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landmark |
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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. an inferior poet |
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adj. laughable and contemptible |
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v. to pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended |
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insatiable |
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n. a cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health |
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adj. caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power |
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n. wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region |
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adj. that desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably |
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precedent |
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n. in continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer |
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n. one who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc |
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n. an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule |
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adj. consisting of money |
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annual |
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adj. burdensome |
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v. to involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications |
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adj. occurring every year |
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n. an elevated position with respect to rank, place, character, condition, etc |
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legitimacy |
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n. violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith |
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n. the principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure |
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adj. of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb |
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n. accordance with law |
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capitulate |
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v. to surrender or stipulate terms |
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n. a writer on ethics |
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n. direction or inclination, as toward some objector end |
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v. to support, as something wrong |
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fervent |
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v. to treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively |
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adj. being in a state of repose or inaction |
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adj. ardent in feeling |
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n. artifice |
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humiliate |
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v. to put to shame |
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n. recognition |
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n. the act of bending |
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v. to recant, renounce, repudiate under oath |
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abominate |
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n. an associate in professional employment |
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adj. impulsive |
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v. to hate violently |
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n. any overwhelming flood of water |
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acoustic |
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adj. having kindred character or tastes |
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conj. even though |
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n. a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court |
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adj. pertaining to the act or sense of hearing |
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expedient |
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adj. contributing to personal advantage |
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adj. pertaining to winter |
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n. slight sickness |
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v. to make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features |
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avert |
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n. a proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration |
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v. to indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding |
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n. a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy |
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v. to turn away or aside |
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odoriferous |
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adj. having or diffusing an odor or scent, especially an agreeable one |
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n. an apparatus for magnifying faint sounds |
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v. to breathe forth |
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n. the term during which a thing is held |
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extradition |
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v. to precede |
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v. to surrender or stipulate terms |
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n. the surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government |
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n. a strong point |
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reproof |
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n. an expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured |
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adj. imperceptible to the touch |
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adj. showing criminal or evil purpose |
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adj. flushed with red |
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metropolitan |
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adj. impenetrably mysterious or profound |
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adj. pertaining to a chief city |
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n. a homeless, neglected wanderer |
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adj. spherical |
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scribe |
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adj. having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority |
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n. the science of the nervous system |
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n. possibility of happening |
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n. one who writes or is skilled in writing |
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taut |
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adj. lawful |
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n. a petty king |
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adj. stretched tight |
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adj. pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him |
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diversity |
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adj. sleepy |
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n. dissimilitude |
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n. that which annoys, vexes, or irritates |
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n. a person or thing that aids the principal agent |
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antecede |
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adj. smelling sweet and agreeable |
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n. a solid bounded by five plane faces |
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v. to precede |
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adj. inevitable |
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assonance |
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v. to cough up and spit forth |
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adj. pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse |
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n. resemblance or correspondence in sound |
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n. well-being |
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expatriate |
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n. transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast |
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adj. that may be estimated by reckoning |
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v. to drive from one's own country |
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v. to deliver the amount or value of |
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eatable |
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n. sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper |
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v. to come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors |
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adj. edible |
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adj. prevailing among animals |
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venom |
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v. to come into a country or region from a former habitat |
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v. to foreordain |
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n. the poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete |
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n. a passing from one form or shape into another |
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affront |
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adj. empty |
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n. a square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative |
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adj. lacking pity or sympathy |
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n. an open insult or indignity |
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squalid |
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adj. having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance |
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n. that which oppresses, injures, or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong |
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adj. wandering |
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v. to cut down or reduce in extent or quantity |
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moralist |
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n. a writer on ethics |
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adj. grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action |
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v. to bind |
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n. one who makes dictionaries |
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posterior |
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n. entrance |
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n. the quality of giving or radiating light |
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adj. noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific |
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n. the hinder part |
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animosity |
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n. hatred |
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adj. working ill by slow and stealthy means |
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n. a figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted |
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adj. done or made without much or any preparation |
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hawthorn |
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n. a bruise |
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n. an image or likeness |
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adj. helping or serving to disconnect or separate |
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n. a thorny shrub much used in England for hedges |
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illusion |
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n. a very small amount, portion, or particle |
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n. an unreal image presented to the senses |
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adj. capricious |
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v. to chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated |
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contuse |
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n. a fictitious reason or motive |
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n. a collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice |
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v. to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin |
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n. prescience |
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prodigy |
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v. to cure again |
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adv. rudely |
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adj. amusing |
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n. a person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities |
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maharaja |
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n. a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave |
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n. a great Hindu prince |
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adj. easily broken |
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v. to recover after a sickness |
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baize |
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adj. at variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion |
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n. the demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law |
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n. a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc |
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n. an embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow |
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ablution |
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n. a washing or cleansing, especially of the body |
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adj. showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things |
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v. to set or implant deeply and firmly |
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adj. tolerable |
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mandate |
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n. the art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting |
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n. an officer whose duty it is to assess taxes |
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adj. irreligious |
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n. a command |
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ordinal |
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n. the junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle |
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adj. beyond which there is nothing else |
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adj. having a tendency to change |
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n. that form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third |
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differential |
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adj. deepest within |
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n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church |
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n. the system of doctrine taught by John Calvin |
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adj. distinctive |
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monsieur |
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n. a French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir |
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adj. publicly branded or notorious, as for vice, or crime |
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n. refined or elegant courtesy |
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n. a deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier |
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