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Credulity
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Willingness to believe or trust too readily; gullibility
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Fusillade
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A spirited outburst esp. of criticism
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Talisman
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An object engraved with figures supposed to possess occult powers, worn as a charm
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Scud
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To run or move quickly or hurriedly, esp. if pushed or carried by wind
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Wont
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Accustomed, used; habit
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Spasmodic
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Sudden involuntary muscle contraction like a hiccup; frightful, intermittent
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Leverage
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The action of a lever; power or ability to act effectively or to influence people
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Rubicund
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Red or reddish; often implies health
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Antimacassar
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A small, usu. ornamental covering placed on the backs and arms of upholstered furniture to prevent wear or spoiling
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Prosaic
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Commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact; unimaginative; of or like prose rather than poetry; factual, often used negatively
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Broach
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To mention something for the first time, usu. something not easily brought up
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Malign
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To speak harmful untruths about; evil in effect; pernicious
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Torrent
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A rushing or abuntdant stream of anything, such as words
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Bog
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Wet, spongy ground with soil composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter; to sink, to cause to sink
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Shards
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Fragments, esp. of broken earthen ware
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Bibulous
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Fond of or addicted to drink; absorbent, spongy
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Convoluted
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Twisted; coiled; complicated; intricately involved
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Deftness
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Skill, nembleness, facileness, dexterity
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Tottering
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Walking unsteadily or shakily; lacking security or stability, threatening to collapse
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Jarred
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Shocked...unpleasant, negative, thrown off balance
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Marred
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ruined
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Flailing
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Thrashing about
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Imperceptible
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Not perceptible; gradual or subtle
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Dragooning
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Bullying
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Greenhorn
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An inexperienced or unsophisticated person; a newcomer unacquainted with local manners and customs
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Sultry
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Very hot and humid; exciting or capable of exciting stong sexual desire
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Chastened
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To correct by punishment or suffering
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Truculent
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Feeling or displaying ferocity; deadly, destructive
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Shiftless
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Lacking in resocrefulness, ambition, or incentive
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Uusurer
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A person who charges exhorbitant interest on a loan
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Haggled
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Bargained, bartered, quibbled, negotiated, wrangled
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Slackened
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Loosened, relaxed
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Facilitated
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Helped, aided, assisted, make smooth, made easy, made possible
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Mordant
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Caustic, acerbic, scathing, penetrating, biting
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Chaff
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The casing around a kernel of wheat; something useless
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Voluptuous
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Sensuous, juicy, ripe ,fulsome
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Reverie
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Daydream
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Caprice
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Whim, impulse, quirk, fancy, fad, notion
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Posterity
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Future generations
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Sagacious
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Sage, wise, learned, clever, perceptive, knowledgeable
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Brazen
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Bold, barefaced, brash, (negative, questioning authority)
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August
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Imposing, impressive, grand, majestice, eminent
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Ethereal
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Other-worldly, ghostly, delicate, heavenly, magical
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Dauntless
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Bold, intrepid, fearless
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piquancy
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sharp taste; spiciness; kick; tartness, tang; tentalizing;
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piquancy
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sharp taste; spiciness; kick; tartness; tang
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revel
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to take great pleasure or delight in
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dissolution
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closure, disbanding, termination, suspension, conclusion
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emanating
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originating, starting, coming, beginning, stemming, springing, deriving
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pluck
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nerve, guts, courage, bravery
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vixen
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baby female fox; deceitful woman, seductive woman
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battalions
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division, company, brigade, regiment, troop
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fastidious
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fussy, finicky, persnickety, hard to please
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diffidently
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shyly, self effacingly, timidly
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dogged
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determined, persistent, stong-willed, strong-minded
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deign
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condescend, stoop, lower yourself
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premonition
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presentiment, forewarning, feeling, intuition, hunch, omen
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vex
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to irritate, annoy, provoke, torment, trouble
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dour
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sullen, gloomy, severe, stern
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resolute
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firmly set in purpous or opinion, determined, resolved
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emanciated
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wasted away physically; feeble
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illusory
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deceptive, unreal, illusive; producing, based on, or having the nature of a delusion
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indiscriminately
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in such a way as to not be discriminating or not make careful choices or distinctions; in such a way as to be confused, random, promiscuous
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cleave
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to adhere, cling, to be faithful to
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fatous
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complacently stupid or inan4e; silly; foolish
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petulant
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impatient or irritable; peevish
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diversion
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the act or instance of distraction from a course,activity, or use
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proseltyze
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to induce someone to convery to one's faith
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cryptically
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in a secret or occult manner
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cackle
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to make the shrill broken sounds of a hen 9through laughter or chatter)
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cunning
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sly, crafty, made or done with skill or ingenuity
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retort
