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afflicted
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to cause pain or distress to
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i have recently been AFFLICTED with a broken heart
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dubious
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uncertain;feeeling doubt;undecided
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tina felt DUBIOUS about going into the haunted house
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interpret
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to explain the meaning of; translate
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how do you INTERPRET the meaning of the word love?
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squalor
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the quality or state of being filthy or degraded through neglect or poverty. nasty,foul,dirty, grubby
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the poor family lived in SQUALOR
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deftly
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quick and neat in action
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bethany DEFTLY completed the task she was instructed to perform
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incessant
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continuing or flowing wjthout interruption
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the INCESSANT talking from the students at the front table distracted the teacher from her lesson about multi-culturalism
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solitary
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being or living apart from others;lonely secluded;sole,only
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the UNRULY prisoner was put into SOLITARY ;he could not be around ant one with out starting a fight
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unkempt
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not tidy
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monica's unkempt apartment kept her friends from visiting
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interminable
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unending
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mrs. hiram assigned an INTERMINABLE amount of home work yesterday
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talisman
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an object that is supposed to possess supernatural powers
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my TALIMAN is a rabbit foot, it gives me good luck
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intermittent
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alternately, stopping and starting
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the windsheild wipers were set on INTERMITTENT ; they were not going fast or frequent enough to keep up with the pouring rain
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unruly
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unmanageable; out of comtrol
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the UNRULY farm animals anger farmer brown
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ritual
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any practiceor behavior regularly performed in a set manner
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gilbert's ritual of wearing his socks in side out on game day
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assuaged
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make kilder or less severe; ease
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the ice pack on jose's eye ASSUAGED the pain
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