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Aura
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That which surrounds a distinctive air or personal quality
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Aura sounds like air which is part of the definition
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Amorphous
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Shapeless, without definite form of no particular type or character
Without organization unity or cohesion |
Animorphs where shapeless when they were morphing and were confused so they didnt have organization
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Aggrandize
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To increase in greatness,power or wealth;
To build up, to intensify To make appear greater |
Grand stands for power and wealth;
When you make something grand you want it to look bigger than it appears |
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Affable
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Courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
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Affable rythmes with laughable...your easy to speak to if you laugh
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Contraband
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Illegal traffic, smuggled goods, illegal prohibited
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The band were cons and smuggled illegal items
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Erudite
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Scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic
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Erud sounds like nerd, so they are bookish
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Gossamer
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Thin, light, delicate insubstantial
A very thin, light cloth |
Think that a person named sam is thin and delicate b/c he always gos
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Infer
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To find out by reasoning
To arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought To hint Suggest Imply |
You want to In or find fer or information
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Inscrutable
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Incapable of being understood
Impossible to see through physically |
The TABLE is unable to be understood b/c it doesnt talk
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Insular
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Relating to characteristics of,
Situated on a island Narrow or isolated in outlook or experience |
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Irrevocable
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Incapable of being changed or called back
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In a vocal contest it is hard to be called back or change the way you performed
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Propensity
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A natural inclination or prediction toward
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We you think your a pro at something such as collecting PENS you have a natural attracted to it
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Querulous
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Peevish, complaining, fretful
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Think the quer person is always complaining and very peevish
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Remonstrate
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To argue or plead with someone against something
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Remon looks like remand
So you remand strate(straight) or against something |
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Repudiate
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To disown, reject or deny the validity of
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The REPresentative disowned your case...
Looks like Rep(representative) u (you) di (deny) |
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Resilient
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Able to return to an orginial shape or form able to recover quickly
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Silient...if your silient you will recover quicker
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Reverberate
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To re-echo, resound,
To reflect or be reflected repeatedly |
Verberate sounds like viberate..when you sing the sound viberates around which makes it reecho
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Scurrilous
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Coarsely abusive,vulgar or low foul mouthed
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Scurr kinda of sounds like scoorge..
He was mean.... |
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Sedulous
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Persistent
Showing industry and determination |
Your sed(sounds like set) out to do somthing and are determined
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Sleazy
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Thin or flimsy in texture;
Cheap;Shoddy or inferior in quality or character ethically low, mean or disrespectable |
Sleazy sounds like sneeze...
Think when you sneeze its cause your cold so your cheap and shoddy b/c you dont have heat...this also makes you mean b/c you sleep on a thin texture.... |