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Abut
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Border on; adjoin, join close together
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Bane
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Cause of death, ruin, or distress. obviously you would avoid baneful herbs, and superstitions that could be equally harmful
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Deign
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To think beneath one's dignity; condenscend; give.
Related to the same Latin root, dignitas, as deign are dignity, dignify, dignitary, and indigant. all words comment on one's worthiness |
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eke
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to supplement; to manage to make a living with difficulty; to use frugally
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Knell
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to ring in a slow, solemn way; toll; to call or announce by mournful ringing: an omen of death or failure
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mete
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to allot, distibut or apportion
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moot
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discussion or argument of a hypothetical law case; debatable; so hypothetical as to be meaningless
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mulct
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to punish by a fine or by depriving of something; to extract by fraud or deciet. from the latin mulcta
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plumb
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perfectly vertical; directly; to test or sound with a plumb line (measure); to discover the facts of; to fathom, solve or understand
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quail
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to draw back in fear: lose heart or courage; cower. a partridge like bird
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roil
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to make a liquid cloudy or muddy; to stir up or agitate; to make angry; rile - synonyms anny, fret, ruffle, exasperate, provoke
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shunt
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to move or turn to one side; to shift or switch from one track to another. the word may be related to shun, which also has the sense of turning away
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svelte
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slender and graceful; suave; polished
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thrall
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a slave or bondman; a person under the moral or physological domination of something or someone; slavery. perdormers who enthrall their audiences captivate their attention
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tryst
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an appointment, as by lovers; to meet.
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