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overseer |
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n. the junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle |
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n. consistency |
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n. a fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact |
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n. a supervisor |
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disallow |
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n. the extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck |
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v. to withhold permission or sanction |
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adj. bloody |
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n. a fever characterized by alternating chills, fever, and sweating |
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buoyancy |
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n. an excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic |
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n. a brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book |
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v. to pester |
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n. power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas |
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maxim |
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n. a principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide |
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n. a young cow |
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v. to act reciprocally |
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n. a writer on ethics |
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enrage |
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n. the point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth |
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n. an undue display of modesty or delicacy |
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v. to settle or arrange beforehand |
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v. to infuriate |
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maroon |
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v. to walk about |
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adv. obscurely |
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n. harmony |
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v. to put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island |
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interposition |
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n. a coming between |
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v. to bring forward or name for consideration |
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n. the egg of a louse or some other insect |
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n. a disturbance or violent agitation |
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proctor |
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n. a circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident |
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n. pl. Relatives |
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n. forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical |
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n. an agent acting for another |
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massive |
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adj. justly or legally responsible |
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adj. of considerable bulk and weight |
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adj. taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned |
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adj. of or pertaining to the act of calling |
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tolerance |
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adj. happening out of court |
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adj. hypercritical |
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n. forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others |
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n. that of which anything is composed or may be constructed |
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excerpt |
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n. an extract or selection from written or printed matter |
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n. agreeableness of sound |
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n. one who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable |
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adj. hard to please |
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temerity |
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n. recklessness |
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adj. showing inexperience |
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v. to sell at a lower price than |
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adj. pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium |
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telepathy |
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n. thought-transference |
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adj. characterized by illiberal views or sentiments |
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adv. once more |
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adj. foreknowing |
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purveyor |
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n. a little lass |
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n. one who supplies |
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n. well-being |
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adj. false |
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indescribable |
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n. the preparation of perfumes |
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v. to burn or sear as with a heated iron |
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v. to put to shame |
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adj. that can not be described |
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extrajudicial |
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adj. of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah |
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n. hillside |
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n. a salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer |
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adj. happening out of court |
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protrusion |
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v. to misgovern |
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v. to take when offered |
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n. the act of protruding |
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adj. that may be measured, counted, or weighed |
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mandatory |
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n. a cowardly or faithless person |
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n. a place where anything is kept in safety |
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adj. openly scandalous |
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adj. expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory |
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confidence |
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v. to press together or into smaller space |
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v. to withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained) |
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n. the state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another |
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n. the act of imbuing, or pouring in |
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sibilance |
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n. a hissing sound |
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adj. relating to the development and improvement of race |
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adj. of a material nature; physical |
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n. an involuntary trembling or shivering |
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imply |
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n. an act or exercise of will |
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v. to signify |
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n. something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality |
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n. immensity |
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repugnant |
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adj. pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts |
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adj. offensive to taste and feeling |
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n. participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer |
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adj. expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action |
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moribund |
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n. one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc |
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adj. surly |
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n. something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else |
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adj. on the point of dying |
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leonine |
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v. to approve authoritatively |
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adj. like a lion |
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adj. prior |
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v. to strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment |
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cornucopia |
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n. an incumbent of a given office previous to another |
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n. the horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity |
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v. to refer incidentally |
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n. the change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender |
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contributor |
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adj. operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities |
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n. estrangement |
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adj. having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally |
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n. one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose |
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disavowal |
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n. a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt |
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adj. remotely situated |
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n. a French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir |
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n. denial |
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barograph |
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n. an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure |
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n. a divulging |
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n. flood |
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adj. at variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion |
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engross |
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n. similarity in quality or form |
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n. an ample or adequate supply |
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v. to adapt |
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v. to occupy completely |
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defalcate |
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v. to cut off or take away, as a part of something |
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n. a drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents |
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adj. producing offspring or fruit |
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adj. abominable |
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supplementary |
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adj. being an addition to |
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n. the constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment |
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n. the relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect |
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n. the system of doctrine taught by John Calvin |
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solder |
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n. a fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins |
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n. engagement to marry |
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v. to provide with defensive works |
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n. a member of a degraded class; a social outcast |
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witticism |
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n. an assumed name |
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n. a witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment |
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adj. inclined to joke |
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v. to lessen the worth of |
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bronchus |
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adj. that can be imagined or conceived in the mind |
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adj. supple |
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adj. showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things |
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n. either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs |
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resonate |
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adj. of excellence and splendor |
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v. to have or produce resonance |
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v. to set on fire |
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n. a member of an ancient Roman legion or of the modern French Legion of Honor |
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lactic |
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n. description of nature |
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v. to intoxicate |
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adj. pertaining to milk |
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adj. accidental, by chance |
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peaceable |
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n. power to refract |
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n. change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first |
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adv. without intention |
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adj. tranquil |
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dissonance |
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v. to make light by fermentation, as dough |
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adj. rich, sweet, and delicious |
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n. discord |
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n. a person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter |
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shriek |
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n. the state of being adjacent |
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n. depravity |
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v. to wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event |
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n. a sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror |
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posterior |
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n. the hinder part |
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n. complication |
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adj. wealthy |
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n. an outpouring |
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