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epode |
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n. the act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose |
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n. proximity |
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n. a species of lyric poems |
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adj. that can not be destroyed |
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revile |
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v. to heap approach or abuse upon |
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n. a person fully empowered to transact any business |
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adj. easy to manage |
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n. a prophet |
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absorb |
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n. a character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name |
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v. to cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease |
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n. insolent disrespect |
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v. to drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water |
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vernacular |
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v. to make bigger |
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n. the language of one's country |
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n. a preacher who goes from place to place holding services |
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v. to behead |
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zealot |
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n. a salt of acetic acid |
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prep. in spite of |
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adj. of or pertaining to plants |
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n. one who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner |
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furlough |
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v. to cover or fill the surface of |
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n. that which contains and gives shape or form to anything |
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n. a high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea |
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n. a temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer |
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verify |
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n. an expression of applause |
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v. to prove to be true, exact, or accurate |
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n. the general science of the universe |
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v. to present in an orderly manner |
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contemplate |
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v. to deprive of simplicity of mind or manner |
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n. one who makes a claim or demand, as of right |
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adj. corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations |
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v. to consider thoughtfully |
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impugn |
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adj. of a material nature; physical |
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v. to bring together or give fixed shape to |
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v. to assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations |
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n. complication |
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fondle |
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adj. produced or displayed in overabundance |
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v. to put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island |
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v. to handle tenderly and lovingly |
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v. to weary by tediousness or dullness |
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extortion |
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n. one who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property |
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n. the act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order |
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adj. discordant |
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n. the practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion |
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transcript |
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adj. having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority |
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adj. being in a state of or resembling sleep |
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n. a copy made directly from an original |
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v. to determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid) |
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stringency |
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n. an indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it |
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adj. full of bitterness |
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n. strictness |
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v. to adjust cozily in snug quarters |
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collier |
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adj. belonging to the first ages |
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n. one who works in a coal-mine |
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n. a note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies |
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n. undress or negligent attire |
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profligate |
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adj. abandoned to vice |
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n. a change |
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v. to take hold of |
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n. omission of that which ought to be done |
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landmark |
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n. a hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility |
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n. a familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of |
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n. a mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual |
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adj. capable of being separated into parts |
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unspeakable |
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adj. grossly offensive |
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adj. abominable |
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n. deportment |
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n. one's ancestors collectively |
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garrote |
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v. to assert as a fact |
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adj. able to be kept under restraint or control |
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v. to execute by strangling |
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adj. made commonplace by frequent repetition |
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judicial |
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adj. somewhat sharp or biting |
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adj. founded on truth |
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adj. pertaining to the administration of justice |
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adj. religious |
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resilient |
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n. delight |
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adj. small in quantity or importance |
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n. the condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will |
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adj. having the quality of springing back to a former position |
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terminus |
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adj. made to resemble something else |
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n. counterfeiting |
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n. a little leaf or a booklet |
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n. the final point or goal |
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imperative |
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n. the highest point, as of a mountain |
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adj. obligatory |
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adj. resembling or containing cream |
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adj. hurtful |
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intension |
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adj. countless |
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n. special eminence |
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n. the act of stringing or stretching, or state of being strained |
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n. a change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune |
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forefather |
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v. to attach at the beginning |
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n. an ancestor |
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n. expansion |
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n. one who profits |
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donor |
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n. one who makes a donation or present |
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n. a tribe |
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v. to make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with |
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v. to excite great anger in |
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frankincense |
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n. usually, a small light boat propelled by oars |
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adj. opposite |
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n. a gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes |
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adj. struck with terror and amazement |
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alacrity |
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n. an apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights |
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n. cheerful willingness |
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n. a token fee or payment to a professional man for services |
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v. to provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food |
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dilettante |
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n. truth |
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v. to form into grains or small particles |
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n. a superficial amateur |
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adj. candid, frank, or open in character or quality |
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encroach |
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v. to harass with persistent demands or entreaties |
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n. exactness |
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n. beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency |
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v. to invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another |
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quintet |
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n. musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments |
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v. to instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities |
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n. one who earns his bread by manual labor |
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n. obsolescence |
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resuscitate |
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n. any support or prop |
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adj. offering or offered as an atonement for sin |
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v. to restore from apparent death |
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v. to crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame |
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rookery |
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n. a place where crows congregate to breed |
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adj. invulnerable |
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v. to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others |
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n. any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species |
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vivify |
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n. a spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept |
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n. government administered by new or untried persons |
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n. objects of curiosity or for decoration |
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v. to endue with life |
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airy |
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adj. delicate, ethereal |
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n. the act of furnishing with temporary quarters |
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n. a philanthropist |
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n. one who holds high rank |
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burgher |
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n. readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work |
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v. to agree |
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n. severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief |
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n. an inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town |
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encomium |
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v. to steal |
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adj. pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc |
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n. comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity |
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n. a formal or discriminating expression of praise |
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somniferous |
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adj. tending to produce sleep |
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adj. scornfully or bitterly sarcastic |
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n. the seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules |
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v. to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin |
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inception |
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n. the beginning |
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n. a vain boaster |
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adj. smooth and pleasant in manner |
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adj. violent |
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liable |
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adj. justly or legally responsible |
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n. a policy of maintaining great standing armies |
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v. to change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment |
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n. one of the heavenly bodies as a source of light |
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apprehend |
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n. the act of entering |
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n. priority in place, time, or rank |
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n. a narrow strip of wood |
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v. to make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law |
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