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Scowl

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Frown

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Riled up

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Angry

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Integrity

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Integrity is a personal quality of fairness that will all aspire to.

Quality of being honest.

Integrity refers to the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It involves maintaining consistency in actions, values, methods, measures, and principles.

Aspire - aim or shoot for.

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Frigid

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Extremely cold

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Coterminous bordering upon, having the common boundary.

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Ward off

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Prevent something / something from harming / affecting one.

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Ward off

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Keep it from happening

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Hover

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Helicopter hovered overhead

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Worrier is not warrior

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Bleak

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Cold and miserable

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Fandom

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The fans of a sport or famous person

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Hover

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Levitate

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Visceral

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Visceral feeling are intuitive.
The fear of mouse you have may not be rational but it is visceral.
When something is visceral you feel it in your guts.

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Vicarious

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Experience through secondhand

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Delusional

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Believe something that’s is possibly not true

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Grapple

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When you wrestle with something — literally or figuratively — you grapple with it, or try to overcome it.

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Bedevil

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Cause great and continual trouble

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Inclement

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Unpleasantly cold or wet.

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Turnover

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Rate of replacement.
Income

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Treacherous

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Not trusted / dangerous.

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Something that’s causes disgust or hatred

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Abomination

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Repulse

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Repel or drive it back

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Install

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Parents work hard to develop, or instill, positive beliefs and values in their children. Interestingly, there’s no corresponding word for when parents pass down their bad habits.

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Laboring away

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Work very hard

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Whirlwind

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used in similes and metaphors to describe a very energetic or tumultuous person or process.

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it’s just a term of endearment — meant to show affection, not make you miserably embarrassed.

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Rhetoric

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Rhetoric is speaking or writing that’s intended to persuade.

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Demote

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Give someone a lower rank often as a punishment

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Guard or strengthen

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Flanked

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Floundering

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Struggle to move / stagger

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Gravitate

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Grandiosity

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Vertigo

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Feeling that you are spinning / about to fall.

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Repertoire

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Full supply of what you can do

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Robust

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Strong enough to overcome challenges and adversity

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Adversity

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Difficulties

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Fuse

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Mix two things together

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Atrocious

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Shockley brutal and cruel

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Genial

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Friendly and outgoing. Cordial

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Obnoxious

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in an extremely unpleasant way, especially in a way that offends people

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Abscond

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To escape usually taking something / somebody along with you

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Abscond cal also mean.

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Leave hurriedly and secretly

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Make off

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Ran away

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Cherry on top

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something special is added to something else that is also very nice, to make it even better.

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Reckon

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Guess , imagine , suppose, think

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Dead reckoning

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Determining the position by estimating the speed and distance travelled.

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Timid

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Lack of courage, confidence and easily frightened.

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Pumped out

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Produce something quickly and frequently.

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Endeavor

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When you endeavor something you try hard to achieve it.

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Contemptible

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Worthy of contempt.

Contempt is extreme lack of respect.

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Snob

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Condescending, and you like to think you are better than everyone else.

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Heinous

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Very wicked and evil

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Devote

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Eschew

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Deliberately avoid sth

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Abdication

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Formal act of giving up power

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Steep

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Construe

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Make sense of something

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Excursion

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Trip involving leisure activity

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Gravitas

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Seriousness and dignity

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Mobilize

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Prepare to spring into action

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Phase out

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Withdraw something for use in gradual stages.

Phase out.

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Pander

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Appease / gratify often in a negative self serving way.

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Picket

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A group of people standing outside a venue protesting

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Rebuke

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Express sharp disapproval or criticism of someone because of their behavior / actions.

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Chastise

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Scold, rebuke, reprimand.

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Epiphany

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Black man are culturally programmed to cheat

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Cherish

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To care about deeply

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Honor your parents

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Show respect towards

Love honor and cherish

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Commiserate

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Sympathize

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Collate

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Arrange pages/ books in a proper order.

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Thump

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Hit heavily

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Lengthy & complicated procedure

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Rigmarole

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I’m all over it

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Pervert

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A person whose sexual behavior is considered and abnormal

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Outburst

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Adjourn

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Plucking / tweezing

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Stakeout

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Chalk up

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Attribute something to something else

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Leech

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Habitual exploitation

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Smother

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Suffocate

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Full fledged

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Fully developed

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Hone

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Sharpen

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Exacerbate

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Make worse

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Abate

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Become less in amount / intensity

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Swirl

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Spiral , move around in circles.

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Deplane

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De ice

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You can’t have your cake and eat it too

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Trifling / not significant

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Predicament

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like a moth to the flame

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Irrististance to attraction of sth

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Tenuous

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Very weak/ slight or insubstantial

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Dissing

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Speaking disrespectful to / criticize

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Pouting

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Flip out

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suddenly lose control or become very angry

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Limbo

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Uncertain

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Banish

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Send away

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Reeling from sth

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feeling extremely surprised or upset because of it

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Class act

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Person or a thing displaying impressive and and excellence

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Fret

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Blabbermouth

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Someone who gossips indiscreetly

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Strenuously

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Work really hard at it

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Learn repartee

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Mean and unfair

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Lowdown

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Put someone through the wringer

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They suffered a very difficult situation or unpleasant experience.

