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Abound

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To be present in great quantity

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Abduction

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Kidnapping

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Absurd

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Ridiculous

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Accomplice

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Helper

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Adhere

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To stick firmly

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Adversary

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Enemy

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Afoot

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In motion; in progress

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Agitate

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  1. To disturb; to trouble

2. To shake an object

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Airtight

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Perfect; without weaknesses

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Allegiance

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Loyalty

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Amass

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To collect a lot of

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Amity

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Friendship

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Anchor

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To hold in place

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Anonymous

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Without a name

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Apparel

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Clothes

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Apprehend

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  1. To catch and take into custody

2. To understand

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Arbiter

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One who settles a dispute

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Ascending

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Going up

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Asylum

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Shelter; refuge

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Auctioneer

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One who sells goods at an auction

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Avert

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To avoid

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Babble

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To talk foolishly or too much

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Barbaric

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Primitive; uncivilized

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Belittle

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To criticize

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Bid

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  1. To make an offer

2. To order or command

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Bloated

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Swollen

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Bogus

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Fake

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Brace

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To support

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Breadth

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How broad something is

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Buoyant

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  1. Happy

2. Able to float

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Byway

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Side road

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Cadet

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Military student

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Candid

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Honest; open; outspoken

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Carnivorous

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Meat - eating

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Censure

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To criticize harshly; to blame

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Chronic

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Constant

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Cleanse

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To clean; to purify

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Collage

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A collection of pictures or images

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Compassionate

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Kind; sympathetic

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Complacent

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Self satisfied; smug

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Composer

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One who writes music

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Compress

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To press together

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Conclusive

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Definite; proven

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Confectioner

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Maker of candy

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Connoisseur

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Expert

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Consequential

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  1. Important

2. Resulting

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Conspiracy

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A secret plan to do something unlawful; a plot

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Consumer

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Buyer

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Contour

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Curve; shape

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Converge

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To come together

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Cordial

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Polite; friendly

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Counsel

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To guide; to advise

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Crave

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To want a lot; to long for

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Criterion

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Factor or quality used to judge something

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Cumulative

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Including everything from the beginning

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Dabble

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To take a mild interest in something

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Decay

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To rot

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Decode

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To translate a code into understandable language

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Deflate

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  1. To remove air from something

2. To discourage

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Delete

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To remove; to erase

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Demote

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To lower in rank

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Descendant

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Relative from a younger generation

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Detect

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To notice

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Devise

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To plan; to design

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Dignity

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Honor

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Directory

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A book of names, addresses, etc.

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Discipline

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  1. Ability to practice regularly

2. To punish

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Discourse

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Speech; conversation

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Discriminate

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To notice differences

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Dishearten

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To discourage

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Dismay

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Sadness; disappointment

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disrepute

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Having a bad reputation

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Distant

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Unfriendly

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Distress

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Worry; unhappiness

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Document

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To support with evidence

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Drought

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Severe dryness

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Duration

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How long something lasts

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Dynamics

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The study of motion

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Eccentric

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Strange; unusual in an interesting way

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Egoist

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One who pays too much attention to the self

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Embrace

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  1. To hug

2. To accept

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Emotive

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Emotional

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Endow

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  1. To give talent or quality to someone

2. To give money to

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Enlighten

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To inform; to make clear

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Entity

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  1. Object; thing

2. Living being

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Equilibrium

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Balance

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Error

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Mistake in baseball

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Evade

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To escape from; to avoid

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Excerpt

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A part of a quote or passage

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Exhibitionist

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One who enjoys showing Off

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Expertise

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Skill

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Extravagance

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Wasteful spending

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Fabricate

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  1. To create

2. To lie

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Farfetched

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Unbelievable

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Flourish

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To grow; to be successful

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Forethought

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Thinking beforehand

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Fragment

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  1. A broke piece

2. To break into pieces

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Fraudulent

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Fake

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Fumble

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Mistake in football

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Galaxy

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A group of stars

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Ghastly

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Horrible

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Glutton

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One who eats too much

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Grandiose

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  1. Magnificent

2. Showy

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gregarious

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Sociable; friendly

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Grove

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Small forest or field of trees

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Guzzle

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To drink quickly

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Habitable

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Fit to be lived in

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Hangar

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Shelter for airplanes

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Haze

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Fog; mist

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Heir

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A person who inherits

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Hibernation

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In animals, the state of sleeping through the winter; inactivity

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Home run

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Score in baseball

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hurl

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To throw forcefully

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Hypothesis

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Assumption; possible explanation

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