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Undulating

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Move w a smooth wavelike motion

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Oracular

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To be very wise or prophetic

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Vermillion

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A bright red color

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Tawny

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Of an orange-brown or yellowish-brown color

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Gesticulation

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A gesture of dramatic matter

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Torpor

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A state or violently remove valuable possessions

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Petulantly

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Childishly sulky or bad tempered

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Arroyo

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A steep missed fully cut by running water

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Magnanimity

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The fact or condition of being generous

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Quay

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A concrete, stone or metal platform lying alongside water for loading

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Hectoringly

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Talk to in a bullying way

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Mollified

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Appease the angle or anxiety

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Capered

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Skip or dance about in a lively manner

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Joviality

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Jolly/marry

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Mulatto

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Person w mixed white & black ancestry

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Fastidious

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Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy

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Assiduously

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Showing great care & perseverance

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Propitiate

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Win or regain the favor of a god person spirit by doing some thing to please them

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Indolently

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Wanting to avoid activity

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Disapprobation

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Strong disapproval

21
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Parsimonious

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Unwilling to spend money or use resources

22
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Infinitesimal

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Extremely small

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Satiety

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The feeling of state of being sated

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Moribund

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A person at the point of death

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Renunciatory

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Act or instance of relinquishing or sacrificing some thing

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Commencement

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Beginning

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Cowed

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To cause some one to submit to ones wishes by intimidation

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Ardor

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Enthusiasm/passion

29
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Obelisk

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A stone pillar, typically having a square cross section