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abase
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To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.
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abbess
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The lady superior of a nunnery.
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abbey
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The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
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abbot
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The superior of a community of monks.
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abdicate
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To give up royal power or the like.
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abdomen
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In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and pelvic floor; the belly.
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abdominal
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Of, pertaining to, or on the abdomen.
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abduction
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The carrying away of a person against his/her will, or illegally.
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abed
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In bed; on a bed.
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aberration
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Deviation from the right, customary, or perscribed course.
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abet
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To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
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abeyance
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A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
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abhorrence
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The act of detesting extremely.
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abhorrent
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Very repugnant; hateful.
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abidance
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An abiding.
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abject
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Sunk to a low condition.
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abjure
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To recant, renounce, or repudiate under oath.
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able-bodied
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Competant for physical service.
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ablution
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A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
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abnegate
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To renounce (a right or privilege).
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abnormal
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Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
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abominable
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Very hateful.
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abominate
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To hate violently.
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abomination
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A very detestable act or practice.
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aboriginal
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Primitive; unsophisticated.
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aborigines
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The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
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aboveboard
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Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
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abrade
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To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
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abrasion
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That which is rubbed off.
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abridge
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To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaving out minor particles.
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abridgment
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A condensed form of a book or play.
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abrogate
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To abolish, repeal.
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abrupt
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Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
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abscess
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Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
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abscission
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The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
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abscond
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To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
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absence
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The fact of not being present or available.
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absent-minded
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Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
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absolution
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Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses.
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absolve
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To free from sin or its penalties.
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absorb
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To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.
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absorption
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The act or process of absorbing.
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abstain
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To keep oneself back from doing or using something.
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abstemious
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Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of food or drink.
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abstinence
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Self denial.
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abstruse
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Dealing with matters diffucult to be understood.
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absurd
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Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
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abundant
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Plentiful.
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abusive
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Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
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abut
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To touch at the end or boundary line.
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abyss
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Bottomless gulf.
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academic
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Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.
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academician
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A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
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academy
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Any institution where the higher brances of learning are taught.
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accede
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To agree.
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accelerate
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To move faster.
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accept
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To take when offered.
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access
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A way of approach or entrance; passage.
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accessible
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Approachable.
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accession
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Induction or elvation, as to dignity, office, or government.
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accessory
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A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
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acclaim
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To utter with a shout.
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accomodate
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To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
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accompaniment
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A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part.
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accompanist
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One who or that which accompanies.
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accompany
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To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
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accomplice
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An associate in wrong-doing.
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accomplish
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To bring to pass.
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accordion
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A portable free-reed musical instrument.
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accost
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To speak to.
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account
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A record or statment of receipts or expenditures, or business transactions.
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accouter
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To dress.
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accredit
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To give credit or authority to.
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accumulate
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To become greater in quantity or number.
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accuracy
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Exactness.
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accurate
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Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
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accursed
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Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
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accusation
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A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.
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accusatory
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Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
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accuse
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To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error.
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accustom
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To become familiar by use.
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acerbity
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Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
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acetate
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A salt of acetic acid.
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acetic
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Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar.
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ache
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To be in pain or distress.
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Achillean
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Invulnerable.
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achromatic
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Colorless.
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acid
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A sour substance.
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acidify
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To change into acid.
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acknowlege
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To recognize; to admit the genuiness or validity of.
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acknowledgment
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Recognition.
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acme
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The highest point, or summit.
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acoustic
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Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
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acquaint
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To make familiar or conversant.
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acquiesce
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To comply; submit.
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acquiescence
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Passive consent.
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acquire
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To get as one's own.
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acquisition
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Anything gain, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
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acquit
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To free or clear, as from accusation.
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acquittal
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A discharge from accusation by judicial action,
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acquittance
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Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
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acreage
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Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
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acrid
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Harshly pungent or bitter.
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acrimonious
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Full of bitterness.
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acrimony
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Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
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actionable
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Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
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actuality
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Any reality.
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actuary
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An officer, as of an insurance company, who calcuates and states the risks and premiums.
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actuate
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To move or incite to action.
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acumen
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Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keennees of discrimination.
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acute
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Having fine and penetrating discernment.
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adamant
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Any substance exceeding harshness or impenetrability.
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addendum
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Something added, or to be added.
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addle
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To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
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adduce
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To bring forward or name for consideration.
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adhere
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To stick fast or together.
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adherence
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Attachment.
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adherent
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Clinging or sticking fast.
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adhesion
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The state of being attached or joined.
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adieu
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Goodbye; farewell.
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adjacency
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The state of being adjacent.
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adjacent
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That which is near or bordering upon.
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adjudge
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To award or bestow by formal decision.
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adjunct
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Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.
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adjuration
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A vehement appeal.