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Alluded

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Suggested

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Aesthetically pleasing

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Cease and desist

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Salubrious

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Favorable to health of mind and body

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Recuperate

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Restored to good health or strength.
I figured you needed a salubrious environment in which to recuperate.

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Fortify

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Make stronger and stronger,
Add beverages/alcohol
Add nutrients to.

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Bomb diggity

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Something excellent & really cool

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Knee jerk reaction.

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React in a very predictable way without thinking

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Invaluable

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Valuable beyond estimations

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Signage

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You have to know how this friendship was first founded.

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She had the audacity

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Tad

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To small extent

I’m tad hurt you think I went to a therapist

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Spring

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Move suddenly & rapidly upwards & forward.

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Jinx

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Bringer of bad luck

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Orthodox / unorthodox- predicting tradition

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Egregious

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Outstandingly bad/ shocking

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Chicken/ hen - clucks

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The chicken clucks and scratched in the dirt.

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Hit close the home

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To be relatable in a negative way

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Delve

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Dig into , loosen or investigate

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Preliminary

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Something that come before something else.

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Curated

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Carefully chosen and thoughtful organized

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Credible

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Able to believe , convincing, trustworthy

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Notorious

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Well known

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Fostering

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Encouraging the development of/ growth is something.

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Trail of breadcrumbs

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Something - hint / clue that serves to lead or guide

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Rave

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  • can mean to talk in a noisy/ excited manner . I.e jabber, rant, mouth off.
  • to praise enthusiastically
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Shady

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Fool me once

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You fool me twice I have myself to blame.

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Back are against he wall

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In a bad position, in which one is forced to do something in order to avoid failure.

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Aghast

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Filled with horror or shock

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Colloquial

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Casual and conversational

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Diaphragm

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A device used for birth control.
I guess I better go and dust off my diaphragm. I’m joking I a drawer full of condoms.

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Convene

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Call together.
Summon.

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Unfurl

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Roll it out. Unwind the way you do the coiled laptop charger.

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Unfurling

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Unfolding

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Coasters

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A piece of good or plastic that you put a glass or cup on to protect the surface from heat/ cold. Tea coasters.

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Bureaucracy

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Verbatim

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Exact words

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Regurgitated

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Bring back up again to the mouth/ vomit.
Repeating back the words without understanding

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Spin

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Turn around

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Toot my own horn

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Talk boastfully about oneself

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Marinade / sauce, oil, vinegar etc.

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Soak in marinade. Call that marinate.

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Tacky

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Bluff

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Deceive

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Leg up on

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Take advantage over others

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Miniscule

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Extremely small or tiny

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Separatist

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A person who supports separation of two groups / organization.

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Rebuff

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Reject

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Baffled

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Be a mystery

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Bewildered

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Something that confused you

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Fesses up

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Admit that

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Dolly dally

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Waste time through aimless wandering

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Lewd

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Sexually inappropriate.

Like saying I’m wet in public that will be considered lewd.

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Tramp

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Walk or stomp heavily

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File

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A file and filing a knife.

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Be out in the cold

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Be ignored by others , not invited

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Storm out right now

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Howl

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To make a loud, sad and crying sound.

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Yammering

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Talk on and on about nothing at all

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Detractor

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A detractor is someone who puts you down. When you’re proposing ideas at work, your detractor is the person who finds fault with everything you say.

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Percolate

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Spread gradually.

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Cushy

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Comfortable

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Thinning out

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Decrease in size /extent

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Prolific readers

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Gauche

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Unsophisticated and socially awkward

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Carve out

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Carve out a half an hour here and there. Helps me relax.

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Tension subsides

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Coven

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Brat

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Badly behaved child

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Jockey

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struggle by every available means to gain or achieve something.

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Sleight

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You once thought it’s unattainable.

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Nondescript

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Lacking distinctiveness or interesting features or characteristics.

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Ordinariness

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the quality of being commonplace and ordinary

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Flattery

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Cough up

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Give reluctantly

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Very much sound up with nothing

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Candid

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Understatement

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Minimization

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Emphatically

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Horrendous

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Extremely unpleasant, very terrible

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Meager

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Lacking in quality or quantity.

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Startling

A

Very surprising astonishing or remarkable

192
Q

Poignant

A

Touches you deeply

193
Q

haute couture

A

expensive, fashionable clothes produced by leading fashion houses.

194
Q

Patronizing

A
195
Q

Ruin the flow/ wreck a flow

A
196
Q

Aftermath

A
197
Q

Devours

A
198
Q

Deranged

A
199
Q

Guzzle

A

Eat and drink greedily

200
Q

Obligatory

A
201
Q

Parsimonious

A

Stingy frugal

202
Q

Cross dresser

A
203
Q

Ominous

A

Giving an impress that something bad is going to happen

204
Q

Euphoria

A

Feeling of great happiness and well being

205
Q

Euphoria

A

Dysphoria

206
Q

Disposition

A

A person usual temperament or frame of mind.

207
Q

Retard

A
208
Q

Keep your eye on the ball

A

Continue thinking about or giving attention to something important.

