A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
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paralyze
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verb: To deprive of the power to act.
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malevolent
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adjective: Wishing evil to others.
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knead
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verb: To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands.
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pinchers
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noun: An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
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precaution
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noun: A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger.
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paraphernalia
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noun: Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
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proficient
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adjective: Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
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paramour
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noun: One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
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collaborate
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verb: To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
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betide
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verb: To happen to or befall.
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fervent
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adjective: Ardent in feeling.
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sergeant
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noun: A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
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perversion
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noun: Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
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surround
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verb: To encircle.
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detest
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verb: To dislike or hate with intensity.
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teem
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verb: To be full to overflowing.
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qualification
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noun: A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
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wizen-faced
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adjective: Having a shriveled face.
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excitable
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adjective: Nervously high-strung.
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harass
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verb: To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
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bowler
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noun: In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
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kind-hearted
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adjective: Having a kind and sympathetic nature.
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litigant
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noun: A party to a lawsuit.
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disregard
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verb: To take no notice of.
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archaeology
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noun: The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
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theorize
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verb: To speculate.
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numerical
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adjective: Of or pertaining to number.
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tyrannical
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adjective: Despotic.
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trinity
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noun: A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
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dolor
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noun: Lamentation.
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rebellious
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adjective: Insubordinate.
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anticyclone
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noun: An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
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triennial
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adjective: Taking place every third year.
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influence
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noun: Ability to sway the will of another.
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ichthyic
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adjective: Fish-like.
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hirsute
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adjective: Having a hairy covering.
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rustic
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adjective: Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
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morphology
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noun: the science of organic forms.
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divisible
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adjective: Capable of being separated into parts.
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convene
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verb: To summon or cause to assemble.
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unique
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adjective: Being the only one of its kind.
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transmissible
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adjective: That may e sent through or across.
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