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Suavely

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Smooth in texture, performance, or style

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Gilded

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Covered or tinged with gold or a golden color

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Masonry

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Something constructed of materials used by masons (those who work with stone and bricks)

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Posterity

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All future generations

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Ardent

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Characterized by warmth of feeling typically expressed in eager zealous support or activity

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Disdain

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A feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior

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Harbor

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To give shelter or refuge to

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Pretense

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A display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive

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Clad

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To be covered or clothed

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Convert

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To alter the physical or chemical nature or properties of especially in manufacturing

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Lurk

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To lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose

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Shamefast

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Archaic form of shamefaced; showing modesty or shame

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Countenance

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A look or expression, usually facial, that indicates a particular mood or emotion

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Weening

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Holding an opinion, imagining

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Colossal

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Of a bulk, extent, power, or effect approaching or suggesting the stupendous or incredible

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Harlot

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A prostitute

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Unerring

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Committing no error

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Friction

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The force that resists relative motion between two bodies in contact

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Dislocation

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An act or instance of the order of things being distributed

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Remission

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Release from the guilt or penalty of an offense

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Languid

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Drooping or flagging or as if from exhaustion

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Timorous

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Of a timid of fearful disposition

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Philanthropic

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Dispensing or receiving aid from funds set aside for humanitarian purposes

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Amiable

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Friendly, sociable

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Gaunt

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Excessively thin and angular

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Indolence

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Inclination to laziness

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Sharecrop

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To tenant, a process in which a tenant farmed is provided with credit for seeds, tools, living quarters, and food. The farmer work the land, but doe not own it, an receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges. This practice was especially prevalent in the U.S South during the Reconstructive and the early part of the twentieth century

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Lattice

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A framework or structure of crossed wood or metal strips

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Thrum

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To sound with a monotonous hum

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Conjuring

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To summon by or as if invocation or incantation

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Lilting

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Characterized by a rhythmical swing or cadence; cheerful, buoyant

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Aloof

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Removed or distant either physically or emotionally

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Surfeited

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Having an overabundant supply, an excess

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Meticulous

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Marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details

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Effigy

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An image or representation especially of a person

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Menagerie

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A strange or diverse collection of people or things

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Placidly

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In a serene manner, free from interruption or disturbance

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Nettle

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To arouse to sharp but transitory annoyance or anger

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Incessant

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Continuing or following without interruption

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Discordant

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1) Harsh and jarring because of lack of harmony

2) Disagreeing or incongruous

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Retch

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To vomit

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Sheath

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To case or cover with something that protects

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Avert

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To turn away or aside (the eyes, one’s gaze, ect.) in avoidance; to avoid

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Omniscent

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Having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight

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Impede

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To interfere or slow the progress of

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Bailiff

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An official employed by a British sheriff to serve writs and make arrests and executions; a minor officer of some U.S courts usually serving as a messenger or usher

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Magnanimous

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Showing or suggesting a loft and courageous spirit; showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and generosity of mind

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Catechism

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Oral instruction; a manual for catechizing; a set of formal questions put as a test; something resembling a catechism especially in being a rote response or formulaic statement

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Decrepit

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Wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age; worn-out; fallen into ruin or despair

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Impertinence

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The quality or state of being impertinent; such incivility, insolence (rudeness), or irrelevance or inappropriateness; an instance of impertinence

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Antiquarian

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Of or relating to antiquarians or antiques

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Terrestrial

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Of or relating to the earth of its inhabitants; mundane in scope to character (prosaic); of or relating to a land as distinct from air or water

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Ingenuous

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Showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness; lacking craft or subtlety

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Sidereal

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Of, relating to, or expressed in relation to starts or constellations (astral)

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Papal

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Of or relating to a pope or to the Roman Catholic Church; resembling a pope or that of a pope

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Proliferate

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INTRANSITIVE VERB: to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring; to increase in numbers as if by proliferating (multiply); TRANSITIVE VERB: to cause to grow by proliferating; to cause to increase in number or extent as if by proliferating

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Hermetic

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Relating to or characterized by subjects that are mysterious and difficult to understand

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Frivolity

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The quality or state of being frivolous; that is, lacking in seriousness; a frivolous act or thing

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Providential

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Of, or relating to, or determined by Providence, divine guidance or care, or God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny

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Haughty

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Blatantly and disdainfully proud; having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior

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Deign

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To condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one’s superiority that is involved; stoop

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Homage

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Expression of high regard; something that shows respect to the worth of influence of another

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Formidable

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Causing fear, dread, or apprehension; having qualities that discourage approach or attack; tending to inspire awe or wonder

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Rumination

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The process or an instance of going over in the mind repeatedly or chewing again what has been chewed slightly and swallowed

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Prevalent

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Generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored

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Smote

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Past tense of smite: to strike sharply or heavily especially, with the hand or an implement held in the hand

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Affable

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Being pleasant and at ease in talking to other; characterized by ease and friendliness

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Sporadic

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Occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances

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Moue

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A little grimace, pout

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Querulous

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Habitually complaining; fretful, whining

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Haggard

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Wild in appearance; having a worn or emaciated appearance, gaunt

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Auspicious

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Showing or suggesting that future success is likely

