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flower

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v. to reach the best or most vigorous stage

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querulous

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adj. inclined to find fault; complaining; full of complaint

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marshal

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v. to arrange in order

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elaborate

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adj. detailed; carefully thorough; v. to develop with care or at greater length
n. elaboration

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lewd

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adj. preoccupied with sex and sexual desire

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hallowed

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adj. made or set apart as holy

v. hallow

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hefty

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adj. heavy; big and strong, muscular; of considerable size or amount
n. heft

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milestone

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n. an important event

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mortal

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adj. subject to death; causing death

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ascertain

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v. to discover with certainty, as through examination

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quixotic

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adj. foolishly idealistic; extravagantly chivalrous; impulsive or capricious

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indelible

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adj. incapable of being removed or erased

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discern

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v. to perceive and understand so as to make distinctions

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garner

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v. to get or earn; to collect or gather

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insight

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n. the power to sense or understand something

adj. insightful

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slovenly

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adj. careless about one’s own appearance

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banal

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adj. dull or stale; commonplace

n. banality

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robust

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adj. strong and full of health

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indignation

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n. anger aroused by something unjust or evil

adj. indignant

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contagious

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adj. transmissible by direct or indirect contact; likely to affect others
n. contagion

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plausible

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adj. appearing worthy of belief or trust

n. plausibility

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hypothesis

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n. a tentative explanation; something assumed true for the sake of argument or investigation
adj. hypothetical

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exude

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v. to give off; to emit; to radiate

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novel

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adj. strikingly new

n. novelty

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auspicious

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adj. showing signs of a favorable outcome; marked by favorable circumstances

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luminous

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adj. emitting light, esp. self-generated; intellectually brilliant

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indiscriminate

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adj. unselective; random; unrestrained

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memento

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n. a reminder or a souvenir

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transient

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adj. passing with time; remaining only briefly

n. transience

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integrity

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n. moral or artistic honesty; strength of character

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stifle

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v. to interrupt or cut off; to keep in or hold back; to suffocate or smother
adj. stifling

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empirical

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adj. based on experience rather than a theory

n. empiricism

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best

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v. to defeat

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dismay

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Av. to destroy courage or resolution; to cause to lose enthusiasm, to disillusion

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laconic

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adj. brief in speech; using few words

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discreet

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adj. careful about what one sats or does; circumspect; done, said, or placed so as to attract little notice
n. discretion

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catastrophe

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n. disaster; sudden misfortune

adj. catastrophic

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reverberate

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v. to reecho

n. reverberation

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excrete

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v. to separate (waste matter) and eliminate from the body

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matrix

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n. a surrounding substance within which something else originates or is contained
pl. matrices

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scorn

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n. a feeling of contempt or disdain

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obsequious

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adj. showing too great a willingness to serve or obey

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amicable

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adj. showing friendliness or good will

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narcissistic

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adj. excessively interested in one’s own appearance, comfort, importance, etc.
n. narcissism

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contiguous

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adj. sharing a common boundary; adjoining

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desolate

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adj. left alone; lonely; deserted

n. desolation

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own

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v. to admit, esp. taking personal responsibility for one’s own actions or thoughts

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giddy

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adj. dizzy; lightheaded

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malfeasance

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n. wrongdoing, esp. by a public official

adj. malfeasant

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equanimity

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n. evenness of temper, esp. as a characteristic state

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