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spinous
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adjective: Having spines.
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usage
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noun: Treatment.
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weak-kneed
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adjective: Without resolute purpose or energy.
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patriarch
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noun: The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
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overrun
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verb: To infest or ravage.
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wield
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verb: To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command.
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nihilist
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noun: An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known.
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inactive
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adjective: Inert.
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regale
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verb: To give unusual pleasure.
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prelate
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noun: One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
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bravado
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noun: An aggressive display of boldness.
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caucus
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noun: A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
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anecdote
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noun: A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
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oaken
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adjective: Made of or from oak.
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prefatory
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adjective: Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
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demise
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noun: Death.
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hideous
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adjective: Appalling.
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misogyny
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noun: Hatred of women.
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transcend
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verb: To surpass.
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speculate
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verb: To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
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perspicacious
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adjective: Astute.
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neuter
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adjective: Neither masculine nor feminine.
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vegetate
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verb: To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties.
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equanimity
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noun: Evenness of mind or temper.
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beatify
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verb: To make supremely happy.
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endemic
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adjective: Peculiar to some specified country or people.
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cartilage
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noun: An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
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abrupt
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adjective: Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
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ladle
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noun: A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids.
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indulgence
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noun: The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another.
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neology
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noun: The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
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insurgence
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noun: Uprising.
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somnolence
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noun: Oppressive drowsiness.
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exorbitant
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adjective: Going beyond usual and proper limits.
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altruist
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noun: One who advocates or practices altruism.
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antiphony
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noun: An anthem or other composition sung responsively.
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sensuous
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adjective: Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
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critique
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noun: A criticism or critical review.
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vulnerable
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adjective: Capable of receiving injuries.
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succulent
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adjective: Juicy.
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frailty
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noun: Liability to be broken or destroyed.
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papacy
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noun: The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
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inject
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verb: To introduce, as a fluid, by injection.
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dilatory
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adjective: Tending to cause delay.
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capillary
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noun: A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
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dominance
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noun: Ascendancy.
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juridical
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adjective: Assumed by law to exist.
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irreligious
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adjective: Indifferent or opposed to religion.
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disparity
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noun: Inequality.
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infernal
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adjective: Akin to or befitting hell or its occupants.
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susceptible
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adjective: Easily under a specified power or influence.
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coalition
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noun: Combination in a body or mass.
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bacterium
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noun: A microbe.
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benignity
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noun: Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
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personnel
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noun: The force of persons collectively employed in some service.
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retort
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noun: A retaliatory speech.
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equestrian
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adjective: Pertaining to horses or horsemanship.
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medley
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noun: A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole.
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edify
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verb: To build up, or strengthen, especially in morals or religion.
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obsequious
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adjective: Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
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implicate
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verb: To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
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recidivist
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noun: A confirmed criminal.
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supplicant
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noun: One who asks humbly and earnestly.
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pomposity
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noun: The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
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frivolity
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noun: A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice.
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illuminant
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noun: That which may be used to produce light.
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trisect
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verb: To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
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well-to-do
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adjective: In prosperous circumstances.
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gamut
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noun: The whole range or sequence.
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preoccupy
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verb: To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
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candor
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noun: The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
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overshadow
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verb: To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
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divination
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noun: The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden.
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low-spirited
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adjective: Despondent.
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operative
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adjective: Active.
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prima
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adjective: First.
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inchoate
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adjective: Incipient.
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optic
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noun: Pertaining to the eye or vision.
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modernity
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noun: The state or character of being modern.
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indispensable
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adjective: Necessary or requisite for the purpose.
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literature
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noun: The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively.
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control
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verb: To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
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quietus
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noun: A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
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rampant
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adjective: Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
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sapiential
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adjective: Possessing wisdom.
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receivable
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adjective: Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
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balsam
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noun: A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
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preferable
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adjective: More desirable than others.
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banal
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adjective: Commonplace.
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abscond
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verb: To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
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unguent
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noun: Any ointment or lubricant for local application.
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illiterate
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adjective: Having little or no book-learning.
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divergent
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adjective: Tending in different directions.
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relevant
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adjective: Bearing upon the matter in hand.
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factious
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adjective: Turbulent.
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refringent
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adjective: Having the power to refract.
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olfactory
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adjective: of or pertaining to the sense of smell.
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unbelief
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noun: Doubt.
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wrest
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verb: To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing.
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secant
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adjective: Cutting, especially into two parts.
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foreordain
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verb: To predetermine.
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pinnacle
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noun: A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
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adoration
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noun: Profound devotion.
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stagy
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adjective: Having a theatrical manner.
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diurnal
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adjective: Daily.
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effuse
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verb: To pour forth.
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secession
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noun: Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
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unutterable
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adjective: Inexpressible.
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unaffected
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adjective: Sincere.
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paternal
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adjective: Fatherly.
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hospitality
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noun: The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
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ministration
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noun: Any religious ceremonial.
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seismograph
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noun: An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.
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fragile
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adjective: Easily broken.
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eventual
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adjective: Ultimate.
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amicable
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adjective: Done in a friendly spirit.
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loneliness
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noun: Solitude.
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brittle
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adjective: Fragile.
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corporeal
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adjective: Of a material nature; physical.
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apprehend
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verb: To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law.
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abrasion
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noun: That which is rubbed off.
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pharmacy
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noun: The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
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enrapture
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verb: To delight extravagantly or intensely.
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moderation
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noun: Temperance.
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torrid
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adjective: Excessively hot.
