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1
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A large book

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Tome

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A large waterfall; a deluge; an eye abnormality

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Cataract

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Loot; the spoils of war; seized by force.

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Booty

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Having life; alive, filled with activity

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Animated

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Cargo or equipment thrown overboard to lighten an imperial vessel.

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Jetsam

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An entrance, a door or gate

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Portal

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A large group of people gathered closely together

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Throng

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A curtain of artillery fire, an overwhelming attack, as of words or blows.

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Barrage

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The best or most skilled members of a group.

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Elite

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Enormous in size, quantity, degree, marvelous, amazing.

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Prodigious

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A rude person; someone that is unrefined

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Boor

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Dashing elegance of manner or style.

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Panache

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Patience

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Forbearance

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Highly excited by eagerness

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Agog

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Frank; going straight to the point

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Forthright

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Intellectually deep or penetrating; reach to; rising from, or effecting the depth of ones nature.

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Profound

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A complete humiliating failure

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Fiasco

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Sorrowful; melancholy

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Doleful

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Having no luster; dull; hard to understand.

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Opaque

20
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Descriptive record; history

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Annals