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a quick, sharp or witty reply (turns previous speaker's words back upon that speaker)
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penitential
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of or relating to sorrow for one's sins
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endeavor
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an earnest attempt or effort; to strive to reach a goal
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moor
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an expanse or open, rolling, infertile land; a boggy area, esp. one that is peaty and dominated by grasses and sedges
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pariah
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lowest cast in india; outcast
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relish
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pleasurable appreation of anything; to enjoy; to take pleasure in
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bolt
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to make a sudden, swift dash, run, flight, or escape
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exhiliration
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feeling of being enlivened, invigorated, stimulated
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demurely
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in a modest and reserved manner or behavior
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undulations
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regular rising and falling movements to alternating sides; movements in waves
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sublime
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elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.; awe-inspiring
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impervious
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incapable of being penetrated
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pedagogy
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the function or work of a teacher; teaching
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uncanny
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having or seeming to have a supernaturalor inexplicable basis
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protrude
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to project, to thrust foward
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flounder
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to struggle with stumbling or plunging movemens
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impudence
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the quality or state of bing impertinent; effrontery; insolence
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atoll
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a ring shaped coral reef of a string of closel y spaced small coral islands
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caricature
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a picture, description, etc. ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things
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implore
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entreate, beg
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reprove
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to express disapprobal to or of
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rend
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to tear apart forcibly
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pusillanimous
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cowardly
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lucrative
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profitable
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rustic
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relating to or suitable for the country or country dwellings; coarse; not refined
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poignant
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emotionally painful, deeply moving
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demur
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to object
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condole
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to express sympathy
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oblivion
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state of having lost concious awareness; state of bing forgotton
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cavaclade
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a ceremonial procession or display; a succession or series
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prodigious
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extraordinary in size degree
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noisome
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offensive, esp. to the sense of smell to the point or arousing disgust
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jocosely
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given to joking merrily, humorously, light-heartedly, upbeatingly
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ken or kenning
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perception, understanding, range of vision, view, sight
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wanton
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immoral or unchaste, lewd, undisciplined, spoiled
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demean
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degrade, debase, humiliate, put down, disgrace
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magnanimous
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courageously noble in mind and heart. generous in forgiving; unselfish
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abhorrence
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hate coupled with disgust
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consternation
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alarm; fright; amazement; astonishment
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eminence
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a position of great distinction or superiority
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caper
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a playful leap or hop; a frivolous escapade or prank; an illegal plot or enterprise, esp. one involving theft
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fervent
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characterized by intense emotion
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apathy
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Lack of emotion or feeling; impassiveness.
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empathy
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identification with and understanding or another's situation, feelings, and motives
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conjecture
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an inference or judgement based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork
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obsequiously
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full of or exchibiting servile compliance; fawningly
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latently
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present but not evident
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lackey
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a liveried male servant; a foot man; a servile follower
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indomitable
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incapable of being overcome; subdued or vanquished; unconquerable
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ensconced
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to be settled or established
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enmity
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positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will; hostility or antipathy
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gambol
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to skip about in play; frisk, frolic
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tractable
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capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled; docile; easily handled; managed or wrought; malleable
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machinations
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scheming or crafty actions or artful designs intended to accomplish some, usu. evil, end
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conciliatory
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appeasing, friendly, compatible, aggreable
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waft
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to cause to move or go lightly by or as if by the impulse of wind or waves
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taciturn
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temperamentally disinclined to to talk
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intimated
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communitacted delicately and indirectly; hinted
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intimated
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made timid or fearful; frightened esp. compelled or detered by or as if by threats
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whelp
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to give birth to-used or various carnivores and esp of the dog; to bring forth
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posthumous
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following or occurring after death
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retinue
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a group of retainers of attendants
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subversive
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secretive, not easily detected; tending to overthrow or cause destruction of a legally established gov't
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sally
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set out, depart briskly or energetically (always followed by "forth")
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incumbent
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required; obligatory; holding a specified officed; lying, resting, or pressing with its weight on something else
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dregs
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the sediment of liquid; lees; the basest of least desirable portion
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frugally
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in a way that is avoiding unnecessary expenditure or money; thriftily
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interment
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the act or ritual or interring (placing in a grabe; burying)
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pervade
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to spread throughout; permeate
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salient
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projecting or jutting beyond a line; striking; conspicuous; promintent; noticeable
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genially
