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Allotted

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Given out

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Amazing

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Astonishing and wondrous

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Amble

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Walk in and relaxed way

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Amiss

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Walk in a slow and relaxed way

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Amiss

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Wrong and not usual

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Anguished

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Painful and tormented

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Annoyance

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Irritation

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Anticipated

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Predicted

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Anticipation

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The act of expecting something to happen

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Antics

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A funny act

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Anxious

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Worried about the outcome

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Appalling

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Horrific

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Appreciating

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Understanding the importance

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Apprehended

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Arrested

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Approached

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Went towards

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Arrogance

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ide

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As the day drew on

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As time passed

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Ascended

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Climbed up

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Ascending

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Soaring upwards

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Ashen

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Pale and grey like ash

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Assume

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Take over

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Awe

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Fear and wonder

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Awe-inspiring

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So affecting

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Baring

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Uncovering

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Barren

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Bare

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Basking

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Enjoying the sun

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Bated

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So anxious

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Bazzar

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Marketplace

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Beckon

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Call for someone

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Befallen

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Happened

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Beforehand

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Previously

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Bemused

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Surprised

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Bemusement

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Puzzled look

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Bereaved

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Mourning

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Beseeching

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Appealing

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Bestowed

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Blessed with a gift

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Bewildered

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Confused and at a loss

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Bizarre

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Weird

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Blaring

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Making very loud noises

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Blatantly

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Boldly

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Bleak

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Cheerless

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Blissful

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Happy

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Blistering

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Extremely severe

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Bounding

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Jumping

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Budge

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Move

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Cackle

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Loud crackling call

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Calmed

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Reduced a persons fears

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Calming

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Making someone feel less anxious

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Camouflage

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Remain unnoticed by merging with the background

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Cannibal

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Living creature

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Casting

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Throwing, Shedding

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Catologue

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Detailed description

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Chaos

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Complete disorder

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Charged

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Given the reponsibility

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Chastised

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Scolded

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Clasped

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Hands pressed together in a tight grip

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Close shave

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Near miss

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Conscientiously

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Carefully

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Conservative

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Tradition-bound

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Conserve

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Save

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Constant

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Continuous

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Contorted

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Twisted out of the usual shape

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Contrary

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Opposite

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Convicted

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Found guilty by the court

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Convincing

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Believable

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Corrugated

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Having folds

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Corruption

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Illegal acceptance

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Counterparts

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Similar goods

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Courageous

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Extremely brave

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Cowering

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Cringing, moving away

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Coyly

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Shyly

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Creativity

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Cleverness of inventing things and thinking

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Crescendo

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Sound that gradually becomes louder as ecitement mounts

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Cresting

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Flying/gliding at the top

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Crouching

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Stooping low

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Culprits

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Guilty persons

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Cyan

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Greenish-blue

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Dank

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Damp

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Darkness descended

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Grew dark

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Darting

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Running quickly to and fro

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Dead give away

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obvious sign that reveals the truth

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Deafening

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Extremely loud

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Decay

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Process of rotting

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Decaying

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rotting

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Defiant

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Rebellious

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Deforestation

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The cutting down of forest to make land available

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Deft

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Quick and neat in action

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Delectable

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Tasty and delicious

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Delicate

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Fragile and beautiful

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Delinquent

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Underaged person who breaks the law

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Deposition

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Statement made under oath

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Depressed

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Dispirited, very sad

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Descended

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Went down

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Deserted

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Completely without people

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Despair

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Helplessness

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Destruction

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Serious damage to the point of being completely ruined

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Detected

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Discovered

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Determination

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Unwillingness to give up easily

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Devasted

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Overwhelmed by sorrorw

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Dilapidated

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Broken down

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Dire

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Very serious

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Discarded

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Thrown away because it is useless

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Discernible

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Can be seen although with some difficulty

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Dismay

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Unhappiness and regret

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Dismissing

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Brushing aside

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Display

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Show

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Disposition

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Nature

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Distinct

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Clear

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Distinctive

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having a special quality that is easy to recognise

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Diverged

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Divided

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Domesticated

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Tamed

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Doted

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Showned great lvoe and care

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Douse

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Extinguish with water

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Downpour

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Sudden rain

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Drab

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Dull

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Dragging

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PUlling

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Draped around

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Wrapped around

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Dread

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is horrified by fear

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Dreaded

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Frightening

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Duvets

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Thick blankets

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Easy-going

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Accepting and easy to get along with

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Echoing

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Repeatedly

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Eden

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paradise

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Eerily

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Strangely

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Elegant

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Very beautiful

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Elongated

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Stretched to make it longer

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Endured

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Tolerated

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Energy conservation

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Act of carefully saving electricity

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Engrossed

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Caught up in something and unable to notice anything else

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Enormous

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Very large

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Ensued

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Resulted

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Enthralled

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Engrossed

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Eternity

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Forever

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Evidently

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Clearly

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Exasperation

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Frustration

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Excelling

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Doing very well

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Executed

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Carried out

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Exhausted

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