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Abase
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Lower; humiliate
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A bass has a low sound
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Abash
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embarrass
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The bashful dwarf in Snow White was shy
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Abate
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Subside; decrease, lessen
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Storm
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Aberrant
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Abnormal or deviant
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A bear ant is an abnormal animal
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Abet
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Aid, usually in doing something wrong
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A bet aids in finance, but is the wrong thing to do
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Abduction
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kidnapping
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Aliens abduct
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Abeyance
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Suspended action
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when you obey someone you are in suspended action yourself
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Abhor
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detest; hate
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ab (away from) whore since we detest adn hate them
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Abject
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wretched; lacking pride
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I only eject things that are wretched and lack pride
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Ablution
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Washing
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Lutin is a character on Disney Cartoons that needs some washing
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Abnegation
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Repudiation; self-sacrifice
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Ab negative... self-sacrifice blood donation
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Abominable
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Detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad
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The abominable snowman is detestable and very bad
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Abortive
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unsuccessful; fruitless
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I abort unsuccessful and fruitless missions
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Abrade
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Wear away by friction; scrape; erode
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I wear braids. Ab is away-- wear away
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Abrasive
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Rubbing away; tending to grind down
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braces rub away at your lips and tend to grind down your teeth
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Abridge
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Condense or shorten
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A bridge shortens your travel time
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Abrogate
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abolish
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Abro Cadabra... the gate is now abolished
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abscond
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Depart secretly and hide
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my abs were conned and the surgon departed secretly and hid
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absolve
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pardon (an offense)
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The father absolved him of his sins.
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abstemious
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sparing in eating and drinking; temporate
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if you eat stems you are sparing in eating and drinking
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abstruse
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obscure; profound; difficult to understand
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to tell you the struse i dont understand english.
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abut
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border upon; adjoin
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a but ajoins your top and botton half.
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abysmal
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bottomless
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a bottomless abyss- mal is bad
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accede
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agree
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I agree that we need a seed to grow a tree
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accentuate
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emphasize; stress
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a scent emphasizes and stresses the smell in a room
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acclaim
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applaud; announce with great approval
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When I make a claim I expect people to applaud and announce with great approval
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acclimate
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adjust to climate
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ac helps us adjust to our climate
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accolade
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award of merit
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Akko was laid... He should recieve an award of merit
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accord
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agreement
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Oslo accords
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accost
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approach and speak first to a person
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there is no cost to approach and speak first to a person
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accretion
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growth; increase
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a creation will have growth; increase
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accoutre
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equipped
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weird word. You have to be equipped with good english to know that
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Accrue
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v. come about by addition
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a crew comes about by additon to the captain of the ship
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Acerbity
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n. bitterness of speech and temper
acerbic adj. |
An ass is biting his nails because the bitterness of speech and temper
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acetic
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vinegary
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ah said...ik..vinegar is gross
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acidulous
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slightly sour; sharp, caustic
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acid food is slightly sour
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acme
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top; pinnacle
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acme towers is very high in level
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acoustics
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science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
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acoustic guitars
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acquittal
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deliverance from a charge
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they quit on al and let him go even though they thought he was guilty
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acrid
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sharp; bitterly pungent
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Ak. Lets get rid of the sharp and bitterly pungent odor
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acrimonious
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bitter in words or manner
n. acrimony |
ah... crimony!-- what a bitter way to say something
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acrophobia
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fear of heights
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ahhhhh.crop! we are so high up here.
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actuarial
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calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics
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actuate
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motivate
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act- u- ate. food motivates
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acuity
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sharpness
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Its your que. be sharp
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acumen
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mental keenness
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ah see you men. You all have mental keenness
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acute
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quickly perceptive; keen; brief and severe
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acute hearing
acute illness acute businessman |
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adage
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wise saying; proverb
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add age and you have wise people saying wise sayings
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adamant
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hard; inflexible
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a dam ant wouldn't die because he was so hard and inflexible
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addendum
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an addition or supplement
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Add the end ... um. to the rest of the story
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addle
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v. muddle; drive crazy; become rotten
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addle confuse you. What drives me crazy is that western accent
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adept
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expert at
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one must have a depth of a field to be an expert at it
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adjunct
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someting added on or attached (generally nonessential or inferior)
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conjunction junction, whats your function. To add.
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admonish
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v. warn; reprove
n. admonition |
Admin in a MUN conference warn and reprove of passing unappropriate notes
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Adorn
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v. decorate
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we decorate with ornaments
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Adroit
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skillful
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Adroit sounds like a star wars robot and they are skillful. They are always roit (right)
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adherent
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supporter; folower
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to adhere is to follow
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