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Abrogate

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  • repeal (revoke or annul) or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement)
  • evade (a responsibility or duty)
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Admonish

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  • warn or reprimand someone firmly
  • advise or urge (someone) earnestly
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Adobe

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a kind of clay used as a building material

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Affable

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friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to

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Anchorite

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  • a religious recluse, hermit
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Apache

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a member of a North American people living chiefly in New Mexico and Arizona. Under the leadership of Geronimo, the Apache were the last North American Indian people to be conquered by the European settlers

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Apposite

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apt in the circumstances or in relation to something

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Arraign

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  • call or bring (someone) before a court to answer a criminal charge
  • find fault with; censure
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Benchland

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a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains

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Benediction

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  • the utterance of a blessing, especially at the end of a religious service
  • a prayer asking for divine blessing
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Bruit

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[‘brute’]
spread (a report or rumour) widely

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Chevron

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  • a V-shaped line or stripe, especially one on the sleeve of a uniform indicating rank or length of service
  • traffic signs using V’s to depict direction
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Circumscribe

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  • restrict (something) within limits
  • draw (a figure) round another, touching it at points but not cutting it
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Consignment

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  • a batch of goods destined for or delivered to someone
  • the action of consigning or delivering something
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Creosote

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  • a dark brown oil containing various phenols and other organic compounds, distilled from coal tar and used as a wood preservative
  • treat (wood) with creosote
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Cresset

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a metal container of oil, grease, wood, or coal set alight for illumination and typically mounted on a pole

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Cur

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  • an aggressive or unkempt dog, especially a mongrel
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Discalced

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denoting or belonging to one of several strict orders of Catholic friars or nuns who go barefoot or are shod only in sandals (adj)

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Dolmen

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a megalithic tomb with a large flat stone laid on upright ones

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Equine

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[‘e-quine’]
- relating to or affecting horses or other members of the horse family (adj)
- a horse or other member of the horse family (noun)

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Extemporary

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spoken or done without preparation (adj), e.g. speeches

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Gypsum

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a soft white or grey mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate, used for building and fertiliser

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Idolatry

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  • the worship of idols
  • extreme admiration, love, or reverence for something or someone
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Interlocutor

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a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation

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Luff

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  • steer a yacht nearer the wind
  • obstruct (an opponent in yacht racing) by sailing closer to the wind
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Lurid

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  • unpleasantly bright in colour, especially so as to create a harsh or unnatural effect
  • presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms
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Mare Imbrium

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large crater on the moon, ‘the Sea of Rains’

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Megalithic

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relating to or denoting (indicate) prehistoric monuments made of or containing large stones

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Ossature

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  • the structure or framework supporting a building or sculpture
  • the arrangement of bones in the skeleton or a body part
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Promontory

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a point of high land that juts out into the sea or a large lake; a headland or cape

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Pyrolatry

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the worship of fire

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Querent

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a person who asks a question or makes inquiries, especially of an astrologer, fortune-teller, etc

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Referent

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the thing in the world that a word or phrase denotes or stands for, what a word or symbol stands for

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Rill

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  • a small stream
  • flow in a small stream; trickle
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Rive

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to split or tear apart violently, split/crack wood or stone

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Sark

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a shirt or chemise (a woman’s loose-fitting undergarment or nightdress, typically of silk or satin with a lace trim)

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Scurvy

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  • worthless or contemptible
  • a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C
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Spume

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  • froth or foam, especially that found on waves (noun)
  • form or produce a mass of froth or foam (verb)
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Suffuse

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to gradually spread through or over, permeate

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Surbate

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to bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking

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Tacit

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  • understood or implied without being stated
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Talus

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the large bone in the ankle

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Cantonment

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  • a military garrison or camp
  • a permanent military station in British India
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Inimicle

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  • tending to obstruct or harm, detrimental
  • unfriendly; hostile, antagonistic
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Retinue

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a group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person, entourage

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Fusil

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a light musket

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Awl

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a small pointed tool used for piercing holes, especially in leather

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Meridian

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  • a circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth’s surface and the terrestrial poles (North to South)
  • acupuncture, each of a set of pathways in the body along which vital energy is said to flow
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Arroyo

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a steep-sided gully formed by the action of fast-flowing water in an arid or semi-arid region

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Vedette

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[‘videbt’]
- a mounted sentry positioned beyond an army’s outposts to observe the movements of the enemy
- a leading star of stage, screen, or television

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Nitre

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potassium nitrate, especially as a naturally occurring mineral, used in production of glass, matches, explosives, and fertilizers

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Coulee

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  • a short flow of viscous lava
  • a deep ravine
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Escarpment

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a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights

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Enfilade

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  • a volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end (adj)
  • to direct a volley of gunfire along the length of (a target)
  • a suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other
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Austere

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  • severe or strict in manner or attitude
  • (of living conditions or a way of life) having no comforts or luxuries
  • having a plain and unadorned appearance
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Acequia

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an irrigation ditch or canal

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Kiva

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a chamber, built wholly or partly underground, traditionally used by male members of the Pueblo people for religious rites

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Ubiquity

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the fact of appearing everywhere or of being very common

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Predacious

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(of an animal) predatory (adj)

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Circumspection

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the quality of being wary and unwilling to take risks; prudence (noun)

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Adamantine

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unable to be broken (adj)

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Gibbous

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(of the moon) having the illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle

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Spancel

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a rope for fettering or hobbling cattle, tie them to something

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Antecedent

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  • a thing that existed before or logically precedes another (noun)
  • a person’s ancestors or family and social background (noun)
  • preceding in time or order; previous or pre-existing (adj)
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Legatee

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a person who receives a legacy

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Argonaut

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a small floating octopus, the female of which has webbed sail-like arms and secretes a thin coiled papery shell in which the eggs are laid.

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Armature

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  • the rotating coil or coils of a dynamo or electric motor
  • an open framework on which a sculpture is moulded with clay or similar material
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Trammel

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  • restrictions or impediments to freedom of action (noun)
  • deprive of freedom of action (verb)
  • type of fishnet
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Remuda

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a herd of horses that have been saddle-broken, from which ranch hands choose their mounts for the day

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Peon

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  • a Spanish American day labourer or unskilled farm worker
  • (in South and SE Asia) a low-ranking worker such as an attendant, orderly, or assistant
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Haberdashery

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  • small items used in sewing, such as buttons, zips, and thread
  • men’s clothing and accessories

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