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hospitality

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n. The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.

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corporal

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adj. Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.

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unnatural

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adj. Artificial.

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athwart

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adv. From side to side.

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gourmand

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n. A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.

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append

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v. To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.

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perpendicular

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adj. Straight up and down.

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concur

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v. To agree.

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indiscernible

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adj. Not perceptible.

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armory

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n. An arsenal.

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irrelevant

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adj. Inapplicable.

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erudite

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adj. Very-learned.

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cameo

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n. Any small engraved or carved work in relief.

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consign

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v. To entrust.

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vindicatory

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adj. Punitive.

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abrade

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v. To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.

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contribution

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n. The act of giving for a common purpose.

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reprehensible

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adj. Censurable.

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intermission

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n. A recess.

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prescient

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adj. Foreknowing.

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harass

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v. To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.

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risible

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adj. capable of exciting laughter.

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fragile

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adj. Easily broken.

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benevolence

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n. Any act of kindness or well-doing.

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adumbrate

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v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.

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capitulate

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v. To surrender or stipulate terms.

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engrave

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v. To cut or carve in or upon some surface.

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stratum

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n. A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.

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hesitation

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n. Vacillation.

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imminence

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n. Impending evil or danger.

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undulate

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v. To move like a wave or in waves.

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airy

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adj. Delicate, ethereal.

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peddle

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v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.

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nomic

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adj. Usual or customary.

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incompressible

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adj. Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure.

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bumptious

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adj. Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.

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Stoicism

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n. The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.

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uproarious

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adj. Noisy.

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poise

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n. Equilibrium.

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agitate

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v. To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).

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constellation

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n. An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.

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overseer

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n. A supervisor.

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foible

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n. A personal weakness or failing.

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metallurgy

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n. The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.

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precursor

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n. A forerunner or herald.

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triumvir

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n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.

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monition

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n. Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.

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amalgamate

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v. To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.

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affirmative

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adj. Answering yes; to a question at issue.

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disputation

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n. Verbal controversy.

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immutable

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adj. Unchangeable.

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morose

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adj. Gloomy.

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precedential

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adj. Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.

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puerile

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adj. Childish.

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belay

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v. To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.

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violator

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n. One who transgresses.

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apathy

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n. Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.

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inchoative

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n. That which begins, or expresses beginning.

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peerless

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adj. Of unequaled excellence or worth.

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acoustic

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adj. Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.

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curt

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adj. Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.

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obituary

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adj. A published notice of a death.

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precision

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n. Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.

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dispossess

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v. To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.

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ravage

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v. To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.

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automaton

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n. Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.

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peremptory

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adj. Precluding question or appeal.

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expend

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v. To spend.

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doubly

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adv. In twofold degree or extent.

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liniment

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n. A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.

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omission

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n. Exclusion.

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neurology

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n. The science of the nervous system.

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analyze

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v. To examine minutely or critically.

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dolesome

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adj. Melancholy.

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neology

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n. The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.

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ambush

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n. The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.

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infidel

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n. One who denies the existence of God.

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renunciation

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n. An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.

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violation

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n. Infringement.

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repress

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v. To keep under restraint or control.

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deprave

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v. To render bad, especially morally bad.

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repellent

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adj. Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.

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hussar

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n. A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.

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tact

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n. Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.

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insurgent

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n. One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place.

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infrequent

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adj. Uncommon.

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demonstrable

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adj. Capable of positive proof.

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shuffle

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n. A mixing or changing the order of things.

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minute

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adj. Exceedingly small in extent or quantity.

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refute

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v. To prove to be wrong.

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genital

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adj. Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.

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aristocracy

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n. A hereditary nobility

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conquer

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v. To overcome by force.

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ingredient

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n. Component.

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pervious

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adj. Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.

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laddie

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n. A lad.

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norm

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n. A model.

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exigency

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n. A critical period or condition.

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discontinuance

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n. Interruption or intermission.

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abduction

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n. A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally.

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nestle

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v. To adjust cozily in snug quarters.

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corrode

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v. To ruin or destroy little by little.

