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Eschew

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Deliberately avoid using

I’m going to eschew myself from using that

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Coerce

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To persuade to do something by using force or threats

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Gambol

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Run of jump about playfully

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Air

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To bring out into the open

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Condescending

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Patronizing

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Forswear

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Agree to give up or do without

For he swore to forswear meet during lent

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Assuage

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To ease

He felt assuaged after he massage

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Dart

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To move quickly

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Extricate

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To free from constraint

To extract

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Browbeat

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To bully

Bully’s are bad brows

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Exacerbate

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To make worse

Masturbating only exacerbates how lonely you Are

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Burnish

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To polish

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Expatriate

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To remove from ones homeland

People who come from different countries have new traites

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Acquiesce

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To accept something reluctantly but without protest

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Defy

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To resist openly

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Berate

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To scold

The critique berated the movie with a C rate

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Abase

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To degrade

A basis to abase him is his cockiness

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Extemporize

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To improvise

They temporarily extemporized because the lead forgot her lines

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Elicit

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Evoke: trigger

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Aperture

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An opening, hope or gap

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Drudgery

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Hard, menial or dull work

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Clemency

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Mercy

Have mercy on the Clemens

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Inlet

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Small bay

In the small bays lets the little children play

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Feint

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An action intended to mislead and opponent

Feints aren’t fair

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Contusion

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Bruise

Some consider the supreme courts commitment to the constitution a contusion

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Anecdote

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A short and assuming story

My favorite anecdote is about ann and her toad

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Invective

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Insult

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Blunderbuss

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An old fashioned shotgun

Gonna cause quite a blunder with that blunderbuss

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Allegory

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A symbolic story

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Facade

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  1. The face of a building

2. Surface appearance

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Barracks

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Barack had to stay in barracks

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Hedonist

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One who loves physical pleasures

Asking for head everyday is something a hedonist would do

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Cupidity

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Greed

Cupid is very greedy

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Dissent

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Disagreement; difference or opinion

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Iconoclast

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A person who attacks established ideas

Iconoclasts attack the icon

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Catharsis

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Emotional release

Cathartic

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Equanimity

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Calmness

When one experiences equanimity all their factors are set equally

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Determinate

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Definite; limited

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Ebullient

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Bubbly

The bull was big ebullient when it ran me over

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Fallow

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Unplowed

Sewards fallow

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Finesse

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Skill; gracefulness

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Decorum

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Proper behavior

Decorate yourself with proper decorum

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Collow

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Immature; inexperienced

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Congenial

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Pleasant

Genital warts are nog congenial

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Flippant

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Joking disrespectful

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Arcane

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Mysterious; secret

The mysterious man walks with a cane

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Dispassionate

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Impartial

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Cherubic

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Angelic

God doesn’t judge angles on a rubric

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Incisive

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Sharp or cutting

To preform an incision your device must be Incisive

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Coreplent

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Fat

People who are corpulent have a big core

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Indignant

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Characterized by a sudden feeling of anger or shock

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Amorphous

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Without shape

The only thing he can morph into is amorphous

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Didactic

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Indented to teach

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Emaciated

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Thin

Eat Mac and cheese to avoid being Emaciated

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Dilapidated

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A state of ruins

Dilapidated is a word that needs repaid

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Cacophonous

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Harsh sounding

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Exemplary

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Praise worthy

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Anterior

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Placed in front, earlier

We renovated the interior anterior

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Jaded

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Bored

I’m too bored with sat words to think of a good nemonic devise

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Fraught

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Filled with

He was fraught with fret

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Acclimatization

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Becoming used to something; getting comfortable

Get acclimatized with climate

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Adjunct

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Something attached to a main

Like adjacent

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Altruism

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Goodness; selflessness; generosity

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Annulment

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Cancellation

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Aristocratic

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High class, as in qualities of nobility

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Ascetic

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1 noun- a person who refuses bodily pleasures (opposite of a hedonist)
2 adj - without pleasure

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Audacity

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Gall; nerve

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Autocratic

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Favoring complete rule by one person

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Avow

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To swear by

To vow

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Balk

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To hesitate suddenly

The bulk of wood in the road caused the car to balk

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Becalmed

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Made peaceful or still

Made to be calm

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Bellicose

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Warlike in manner

“Bell I gotta go cose the country needs me “

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Bourgeois

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Middle class; conformist and materialistic

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Castigate

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To punish or criticize harshly

To castigate you i cast a gate around you

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Caustic

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Unkind; bitter; sarcastic

Caustic people cause problems

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Ceremonious

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Formal

Ceremony

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Charted

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Planned; plotted; mapped

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Circuitous

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Roundabout; not straightforward

Circular

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Cite

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To quote

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Colloquial

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Informal but common speech

Spoken in the colonies but not England

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Commend

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To Praise

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Compliant

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Giving in to others; obedient

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Conscript

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To force into service

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Contentious

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Argumentative

Likes to content

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Cosmopolitan

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  1. Sophisticated

2. From the city

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Crest

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Peak; top

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Debauchery

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Corruption; physical self indulgence

Douchebag debauchery

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Defector

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One who leaves his or her side to join the enemy

They are a defect

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Demographer

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An expert on population statistics

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Deprecate

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To criticize

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Dirge

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Funeral song

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Disbursement

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Spending

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Disenfranchise

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To take away someone’s right to vote

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Dither

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To be indecisive

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Doctrine

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Something taught

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Dormant

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  1. Asleep

2. Inactive

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Edifying

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Enlightening; uplifting

Education is edifying

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Embody

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To express; to give concrete form to

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Endemic

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Limited to, but widespread in, a particular place

A small epidemic

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Enthall

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To fascinate

He was so enthralled with caves he threw himself into one

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Fetter

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  1. Noun - a Chain

2. Verb - to prevent from moving

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Fluster

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To embarrass; to upset

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Furrow

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  1. Noun - ditch or hold in the ground

2. Verb - to wrinkle

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Gag

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  1. Joke

2. To prevent from speaking

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Gargantuan

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Huge

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Gentry

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Upper class

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Gill

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A fish’s breathing organ

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Glaring

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  1. Adj - obvious

2. Verb -staring angrily

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Hack

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  1. Noun - writer for hire

2. Verb - to cut

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Heretofore

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Until now

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Impalpable

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Unable I to be touched or understood

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Implacable

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Incapable of being soothed or changed

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Impudence

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Rudeness

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Incantation

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Magical chant or spell

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Incorporeal

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Without physical existence; not of the body

Without core

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Ineffectual

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Useless

Has no effect

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Infinitesimal

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Extremely small

Infinitely small

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Ingenious

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Clever; resourceful

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Insidious

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Dangerous in a way that is difficult to see

Incest was insidious for many many years

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Intemperate

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  1. Extreme

2. violent

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Intransigent

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Stubborn; refusing to Compromise

Can not get through to them (trans)

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Irate

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Very angry

When he got irritated he irate

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