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Adventitious

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adj. Luck: associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic

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Amulet

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n. Luck: a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring good fortune; protecting charm.

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Auspicious

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adj. Luck: promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.

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Fortuitous

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adj. Luck: happen to produce by chance

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Kismet

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n. Luck: fate; destiny

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Optimum

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n. Luck: the best or most favorable point, degree, amount. the greatest degree or best result obtained or obtainable under specific conditions

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Portentous

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adj. Luck: ominously significant or indicative, marvelous amazing; prodigious

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Propitiate

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v. Luck: to make favorable inclined; appease

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Propitious

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adj. Luck: presenting favorable conditions; favorable;

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Providential

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adj. luck: of, pertaining to, or resulting from divine; opportune, fortunate, lucky

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Talisman

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n. Luck: a stone, ring or other object, amulet or charm

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Admonish

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v. Nag, to caution, advice or counsel against something. to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner

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belabor

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v. nag. to explain, worry about. to assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule

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cavil

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v. Nag. to raise irritating and trivial objection

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enjoin

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v. nag. to prescribe with authority or emphasis. to direct or order to do something.

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exhort

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v. nag. to give urgent advice, recommendations or warnings.

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harangue

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n. nag. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack.

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hector

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n. nag. a blustering, domineering person; a bully

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martinet

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n. nag. a strict disciplinarian. someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules.

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remonstrate

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v. nag. to say or plead in protest, objection or disapproval

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reproof

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n. nag. the act of reproving.

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fetid

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adj. Nasty. having an offensive odor, stinking

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noisome

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adj. Nasty. offensive or disgusting, as an odor. harmful or injurious to heath

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noxious

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adj. nasty. harmful or injurious to health.

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askance

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adv. Not a straight line. With suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval. with a side glance, sidewise, obliquely

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awry

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adv, adj. not a straight line: with a turn or twist to one side

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careen

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to lean, sway, or tip to one side while in motion

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carom

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n. not a straight line: any strike and rebound.

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circuitous

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adj. not a straight line: roundabout, not direct.

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circumvent

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v. not a straight line: to go around or bypass. to avoid.

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gyrate

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v. not a straight line: to move in a circle or spiral

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meander

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v. not a straight line: to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course

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oblique

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n. adj. not a straight line: neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface.

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serrated

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adj. not a straight line: having a notched edge or sawlike teeth.

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sidle

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n,v. not a straight line: to move sideways or obliquely

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sinuous

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adj. not a straight line: having many curves, bend, or turns.

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undulating

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v. not a straight line: to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion

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vortex

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n. not a straight line: a whirling mass of water. a state of affair likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force

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bombastic

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adj. overblow/wordy: inflated; pretentious

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circumlocution

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n. overblow/wordy: a roundabout or indirect way of speaking

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garrulous

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adj. overblow/wordy: talkative

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grandiloquent

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adj. overblow/wordy: speaking or expressed in a lofty style. bombastic

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loquacious

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adj. overblow/wordy: wordy, talkative

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periphrastic

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adj. overblow/wordy: circumlocutory; roundabout.

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prolix

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adj. overblow/wordy: extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length

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rhetoric

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n. overblow/wordy: the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast

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Ameliorate

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v. pacify/satisfy: to make or become better

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assuage

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v. pacify/satisfy: to make milder or less severe

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defer

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v. pacify/satisfy: to put off(action, consideration) to a future time. to exempt temporarily from induction into military service.

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mitigate

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v. pacify/satisfy: to lessen in force

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mollify

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v. pacify/satisfy: to soften in feeling or temper; pacify; appease

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placate

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v. pacify/satisfy: to appease

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propitiate

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v. pacify/satisfy: to make favorably inclined; appease

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satiate

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v. pacify/satisfy: to supply with anything to excess

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slake

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v. pacify/satisfy: to allay by satisfying

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soothe

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v. pacify/satisfy: to tranquilize or calm. relieve.

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