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Avowed

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Acknowledged, declared

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Volatile

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Threatening to break out into violence

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Whetted

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To sharpen

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Cerebral

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Betraying or chacterized by the use of intellect rather then intuition

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Debility

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Weakness, mental

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Incipient

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Beginning to exist or appear

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Disparity

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Lack of similarity or equality

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Ebullition

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A seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst

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Ceased

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To stop, discontinue

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Scrutiny

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A searching examination or investigation

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Affecting

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Moving or exciting the feelings or emotions

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Enigma

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A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation

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Inexplicable

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Not explicable; incapable of being accounted for

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Deride

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To laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff

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Incredulous

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Disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical

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Penitence

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Regret for ones wrongdoing or sinning

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17
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Imperious

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Urgent

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18
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Duplicity

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Speaking two different ways to different people

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Blazoned

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To set forth conspicuously or publicly

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Morbid

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Suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude

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Inveterate

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Settled or confirmed

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Perennial

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Lasting for an indefinitely amount of time

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Multifarious

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Having many different parts, elements, forms

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Incongruous

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Out of keeping or place

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Denizens

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An inhabitant; resident

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Infallible

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Trustworthy

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant

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Faggot

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Male homosexual

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Effulgence

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A brilliant radiance

30
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Scruples

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A feeling of doubt

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Immaterial

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Unimportant

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Tabernacle

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Any place or house of God

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Exulting

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To show or feel a lively or triumphant joy, rejoice

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Vigilance

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Watchfulness

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Repugnance

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Strong distaste

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Pious

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Having or showing dutiful spirit for God

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Aversion

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Dislike

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Unsrupulous

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No moral principles

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Excursion

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Short trip

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Vicarious

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Taking place of another person or thing

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Depravity

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Moral corruption

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Inherently

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Existing in something as a permanent characteristic

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Maligen

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Speak evil about

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Bestial

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Of or like an animal

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Avidity

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Eagerness

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Insidiously

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Intended to entrap

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Connived

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To cooperate secretly

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Chastisement

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Severe criticism

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Faculties

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Mental or physical power

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Compensation

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Rewarding someone for service

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Obliterate

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To remove or destroy

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Insensate

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Without human feeling

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Unbridled

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Uncontrolled

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Provocation

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Irritates

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Iniquity

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Unfair behavior

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Buttressed

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Provide a building with projecting supports built against its walls

57
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Capacious

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Capable of holding a lot

58
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Penitence

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Regret for wrong doing

59
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Succumbed

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To give away to superior force; yield

60
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Farrago

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A confused mixture, medley

English J&H 9-10 (1 decks)

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