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elevation or exultation of a person to the rank of a god

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apotheosis

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spacious, convenient

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commodius

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contumacious

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stubbornly perverse or rebbellious

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dereliction

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deliberate or conscious neglect

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detumescence

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reduction or subsidence of swelling

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disencumber

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free from burden

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effluvia

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slight exhalation or vapor

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fulmination

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violent denunciation or censure

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machination

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crafty schemes, plots, or intrigue

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propinquity

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nearness in place

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abeyance

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temporary inactivity

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abnegate

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to refuse or deny oneself, renounce

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alacrity

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cheerful willingness, eagerness

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anachronism

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something not in its appropriate historical timeframe

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anathema

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a person or thing detested or loathed

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apprise

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give notice to, inform

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approbate

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approve officially

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assiduous

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constant, unremitting

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august

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inspiring reverence or admiration

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auspice

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patronage, support

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gamely

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in a plucky (brave and sporty) manner

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solecism

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a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage

a breach of good manners or etiquette

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jettison

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to throw off something as an obstacle or burden

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pell-mell

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in a disorderly, recklessley hurried manner

a confused or jumbled mass

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jetsam

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goods cast overboard deliberately as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency

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grievance

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a wrong considered as grounds for complaint

a complaint or resentment (against an unjust act)

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palpable

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obvious, evident, plainly seen, heard, or perceived

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uxorious

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affectionately submissive toward one’s wife

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insidious

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intended to entrap or beguile

stealthily treacherous or deceitful

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endue

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to invest or endow with some gift

to assume or put on

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etiolate

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to cause a plant to whiten or grow pale by excluding light

to cause to become weakened or sickly, drain of color or vigor

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abase

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to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, or reputation

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cognate

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related by birth, of the same parentage, descent

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rectitude

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correctness, moral virtue, straightness

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indigent

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lacking life necessities because of poverty

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irascible

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easily angered

characterized or produced by anger

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gamut

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the entire scale or range

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annex

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to attach or add

to appropriate, esp without permission

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bandy

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to pass back and forth

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provenance

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place or source of origin

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sheaf

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a bundle, cluster, or collection

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vernal

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of or pertaining to spring

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high-flown

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extravagant in aims, pretentious, bombastic

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leviathan

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something of immense size or power

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fitful

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coming in fits or spells, reoccuring irregularly

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cherubic

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of or having the nature of a cherub

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clairvoyant

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having power to see things and actions beyond normal vision

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unassailable

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not open to attack or assault

not subject to denial or dispute

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waggish

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like a wag, jocular, having droll, mischievious sense of humor

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ordain

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to confer holy orders upon
to enact or establish by law
to order or command

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renegade

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a person who deserts a party or cause for another

an apostate

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raiment

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clothing, apparel, attire

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necrotic

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death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue

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provender

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food, provisions

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libel

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defamation

the act or crime of publishing it

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disport

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to divert or amuse oneself (esp with sports)

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stodgy

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heavy, stocky, dull, or uninteresting

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truism

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a self-evident, obvious truth

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verve

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enthusiasm, vigor

vivaciousness

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carillon

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a set of bells

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expository

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of the nature of exposition

serving to expound or explain

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expound

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serving to explain, interpret, or state in detail

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exchequer

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a treasury, as of a state or a nation

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warble

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succession of melodic trills or quavers

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scurrilous

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obscenely abusive

coarsely jocular or derisive

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lachrymose

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tending to cause tears, mournful

given to shedding tears readily

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derisive

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contemptuous, mocking

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foible

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a minor weakness, slight flaw or defect

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rakish

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dissolute

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libertine

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a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, a profligate
a freethinker on religious matters

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jingoist

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bellicose chauvinism

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munificent

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extremely generous

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retinue

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a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage

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itinerant

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traveling from place to place

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thresh

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to beat (threshing wheat, grain)

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dissolute

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given to immoral conduct, dissipated, licentious

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renege

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to go back on one’s word

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confluence

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the flowing together of 2 bodies of water

a coming together of people or things, a crowd

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abeyance

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temporary cessation

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defunct

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no longer in use or functioning

no longer in existence

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ordinance

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an authoritative rule or decree
a public regulation
something believed to have been ordained (by diety)

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kismet

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fate, destiny

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injunction

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judicial process ordering someone to do or not do something

the act of enjoining

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saturnine

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gloomy, taciturn, sluggish in temperment

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miasma

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noxious inhalations of a putrescent organic matter

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dyspeptic

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gloomy, pessimistic, irritable

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disputatious

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argumentative, contentious

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libidinous

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lustful, lewd, lascivious

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decollete

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low-necked garment

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abet

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to encourage, support esp in a wrongdoing

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grisly

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horrible, gruesome, formidable, grim

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preponderance

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superior in weight, force, influence, etc

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chagrin

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feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation

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acrimonious

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caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech or behavior

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restive

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impatient, refractory, stubborn

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clamorous

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vigorous in demands or complaints

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arcane

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esoteric, understood by very few

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garrulous

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very talkative, wordy esp about trivial matters

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mendacity

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tendency to lie

an instance of lying

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prevaricate

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to speak falsely or in a misleading way

to deliberately create a false impression, to lie

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