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208 Cards in this Set
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Abashed
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Embarrassed
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Arbiter
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Person able to judge or decide
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Benison
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Blessing
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to receive her ____ from a priest
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Bluff
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fool
frank steep cliff |
The council Bluffs are ____
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Canker
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Spreading sore
Evil Influence |
She had a canker ___ on her mouth
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Complaisant
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Obliging
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She is very _____, so she has a willingness to please
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Crass
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Coarsely stupid
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Since he was a very crude and unrefined person, he often made ____ remarks
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Defame
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Attack the reputation of
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Synonyms: malign
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Ennui
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Boredom
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"The servants relieved their ___ with gambling and gossip about their masters."
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Funereal
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Gloomy
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Associate with funeral
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Ideology
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Set of beliefs
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If yuo have an idea, you generally believe in it
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Inferno
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Intense Heat
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Associate with hell
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Inferno
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Intense Heat
Hell |
Associate with hell
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Mercenary
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Hired soldier
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Mercenaries in medieval armies
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Mercenary
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Concerned only with making money
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Parsimonious
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Miserly
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Propaganda
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Deliberately spreading ideas that will help one's own cause or injure an enemy's
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Hitler used propaganda
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Retrogress
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Worsen
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The patient who had made so much progress, suddenly began to retrogress
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Surfeited
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Given too much of something
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Tureen
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Dish
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The salad was served on the white tureen
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Ablutions |
Washings
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Bauble
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Trinket
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Bestial
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Brutal
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The sodlier was taught to keep a bestial mindset in battle
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Bombastic
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Pompous
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There are many bombastic officials who enjoy giving orders
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Chary
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Cautious
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Instead of going out and having fun, the young man is extremely chary
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Congenital
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Present from birth
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A congenital diesease
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Cuisine
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Cooking
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Traditional French Cuisine
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Demote
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Reduce in rank
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The lieutenant was demoted to a sergeant
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Flux
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Change
Flow Substance used in joining metals |
A state of flux
Prevent the flux in the sink Use plenty of flux to fix the pipes |
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Garb
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Clothes
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She was wearing some pretty strange garb
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Impeccable
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Faultless
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The meal was impeccable
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Invective
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Abusive language
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To verbally abuse someone, one must use invective language
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Ogle
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Glance flirtatiously
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The girl was ogling the lifeguard
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Penury
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Extreme poverty
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The family was forced to stay in a homless shelter due to their penury
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Raillery
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Lighthearted teasing
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The young boy was used to the raillery of his classmates at recess
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Scintillate
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Sparkle
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The gold necklace scintillated with radiance
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Survey
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Measure
Look closely at Detailed study |
The surveyers monitored the traffic
The customers were required to fill out a survey |
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Verbatim
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Word for word
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Repeat back to me verbaitum what he said
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Anneal |
Toughen by heating and then cooling
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To anneal metal
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Becoming
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Pleasingly suitable
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A becoming manner
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Bizarre
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Fantastic
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A bizarre manner
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Buoyant
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Able to float
Cheerful |
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Chattel
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On movable property
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A chattel mortgage
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Cranium
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Top of the skull
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He took a blow to the cranium
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Culpable
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Blameworthy
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Becuase he was in the wrong place at the wront time, he was held culpable for someone else's actions
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Endorse
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Express support of
Sign the back of a check |
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Freebooter
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Pirate
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Many ships of freebooters terrorized the oceans in the Middle Ages
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Hallmark
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Stamp on gold or silver objects
Distinguishing characteristic |
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Incognito
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With one's identity concealed
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The spy traveled incognito
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Irrevocable
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unalterable
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The decision was unanimous, so it was irrevocable
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Pacific
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Peaceful
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The Pacific Ocean
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Pernicious
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Harmful
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UV rays can have pernicious affects
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Retinue
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Train of attendants
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The King traveled with his retinue
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Scrip
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Paper entitling the bearer to receive something
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Symmetrical
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Balanced
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The triangle was symmetrical
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Verve
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Enthusiasm
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Generally, the first day of school is not full of verve
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Affirm |
Assert
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Avarice
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Greed for money
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Courser
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Horse
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Laura Skinner
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Devotee
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Ardent Supporter
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Dossier
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Collection of documents giving a detailed report
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Exonerate
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Declare Blameless
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Franchise
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Right granted by a government or company
Right to vote |
Suffrage ( from history)
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Herald
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Announce
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Instantaneous
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Immediate
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Marathon
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Prolonged
Foot race of about 26 miles |
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Mettle
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Spirit
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Predicament
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Trying situation
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Sanctimonious
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Falsely pious
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Stevedores
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Dock workers
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Throng
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Crowd of people
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Unremitting
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Unending
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Annuity |
Fixed yearly payment
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Bedeviled
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Tormented
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Decorum
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correctness and good taste
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Divers
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various
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Elemental
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Having to do with forces of nature
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Extant
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Still in existence
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Germinate
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Begin to develop
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Heterogeneous
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dissimilar
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Melodrama
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Unrealistic play in which good and evil are exaggerated
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Ocular
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Eye
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Optometrist
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Partiality
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Liking
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Recession
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Moving backwards
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Sojourn
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Stay
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Stickler
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Person who makes strict demands
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Travesty
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Crude and mocking imitation
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Vendetta
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Feud
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Autonomous |
