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Interesting words 2 Flashcards

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Mulishness

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Stubborn

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Contentious

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Causing argument

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Finagling

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Obtain by dishonest or devious means

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Sordid

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Involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives. Which is deemed to be morally contemptuous

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Extol

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Praise enthusiastically

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Avarice

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Extreme greed for wealth and material gain

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Erudite

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Having or shown great knowledge or learning

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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal

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Nefarious

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Wicked or criminal (action or activity)

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Vestige

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Something disappearing

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Parsable

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Able to be parsed- to analyze in terms of grammatical constituents.

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Illucid

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Dim and slow of thought, not able to flow in a nimble manner

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Gratuitous

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Done without good reason; uncalled for

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Impute

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Represent something (usually undesirable) as being done or possessed by someone.

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Syphon

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a tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord. Once the liquid has been forced into the tube, typically by suction or immersion, flow continues unaided.

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Indignation

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Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment

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Cinder

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A small piece of partly burnt coal or wood that has stopped giving off flames but still has combustible matter in it.

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Morose

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Sullen and ill-tempered

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Keening

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Wailing in grief for a dead person

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Ablution

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The act of washing oneself

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Avarice

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Extreme greed for wealth or material gain

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Fetid

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Smelling extremely unpleasant

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Dour

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Relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance

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Larceny

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Theft of personal property

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Effete

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Affected, over-refined, and ineffectual. And of a man unmanly/effeminate

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Enmity

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A state or feeling of active opposition or hostility.

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Rambunctious

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Uncontrollably exuberant; boisterous.

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Tenable

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Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.

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Fungible

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Replaceable by another identical item; mutually interchangeable

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Magnanimous

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Generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person

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Impertinent

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Not showing proper respect; rude.

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Provident

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Making or indicative of timely preparation for the future.

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Supercillious

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Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

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Slightingly

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Characterized by disregard or disrespect

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Congenial

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Agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character

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Whimsical

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Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way

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Exigent

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Pressing/ demanding

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Premonition

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A strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant

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Vogue

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The prevailing fashion or style at a particular time.

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Lanai

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A porch or veranda

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Dingus

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Used to refer to something one cannot or does not wish to name specifically.

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Derisive

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Expressing contempt or ridicule

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Judicially

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Pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice

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Veracity

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Conformity to facts; accuracy.

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Elope

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Run away secretly in order to get married

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Solipsism

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The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.

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Socratic

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Of things relating to socrates- commonly used to describe the dialect in which systematic doubt and questioning of another to elicit a clear expression of a truth supposed to be knowable by all rational beings occurs

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Ignoble

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Not honourable in character or purpose

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Protracting

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Prolong

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Beatification

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In the Roman Catholic Church declaration by the Pope that a dead person is in a state of bliss, constituting a first step towards canonization and permitting public veneration.

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Veneration

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Great respect, reverence

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Pedagogy

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The method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.

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Accidie (Pronounced axeidie)

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Spiritual or mental sloth, apathy

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Exegesis

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Critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of scripture.

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Acrostic

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A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

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Svengali

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A person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose.

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Meglaomaniac

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A person with an obsessive desire for power

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Canonization

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The process of making someone a saint. Upon which declaration the person is included in the “canon”, or list, of recognized saints.

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Mimetic

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imitative

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Inculcation

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The instilling of knowledge or values in someone, usually by repetition.

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Restitution

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The restoration of something lost or stolen returned back to its proper owner

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Hankering

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A strong desire for

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Rictus

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A fixed grimace or grin

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Benign

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Harmless

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Pejorative

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Expressing contempt or disapproval

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Apostate

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A person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle

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Apostle

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A vigorous and pioneering advocate or supporter of a particular policy, idea, or cause

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Repugnant

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Extremely distasteful, unacceptable

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Deepity

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An idea or statement that seems to be profound but actually isn’t.

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Bigot

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A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions.

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Deism

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Belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe.

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Theism

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Belief in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe.

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Volition

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The faculty or power of using one’s will.

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Credence

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Belief of acceptance in something as being true.

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Comport

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Conduct onself; behave

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Paradigm

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A typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model.

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Edict

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An official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority.

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Mandate

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An official order or commission to do something.

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Peruse

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To read something, usuallly in a thorough and careful way.

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Monolithic

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Formed of a single block of stone. / Or of an organisation/system that is large, powerful, indivisible and slow to change

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Instamatic

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Colloquial term for a pocket sized snapshot camera.

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Eulogy

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A speech or piece of text about someone or something that is praising of them highly. (Usually a tribute to someone that has died).

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Posthumous

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Occurring, awarded, or appearing after the death of the originator.

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Deepity

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A proposition that seems to be profound because it is actually logically ill-formed.

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Polemic

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A strong verbal or written attack on someone/something

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Panacea

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A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.

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Replete

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Filled or well-supplied with something.

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Eminence

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Fame or acknowledged superiority within a particular sphere.

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Mereticious

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Apparently attractive but having no real value.

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Meritocracy

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Government or the holding of power by people selected according to merit.

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Purblind

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Having impaired or defective vision; partially blind

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Pandjandrum

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A person who has or claims to have a great deal or authority or influence.

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Perforate

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To pierce and make a hole or holes in.

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Prostrate

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Lying prone

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Interminable

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Never ending or seemingly so (often used as

a hyperbole)

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Dissident

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A person that opposes official policy

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Deliniate

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Describe or portray something precisely

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Dotage

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The period of life in which a person is old and weak

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Parlance

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A particular way of speaking or using words, especially a way common to those with a particular job or interest

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Fervent

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Having or displaying a passionate intensity

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