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intellect |
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n. the faculty of perception or thought |
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n. a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells |
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adj. contentious |
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v. to dress |
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stimulus |
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n. intensity of passion or affection |
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n. a tirade |
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n. incentive |
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adj. having or exercising the power of resistance |
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extinct |
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n. knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world |
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v. to act upon |
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n. that which makes a thing to be what it is |
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adj. being no longer in existence |
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ligature |
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n. anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying |
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adj. pertaining to marriage or matrimony |
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adj. a temporary discontinuance |
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n. the act of violating or profaning anything sacred |
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reassure |
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n. a young deer |
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v. to give new confidence |
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n. temporary diminution of a disease |
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n. warmth and kindliness of disposition |
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chiffon |
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n. one who makes a claim or demand, as of right |
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n. government by a supreme deity |
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adj. not general or public |
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n. a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc |
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travesty |
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n. a grotesque imitation |
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prep. in spite of |
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n. a title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir |
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adj. harmonious |
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evangelist |
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n. a figure having seven sides and seven angles |
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n. a preacher who goes from place to place holding services |
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n. a connection with a particular nation |
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adj. obese |
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epithet |
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v. to avoid by artifice |
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v. to determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid) |
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n. a collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice |
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n. word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas" |
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accusatory |
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n. shortness of duration |
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adj. of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation |
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n. the coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage |
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n. the body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation |
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loathe |
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v. to free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs |
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v. to abominate |
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adj. fashionable |
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n. a range of action or view |
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regality |
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n. government administered by new or untried persons |
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n. that part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds |
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n. a simplified representation |
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n. royalty |
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monologue |
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n. a place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified |
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adv. piecemeal |
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n. a story or drama told or performed by one person |
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adj. censurable |
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mastery |
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v. to fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of |
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n. the attainment of superior skill |
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v. to refer incidentally, or by suggestion |
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n. predestination |
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logician |
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n. an expert reasoner |
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n. the entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something |
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v. to interfere for some end |
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v. to cause to loathe |
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distill |
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adj. a syllable or member of a series that is last but one |
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v. to extract or produce by vaporization and condensation |
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n. the rules and principles of poetry |
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v. to hate violently |
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malleable |
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adj. religious |
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adj. open to ridicule |
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adj. pliant |
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n. folly |
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pique |
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n. the color of the sky |
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n. a flock of quails or partridges |
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v. to excite a slight degree of anger in |
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n. a message in writing |
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tranquility |
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n. paralysis |
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n. calmness |
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v. to feed to fullness or to satiety |
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n. a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted |
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atrocity |
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n. expansion |
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v. to recover |
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v. to praise in the highest terms |
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n. great cruelty or reckless wickedness |
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negligible |
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adj. stiffly proper |
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n. the head man |
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n. a figure with ten sides and ten angles |
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adj. transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery |
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hypocrisy |
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adj. able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations |
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n. extreme insincerity |
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v. to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods |
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adj. savage |
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accustom |
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v. to turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction |
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adj. devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking |
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n. something that is bought and sold |
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v. to make familiar by use |
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alias |
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v. to eradicate |
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adv. in twofold degree or extent |
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adj. exact |
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n. an assumed name |
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bawl |
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v. to reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation |
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v. to proclaim by outcry |
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adj. making statements without argument or evidence |
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v. to contaminate |
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denunciation |
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n. the act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment |
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v. to deprive of something dishonestly |
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adj. incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled |
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n. an umpire |
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ascendant |
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n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins |
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adj. making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety |
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adj. low in character or purpose |
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adj. dominant |
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misdemeanor |
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n. a volume consisting of ten parts or books |
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n. a journey |
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adj. first in rank or position |
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n. evil conduct, small crime |
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opportunist |
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n. one who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends |
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n. politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually |
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n. a list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject |
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n. active humanitarianism |
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amalgam |
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n. an alloy or union of mercury with another metal |
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adj. surpassing |
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adj. that may be estimated by reckoning |
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adj. tending to produce sleep |
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metaphysical |
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adj. philosophical |
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adj. relating to measurement |
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n. a very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure |
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n. diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose |
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whimsical |
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n. one who incites to evil |
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adj. benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect |
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adj. capricious |
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v. to act in opposition to |
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furtive |
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n. the whole range or sequence |
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adj. unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose |
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adj. stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief |
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adj. manifesting a warlike spirit |
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amour |
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n. a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature |
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n. violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith |
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v. to interweave |
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v. to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others |
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vinery |
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v. to deaden the sound of, as by wraps |
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n. that which is given without demand or claim. Tip |
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adj. greedy |
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n. a greenhouse for grapes |
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foppery |
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n. brilliant or sparkling luster |
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n. a high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea |
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n. dandyism |
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n. expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune |
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amicable |
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adj. in a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion |
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adj. inexpedient |
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v. to involve in dissension or strife |
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adj. done in a friendly spirit |
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veracity |
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n. the act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable |
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n. truthfulness |
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v. to empty by draining off the contents |
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adv. according to the usual order of things |
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archipelago |
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n. any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves |
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n. one of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy |
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n. one who or that which propels |
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n. possession or continuance of being |
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orate |
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v. to conduct or behave (oneself) |
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n. an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach |
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v. to make the first attack |
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v. to deliver an elaborate or formal public speech |
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