Self-governing
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Belligerent
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Nations at war
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Default
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Fail to make payments
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Dogged
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Determined
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Emancipate
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Free
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Flora
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Plants
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Gourmets
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Experts on fine foods
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Hindmost
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Farthest back
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Mania
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Excessive enthusiasm
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Memoirs
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Autobiography
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Opulence
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Wealth
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If you sell OPIATE, you are a drug lord. Drug lords are generally wealthy
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Prate
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Talk foolishly
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Residue
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Remainder
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Sporadic
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an irregular occurrence
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Thermal
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Having to do with heat
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Umber
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earth color used in artist's paints
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Adherent |
Supporter
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Amity
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Friendship
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Bloated
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Swollen
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Cataclysm
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Sudden, violent change
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Dessicate
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remove the water from
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disheveled
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Rumpled
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Epaulet
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tassel-like shoulder decoration
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Hypochondriac
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Person unduly worried about his or her health
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In term
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Intervening period
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Luminous
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Giving off light
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Luminous
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Clear
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Munitions
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War supplies
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amMUNITION
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Pedagogue
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Schoolteacher
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Prosaic
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Dull
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Boring mosaiacs
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Regale
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Entertain
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supercilious
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Haughty
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Vitriolic
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Vicious
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Vitriol
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Sulphuric acid
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Affluent |
Wealthy
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Assuage
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Lessen
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Butte
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Isolated, steep-sided hill
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Complacent
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Self-satisfied
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Desultory
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Aimless
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Dissertation
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Formal essay
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Exodus
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Departure
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Book of Exodus
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Genteel
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Polite and refined
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Inebriated
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drunken
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Introspective
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Given to examining one's own thoughts
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Martinet
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Strict disciplinarian
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Oblivion
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Lack of awareness
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Oblivious
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Pillory
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Wooden frame with holes for confining the head and hands
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Provocation
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Cause for anger
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Revoke
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Withdraw
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Tacit
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Unspoken
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Alloy |
Mixture of metals
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Augury
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Omen
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Cadaver
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Dead body
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Decry
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denounce
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Devise
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Work out
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Entreat
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Beg
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Finite
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Limited
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Guillotine
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Machine for beheading people
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Inevitable
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Unavoidable
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Irrefutable
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That cannot be disputed
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Militant
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Aggressively active
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Obsolescent
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Outdated but still usable
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Prefatory
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Introductory
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Recluse
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Hermit
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Somnambulist
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Sleep walker
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Telepathy
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Thought transference
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Amenable |
Responsive
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Automaton
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Self-regulating machine
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Cede
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Surrender
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Discredit
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Throw doubt on
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Disparage
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Belittle
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Extinct
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No longer in existence
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Fiasco
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Ridiculous failure
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Girded
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Encircled
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Girdle
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Inception
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Beginning
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Limbo
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Condition of oblivion
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Pacify
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Soothe
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Pacify
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Bring peace to
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pejorative
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That tend to give an unfavorable impression
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Practicable
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Capable of being put into use
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Punitive
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Punishing
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Somatic
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Bodily
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Apologist |
Defender of a policy or action
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Biannual
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Twice a year
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Chronometer
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Extremely accurate timepiece
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Definitive
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Final
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Discreet
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Cautiously tactful
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Enunciate
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Speak clearly
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Extremist
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Person who holds immoderate views
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Extrovert
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Person whose thoughts are directed outwards
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Florid
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Red
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Gist
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Main point
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Intimate
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Suggest
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Intimate
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Small
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Intimate
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thorough
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Intimate
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Deeply private
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Lope
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Move easily
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Palpitate
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Beat rapidly
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Perpetrate
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to be guilty of
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perpatrator
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Presentiment
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Feeling of impending misfortune
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Requite
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Repay
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Requite
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Return
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Stalactite
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hanging, icicle-like formation
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Assonance |
Similarity in vowel sounds
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Buttress
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Supporting structure
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Buttress
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Strengthen
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Conception
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General idea
Beginning of pregnancy |
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Diatribe
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Bitterly abusive speech
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Dismember
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Cut up
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Ethnic
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Racial
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Euphonious
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Pleasant sounding
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Fluster
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confuse
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Gruesome
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Horrible
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Invoke
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Request help from
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Nutriment
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Nourishing substance
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Pecuniary
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financial
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Plebeian
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commonplace
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procrastinate
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delay
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roue
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person who leads a dissipated life
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torso
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body minus arms and legs
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