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Glacial

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Pertaining to glaciers; cold, icy, slow, unsympathetic

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Glower

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Stare in an angry, sullen way

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Goad

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Spur on, stimulate, encourage; urge on with a pointed or electrically charged stick

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Gouge

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Scooping or digging tool, like a chisel, or a hole made with such a tool; cut or scoop out; force out a person’s eye with one’s thumb; swindle, extort money from

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Graft

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Insert part of a plant into another plat, where it continues to grow; join living tissue to part of the body where it will continue to live and grow; attach as if by grafting; the part so grafted; the act of acquiring money or other benefits through illegal means, esp. by abusing one’s power.

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Grandiloquent

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Relating to lofty speech, esp. to the point of being pompous, overblown, bombastic

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Grandstand

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Perform showily in an attempt to impress onlookers

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Grating

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Irritating; harsh or discordant; scraping

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Grievous

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Causing grief or suffering; very serious, grave; flagrant, outrageous

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Grouse

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Complain or grumble; a reason for complaint

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Grovel

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Creep or crawl with one’s face to the ground, prostrate oneself as a token of subservience, degrade or abase oneself

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Halcyon

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Calm and peaceful, carefree; prosperous, successful, happy

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Hallmark

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A mark indicating quality, purity, genuineness, etc.; any distinguishing characteristic

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Hand-wringing

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Grasping, squeezing, etc. of the hands as an expression of nervousness, guilt, etc.; extend debate over what to do about an issue

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Hapless

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Unlucky, unfortunate

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Harangue

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Long, intense verbal attack, esp. when delivered publicly; to speak to in a forceful way

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Harrow

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Farming tool that breaks up soil; painfully disturb or distress

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Hedge

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Avoid commitment by leaving provisions for withdrawal or changing one’s mind; protect a bet by also betting on the other side

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Hegemony

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Domination, authority; influence by one country over others socially, culturally, economically, ect.

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Hermetic

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Airtight, sealed, isolated; reclusive; pertaining to alchemy, occult

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Hew

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Strike, chop, or hack; make or shape something with a cutting tool

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Hoary

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Very old, gray or white as from old age

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Homage

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Honor or respect demonstrated publicly

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Hoodwink

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Trick, deceive

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Hotly

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In an intense, fiery, or heated way

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Husband

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Manage prudently, sparingly, or economically; conserve

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Iconoclast

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Attacker of cherished beliefs or institutions

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Idolatry

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Idol worship; excessive or unthinking devotion or adoration

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Idyllic or idyll

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Presenting a positive, peaceful view of rural life; pleasant in a natural, simple way; a happy, enjoyable experience

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Ignoble

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Not noble; having mean, base, low motives; low quality

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Imbue

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Permeate or saturate, as dye in a fabric; influence throughout

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Immutable

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Unchangeable

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Impasse

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Position or road from which there is no escape; deadlock

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Impassive

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Not having or not showing physical feeling or emotion

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Impecunious

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Poor, without money

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Imperious

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Commanding, domineering; acting like a high-ranking person; urgent

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Impermeable

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Impassable, not allowing passage through

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Imperturbable

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Calm, not able to be upset or agitated

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Impervious

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Impenetrable, not able to be harmed or emotionally disturbed

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Impetuous

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Passionately impulsive, marked by sudden, hasty emotion; forceful, violent

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Impious

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Not religious, lacking reverence, ungodly

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Implacable

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Relentless, unstoppable; not able to be appeased, calmed, or satisfied

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Imprecation

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Curse; prayer for harm to come to someone

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Impugn

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Attack the truth or integrity of

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Impute

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Credit, attribute; lay blame or responsibility for

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Incarnadine

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Blood red or flesh-colored

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Inconstancy

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Fickleness, unreliability; the state of changing without good reason

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Inculcate

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Teach persistently, implant in a person

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Indefatigable

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Untiring, not able to become fatigued

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Indigence

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Extreme poverty

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