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deport
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verb: To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
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upcast
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noun: A throwing upward.
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immiscible
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adjective: Separating, as oil and water.
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countercharge
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verb: To accuse in return.
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raillery
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noun: Good-humored satire.
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adjutant
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adjective: Auxiliary.
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antemundane
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adjective: Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
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requisite
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adjective: Necessary.
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aristocracy
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noun: A hereditary nobility
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inlet
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noun: A small body of water leading into a larger.
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continuation
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noun: Prolongation.
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mediate
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verb: To effect by negotiating as an agent between parties.
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foretell
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verb: To predict.
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possess
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verb: To own.
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conjugation
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noun: The state or condition of being joined together.
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foliage
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noun: Any growth of leaves.
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dissentient
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noun: One who disagrees.
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topography
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noun: The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
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exempt
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adjective: Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others.
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monarchy
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noun: Government by a single, sovereign ruler.
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compress
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verb: To press together or into smaller space.
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delineate
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verb: To represent by sketch or diagram.
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distill
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verb: To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.
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fallow
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noun: Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest.
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inconsiderable
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adjective: Small in quantity or importance.
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mien
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noun: The external appearance or manner of a person.
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unsettle
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verb: To put into confusion.
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decent
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adjective: Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
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magnetize
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verb: To make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily.
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estrange
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verb: To alienate.
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seethe
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verb: To be violently excited or agitated.
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extraordinary
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adjective: Unusual.
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fiscal
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adjective: Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government.
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wile
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noun: An act or a means of cunning deception.
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stimulant
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noun: Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action.
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officiate
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verb: To act as an officer or leader.
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illusive
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adjective: Deceptive.
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extinct
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adjective: Being no longer in existence.
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origin
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noun: The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be.
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buttress
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noun: Any support or prop.
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rescind
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verb: To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
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mulatto
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noun: The offspring of a white person and a black person.
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enfranchise
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verb: To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote.
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professor
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noun: A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college.
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alias
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noun: An assumed name.
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loot
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verb: To plunder.
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adamant
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noun: Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
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likely
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adjective: Plausible.
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emphasis
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noun: Any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word.
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cartridge
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noun: A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
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supplant
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verb: To take the place of.
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juicy
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adjective: Succulent.
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secondly
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aderb: In the second place in order or succession.
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arrogate
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verb: To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.
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thermomelectric
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adjective: Denoting electricity produced by heat.
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valorous
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adjective: Courageous.
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magnanimous
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adjective: Generous in treating or judging others.
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invidious
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adjective: Showing or feeling envy.
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affect
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verb: To act upon
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irresponsible
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adjective: Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities.
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levity
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noun: Frivolity.
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excellency
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noun: A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials.
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virtuoso
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noun: A master in the technique of some particular fine art.
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fernery
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noun: A place in which ferns are grown.
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sedentary
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adjective: Involving or requiring much sitting.
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emerge
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verb: To come into view or into existence.
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sleight
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noun: A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation.
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electrolysis
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noun: The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current.
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symphony
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noun: A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
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minority
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noun: The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided.
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oration
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noun: An elaborate or formal public speech.
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abstruse
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adjective: Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
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excel
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verb: To be superior or distinguished.
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intuition
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noun: Instinctive knowledge or feeling.
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seer
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noun: A prophet.
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alienate
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verb: To cause to turn away.
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dyne
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noun: The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
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discontinuance
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noun: Interruption or intermission.
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wiry
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adjective: Thin, but tough and sinewy.
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egotism
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noun: Self-conceit.
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collective
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adjective: Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
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telescope
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verb: To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
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delusion
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noun: Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring.
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antemeridian
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adjective: Before noon.
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lea
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noun: A field.
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apposite
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adjective: Appropriate.
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derrick
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noun: An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
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urbanity
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noun: Refined or elegant courtesy.
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crass
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adjective: Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
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discredit
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verb: To injure the reputation of.
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cajolery
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noun: Delusive speech.
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intoxicate
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verb: To make drunk.
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intermit
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verb: To cause to cease temporarily.
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duplicity
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noun: Double-dealing.
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thrall
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noun: One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
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orator
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noun: One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech.
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prohibitionist
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noun: One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
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monomania
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noun: The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
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enamor
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verb: To inspire with ardent love.
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imperfectible
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adjective: That can not be perfected.
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invulnerable
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adjective: That can not be wounded or hurt.
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regnant
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adjective: Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
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observatory
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noun: A building designed for systematic astronomical observations.
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ointment
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noun: A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists.
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maltreat
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verb: To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively.
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adherent
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adjective: Clinging or sticking fast.
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recessive
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adjective: Having a tendency to go back.
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venison
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noun: The flesh of deer.
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ponder
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verb: To meditate or reflect upon.
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canine
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adjective: Characteristic of a dog.
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thearchy
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noun: Government by a supreme deity.
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dilate
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verb: To enlarge in all directions.
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quiet
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adjective: Making no noise.
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wearisome
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adjective: Fatiguing.
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mawkish
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adjective: Sickening or insipid.
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redolent
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adjective: Smelling sweet and agreeable.
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chameleon
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adjective: Changeable in appearance.
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foresail
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noun: A square sail.
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baton
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noun: An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
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resuscitate
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verb: To restore from apparent death.
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genitive
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adjective: Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like.
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noisome
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adjective: Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
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autocracy
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noun: Absolute government.
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conservative
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adjective: Adhering to the existing order of things.
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dentifrice
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noun: Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
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