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Savor

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To taste or smell, esp. with pleasure; n. The taste or smell

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Fluster

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To make nervous or upset

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Relief

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A distinction or prominence due to contrast

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Habitat

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The place where a person or things is ordinarily found; a particular type of natural emvironment

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Platitude

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A commonplace remark delivered as if it were important

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Sabotage

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To deliberately obstruct or destroy

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Minutiae

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Trivial details

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Effervescent

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Giving off gas bubbles; showing high spirits or excitement

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Desiscate

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To dry completely

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Gregarious

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Seeking and enjoying the company of others; tending to move in a group

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Sojourn

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A brief visit

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Listless

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Having no interest in what is going on about one; languid; spiritless

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Secular

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Not religious; worldly

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Defer

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To delay; to put off

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Surfeit

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An excess

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Compunction

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A feeling of uneasiness caused by sense of guilt

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Decapitate

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To cut off the head

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Rejuvenate

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To restore energy or an appearance of youth

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Chronology

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Arrangement of events in time

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Provincial

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Limited in perspective; unsophisticated

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Pliant

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Easily bent; pliable; adaptable or compliant

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Melodramatic

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Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental

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Paramount

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Supreme; ranking higher than others in power or importance

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Precocious

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Developing earlier than usual, esp. mentally

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Syntax

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The way words are arranged to form phrases, clauses, and sentences

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Euphoria

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A feeling of great happiness

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Detach

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To separate from a larger mass; disengage or remove (physically or emotionally)

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Animosity

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Bitter hostility, esp. that which provokes punitive action

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Bard

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A poet

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Revere

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To honor

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Guffaw

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To laugh loudly and crudely; n. a loud burst of laughter

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Inveterate

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Establish for a long time; habitual

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Tenable

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Able to be maintained in argument; rationally defensible; able to be held against assault; defensible

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Mitigate

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To improve by lessening the severity of

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Giddy

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Dizzy, lightheaded

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Diction

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Word choice in speech or writing; degree of clarity in speaking

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Negligent

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Careless; inattentive

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Omnipotent

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All-powerful

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Propagate

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To multiply or reproduce; to transmit; to extend to a wider area

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Malinger

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To act sick in order to avoid work

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Convene

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To bring together

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Eschew

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To avoid, to shun

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Arable

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Suitable for growing crops (of land)

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Optimum

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The most favorable point or condition

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Err

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Mo make a mistake

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Scoff

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To make fun of; to ridicule

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Saturate

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To soak or fill to capacity

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Excruciating

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Severely painful

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49
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Douse

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To wet thoroughly

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Restitution

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Compensation for a loss

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Accomodate

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To oblige; to provide a service or favor, to fit

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Disrepute

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The absence or loss of reputation

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Impervious

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Completely resistant to penetration; unaffected

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Squalid

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Having a dirty or lowly appearance

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Truncate

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To cut short

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Consolidate

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To combined into a whole; to strengthen

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Flaunt

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To display ostentatiously; to show off; to boast

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Deter

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To prevent or discourage from acting by means or fears or doubt

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Demographics

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The distribution of human population groups

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Autonomy

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Independence; self-goverment

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Demeanor

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Outward behavior, esp. the reveals one’s personality or attitude

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Vindicate

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To clear of blame with supporting arguments or proof

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Iniquity

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Extreme immorality or injustice; wickedness

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Incapacitate

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To make unable to function in normal activities; disable

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Salutary

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Beneficial; favorable to health

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Lore

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Knowledge about a particular subject, esp. Of a traditional or popular nature

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Innate

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Possessed at birth; inborn

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Drivel

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Stupid or childish talk

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Predilection

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A special liking for something; a preference

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Trace

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A faint amount

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Disparage

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To speak in a disapproving or slighting manner; to belittle

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Trove

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A collection of valuable items

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Jut

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To stick out; project

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Escalate

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To increase or intensify

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Congenial

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Suited to one’s needs or nature; friendly; sympathetic

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Candor

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Frankness or sincerity of expression

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Projectile

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Something thrown or fired

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Motley

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Having elements of great variety; composed of many colors

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Expedite

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To speed up

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Heterodoz

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Not in agreement with accepted beliefs, esp. religious dogma

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Benevolent

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Characterized by doing good

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Hierarchy

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A ranking according to status or ability; a group having authority

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Tender

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To offer formally; n. A legal offer; something, esp. money, offered in payment

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Staid

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Serious and settled; sedate

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Dissemble

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To deceive or conceal; to hide one’s motives; to simulate

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Competent

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Capable and skilled

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Prognosis

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The anticipated progress of recovery

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Ingratiate

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To bring oneself into another’s favor or good graces by conscious effort

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Saga

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A long pose narrative, offer telling of adventure or heroism; a long, detailed report

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Curb

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To restrain or control

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Elicit

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To draw out; to invoke

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Oppress

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To persecute with a excessive use of power

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Immaculate

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Perfectly clean

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Objective

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Having actual existence or reality; not influence by emotion or personal prejudice

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Affliction

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Pain; suffering; anything causing pain

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Implore

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To ask for urgently; to beg

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Mollify

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To soothe the temper; to pacify; to appease

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Fertile

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Producing abundantly; prolific

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Ignominy

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Shame; didhonor

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Dissipate

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To scatter; to spend wastefully

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Bait

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To torment or harass; to lure

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Score

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To make cuts or lines on

103
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Belligerent

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eager to fight; aggressive; engaged in warfare

104
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Autocracy

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Rule by one person with unlimited power

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Suffuse

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To spread through or over (as with light or color)

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ambiguous

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Having more than one possible interpretation

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Painstaking

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Very thorough; careful

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Diaphanous

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Of transparent or translucently fine texture; delicate and insubstantial

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Innuendo

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An indirect suggestion about someone or something, esp. of a negative nature

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Callow

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Inexperienced; not developed; immature

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Remedial

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Supplying a remedy; intended to correct

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Solemn

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A serious; grave

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Expanse

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A large amount of something spread out

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Largess

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Generosity in giving gifts

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Impair

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To make worse; to damage

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Gracious

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Having or showing kindness; courtesy, charm, ect.

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Immaterial

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Not significant or relevant

118
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Intervene

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To come between two things

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Stultify

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To cause to lose interest, become bored, or feel dull and not alert

120
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Loft

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Very high; noble

121
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Recant

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To formally take back a previous statement

122
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Emanate

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To send forth; to come forth

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Coin

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To devise a new word or phrase

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Arduous

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Difficult; laborious

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Vitality

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The force that distinguishes life from death

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