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abatement

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amount deducted

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abate

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make less

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abstinence

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act of doing without pleasure

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accord

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agreement

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adder

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poisonous snake

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affection

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fond or tender feeling

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allegiance

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loyalty to a person or cause

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altitude

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height

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apparition

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strange figure that arrives unexpectedly especially a ghost

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apprehension

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understanding anxious feeling of foreboding

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arraign

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call to account accuse

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assail

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attack with arguments

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asuneder

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into parts or pieces

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audit

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account or record

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auspicious

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looking to a happy futute

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awry

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away from the correct course

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base

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inferior valueless

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battalion

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large group joined together

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battery

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act of beating or pounding

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beget

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bring into being

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beguile

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decieve

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beseech

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ask earnestly implore beg

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besmirch

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make dirty bring dishonor to

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bier

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platform for a courpse

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blank verse

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unrhymed verse having five iambic feet typical of elizabethan drama

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boisterous

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noisy unruly

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bough

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branch of a tree

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bray

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make a large harsh cry like a donkey

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brazen

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made of brass

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brevity

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quality of being concise

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calumnious

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slanderous

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capital

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extremely serious calling for the death penalty

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carouse

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engage in boisterous drinking and merrymaking

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celestial

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heavenly

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censure

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disapproval

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chalice

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cup for holy wine

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chaste

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pure

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churlish

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stingy mean

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clamor

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loud outcry uproar

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cleave

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divide or split

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clemency

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forbearance leniency mercy

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commendable

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praise worthy

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commision

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authorizaton

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compost

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decomposing vegetables used for fertilizer

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condole

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express sympathy

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confine

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bordered region

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consummation

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completion fulfillment

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contagion

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agent causing the disease or spreading the disease

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coronation

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ceremony in which a sovereign is crowned

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countenance

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facial expression

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countenance

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condone give approval to

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courtier

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attendant at a royal court

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dalliance

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playing at love

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dally

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waste time loiter

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devoutly

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earnestly sincere

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dire

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having dreadful consequences

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dirge

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funeral hymn

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discretion

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good judgment care to behave properly

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disposition

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ones nature or temperament inclination desire

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distemper

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disturbance

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distilled

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reduced

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distraction

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confusion diversion

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dowry

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property that a woman brings to her marriage

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eloquent

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vividly expressive persuasive

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enmity

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hostility

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entreat

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ask ernestly plead beg

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entreaty

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begging favors

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epitaph

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inscription on a grave stone

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exhort

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urge by strong argument make urgent appeal

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expend

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spend use up

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expostulate

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reason without or about

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extort

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to get something by some with violence or threat

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