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225 Cards in this Set
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Abeyance
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temporary suppression or suspension
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Acquittal
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release from blame
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Amulet
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ornament worn as a charm against evil spirits
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Apostate
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one who renounces a religious faith
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Belie
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to misrepresent; expose as false
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Blandish
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to coax with flattery
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Caucus
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smaller group within an organization; a meeting of such a group
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Coffer
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strongbox, large chest for money
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Complacent
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self-satisfied, smug
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Construe
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to explain or interpret
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Inveterate
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confirmed, long-standing, deeply rooted
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Contrite
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deeply sorrowful and repentant for a wrong
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Convex
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curved outward
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Craven
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cowardly
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Dearth
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lack, scarcity, insufficiency
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Derivative
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copied or adapted; not original
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Equivocate
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to use ague or ambiguous language intentionally
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Euphemism
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use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
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Gambol
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to dance or skip around playfully
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Infirmity
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disease, ailment
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Invidious
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envious; obnoxious
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Knell
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sound of a funeral bell; omen of death or failure
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Moot
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debatable; purely academic, deprived of practical significance
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Nettle
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to irritate
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Palisade
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fence made up of stakes
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Abet
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to aid, act as accomplice
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Accost
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to approach and speak to someone
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Allay
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to lessen, ease, or soothe
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Apocryphal
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not genuine; fictional
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Benefactor
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someone giving aid or money
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Bovine
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cow like; relating to cows
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Capitulate
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to submit completely, surrender
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Chide
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to scold, express disapproval
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Cloister
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to confine, seclude
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Compunction
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feeling of uneasiness caused by guilt or regret
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Curt
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abrupt, blunt
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Dexterous
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skilled physically or mentally
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Disburse
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to payout
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Distend
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to inflate, bloat
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Duress
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threat of force or intimidation; imprisonment
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Emend
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to correct a text
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Errant
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straying
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Fell
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to chop, cut down
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Gaunt
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thin and bony
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Immense
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enormous, huge
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Inculpate
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to blame, charge with a crime
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Incursion
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sudden invasion
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Lionize
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to treat as a celebrity
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Mock
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to deride, ridicule
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Opine
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to express an opinion
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Abdicate
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to give up a position right or power
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Affront
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personal offense, insult
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Discrepancy
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difference between
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Forbearance
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patience, restraint, leniency
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Gustatory
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relating to sense of taste
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Hoary
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very old; whitish or gray from age
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Intractable
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not easily managed
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Parry
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to ward off or deflect
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Polemic
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controversy, argument; verbal attack
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Preponderance
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majority in number; dominance
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Prodigal
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wasteful, extravagant, lavish
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Promulgate
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to make known publicly
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Provincial
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rustic, unsophisticated, ted in scope
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Quagmire
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marsh; difficult situation
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Raucous
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harsh sounding; boisterous
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Recapitulate
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to review by a brief summary
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Reminiscence
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remembrance of past events
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Remuneration
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pay or reward for work, trouble, etcetera
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Repose
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relaxation, leisure
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Respite
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interval of relief
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Retort
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cutting response
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Wary
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careful cautious
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Whet
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to sharpen, stimulate
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Yoke
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to join together
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Zoologist
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scientist who studies animals
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Abject
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miserable, pitiful
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Ample
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abundant, plentiful
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Audacious
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bold, daring, fearless
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Balk
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to refuse, shirk; prevent
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Bellow
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to roar, shout
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Congruity
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correspondence, harmony, agreement
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Expiate
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to atone for, make amends for
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Interpolate
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to insert change by adding new words or material
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Philistine
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narrow-minded person, someone lacking appreciation for art or culture
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Pilfer
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to steal
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Pique
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fleeting feeling of hurt pride
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Pluck
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to pull strings on a musical instrument; to remove feathers from a bird
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Pulchritude
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beauty
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Sheepish
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timid, meek, or bashful
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Sinecure
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well-paying job or office that requires little or no work
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Stratify
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to arrange into layers
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Subtle
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hard to detect or describe; perceptive
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Tenable
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defensible, reasonable
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Trite
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shallow, superficial
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Truncate
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to cut off shorten by cutting
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Vapid
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tasteless, dull
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Veracity
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accuracy, truth
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Verbatim
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word for word
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Vex
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to irritate, annoy; confuse, puzzle
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Winsome
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charming, happily engaging
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Adverse
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unfavorable, unlucky; harmful
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Anachronistic
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outdated
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Asunder
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into different parts
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Callow
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immature, lacking sophistication
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Cherubic
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sweet, innocent, resembling a cherub angel
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Concerto
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musical composition for orchestra and one or more soloists
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Countermand
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to annul, cancel, make a contrary order
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Cutlery
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cutting instruments; tableware
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Hone
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to sharpen
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Immutable
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unchangeable, invariable
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Ingenuous
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straightforward, open; naive and unsophisticated
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Insolvent
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bankrupt, unable to pay one’s debts
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Insurgent
