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1 : something taken as food : meal
2 : the act or time of taking food |
Repast
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1 a: to indicate duties or obligations to b: to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner
2: to give friendly earnest advice or encouragement to synonyms see reprove |
Admonish
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1 a: to fill with persons or animals : stock barchaic : to supply fully : perfect c: to fill with inspiration or power : nourish
2 a: to fill or build up again b: to make good : replace intransitive verb |
Replinish
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: prolonged and usually abnormal inability to obtain adequate sleep
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Insomnia
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: to give in return or retribution
: to cause to be or become |
Render
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a group of 20 things —often used in combination with a cardinal number c: an indefinitely large number
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Score(n)
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1: a group or set of 10: as a: a period of 10 years
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Decade
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1 a: a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body ; also : a stitch made with a suture b: the act or process of sewing with sutures
2 a: a uniting of parts b: the seam or seamlike line along which two things or parts are sewed or united 3 a: the line of union in an immovable articulation (as between the bones of the skull) ; also : such an articulation b: a furrow at the junction of adjacent bodily parts ; especially : a line of dehiscence (as on a fruit) — |
Suture
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easily duped or cheated
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Gullible
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1 a: to hold within a location b: imprison
2: to keep within limits |
Confined
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transitive verb
1 : to search into and explore very thoroughly : subject to a penetrating investigation 2 : to examine with a probe |
Probe
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1: to cut roughly or clumsily : hack
2archaic : to annoy or exhaust with wrangling |
Haggle
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1 a: a slight error typically due to forgetfulness or inattention <a lapse in table manners> b: a temporary deviation or fall especially from a higher to a lower state <a lapse from grace>
2: a becoming less : decline 3 a (1): the termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within some limit of time (2): termination of coverage for nonpayment of premiums |
Lapse
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1 : lasting one day only 2 : lasting a very short time
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Ephemeral
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1 aarchaic : strongly opposed b: feeling or showing abhorrence
2: not agreeable : contrary 3: being so repugnant as to stir up positive antagonism |
Abhorrent
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1: to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke
2 a: to check (as a line) suddenly while running out especially by turning around a fixed object (as a post or a cleat) ; also : to check the motion of by snubbing a line <snub the anchor> b: to restrain the action of : suppress3: to treat with contempt or neglect 4: to extinguish by stubbing |
Snub
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1 : not knowing
2 : not intended |
Unwittingly
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1: to set off in a burst of activity
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Detonate
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1: to plunge into something that surrounds or covers ; especially : to plunge or dip into a fluid
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Immerse
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1 a: the food of the Greek and Roman gods b: the ointment or perfume of the gods
2: something extremely pleasing to taste or smell 3: a dessert made of oranges and shredded coconut |
Ambrosial
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