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latent

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hidden, but capable of being developed

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jaunty

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lighthearted, playful

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libel

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printed lies that harm someone’s reputation

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listless

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slow, lacking energy

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luminary

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a famous person

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magnate

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powerful person (especially in business)

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malignancy

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harmfulness

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marred

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spoiled, damaged

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Maudlin

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overly sentimental

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mercurial

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changeable, moody

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mitigate

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to make less painful, to become less severe

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monolithic

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huge

like a single, seamless whole

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nefarious

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wicked

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niche

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a space scooped out of a wall

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obfuscating

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confusing, clouding

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odious

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disgusting, hateful

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omniscient

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knowing everything

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palisade

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line of cliffs

fence made out of stakes

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panache

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style,

flair

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pare

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to remove or reduce by cutting

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party

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to wafts off (a punch), to deflect

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patter

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meaningless speech

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pejorative

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insulting

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penury

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poverty

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perfidy

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disloyalty, untrustworthiness

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pinion

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wing

to hold someone down

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placard

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poster

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plaudit

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praise

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pontificate

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to speak in a know it all way

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precariousp

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dangerous

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precocious

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matured earlier than normal, froward

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prevaricate

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to lie

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profligate

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very wasteful, extravagant

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propensity

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special liking for somehing, tendency, preference

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proselytizer

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one who attempts to convert others to his relgiin

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protrusion

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somehig that sticks out

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prune

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a dried plum

a trim, as in a tree or bush

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purgation

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purification, freedom from blame

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putrid

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bad smelling, spoiled

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quagmire

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a problem that is difficult to escape

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quell

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to quiet, to pacify

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quip

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a clever or witty remark

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raconteur

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story teller

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rancor

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hatred

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raze

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to destroy completely

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redoubtable

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causing great or extreme respect

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remiss

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careless, not responsible

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repertoire

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group of skills that can be performed

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reprehensible

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shameful, blameworthy

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reprove

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to criticize

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respite

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a rest period

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retinue

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staff for a high ranking person, team or attendants

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rhapsodize

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to express with great delight

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rigor

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severity, strictness

strict accuracy to detail

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rotund

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round, fat

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rudimentary

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elementary, basic

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salutary

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beneficial, healthful

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sanguine

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optimistic, cheerful

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Savant

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someone who knows a lot

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scorn

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to show dislike and disrespect

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scuttle

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to sink a ship by cutting holes I it

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secrete

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to give off a liquid or other substance

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seismologist

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one whole studies earthquakes

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sentenial

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a guard

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sieve

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a mesh used for straining or separating

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slacken

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to become slower

to loosen a rope

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slough

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a swamp, muddy hole

to she’s

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smorgasbord

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meal involving many different kinds of food

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snuff

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tabacco inhaled throguh the nose

to extinguish

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somnambulist

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sleepwalker

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sparse

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thinly spread, almost bare

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spurn

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to reject openly

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staid

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serious

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status quo

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the unchaning way things are

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stifle

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to prevent, to hold back

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stoop

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a porch

to bend over

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strife

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to fight for PowerPC, discord

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stupor

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a state of shock or filled senses

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subsist

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to survive barely

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supersede

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to replace

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supplicant

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beggar

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susceptible

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easily influenced, vulnerable

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synopsis

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summary

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tactiturn

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not talkative, silent

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tantamount

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equivalent

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teeming

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overflowing

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tenuous

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weak, poorly supported, thin

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tidings

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news

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tome

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a long book

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tractable

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easily manageable obedient

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transposition

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act of changing the position or order of something

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trite

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stale, unoriginal, cliched, overused

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unaffected

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sincere, down to eath

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undertaking

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task or

job

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unheralded

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unannounced

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unpalatable

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distasteful, unpleasant

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unrepentant

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not sorry, having no regret

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unwary

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not alert, easily fooled

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urbane

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polite, elegantly mannered

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vagabond

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wanderer

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variegated

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multicolored

various, diverse

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venerate

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to respect greatly, to worship, to revere

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versatile

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having many different kinds of skills, mukipurpose

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vilify

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to criticize harshly

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viscious

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sticky, gluey, thickly liquid

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vogue

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fashion, trend

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vouchsafed

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to give graciously, to grant a special favor

to ripely

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wanderlust

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love of travel

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wayward

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going again societies expectation

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whet

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to sharpen

to excite, to stimulate

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wilt

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to become limp, to stoop

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either

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to dry up and die

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