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alchemist
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A medieval chemical philosophy having as its primary aims the transmutation of base metals.
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chemicals
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elixir
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hypothetical substance sought by medieval alchemist to change base metals into gold.
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eminence
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a high rank, condition or degree a lofty place a hill a title of Honor applied to Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
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exhort
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To church by strong I've been staring argument admonition advice or appeal
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expostulate
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To urge by strong, a person against some action is usually used in combination with the word with
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halberd
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A weapon in the form of a battle ax and pike at the end of a long spear or staff
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hypocrisy
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Pretending to be what one is not extreme insecurity or false pretense of moral excellence be there as a cover for actual wrongdoing or for the sake of appearing virtuous
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ignominious
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Humiliating, shameful,disgraceful
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inauspicious
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Ill- ommend, adverse, unlucky badly timed, unfavorable
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lurid
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Causing shock or horror, gruesome. Marked by sensationalism glowing or shining with the glare of fire through a haze. Sallow or pallid in color
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magistrate
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In a official empowered to administer the law
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Malefactor
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An evildoer or criminal
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Martyr
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One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles one who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief
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Melancholy
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Sad and depressed gloomy sadly I'm using or pensive sadness and depression of spirits a tendency to be gloomy or depressed
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Paramour
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A lover especially one in an adulterous relationship
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Panacea
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a supposed remedy cure or medicine for all diseases or ills a cure-all
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Phantasmagoria
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A fantastic sequence of happy hazardly associative imagery as seen in dreams or fever changing scene composed of numerous elements fantastic imagery as represented in art
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Plaintive
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expressing sorrow or melancholy mournful, sad
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Sepulcher
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A vault or burial a a grave a tomb
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Sumptuary law
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Along the meeting for regulating expenditures in order to prevent extravagance a raw regulating private life or moral or religious grounds
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Swoon
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To faint
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Utopia
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And ideally perfect place especially in its social political and more realistic work of fiction describing a utopia
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Venomous
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Full of venom poisonous spiteful malicious malignant
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Vigor
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Battery active physical or mental force or strength active or healthy growth intensity force or energy
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visage
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The form proportions and expression of the face
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writhe
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To suffer great emotional distress as form embarrassment or strong dislike to make twisting and turning movements to contort the body as if in agony to squirm
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