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devious | |
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adj. roomy | |
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n. a person devoted to luxurious living and pleasure | |
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adj. given to frequent change in nature, mood, or form | |
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adj. winding; indirect | |
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irksome | |
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adj. tedious, monotonous | |
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adj. high-sounding; pretentious in language | |
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n. a state of happiness; a high ability | |
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adj. entertaining | |
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demagogue | |
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n. a leader who tries to stir the passions of people for his own purposes | |
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adj. likely; inclined or disposed | |
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n. partiality or preference for; a favorable opinion arrived at beforehand | |
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adj. proud; looking down with contempt on others | |
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dispatch | |
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adj. no longer existing or active | |
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adj. inclined to cat to excess | |
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v. to do speedily; to send off | |
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n. feeling of displeasure or indignation resulting from mistreatment or abuse | |
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culpable | |
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adj. rigorously self-denying | |
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adj. unable to be satisfied | |
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adj. incapable of being defended or held | |
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adj. deserving blame or censure | |
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pseudonym | |
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n. an attentive or flattering follower; a country influenced or controlled by another | |
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n. trust or belief | |
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adj. no longer in use | |
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n. a false name assumed by a writer | |
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7.
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err | |
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adj. able to do many things skillfully | |
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n. a place offering shelter and retreat | |
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adj. lacking in thrift; not providing for future needs | |
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v. to make a mistake or to do something wrong | |
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8.
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judicious | |
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v. to banish or exile; to withdraw from one's country | |
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adj. of, or pertaining to, the world, as contrasted with the spirit | |
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adj. wise; using or exhibiting good judgment | |
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adj. queer; unusual in appearance | |
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querulous | |
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n. a curse | |
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adj. occurring singly, at irregular intervals; scattered | |
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adj. given to fault-finding and complaining | |
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adj. prejudiced | |
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microcosm | |
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n. a little world, or a universe in miniature | |
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v. to crush; to render void | |
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n. a phrase that describes a quality (good or bad) in a person or thing | |
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n. a forerunner; ail announcer | |
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felicity | |
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adj. sharp or harsh in language or temper | |
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n. a state of happiness; a high ability | |
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adj. excessive | |
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adj. full of enthusiasm or eagerness | |
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animus | |
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adj. unconquerable | |
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v. to accuse falsely or maliciously in order to injure another's reputation; slander | |
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n. a feeling of hatred | |
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v. to paralyze with horror, fear, or surprise | |
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platitude | |
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n. keenness of mind or insight | |
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n. a dull and commonplace remark | |
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n. a place offering shelter and retreat | |
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n. approval; praise | |
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insidious | |
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v. to make good; to recover | |
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adj. working secretly or slyly | |
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n. origin | |
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v. to estrange | |
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arbiter | |
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adj. sly; crafty | |
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n. a person who has authority to decide matters in dispute | |
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adj. willfully bent on doing the wrong thing | |
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adj. containing hidden meaning | |
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sporadic | |
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n. a record of a person's or a family's ancestors or relatives | |
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n. improper act, manners, or expression | |
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n. honesty, moral soundness | |
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adj. occurring singly, at irregular intervals; scattered | |
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implacable | |
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v. to irritate or provoke | |
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adj. incapable of being soothed, made peaceful, or forgiving | |
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adj. given to joking or inappropriate gaiety; said in fun | |
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n. an increase | |
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dispassionate | |
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adj. engaged in war | |
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adj. free from feeling or partiality | |
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n. a humorous imitation of an author's style and mannerisms | |
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n. one who is at home in all countries | |
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19.
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awry | |
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n. a trace; a particle | |
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adj. unsymmetrical; not straight | |
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n. a great flood; downpour | |
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adj. moderate in the use of food or drink | |
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impeach | |
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v. to accuse (a public official) of wrongdoing; to cast discredit upon | |
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v. to punish or criticize severely | |
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n. unwise or reckless boldness | |
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n. a remedy for all ills | |
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deplore | |
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adj. living loosely; unrestrained in conduct or morals | |
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adj. to express sorrow or grief over | |
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n. a name or term that describes wrongly | |
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v. to waver from one course to another; to vary irregularly | |
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22.
