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Affront

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verb: To offend or insult someone openly and intentionally.

① …을 모욕하다 ② 모욕 ③ 노하게 하다

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Antic

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adjective: Amusing, frivolous, or eccentric behavior.

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Appurtenance

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noun: An accompanying part or feature of something; something added to another, more important thing. (appendage)

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Arras

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noun: A tapestry used as a decorative wall hanging.

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Behoove

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verb: To be right and proper for someone.

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Circumscribe

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verb: To draw a line around something; to encircle; to limit narrowly; to restrict.

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Conjure

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verb: To summon supernatural forces; to call or bring to mind; to evoke.

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Contrive

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verb: To devise or plan in a creative manner; to do or accomplish something unexpected or difficult; to plot or scheme.

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Expostulate

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verb: To express disagreement or disapproval; to attempt to dissuade someone from doing something potentially harmful or destructive.

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Extant

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adjective: Still in existence.

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Fetter

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verb: To restrict or restrain movement or freedom.

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Importune

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verb: To ask someone repeatedly for something.

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Jocund

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adjective: Cheerful and good humor.

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Judicious

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adjective: Showing wisdom, good sense, or discretion. (prudent)

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Lewd

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adjective: Sexual in an offensive way.

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Libertine

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noun: Related especially to a man who acts in an immoral way and has sexual relations with many women. (rake)

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Molt

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verb: To shed feathers, hair, or skin.

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Obsequious

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adjective: Excessively eager to please; fawning or servile.

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Offal

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noun: Something discarded as refuse or waste; something regarded as unpalatable or even inedible.

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Orison

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noun: A prayer.

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Peruse

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verb: To read or examine something in a leisurely manner.

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Portentous

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adjective: Very serious and significant; foreboding or ominous, especially in terms of future events.

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Precept

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noun: Rules, instructions, or principles that guide a person’s actions, especially one that guides or influences moral conduct and ethical behavior.

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Primal

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adjective: Being first in time; original; of first importance.

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Purgation

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noun: Purging; to remove; purification.

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Rank

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noun: Status relative to others.

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Retrograde

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adjective: Moving backward in space or time; reverting to an earlier or inferior condition.

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Sully

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verb: To spoil, tarnish, or distract from something, especially someone’s reputation; to make something dirty; to taint. (traduce)

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Surmise

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verb: To infer or hypothesize without sufficiently conclusive evidence.

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Tenable

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adjective: With reasonable and sufficient evidence to support and an assertion or an argument.

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Traduce

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verb: To cause humiliation or disgrace to someone, usually to their reputation; to make malicious and false statements. (sully)

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Usurp

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verb: To take possession without permission, legal claim, or right; to appropriate.

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Wanton

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adjective: Done without restraint or inhibition; without reason or provocation; gratuitously cruel; merciless.

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Wax

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verb: To assume a particular or emotional state; to increase in size, power, or intensity.

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Wont

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adjective: Accustomed or likely to do something.