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Rancid
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adj. having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as though decomposition
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Fester
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v. to rot; to grow embellished
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Havoc
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n. great destruction or devastation; ruinous
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Languish
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v. to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade
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Pall
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n. anything that covers, shrouds, overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom
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Modicum
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n. a moderate or small amount
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Deluge
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n. 1. a great flood of water; inundation; flood 2. a drenching rain; downpour 3. anything that overwhelms like a flood
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Guile
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n. insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity; underhandedness
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Catholic
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adj. universal
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Aplomb
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n. self confidence
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Eerie
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adj uncanny, so as to inspire superstitous fear; wiered
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Careen
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v. to lean, sway, or tip to one side while in motion
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Martial
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adj. warlike
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Beneficiary
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n. 1. a person or group that recieves benefits, profits, or advantages 2. a person designated as the recipient of funds or other property under a will, trust, insurance policy, etc.
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Anthropomorphic
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adj. attributing human form or attributed to a being or thing not human, esp to a diety. 2. resembling or made to resemble a human form
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Ambivalence
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n. uncertainty or flunctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things
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Chastise
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v. to discipline or criticize
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Crux
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1. a vital, basic decisive or pivotal point. 2. a cross. 3. something that torments by its puzzling nature; a perplexing diffculty
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Ancillary
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adj. subordinate; subsidary; auxillary; secondary
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Requisite
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adj. required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable
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