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exotic | |
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v. to speak angrily or bitterly | |
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n. a record of a person's or a family's ancestors or relatives | |
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adj. strange and foreign | |
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adj. threatening or showing evil; dishonest | |
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delete | |
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v. to erase or cancel, take out or remove | |
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adj. having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally | |
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v. to agree to | |
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v. to boast | |
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demure | |
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v. to give up (privileges, etc.); to do without | |
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v. to estrange | |
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v. to trim or decorate | |
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adj. affectedly or falsely modest or prim | |
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genesis | |
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n. origin | |
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v. to deliver a long. noisy speech | |
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n. a little world, or a universe in miniature | |
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adj. cutting, penetrating | |
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autocratic | |
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adj. despotic | |
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n. keenness of mind or insight | |
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v. to imprison | |
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n. a dirty or wretched dwelling | |
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jaunty | |
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adj. faultless | |
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adj. having an air of easy carelessness or liveliness | |
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adj. hard-hearted; stubborn | |
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n. a relation between two things shown in the resemblance not of the things themselves but of their characteristics | |
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avarice | |
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n. excessive greed | |
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v. to irritate or provoke | |
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adj. in an early stage of development | |
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n. trickery, deception | |
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arid | |
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n. an assumption made for the sake of argument | |
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adj. dry; barren | |
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adj. destructive, poisonous | |
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adj. pertaining to a tailor or clothes | |
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distraught | |
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adj. mentally distressed; distracted | |
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adj. inclined to quarrel; warlike | |
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adj. swollen, inflated; using big or high-sounding words | |
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n. an increase | |
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poignant | |
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n. a collection of choice literary works | |
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v. to punish severely; to afflict | |
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adj. high-sounding; pretentious in language | |
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adj. gripping and moving the feelings powerfully; piercing, biting, pointed | |
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allude | |
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n. two words having the same sound but different meanings | |
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v. to do speedily; to send off | |
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v. to refer to indirectly | |
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adj. incapable of interpretation or understanding | |
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convivial | |
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n. confused, unintelligible, meaningless talk; special vocabulary used only by members of a group or trade | |
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adj. outstandingly bad | |
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adj. festive; gay | |
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n. a trick or deception; a practical joke | |
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epigram | |
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adj. incapable of being soothed, made peaceful, or forgiving | |
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v. to penetrate and understand | |
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v. to sketch or portray | |
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n. a brief pointed saying | |
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35.
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abandon | |
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adj. sorrowful; mournful | |
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adj. unmoved or indifferent; casual | |
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v. to accuse falsely or maliciously in order to injure another's reputation; slander | |
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v. to give up completely | |
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idiosyncrasy | |
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adj. thrusting oneself or itself into undue prominence | |
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n. a. personal peculiarity | |
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v. to make good; to recover | |
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adj. gripping and moving the feelings powerfully; piercing, biting, pointed | |
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boorish | |
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adj. of various colors; of mixed ingredients | |
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adj. outstandingly bad | |
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adj. unrefined in speech or manners | |
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n. scarcity | |
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extirpate | |
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adj. often of mistakes, extremely and noticeably bad | |
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v. to root out, destroy totally | |
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n. a trick or deception; a practical joke | |
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v. to make clear; to explain | |
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glib | |
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adj. roomy | |
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adj. smooth-spoken, fluent | |
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n. regret for wrongdoing | |
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n. amazement; lack of courage caused by fearful prospect | |
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40.
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coterie | |
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adj. native | |
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adj. hating or distrusting mankind | |
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adj. unsymmetrical; not straight | |
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n. a group of people joined by common interests a coterie of select friend. | |
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