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pertaining to or of the nature of autocracy or; absolute; tyrannical; despotic; domineering
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autocratic, autocrat, autocratically
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to declare frankly or openly; own; acknowledge; confess; admit
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avow, avowable, disavow, avowal, disavowal
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pertaining to an uncle
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avuncular, avuncularity, avuncularly
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a self evident or universally recognized truth; maxim, an establishe drule, principle or law, a self evident principle or one that is acepted as true wihtout proof as the basis for argument; postule
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axiom, axiomatic
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a fatal injury or ruin, a deadly poison, death; destruction; ruin, murderer, to kill with poison
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bane
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to father; sire; to cause to exist or occur; produce
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beget, begetter
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to attack with blows; hit, beat or whip; to assail verbally; to discuss repeatedly or at length; harp on
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belabor
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bewildered or confused; lost in thought; preoccupied
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bemused, bemusedly, bemusement
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having a kindly disposition ; gracious; showing or expressive of gentleness or kindness; favorable; propitious; healthful
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benign, benignly
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to attack from all sides; to trouble persistently; harass to hem in; surround; to stud, as with jewels
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beset, besetment
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any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden dying of affected; to cause to wither or decay; detroy; ruin frustrate
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blight, blightingly
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person belonging to the middle class;
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bourgeois, bourgeoisie
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to bring up a subject for debate; to announce; to pierce in order to draw off liquid; to shape or enlarge a hole with a tool
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broach, broacher
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to put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout to grow or develop
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burgeon, burgeoning
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a literary or dramatic work that ridicules a subject; ludicrous so mocking imitation; travesty;to imitate mockingly or humorously
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burlesque
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