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balmy |
warm; refreshing; mild |
lip bal, palm tree |
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profligate |
recklessly extravagant or wasteful; not virtuous or decent; such a person |
prodigal, tailgate |
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prolific |
producing a great deal; reproducing rapidly |
pro life, litter |
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prolix |
wordy; long-winded; verbose |
prolong, run-on |
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promulagated |
put into effect officially and publicly |
promote, litigate |
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abscond |
to leave secretly and in haste, usually to escape the law |
con, abroad |
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cliche |
an overused expression; a trite or hackneyed saying |
basic, like |
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melancholic |
excessively and unreasonably brooding; chronically depressed; despondent |
alcoholic, melancholy |
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addicted |
physiologically or psychologically dependent upon |
acid, tech |
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cloister |
a secluded or isolated place; a monastery or a convent; a roofed walk way in a courtyard |
oyster, closet |
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coagulate |
to thicken; to clot; to gather together in a mass |
clog, glue |
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banal |
lacking freshness or vigor; commonplace; trite |
anal, canal |
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bard |
poet |
rap, art |
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barrister |
loosely-- an attorney or lawyer |
BAR, arrested |
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bathos |
excessive or trivial sentimentality; an unimportant anticlimax |
bath, pathos |
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bellicose |
hostile; warlike; aggresive |
bully, accosted |
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beneficence |
quality or display of goodness and kindness; a good deed or kindness |
benefit, benedict |
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prone |
naturally inclined; having a tendency; lying face down |
drowned, pro |
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aberration |
a change or departure from the usual , normal, prescribed, etc;a discorder of the mind |
abnormal, irrational |
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brandish |
to shake, wave, or flourish threateningly, defianatly or triumphantly |
brag, brave |
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propagate
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to spread info from one person to another; to disseminate; to reproduce or multiply |
propaganda, program |
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coalesce |
to combine or come together in one body, purpose, etc; to unite; to fuse; to blend |
coal, colaborate |
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coalition |
a union or joining together; a temporary alliance |
ally, collage |
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coercion |
a compelling or forcing; forced restraint or constraint; control or government by force |
contractor, fusion |
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absolution |
the forgiving or sin; a freeing from guilt and penalty; forgiveness |
solution, absolve |
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abstemious |
sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate |
diet, abstain |
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adduced |
brought out or offered for consideration or proof; alleged |
produce, seduce |
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vicissitudes |
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attitude, vision |
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virago |
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angry, diva |
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virulent |
malisiouos, extremely harmful, obnoxious |
virus, viral |
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cognizant |
aware, comprehending |
brain, genius |
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empathy |
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sympathy, path |
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empirical |
data driven |
pi, empire |
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emulate |
succesfully |
duplicate, race |