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refractory

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adj. Not amenable to control.

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noisome

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adj. Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.

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isochronous

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adj. Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.

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undersized

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adj. Of less than the customary size.

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succulent

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adj. Juicy.

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militate

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v. To have weight or influence (in determining a question).

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inflammation

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n. A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain.

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satirize

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v. To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.

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mordant

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adj. Biting.

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prohibition

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n. A decree or an order forbidding something.

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conflagration

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n. A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.

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armful

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n. As much as can be held in the arm or arms.

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hesitancy

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n. A pausing to consider.

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pauper

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n. One without means of support.

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garnish

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v. In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment.

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pervade

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v. To pass or spread through every part.

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indiscriminate

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adj. Promiscuous.

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jeopardize

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v. To imperil.

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magnificent

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adj. Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action.

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exclamation

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n. An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling.

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collegian

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n. A college student.

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service

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n. Any work done for the benefit of another.

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avarice

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n. Passion for getting and keeping riches.

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incite

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v. To rouse to a particular action.

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referable

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adj. Ascribable.

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sophism

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n. A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive

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sonnet

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n. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.

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gradation

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n. A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series.

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untimely

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adj. Unseasonable.

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decency

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n. Moral fitness.

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thesis

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n. An essay or treatise on a particular subject.

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fundamental

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adj. Basal.

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loath

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adj. Averse.

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census

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n. An official numbering of the people of a country or district.

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brooch

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n. An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.

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intromit

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v. To insert.

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prickle

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v. To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.

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undercharge

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v. To make an inadequate charge for.

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linguist

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n. One who is acquainted with several languages.

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adhere

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v. To stick fast or together.

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animadversion

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n. The utterance of criticism or censure.

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retrospective

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adj. Looking back on the past.

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defensible

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adj. Capable of being maintained or justified.

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definite

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adj. Having an exact signification or positive meaning.

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element

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n. A component or essential part.

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ire

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n. Wrath.

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negation

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n. The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.

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cursory

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adj. Rapid and superficial.

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translate

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v. To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.

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instant

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n. A very brief portion of time.

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drought

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n. Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.

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bowler

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n. In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.

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poetaster

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n. An inferior poet.

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quarter

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n. One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.

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ordinal

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n. That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third.

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declension

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n. The change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender.

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presage

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v. To foretell.

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flatulence

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n. Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.

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populous

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adj. Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.

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immovable

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adj. Steadfast.

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probate

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adj. Relating to making proof, as of a will.

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inoffensive

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adj. Causing nothing displeasing or disturbing.

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irony

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n. Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment.

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dissonance

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n. Discord.

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lethargy

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n. Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind.

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functionary

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n. An official.

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geniality

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n. Warmth and kindliness of disposition.

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opaque

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adj. Impervious to light.

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occurrence

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n. A happening.

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bethink

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v. To remind oneself.

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variation

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n. Modification.

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rearrange

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v. To arrange again or in a different order.

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reluctance

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n. Unwillingness.

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glimpse

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n. A momentary look.

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moralist

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n. A writer on ethics.

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relapse

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v. To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.

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encumber

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v. To impede with obstacles.

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mania

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n. Insanity.

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conscientious

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adj. Governed by moral standard.

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convergent

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adj. Tending to one point.

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frequency

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n. The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space.

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accessory

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n. A person or thing that aids the principal agent.

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allotment

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n. Portion.

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concordance

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n. Harmony.

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harmonious

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adj. Concordant in sound.

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inactive

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adj. Inert.

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forfeit

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v. To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation.

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maritime

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adj. Situated on or near the sea.

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necessitate

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v. To render indispensable.

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exhale

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v. To breathe forth.

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tiresome

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adj. Wearisome.

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submission

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n. A yielding to the power or authority of another.

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forejudge

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v. To judge of before hearing evidence.

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parallelism

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n. Essential likeness.

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hypotenuse

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n. The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.

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intrude

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v. To come in without leave or license.

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displace

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v. To put out of the proper or accustomed place.

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dissent

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n. Disagreement.

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