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cheerfully, in a friendly, kindly manner
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lily-livered
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cowardly; timid
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groveling
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humbling oneself in a servile manner; cringing
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inveigle
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to lead astray or win over by deceitful flattery; to obtain by cajolery (coaxing, wheedling)
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contentious
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always ready to argue; quarrelsome
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convalescence
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gradual recovery after ilness; the period of such recovery
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droll
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amusingly odd; whimsically comical
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encroachment
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the act of intruding gradually on the possessions or rights of another; trespassing
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rhetorically
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in a way that is concerned primarily with style or effect; often used to describe the posing of a question to which ther speaker does not expect/want a reply
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veer
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to shift from one direction or course to another; turn
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sedate
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quiet and dignified in behavior; serious, solemn
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irate
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arising from anger
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tacit
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implied or indicated but no actually expressed
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insidious
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sly, treacherous, seductive, having a gradual and cumulative effect, subtle
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ramshackle
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rickety, tumbledown
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mire
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heavy and often deep mud or slush; to stick or sink in or as if in mud
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ruthless
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having no pity; merciless; cruel
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castrate
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to deprive of sex glands
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dole
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a distribuion esp. of food, money, or clothing to the need
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disparge
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to lower in rank or reputation; degrade; belittle
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staunch
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firm, strong, steadfast, loyal, resolute; to stop liquid from flowing or a wound from bleeding
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alacrity
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cheerful readiness; briskness
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besmirch
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to soil, to make dirty; to bring disgrace on, slander
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din
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a loud confused mixture of noises
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bourgeois
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a member of the middle class
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cherubim
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a celestial being; an angel; second clas of angels
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pernicious
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causing insiduous harm or ruin; evil, wicked
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torpid
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inactive or sluggish, as a bodily organ; slow, dull, apathetic, lethargic
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poacher
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a person who trespasses on private property, esp. to catch fish or game illeagaly
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perusal
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carefully searching, looking (scrutiny)
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scrutiny
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a searching examination;a close and searching look
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shirk
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to evade; to evade work, duty, etc.
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enigma
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a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation; a person or puzzling or contradictory character
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lurid
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gruesome, horrible, revolting; wildly dramatic or sensational; shocking; ghastly; pale
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evanescent
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vanishing; fading away
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imminent
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likely to occur at any moment; impending; threatening
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taper
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to grow smaller or thinner toward one end; to reduce gradually; OR a candle, esp. a very slender one
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sat3ed
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satisfied and apetite or desire fully; filled to excess
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auspicious
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promising success; propitious, oportune, favored by fortune
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impassively
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in a manner not susceptible to pain or suffering; apathetic in an unmoved manner
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doddering
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mentally or physically infirm with age; to shake or tremble from old age
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yoke
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something that connects or joins together; a crossbar with two u-shaped pieces that encircle the necks of a pair or oxen or other draft animals working together
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insolence
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trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liverties; an offensive, disrespectful impudent act
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deference
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submission or courteous yeilding to the opinion, wishes, or judgement of another; courteous respect
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malicious
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having the nature of or resulting from a desire to harm others; spiteful
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seduce
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to lead away from duty, principles, or proper conduct
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absolve
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to pronounce clear of guilt, blame, or obligation
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lamentation
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the act of expressing sorrow or regret
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dirge
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a slow, mournful musical composition; a funeral hymn or lament
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transgress
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to go beyond or over a limit or boundry
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profane
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marked by contempt or irreverence for what is sacred; to put to an improper, unworthy, or degrading use
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untrammeled
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not limited or restricted; unrestrained
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entrails
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internal parts or organs
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welter
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a confused mass; jumble; to wallow, roll, or toss about as in mud or hight seas
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defile
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to make filthy or dirty; to march in single file.; a narrow gorge or pass that restricts lateral movement
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citadel
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a rortress in a commanding position or near a city
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crevice
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a narrow crack or opening
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knave
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an unprincipled, crafty fellow; a male servant
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countenance
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appearance, esp. of the face; face or facial features; suport or approval
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vex
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To annoy or bother, puzzle, perplex
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cogitation
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thoughtful consideration, meditation, a serious thought
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contsrue
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interpret, to make sense of, analzye the structure of
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prodigious
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immpressively great in size or force, marvelous
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factious
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of relating to, produced by or characterizes by internal dissension
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redress
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to set right, remedy, to make amend, to adjust
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august
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inspiring awe or admiration, majestic
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flint
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a very hard, fine grained quartz that sparks when struck with steel
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instigate
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to urge on, goad, to stirup, to provoke
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interim
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interval of time between one event,process, or period and another.
