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yammer
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to ramble
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"stop yammering"
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zaftig
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a woman whose body is plump/juicy/voluptuous
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ululate
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yell/howl
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dinkum
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truly;honestly;authentic
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torpor
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lethargy
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virago
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a woman who is over-bearing/strong-willed or courageous
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wittol
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a man who is aware of infidelities of wife, but ignores it
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xenophile
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love of foreigners
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yaw
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to vacillate/flip back and forth
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zip
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zero/nothing
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uxorious
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hen-pecked/man is whipped/controlled by wife
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epicene
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androgynous;unisex
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brachylogy
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a brief, concise statement
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br- brief
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jettison
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to discard
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jet away with, throw away
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calumny
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slander, language spoken against someone/something
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calum- like cum baaad stuff a curse
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facinorous
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escessively wicked or evil
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cin-sin
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aleatoric
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random occurence
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alea tore..that's sooooo random
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flippant
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you do not really care about something
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flipper, moving around it,not sticking to it, thus not important to you
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jingoism
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nationalist/chauvinistic speech characterized by nationalism
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jingle-speech
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fey
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other-wordly (connotation some sort of negative upcoming event)
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fairy- from another world wicked things
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glabrous
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bald
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hubris
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excessive pride
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Oedipus Rex
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irascible
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short-tempered
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erasable- temper is too quick to be fixed, bad, short..
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juxtaposition
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set two this close; relationship; compariosn; side-by-side
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impugn
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to doubt the truth/honesty of something
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inundate
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to be flooded;overflowing;overwhelmed
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matriculate
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to be admitted to
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matrimony-matri-become married, admitted as husband and wife
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moxie
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strength, courage, bravery
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Austin Powers
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litote
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opposite of hyperbole; an understatement that expresses an affirmative thought negatively
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Briana Fisler and her tote bag and her question!
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kitsch
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cheesy
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k for another country where cheeses typically come from
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lugubrious
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sorrowful/mournful
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lugie-booger when you cry
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mimesis
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imitation
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mimicry- like nemesis the thing
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mimetic
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imitative
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like kinetic, adjective
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nascent
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introduction into the world/birth
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like natality
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occident
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the western world
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new word not occidental
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occidental
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western
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what you said in class
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mnemonic
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memory aid
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what you did in Mrs. Berry's class for that one review sheet
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nystagmus
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involuntary oscillation/twitching of the eye
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what Kristen said
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ochlocracy
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mobocracy;mob rule
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what Kristen said
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kismet
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fate
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kiss me "we were meant to be together"
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mercurial
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unpredictable changing of mood; whimsical with mood
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mercury
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prolix
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excessive;verbose;wordy
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lix-like lips
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pithy
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directly to the point
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pissy- impatient so to the point
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quixotic
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unpredictable changing of mood
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c far from q so confusion and huge change in mood
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phlegmatic
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severly calm; slow/slowed temperment
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phlegm-like sick so slow and calm
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queue
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waiting in line
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like on napster
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pulchritude
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physical beauty
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prostrate
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lying down
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like a medical term so lie down
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querulous
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whining/complaining
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quarreling..
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sycophant
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someone who flatters in order to win favor
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suck up
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tarry
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to waste time
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arry is like air like floating around what i did last week
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profligate
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excessively extravagant to a fault
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quintessesence
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representative example/ideal
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quintessential!
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raze
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to demolish
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like a raid and what it does
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sesquicentennial
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150 years
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tenable
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readily grasped/comprehended
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rodomontade
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bragging speech
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turgid
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swelling of language;grandiloquent words
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potatoes in water
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turpitude
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vile, wicked or evil
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verisimilitude
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very similar to
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wyrd
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anglo-saxon word for fate
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vitriol
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horrible/abusive
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vituperate
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hateful/abusive language
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verboten
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forbidden
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ubiquitous
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omnipresent;all over
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xenophobia
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fear of foreigners
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vacillate
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to waver;debate back and forth between something
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winnow
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separate/sort/divide into categories
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apercu
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a brief sketch/drawing/presentation of something
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cu-small, per like paracer small appear..ance sketch
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didactic
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intended to teach
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did..hw
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discrete
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separate;different;distinguished
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dis=apart
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callipygian
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the condition/shape of having a beautiful buttocks
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california babes in bikinis, their butts...
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epistemology
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study of knowledge and how we know what we know
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ology= study of- stem-steam and thinking
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episteme
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theory of knowledge
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think epistemology, but noun version
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enjambment
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the continuation of a sound sent from one line to another (in poetry); no common break added for effect
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jamb- like beat of music, or pause, breaking point
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aver
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to confirm as authentic; to agree something is authentic
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a-authentic and ver- to see, so to see as a, authentic
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ennui
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boredom
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is there anything else to do?!
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effete
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feminine; lacking strength
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like a crumpet
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aubade
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poem welcoming coming of morning/dawn; poem about morning
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autumn- sun so morning
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bellicose
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belligerent/hostile, agressive
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bell-for belligerent
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cajole
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to persuade; to egg on
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jole-jest
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dilettante
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someone who thinks they are better than you because they know a lot about art and culture
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ett-french, mean french
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exegesis
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interpretation
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like the bible- interpreters
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chthonic
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the object/person dwells in the underworld
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christ
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diffident
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shy
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dif-defiant of society
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blithe
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merry;happy;joyous
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puck
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egalitarian
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everyone should be treated equally
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egal-equal
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