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rebellious, insubordinate
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Intrepid
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fearless
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Juncture
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point where two things are joined
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Largess
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generosity; gift
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Malediction
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curse
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Malefactor
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evil-doer; culprit
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Mendicant
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beggar
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Mollusk
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sea animal with soft body
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Opaque
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impervious to light difficult to understand
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Puerile
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childish, immature, silly
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Purport
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to profess suppose, claim
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Ramble
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to roam, wander; to babble, digress
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Transmute
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to change in appearance or shape
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Askew
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crooked, tilted
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Assiduous
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diligent, persistent, hard-working
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Atrophy
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to waste away, wither from disuse
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Attenuate
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to make thin or slender; weaken
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Auspicious
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having favorable prospects promising
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Berate
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to scold harshly
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Blanch
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to pale; take the color out of
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Boor
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crude person, one lacking manners or taste
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Cede
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to surrender possession of something
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Cleave
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to split or separate or to stick, cling, adhere
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Defile
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to dirty, spoil; to disgrace, dishonor
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Demote
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to reduce to a lower grade or rank
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Devoid
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totally lacking
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Devout
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deeply religious
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Dissipate
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to scatter; to pursue pleasure to excess
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Equanimity
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calmness, composure
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Exigent
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urgent; excessively demanding
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Extol
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to praise
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Fervid
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passionate, intense, zealous
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Forlorn
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dreary, deserted; unhappy; hopeless, despairing
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Incendiary
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combustible, flammable, burning easily
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Mar
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to damage, deface; spoil
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Montage
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composite picture
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Niche
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recess in a wall; best position for something
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Pallid
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lacking color or liveliness
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Aberration
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something different from the usual
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Aggregate
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collective mass or sum; total
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Anachronism
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something chronologically inappropriate
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Blithe
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joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought
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Capricious
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impulsive, whimsical, without much thought
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Defunct
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no longer existing, dead, extinct
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Encumber
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to hinder, burden, restrict motility
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Fallacious
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wrong, unsound, illogical
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Flaccid
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limp flabby, weak
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Heterogeneous
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composed of unlike parts, different, diverse
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Iconoclast
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one who attacks traditional beliefs
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Imperturbable
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not capable of being disturbed
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Inchoate
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imperfectly formed or formulated
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Jettison
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to cast off, throw cargo overboard
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Laconic
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using few words
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Loquacious
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talkative
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Lucid
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clear and easily understood
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Magnanimous
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generous, noble in spirit
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Mollify
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to calm or make less severe
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Nefarious
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vicious, evil
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Obdurate
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stubborn
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Parody
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humorous imitation
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Pugnacious
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quarrelsome, eager and ready to fight
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Reprobate
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morally unprincipled person
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Ubiquitous
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being everywhere simultaneously
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Abase
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to humble, disgrace
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Amicable
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friendly, agreeable
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Cognition
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mental process by which knowledge is acquired
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Concave
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curving inward
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Consecrate
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to declare sacred; dedicate to a goal
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Cursory
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hastily done, superficial
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Curtail
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to shorten
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Cygnet
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young swan
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Declivity
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downward slope
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Deft
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skillful, dexterous
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Epigram
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short, witty saying or poem
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Epigraph
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quotation at the beginning of a literary work
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Farcical
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absurd, ludicrous
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Feasible
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possible, capable of being done
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Gall
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bitterness; careless nerve
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Gamely
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courageously
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Gestation
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growth process from conception to birth
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Improvident
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without planning or foresight, negligent
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Inadvertently
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unintentionally
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Incipient
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beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage
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Insipid
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bland, lacking flavor; lacking excitement
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Inure
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to harden; accustom; become used to
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Larder
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place where food is stored
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Missive
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note or letter
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Noisome
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stinking, putrid
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Aggrandize
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to make larger or greater in power
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Aphasia
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inability to speak or use words
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Approbation
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praise; official approval
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Chimerical
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fanciful, imaginary, visionary impossible
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Conflagration
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big, destructive fire
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Corporeal
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having to do with the body; tangible, material
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Credulous
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gullible, trusting
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Daunt
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to discourage, intimidate
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Desultory
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at random, rambling, unmethodical
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Droll
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amusing in a wry, subtle way
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Efficacious
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effective, efficient
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Enmity
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hostility, antagonism, ill-will
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Exculpate
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to clear of blame or fault, indicate
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Fetter
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to bind, chain, confine
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Frenetic
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wildly frantic, frenzied, hectic
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Fulsome
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sickeningly excessive; repulsive
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Illustrious
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famous, renowned
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Indolent
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habitually lazy, idle
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Indomitable
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fearless, unconquerable
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Insentient
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unfeeling, unconscious
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Interloper
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trespasser; meddler in others’ affairs
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Lassitude
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lethargy, sluggishness; present but hidden; paternal
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Mawkish
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sickeningly sentimental
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Obfuscate
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to confuse, obscure
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Prosaic
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relating to prose; dull, commonplace
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