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runic

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(adjective) mysterious; magical

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sagacious

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(adjective) having sound judgment; perceptive; wise

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salacious

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(adjective) obscene

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salient

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(adjective) prominent; protruding; conspicuous; relevant

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salutary

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(adjective) wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health

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sanctimony

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(noun) self-righteousness

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sanguine

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(adjective) cheerful; confident; optimistic

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satiate

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(verb) to surfeit; to overindulge

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saturnine

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(adjective) gloomy; dark; sullen; morose

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seine

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(noun) a large net dragged to catch fish

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seminal

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(adjective) like a seed; constituting a source; originative

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sententious

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(adjective) aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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sidereal

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(adjective) astral; relating to stars or constellations

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simper

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(verb)/(noun) to smirk; a silly smile

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sinecure

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(noun) position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income

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sinuous

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(adjective) winding; undulating; serpentine

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slake

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(verb) to satisfy or quench

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sodden

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(adjective) soaked or drenched; unimaginative; dull

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solder

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(verb) to weld, fuse, or join

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sophistry

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(noun) fallacious reasoning; faulty logic

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sophomoric

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(adjective) self-assured though immature; affected; bombastic; lacking maturity

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splenetic

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(adjective) bad-tempered; irritable

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stanch

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(verb) to stop the flow of fluid

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stentorian

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(adjective) extremely loud and powerful

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stint

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(verb) to restrain; to be sparing or frugal

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striated

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(adjective) striped; grooved; banded

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stygian

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(adjective) gloomy; dark

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succor

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(noun) assistance; relief in time of distress

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sundry

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(adjective) various; miscellaneous; separate

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supercilious

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(adjective) disdainful; arrogant; haughty

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supine

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(adjective) mentally or morally slack; literally, lying on one’s back; prone

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suppliant

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(adjective) supplicant; asking humbly; beseeching

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supplicant

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(noun) beggar; mendicant

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tamp

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(verb) to plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows

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tautology

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(noun) a repetition; a redundancy

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tawdry

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(adjective) cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky; meretricious

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tendentious

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(adjective) biased; showing marked tendencies

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timorous

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(adjective) timid; fearful; diffident

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toady

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(noun) sycophant; flatterer

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torrid

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(adjective) scorching; ardent; passionate

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tractable

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(adjective) docile; obedient; easily led

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travesty

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(noun) mockery; caricature; parody

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tumid

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(adjective) swollen

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turbid

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(adjective) roiled; muddy; clouded to the point of being opaque

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turgid

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(adjective) swollen; tumid; thick; pompous; bombastic

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turpitude

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(noun) depravity; prurience

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tyro

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(noun) novice; greenhorn; rank amateur

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umbrage

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(noun) offense; resentment; pique

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undulate

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(verb) to move in wavelike fashion; to fluctuate

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untoward

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(adjective) perverse; unruly; unseemly

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upbraid

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(verb) to scold; to censure; to rebuke; to chastise

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usury

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(noun) the practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest

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vaunt

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(verb) to brag or boast

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venal

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(adjective) capable of being bought or bribed; mercenary; purchasable

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venerate

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(verb) to revere; to worship

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verisimilitude

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(noun) appearance of truth or reality

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veritable

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(adjective) authentic; honest-to-goodness

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virago

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(noun) a loud, domineering woman; a scold or nag

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vitiate

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(verb) to pervert; to debase; to spoil· to make ineffective

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volubility

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(noun) volume; (verb)osity; easy use of spoken language

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waft

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(verb) to cause to move as if by a light breeze

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welter

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(verb) to writhe; to toss about; to be in turmoil

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wend

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(verb) to go; to proceed; to walk

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