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Annuity
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a specified income payable at stated intervals for a fixed or a contingent period, often for the recipient's life, in consideration of a stipulated premium paid either in prior installment payments or in a single payment.
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ardent
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having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling
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boudoir
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a woman's bedroom or private sitting room
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bourgeois
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a member of the middle class
belonging to the middle class |
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chintz
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a printed cotton fabric, glazed or unglazed, used esp. for draperies
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credulous
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Disposed to believe too readily; gullible
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debauchery
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excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance
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delude
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to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive
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derisive
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contemptuous; mocking
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epistle
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a letter, esp. a formal or didactic one; written communication
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equivocation
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the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, esp. in order to mislead or hedge; prevarication
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frivolity
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silliness, trivial
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incredulously
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indicating or showing unbelief, skeptically , doubtingly
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irksome
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annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome
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irreproachable
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blameless, impeccable, unflawed
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ludicrous
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causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable
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majolica
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Italian earthenware covered with an opaque glaze of tin oxide and usually highly decorated
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oblique
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neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping
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opalescent
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exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal
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palatial
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of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace, befitting or suitable for a palace; stately; magnificent, noble, luxurious
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redress
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the setting right of what is wrong, relief from wrong or injury
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remonstrate
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to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval, argue in opposition
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snivel
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to weep or cry with sniffling
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soiree
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party at night
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terracotta
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reddish brown ceramic clay, or work of art
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