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foolish, unintelligent, or silly; stupid
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Asinine
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a procession of persons riding on horses, in horsedrawn carriages, in cars, etc.
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Cavalcade
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a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks
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Kiln
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a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept
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Silo
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process to form (metal, plastic, etc.) with a desired cross section by forcing it through a die; to thrust out
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Extruder
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a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead
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Elegy or Threnody
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any song of praise, joy, or triumph
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Paean
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the act of expressing grief
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Lamentation
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the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt
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Euphemism
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a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, esp. a set oration in honor of a deceased person
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Eulogy
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of, pertaining to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive
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Impetuous
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foolish or inane, esp. in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly; unreal; idiotic
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Fatuous
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requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult
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Arduous
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without emotion; apathetic; unmoved
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Impassive
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free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere; childlike
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Ingenuous
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to caution, advise, or counsel against something
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Admonish
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disapproval; condemnation
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Disapprobation
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to express with a gleeful chuckle
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Chortle
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a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
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Circumlocution
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to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger
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Glower
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a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow
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Shoal
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a place in which a colony or colonies of bees are kept, as a stand or shed for beehives or a bee house containing a number of beehives
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Apiary
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a male duck
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Drake
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the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk
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Aerie
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a flock of geese when not flying
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Gaggle
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a large cage or a house or enclosure in which birds are kept
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Aviary
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a brood or small flock of partridges or similar birds
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Covey
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a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
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Cote
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of or pertaining to swine
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Porcine
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of or resembling a fox; cunning or crafty
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Vulpine
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(of the nose) shaped like an eagle's beak; hooked; of or like the eagle
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Aquiline
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of or pertaining to, resembling the horse
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Equine
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not harmful or injurious; harmless
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Innocuous
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tumultuous; turbulent; stormy; violent
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Tempestuous
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crude; insensitive
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Boorish
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without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid
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Insipid
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injurious to health
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Deleterious
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having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful; inactive or relatively benign
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Indolent
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constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive
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Assiduous
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not harmonious in character; inconsonant; lacking harmony of parts
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Incongruous
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a very common mineral, hydrated calcium sulfateoccurring in crystals and in masses, soft enough to be scratched by the fingernail: used to make plaster of Paris, as an ornamental material, as a fertilizer, etc.
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Gypsum
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a person who collects coins
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Numismatist
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capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable
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Ductile
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any of a group of minerals, principally aluminosilicates of potassium, sodium, and calcium, characterized by two cleavages at nearly right angles: one of the most important constituents of igneous rocks
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Feldspar
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a cloud of a class indicative of thunderstorm conditions
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Cumulonimbus
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a science dealing with the constituent parts of the earth, its envelope of air and water, its crust, and the condition of its interior
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Geognosy
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lacking reserve; pouring out; overflowing
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Effusive
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characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., esp. of love or affection
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Demonstrative
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mammal, having four feet
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Quadruped
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any long flexible snout, such as that of an elephant or tapir
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Proboscis
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earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment
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Silt
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rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice
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Detritus
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any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria
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Saprophyte
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glowing or white with heat.
intensely bright; brilliant. |
Incandescent
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any of numerous, medium-sized songbirds of the family Turdinae, usually dull brown and often speckled below, and including many outstanding singers
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Thrush
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generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness
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Magnanimous
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vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous
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Ribald
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lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory
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Ephemeral
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allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, esp. with intent to deceive or misguide; susceptible of double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous
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Equivocal
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to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease
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Mollify
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of or pertaining to taste or tasting
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Gustatory
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to welcome or salute with shouts or sounds of joy and approval; applaud
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Acclaim
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of or pertaining to land as distinct from water; growing from the ground; earth distinct from other planets
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Terrestrial
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of or pertaining to trees; treelike
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Arboreal
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of, in, or produced by the air
inhabiting or frequenting the air |
Aerial
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determined by or from the stars; pertaining to the stars
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Sidereal
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of doubtful authorship or authenticity
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Apocryphal
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One that makes, trims, designs, or sells hats
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Milliner
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settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling; firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit
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Inveterate
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working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla organization, etc. |
Mercenary
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willing to sell one's influence, esp. in return for a bribe; open to bribery
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Venal
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annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome
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Irksome
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refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible
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Intransigent
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intrusive or presumptuous; not relevant; arrogant
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Impertinent
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lacking what is generally respected; disrespectful
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Irreverant
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characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious
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Pious
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a downward slope, as of ground
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Declivity
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natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition
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Proclivity
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desertion from allegiance, loyalty, duty, or the like; apostasy
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Defection
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resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory
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Recalcitrant
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having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future; frugal
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Provident
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powerful; mighty; potent
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Puissant
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inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative
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Pugnacious
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cowardly; timid; fainthearted
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Craven
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sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding
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Mellifluous
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harsh; strident; grating
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Raucous
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not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable; unaffected; resistant
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Impervious
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presenting favorable conditions; favorable; helpful
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Propitious
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boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable
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Inauspicious
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not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary; unorganized
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Inchoate
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asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated
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Dogmatic
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severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding
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Austere
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having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich
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Affluent
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lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly
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Impious
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readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable
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Protean
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to draw out or lengthen, esp. in time; extend the duration of; prolong
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Protract
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impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy; stubborn
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Restive
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favorable to or promoting health; healthful
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Salubrious
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inflated, overblown, or pompous; bombastic
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Turgid
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grossly or obscenely abusive; vulgar; derogatory
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Scurrilous
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craving or consuming large quantities of food
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Voracious
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dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter
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Recondite
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unwarrantedly or impertinently bold; forward; arrogant
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Presumptuous
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relying to some extent on observation or experiment
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Semiempirical
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of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal
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Secular
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slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning; imitative; groveling
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Servile
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fierce; cruel; savagely brutal
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Truculent
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open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret
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Overt
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diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous
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Sedulous
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violation of a law, command, etc.; sin
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Transgression
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a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor
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Din
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to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely
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Adulation
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moving or directed outward from the center; spiral; eccentric
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Centrifugal
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directed toward the center; unifying
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Centripetal
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to praise highly; laud; eulogize
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Extol
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bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like
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Beatific
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suitable; well-adapted; pertinent; relevant; apt
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Apposite
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not noticeable
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Inobtrusive
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A riotous drinking party
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Carousal
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strong dislike or enmity; hostile attitude; animosity
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Animus
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lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness; listless; weak; bloodless
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Anemic
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joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful
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Blithe
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denounce; curse or declare to be evil
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Anathematize
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something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time
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Anachronism
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unconditional authority; full discretionary power; blank check
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Carte Blanche
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to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter
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Amble
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to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble
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Prattle
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to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve
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Ameliorate
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of or belonging to the period before the Flood. Gen. 7, 8.
