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balmy
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warm; refreshing; mild
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lip balm, calm |
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profligate
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recklessly extravagant or wasteful; such a person
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flagrant, prodigal |
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prolific
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producing a great deal; reproducing rapidly
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''Magic Tree house'', Pro Life |
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prolix
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wordy; long-winded; verbose
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prolong, run-on |
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promulgated
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Put into effect officially and publically
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promote, litigate |
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abscond
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to leave secretly and in haste, usually to escape the law.
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con, abroad |
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cliché
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an overused expression; a trite or hackneyed saying
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basic, love triangle |
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melancholic
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excessively and unreasonably brooding; chronically depressed
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alcoholic, melancholy |
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addicted
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physiologically or psychologically dependent upon
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''acid'', tech |
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cloister
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a secluded or isolated place; a monastery or a convent
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oyster, closet |
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coagulate
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to thicken; to clot; to gather together in a mass
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clog, congeal |
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banal
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lacking freshnessor vigor; commonplace; trite
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benign, canal |
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bard |
a poet |
art, rapper |
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barrister |
loosely--an attorney or lawyer. |
bar, arrested |
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bathos |
excessive or trivial sentimentality; an unimportant anticlimax |
pathos, bath |
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bellicose
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hostile; warlike; aggressive
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bully, accosted |
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beneficence
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quality or display of goodness and kindness; a good deed or kindness
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benefit, beneficial |
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prone
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naturally inclined; having a tendency; lying face down
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drowned, pro |
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aberration
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a change or departure from the usual, normal, prescribed, etc; a disorder of the mind.
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abnormal, apparition |
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brandish
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to shake, wave or flourish threateningly, defiantly or triumphantly
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brag, rant |
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propagate
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to spread information from one person to another; to disseminate; to reproduce or multiply
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propaganda, program |
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coalesce
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to combine or come together in one body, purpose, etc.; to unite; to fuse; to blend
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cohesive, collaborate |
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coalition
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a union or joining together; a temporary alliance
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militia, ally |
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coercion
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a compelling or forcing; forced restraint or constraint; control or government by force.
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enforce, oppress |
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absolution
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The forgiving of sin; a freeing from guilt and penalty; forgiveness
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absolve, solution |
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abstemious
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sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate
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abstain, resistant |
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adduced
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brought out or offered for consideration or proof; alleged
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produce, seduce |
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adjudicated
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determined in court; judged
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a judge, a jury
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malediction
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an evil and damaging statement; a curse; slander
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malo, dictator |
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celibacy
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the state of refraining from marriage and sexual relations
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baby, Mary |
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chaotic
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in a state of chaos; extremely mixed up; very confused or disorderly
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crazy, hectic |
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charlatan
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one who pretends to have knowledge that he does not have; an imposter; a quack
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liar, charleston |
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chary
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hesitant; cautious; wary; particular
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care, cheap |
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chauvinistic
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unreasonably devoted or loyal to one's own group, race, sex or status
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clique, sorority |
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propensity
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a natural tendency, disposition or inclination
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proper, appropriate |
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propinquity
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nearness or closeness; kinship; proximity
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unity, family |
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propitiated
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appeased; satisfied; gained favor; favorable disposed
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pride, appreciate |
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petulant
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pettily or childishly peevish; irritable; fretful; obstinate; impatient
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pet, tantrum |
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philatelist
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stamp collector
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label, list |
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pinnacle
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peak; summit; zenith; highest point of achievement
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pin point, peak |
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piquant
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stimulating to the mind; interesting; provocative; charmingly lively; spicy
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pickle, piquante |
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acquiesced
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yielded; gave in assented
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cease, quit |
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cogent
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convincing to the mind; compelling
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power, force |
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vicissitude
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natural but unanticipated change;element of chance in daily life
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vision, attitude |
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virago |
a loud-mouthed, bad tempered, overbearing woman |
Virgo, agro
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virulent |
extremely harmful, malignant or noxious; malicious |
virus, viral |
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cognizant |
having knowledge or being aware of. |
brain, genius |
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empathy |
understanding and identification with the mental state and emotions of another person. |
sympathy, Stockholm syndrome |
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empirical |
based on observation or direct experience only not on theory or speculation |
pie, inspiring |
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emulate |
to strive to equal or surpass; to successfully rival
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Joseph Yearby, duplicate |