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affable
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easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable gentle and gracious
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dismember
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to cut, tear, or pull the limbs off of, to divide into pieces
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chide
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to scold mildly as to correct of improve, reprimand
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purge
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to free from impurities, to rid of sin, guilt or defilement
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prodigy
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a person with exceptional talents or powers
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dank
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disagreebly dark or humid
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constancy
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steadfastness, as in purpose or affection; faithfullness changelessness
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revel
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to take great pleasure in something; a noisy celebration
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render
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to submit/present, to make available or provide; to give what is due or owed; to return; to surrender
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auger
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to predict or fortell from omens; a profit
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unassailable
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impossible to disprove
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appease
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to soothe, calm, to bring peace and quiet to
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rend
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to tear at something violently out of anguish or rage
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legacy
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money or property that is left to somebody in a will
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covert
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not openly practiced or shown
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bay
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a position of no escape
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chastise
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to punish or scold somebody; to severely criticize
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proscription
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the act of condeming or forbidding something; the condition of having been denounce or exiled
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tenor
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a drift of something spoken or written, an exact copy of a writing, the coice part next to the lowest 4 part chorus
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apparition
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an unusual or unexpected sight
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corporal
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of, in or affecting the body
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abject
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cast down in spirit; showing utter hopelessness or resignation
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disconsolate
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cheerless
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levy
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the imposition or collection of an assessment
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tarry
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to linger or delay
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engender
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to cause to exist or to cause to develop; to assume form
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prostrate
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stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission; to put oneself in such a postion
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raucous
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disagreeably harsh or stident, hoarse, boisterousluy disordenly
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licentious
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lacking legal or moral restraints; marked by disregard for strict rules or correctness
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abeyance
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a lapse in succesion during which there is no person whom a title is vested; temporary inactivity, suspension
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predisposed
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disposed in advance, made susceptible, brought about by susceptibilty, indined
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willful
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intentional
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dawdle
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to spend time idly, to delay
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decry
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to express strong disapproval of
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resonant
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continuing to sound, echoing, marked by grandiloquence
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plethora
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excess, superfluity ;excess of blood
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abdicate
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to cast off; discard; to relinquish formally; to renouce a throne
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extraneous
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existing or coming from the outside; not forming an essential or vital part; having no relevance
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splice
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to unite by interweaving the strands; to unite; a joining or joint
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perterbed
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disturbed greatly; disorder; decomposed
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nefarious
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flagrantly wicked or impious; evil
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lugubriously
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mournfully
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truncated
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shortened by or as if having been cut off, appering to terminate abrubtly
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extricate
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to release from an entanglement of difficulty
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mendacious
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lying; untruthful
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timerous
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full of apprehensiveness; timid
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portent
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an indication of something important or calamitious about to occur; an omen
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finagle
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to obain by inderect, deceitful methods, to cheat, swindle
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oxymoron
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figure of speech in which two contradictory terms are combined
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indubitable
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undoubtably
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succinct
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characterized by clear, precise expression in a few words; concise
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volatile
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tending to violence, explosive
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rancor
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bitter and long lasting resentment
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ingratiate
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to bring oneself into the facor or good graces of another
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exacerbate
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to incease in the severity, violence or bitterness of; aggravate
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forbearance
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tolerance and restraint in the force of provocation; patience; good natured;
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garrulous
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talkative in a rambling manner; wordy
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penchant
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a strong inclantion or liking for something
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refractory
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hard or impossible to manage, stubbornly disobediant; difficult to fuse
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slatternly
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untidy
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transitory
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not lasting,brief, temporary
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venial
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able to be forgiven or pardoned
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veracity
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habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfullness
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abscond
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to depart suddenly and secretly
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alias
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a false name
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anonymous
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without a name; lacking individulality
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cache
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a hiding plce for ammuniton, food, treasures, etc.
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canard
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a false or baseless; rumor
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collusion
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a secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
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con
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trick; coax
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connive
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cooperate secretly with someone for a decietful purpose
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covert
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covered over, secret
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transitory
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not lasting,brief, temporary
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duplicity
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double-dealing, hypocrtical deception
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venial
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able to be forgiven or pardoned
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facade
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face of a building; false front
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feign
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make a false show of; pretend, conterfeit
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veracity
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habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfullness
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abscond
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to depart suddenly and secretly
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alias
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a false name
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anonymous
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without a name; lacking individulality
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cache
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a hiding plce for ammuniton, food, treasures, etc.