209
Q

Serendipity

A

the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

Serendipitous

210
Q

Duel

A

It’s a fight and not a duel

211
Q

Anthology

A

A collection of poems, stories

212
Q

Earshot

A

Range or distance within which other person can ear.

213
Q

Muttered

A

Say something in a low and barely audible voice.

214
Q

Derogatory

A

Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude

215
Q

Forfeit

A

Lose or deprived of

216
Q

Denigrate

A

Say bad things try or false about a person.

Criticize unfairly

217
Q

Relentlessness

A
218
Q

Expediency

A

Expediency gets you what you want. While its tone can be neutral, expediency often suggests self-interest, possibly at the expense of doing what’s right.

219
Q

Hung out to dry

A
220
Q

Lenient

A

Merciful

221
Q

Recess

A
222
Q

Rebuttal

A

Refute

223
Q

Gargle

A
224
Q

Ramifications

A

Consequences

225
Q

Spare 5 minutes for this.

A
226
Q

Minion

A
227
Q

Yank

A

Pull or move suddenly and sharply

228
Q

Juvenile

A

A young person

229
Q

Delinquent

A

Young offender, failing in what duty requires

230
Q

Engulf

A

Something

231
Q

Condiment

A

Flavor/

232
Q

Hospice

A

Facility to take care of the I’ll / home care facility.

233
Q

Trepidation

A

Feeling of fear.

234
Q

Ominous

A

giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.

235
Q

Enthused

A

say something that expresses one’s eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
“they both enthused over my new look”

236
Q

Rumor mill

A

Process by which the rumors start and spread.

237
Q

Guardianship and care provided deity or a god.

A

Providence

238
Q

Winter of discontent

A
239
Q

Spring of enchantment

A
240
Q

Enchantment

A

feeling of great pleasure; delight.

241
Q

Veto

A

Constitutional right to reject a decision or a proposal made by law making body.

242
Q

Dignity is overrated for mistress don’t you think

A
243
Q

Consolidate. Foothold

A

Join together on one whole.
Position usable as the foundation/ base for further advances - foothold.

244
Q

Insult

A

Rude expression intending to offend or hurt someone.

245
Q

Break break

A

I don’t get soften up by a nice dinner and dancing with a beautiful woman. You asked me what I want and I told you.

246
Q

I worked to hard on it just to abandon it.

A

Just brainstorming ideas.

247
Q

Treading the water

A

Be not advancing in any way.

248
Q

Hypnotized

A

Capture the whole attention.
Mesmerize, fascinate.

Hypnosis

the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction

249
Q

Souvenir

A

a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.

250
Q

Trampled

A
251
Q

Captivating

A

Capable of holding interest. Charming.

252
Q

Bewildered

A

Confused , perplexed or puzzled .

253
Q

Delighted

A

Feeling or showing great pleasure.

I’m delighted to be here.

254
Q

Hilarious

A

Very funny / extremely amusing

255
Q

Miserable

A

Exceptionally unhappy.

256
Q

You know what people think when he takes his father’s company.

A

That his father is proud of him.

That he didn’t earn it, so that why I’m not looking to advertise the fact that I once had an affair.

You are not advertising it.

You disclosing it. Let something private to be known. You disclose them.

257
Q

This isn’t coincidental encounter. Is it.

A
258
Q

Debatable

A

Open to discussion or argument.

Balls are debatable.

259
Q

Delicious

A
260
Q

I’m not throwing gasoline on a pile if matches just to see what happens.

A

Not doing something you know the obvious repercussion for.

261
Q

You both have a brain and a dick, and both of you are the meeting the brains won’t be leading that conversation.

A
262
Q

Trainwreck

A

Utter disaster or mess.

263
Q

Tuck

A

Fold, gather, insert.

264
Q

The ability to tuck your ankles behind your head.

A
265
Q

Cherish

A

Protect and care for.

266
Q

Perpetrators will be found and brought to justice.

A
267
Q

Pulling teeth

A

Used to indicate that something is difficult and frustration.

268
Q

Pander

A

Appease.

269
Q

Rile up

A

Make agitated or angry

270
Q

What struck me.

A
271
Q

In retrospect

A

After consideration, what I wish I’d do different.

272
Q

The reality of goodness not the perception of it.

A
273
Q

People care about looking good but doing evil.

A
274
Q

Propensity

A

Inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.

275
Q

Affinity

A

Spontaneous or natural liking or sympathy for someone or something.

276
Q

Conflate

A

Combine two into one

277
Q

The hands were tucked behind his back

A
278
Q

Blindsided

A

Getting attacked from unexpected position / catch unprepared

279
Q

Hoist

A

Lift up with ropes and pulleys.

280
Q

Spite

A

Desire to hurt, annoy or offend

281
Q

Impeccable

A

Describe someone or something without any flaws.

282
Q

Wreak

A

Cause something to happen especially terrible consequences.

283
Q

Withering

A

Weaken or

Annihilate,
Wreak or capable of wreaking complete destruction.

284
Q

Acerbic

A

Harshly bitter.

It can leave a bitter taste in your mouth.

Word vocabulary (17 decks)

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