very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive |
Antediluvian
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undefiled or stainless; celibate
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Chaste
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done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably; unrestrained, loose
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Wanton
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without reason or intelligence; brutal; inhuman; beastlike
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Bestial
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to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine
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Amalgamate
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1920's to 30's art movement stressing highly decorative art
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Art deco
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16th century to 18th century movement from Italy that stressed grand theatrical effects and elaborate ornamentation
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Baroque
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art attributed to ancient Greece and Rome that is characterized by discipline, objectivity and reason
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Classicism
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20th century art in which the focus is on emotion
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Expressionism
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1910 Italian art movement that stressed motion and movement
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Futurism
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a narrative poem or prose work in which persons, events and places represent or stand for something else
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Allegory
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the repetition of consonant sounds in two or more words
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Alliteration
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usually an autobiography; a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist
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Bildungsroman
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a major division of a long poem
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Canto
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two successive rhyming lines of poetry
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Couplet
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a song or poem written in celebration of a marriage
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Epithalamion
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a type or classification of literary work
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Genre
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a fourteen line poem with rigidly prescribed rhyme scheme
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Sonnet
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a high adult male voice; the lowest female voice
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Alto
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the lowest male voice
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Bass
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comic bass, as in opera
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Buffo
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a progression of chords giving an effect of closing a sentence
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Cadence
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a blending of two or more notes
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Chord
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section of movement added as a rounding off rather than a structural necessity
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Coda
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work making contrasted use of solo instruments
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Concerto
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music that becomes louder
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Crescendo
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referring to music- slow, in a broad dignified style
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Largo
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a slow tempo
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Lento
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melancholy composition of one or more instruments
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Nocturne
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at a rapid tempo (used as a musical direction)
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Presto
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four musical instruments played together
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Quartet
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instrumental musical composition usually of three or four movements
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Sonata
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a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church
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Heretic
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a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons
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Ascetic
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childishly foolish; immature or trivial
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Puerile
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characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless
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Haphazard
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not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical
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Incredulous
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present but not visible, apparent, or actualized; existing as potential
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Latent
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departing from the right, normal, or usual course
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Aberrant
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cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness; liveliness; briskness
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Alacrity
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of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base; inferior
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Ignoble
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a beginner or novice
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Neophyte
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a bold, reckless criminal or outlaw, esp. in the early days of the American West
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Desperado
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of or pertaining to winter; wintry
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Hibernal
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causing or tending to cause sleep.
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Soporific
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reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly
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Niggardly
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seeming; deceptive; misleading; fake
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Illusive
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extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous
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Nefarious
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covered with coarse stiff hairs; hairy
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Hirsute
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evident without proof or argument
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Axiomatic
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pirate or sea-rover
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Buccaneer
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huge creature, person who is excessively large
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Behemoth
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person who desires position or power
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Aspirant
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talkative person who tends to boast a lot
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Blowhard
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person who defends a cause or an institution by argument
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Apologist
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assistant or officer who assists superior
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Adjutant
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a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge
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Epistemologist
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a branch of anthropology that analyzes cultures, esp. in regard to their historical development and the similarities and dissimilarities between them
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Ethnologist
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a person who functions in a specified capacity, esp. in government service; an official
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Functionary
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The branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds.
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Ornithologist
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egging; practicing begging; living on alms
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Mendicant
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the frame, wheels, and machinery of a motor vehicle, on which the body is supported
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Chassis
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a medicine that relieves or allays pain
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Anodyne
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the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain
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Aphasia
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any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights
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Isotope
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to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value
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Attenuate
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to begin to grow, as a bud; put forth buds, shoots, etc., as a plant ; to develop quickly
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Burgeon
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to grow together or into one body
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Coalesce
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to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine
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Amalgamate
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to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly; fling or hurl down
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Precipitate
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to divide into sharply opposing factions, political groups, etc
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Polarize
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to strike; dash; collide; infringe; meddle
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Impinge
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to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock; multiply
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Propagate
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to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate
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Interpolate
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having defined limits; settled; positive; final
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Determinate
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resembling or made to resemble a human form
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Anthropomorphic
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slightly salt; having a salty or briny flavor.
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Brackish
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of or pertaining to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment
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Congenital
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hard or impossible to manage; a material having the ability to retain its physical shape and chemical identity when subjected to high temperatures
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Refractory
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being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless
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Quiescent
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allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through
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Permeable
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of the nature of or resembling wood; woody
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Ligneous
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