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canard
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a false or baseless; rumor
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collusion
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a secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
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con
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trick; coax
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connive
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cooperate secretly with someone for a decietful purpose
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covert
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covered over, secret
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duplicity
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double-dealing, hypocrtical deception
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facade
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face of a building; false front
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feign
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make a false show of; pretend, conterfeit
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transitory
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not lasting,brief, temporary
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venial
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able to be forgiven or pardoned
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veracity
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habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfullness
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abscond
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to depart suddenly and secretly
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alias
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a false name
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anonymous
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without a name; lacking individulality
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cache
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a hiding plce for ammuniton, food, treasures, etc.
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canard
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a false or baseless; rumor
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collusion
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a secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
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con
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trick; coax
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connive
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cooperate secretly with someone for a decietful purpose
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covert
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covered over, secret
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duplicity
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double-dealing, hypocrtical deception
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facade
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face of a building; false front
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feign
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make a false show of; pretend, conterfeit
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inpersonate
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pretend to be some other person; assume the character of
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insidious
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lying in wait to entrap; crafty; tracherous
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malinger
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pretend to be ill or incapacitated so as to avoid work or duty
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seclusion
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condition of being withdrawn in a place hard to reach; solitude
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subterfuge
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trick or plan to conceal one's true objective; deception
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coup de grace
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decisive finishing blow
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demise
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cessation of existance; death
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genesis
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origin,coming into being
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inchoate
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just begun; obly partly in existance; incomplete
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initiative
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ability to begin and follow through without being urged; enterprise
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rudiment
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first principle that must be learned; fundimental
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swan song
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farewell appearance; final reatuce work or performance
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terminal
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coming to the end
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tyro
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beginner in learing something; novice
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ultimatum
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final; uncompromising demand of offer, lending to serious consequences if rejected
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adinfinitum
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endlessly; forever without limit
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adnauseam
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to a sickening degree' to the point of nausea or disgust
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alfresco
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in the open air; outdoors
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chutzpah
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supreme self-confidence; shamless; braceness
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entre nous
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between us; confidentially
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faux pas
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error; social blunder; tactless act
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hoi polloi
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masses; common people
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inmendias ras
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in the middle of things; rather than at the beginning
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kudos
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praise for an acheivement; glory; fame
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non sequiter
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conclusion that does not logically follow from what has been said
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postmortem
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evaluation of some event just completed
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shalom
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term of greeting or farewell
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anatomy
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The bodily structure of a plant or an animal or of any of its parts.
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conciseness
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Expressing much in few words; clear and succinct.
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dissect
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to cut apart or separate (tissue), especially for anatomical study.
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excise
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To remove by or as if by cutting
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fratricidal
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The killing of one's brother or sister.
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intersect
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To cut across or through
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tome
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One of the books in a work of several volumes.
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vivisection
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The act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals, especially for the purpose of scientific research
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antediluvian
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Extremely old and antiquated
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postprandial
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Following a meal, especially dinne
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prescient
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possessing Knowledge of actions or events before they occur
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presentiment
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A sense that something is about to occur; a premonition
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prognosis
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A prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease
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chauvinist
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Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism.
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gargantuan
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Of immense size, volume, or capacity; gigantic
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Machiavellian
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Suggestive of or characterized by expediency, deceit, and cunning.
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malapropism
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Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
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mentor
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A wise and trusted counselor or teacher
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mesmerize
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To spellbind; enthrall
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odyssey
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An extended adventurous voyage or trip.
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quixotic
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Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality.
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sadistic
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The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty.
Extreme cruelty. |
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stentorian
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Extremely loud
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alchemy
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A seemingly magical power or process of transmuting
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bellicose
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Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious
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carp
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To find fault in a disagreeable way; complain fretfully.
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panegyric
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2. Elaborate praise or laudation; an encomium.
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quagmire
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1. Land with a soft muddy surface.
2. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament. |
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mesmerize
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To spellbind; enthrall
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odyssey
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An extended adventurous voyage or trip.
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quixotic
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Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality.
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sadistic
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The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty.
Extreme cruelty. |
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stentorian
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Extremely loud
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alchemy
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A seemingly magical power or process of transmuting
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bellicose
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Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious
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carp
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To find fault in a disagreeable way; complain fretfully.
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panegyric
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2. Elaborate praise or laudation; an encomium.
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quagmire
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1. Land with a soft muddy surface.
2. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament. |