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adjutant
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Auxiliary.
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administrator
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One who manages affairs of any kind.
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admissible
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Having the right or privilege of entry.
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admittance
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Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
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admonish
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To warn of a fault.
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admonition
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Gentle reproof.
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ado
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Unnecessary activity or ceremony.
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adoration
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Profound devotion.
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adroit
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Having skill in the use of bodily or mental powers.
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adulterant
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An adulterating substance.
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adulterate
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To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
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adumbrate
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To represent beforehand in outline or emblem.
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advent
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The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
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adverse
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Opposing or opposed.
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adversity
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Misfortune.
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advert
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To refer incidentally.
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advertiser
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One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
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advisory
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Not mandatory.
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advocacy
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The act of pleading a cause.
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advocate
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One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
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aerial
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Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
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aeronaut
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One who navigates the air; a balloonist.
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aeronautics
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The act or practice of flying aircraft.
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aerostat
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A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
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aerostatics
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The branch of pneumatics that treats the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
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affable
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Easy to approach.
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affect
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To act upon.
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affectation
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A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
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affiliate
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Some auxiliary person or thing.
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affirmative
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Answering yes; to a question at issue.
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affix
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To fasten.
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affluence
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A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
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affront
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An open insult or indignity.
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afire
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On fire, literally or figuratively.
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afoot
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In progress.
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aforesaid
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Said in a preceding part or before.
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afresh
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Once more, after rest or interval.
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afterthough
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A thought that comes later than its appropriate time or expected time.
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agglomerate
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To pile or heap together.
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aggrandize
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To cause to appear greatly.
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aggravate
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To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
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aggravation
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The fact of being made heavier o more henious, as a crime, offense, misfortune, etc.
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aggregate
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The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
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aggress
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To make the first attack.
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aggression
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An unprovoked attack.
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aggrieve
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To give grief or sorrow to.
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aghast
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Struck with terror and amazement.
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agile
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Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
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agitate
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To move or exite the feelings or thoughts.
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agrarian
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Pertaining to the land, especially agricultural land.
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aide-de-camp
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An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
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ailment
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Slight sickness.
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airy
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Delicate; ethereal.
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akin
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Of similar nature or qualities.
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alabaster
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A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
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alacrity
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Cheerful willingness.
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albeit
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Even though.
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albino
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A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
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album
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A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
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alchemy
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Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
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alcohol
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A colorless, inflammable, volatile fluid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
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alcoholism
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A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcholic beverages.
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alcove
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A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
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alder
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A shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
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alderman
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A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
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aldermanship
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The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
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alias
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An assumned name.
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alien
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One who owes their allegiance to a foreign government.
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alienable
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Capable of being aliened or alienable, as lands.
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alienate
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To cause to turn away.
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alienation
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Estrangement.
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aliment
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That which nourishes.
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alkali
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Any substance that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
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allay
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To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
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allege
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To assert to be true in a formal manner, as in court.
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allegory
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The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
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allegory
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The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
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alleviate
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To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
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alley
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A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
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alliance
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Any combination or union for some common purpose.
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allot
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To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
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allotment
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Portion.
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allude
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To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
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allusion
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An indirect or incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
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alluvion
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Flood.
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ally
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A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
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almanac
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A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
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aloof
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Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
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altar
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Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
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alter
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To make change in.
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alteration
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Change or modification.
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altercate
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To contend angrily or zealously in words.
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alternate
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One chosen to act in place of another, in case of absence or incapacity of that other.
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alternative
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Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
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altitude
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Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
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alto
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The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
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altruism
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Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
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altruist
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One who advocates and practices altruism.
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amalgam
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An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
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amalgamate
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To mix or blend together in a homogenous body.
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amateur
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Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, not as a profession.
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amatory
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Designed to excite love.
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ambidextrous
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Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
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ambiguous
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Having a double meaning.
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ambitious
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Eagerly desiring and aspiring.
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ambrosial
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Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
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ambulance
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A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick or wounded.
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ambulate
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To walk out.
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ambush
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The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
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ameliorate
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To relieve, as from pain or hardship.
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amenable
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Willing and ready to submit.
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Americanism
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The peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
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amicable
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Done in a friendly spirit.
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amity
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Friendship.
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amourous
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Having the propensity for falling in love.
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amorphous
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Witout definite shape.
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amour
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A love-affair, esspecially one of an illicit nature.
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ampere
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The practical unit of electrical-current strength.
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ampersand
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The character, &; and.
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amphibious
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Living both on land and water.
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amphitheatre
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An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
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amplitude
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Largeness.
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amply
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Sufficiently.
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amputate
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To remove by cutting off, as a limb or some portion of the body.
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amusement
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Diversion.
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