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Legionnaire

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A member of any legion

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Litany

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A prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications

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Lugubrious

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Exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful

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Lurid

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Gruesome

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Mica

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Any of various minerals

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Mizzenmast

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The after and shorter mast of a yawl

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Modulated

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Adjusted or kept in proper measure or proportion

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Moribund

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Being in the state of dying

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Obsequiously

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Marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

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Obtrude

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To thrust forward or upon a person

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Perdition

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Eternal damnation

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Pestiferous

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Bringing or bearing disease

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Placidity

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Pleasantly calm or peaceful

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Portico

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Porch or walkway with a roof supported by columns

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Prevaricator

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Liar

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Propitiatory

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Intended to reconcile or appease

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Rapacity

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Giving to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed

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Recondite

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Beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding

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Recrudescence

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New outbreak after a period of inactivity

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Rent

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To tear apart, split, or divide