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Translucent

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Permitting the passage of light; transmitting and diffusing light so that objects beyond cannot be seen clearly

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Viscosity

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The quality or state of being a sticky or glutinous consistency

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Pillager

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One engaged in the act of looting or plundering especially in war

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Chuff

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To produce noisy exhaust or exhalations

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Argus

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A hundred-eyed monster of Greek mythology; a watchful guardian

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Ramshackle

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Appearing ready to collapse; carelessly or loosely constructed

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Talisman

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An object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune

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Trestle

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A braced frame serving as a support; a braced framework of timbers, piles, or steelwork for carrying a road or railroad over a depression

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Windigo

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A cannibalistic creature of Algonquian mythology believed to have been a lost hunter forced by hunger to eat human flesh and thereafter to have become a crazed man-eating ogre roaming the forest

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Mottled

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Marked with spots of different colors; having blotches of two or more colors

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Iridescent

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Having or exhibiting iridescence, that is, a lustrous or attractive quality or effect

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Veneer

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A thin sheet of a material, such as a layer of wood of superior value or excellent grain to be glued to an inferior wood; a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, display, or effect

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Throes

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Pangs, spasms; a hard or painful struggle

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Kamikaze

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Of, relating to, or resembling a kamikaze–a member of a Japanese air attack corps in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (such as a ship)–or, having or showing reckless disregard for safety or personal welfare

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Mantilla

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A light scarf worn over the head and shoulders especially by Spanish and Latin American women

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Shroud

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Burial garment; something that covers, screens, or guards

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Pernicious

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Highly injurious or destructive, deadly

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Prim

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Stiffly formal and proper; decorous; prudish; neat or trim

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Proteus

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A Greek sea god capable of assuming different forms

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Metamorphose

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Transitive verb: to change into a different physical form especially by supernatural means; intransitive verb: to become transformed

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Confound

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To throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity; to baffle, frustrate

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Oscillate

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To swing backward and forward like a pendulum

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Desultory

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Marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose; disappointing in progress, performance, or quality

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Stasis

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A state of static balance or equilibrium

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Solemnity

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Formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event

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Penitent

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A person who repents a sin

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Inviolable

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Secure from violation or profanation; secure from assault or trespass

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Sullen

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Gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed

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Jaundiced

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Affected with or as if with jaundice (yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments); exhibiting or influenced by envy, distaste, or hostility

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Console

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To alleviate the grief, sense of loss, or trouble of

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Taunt

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Having no give or slack; tightly drawn

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Effeminate

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Having feminine qualities untypical of a man; not manly in appearance or manner

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Fastidious

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Showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care; reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude

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Pugnacious

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Having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent

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Sanctum

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A sacred place

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Diffuse

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To pour out and permit or cause to spread freely; to spread thinly or wastefully

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Conjecture

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Inference from defective or presumptive evidence; a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork

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Mien

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Air or bearing especially as expressive of attitude or personality

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Incredulous

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Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous

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Jurisdiction

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The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law

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Tangible

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Capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch

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Promenade

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To walk about in or on

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Temerity

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Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition

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Brazen

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Made of brass; sounding harsh and loud like struck brass; of the color of polished brass; marked by shameless or disrespectful boldness

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Caper

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A frolicsome leap; a capricious escapade

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Disposition

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Prevailing tendency, mood, or inclination

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Fractious

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Tending to be troublesome : unruly

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Decorum

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Propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance

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Ponderous

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Unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size

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Coquetry

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A flirtatious act or attitude

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Chasten

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To correct by punishment or suffering; discipline

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Rejoin

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To say often or critically in response especially as a reply to a reply

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Promontory

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A high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water to overlooking or projecting into a lowland

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Confidant

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One to whom secrets are entrusted

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Counterpane

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Bedspread

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Dissolution

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Decay, disintegration, as aspect of death

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Refract

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To alter or distort as if by refraction, deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (as air) into another (as glass) in which its velocity is different

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Transfiguration

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An exalting, glorifying, or spiritual change

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Transient

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Passing especially quickly into and out of existence; passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn

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Sacrilege

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Gross irreverence toward a hallowed person, place, or thing

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Insensate

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Lacking sense or understanding; lacking animate awareness or sensation

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Seraph

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One of the six-winged angels standing in the presence of God

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Transmutation

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The conversion of base metals into gold or silver

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Lout

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An aggressive person lacking in manners and refinement

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Vagrant

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One who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support

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Gluttonous

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Marked or given to excess in eating or drinking

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Defile

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To make unclean or impure

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Insolent

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Insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct

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Absolution

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The act of forgiving someone for having done something wrong or sinful; specifically a remission of sins pronounced by a priest

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Edict

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A proclamation having force of law

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Prostrate

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To stretch out with face on the ground in adoration or submission, or to put oneself into a physical position of humility or submission

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Contrition

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The state of feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming

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Ignoble

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Characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness

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Consecration

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The act or state of being dedicated to a sacred purpose

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Pious

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Marked by or showing honor and respect for deity and devotion to divine worship. The noun from of pious is piety.

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Fraternize

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To associate or mingle as brothers or on fraternal terms

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Fervently

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Exhibiting or marked by great intensity of feeling

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Renounce

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To give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration

Grade 9 English Fall Vocabulary (2 decks)

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