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Red Box Flashcards

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Convoluted

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Complicated

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Harrowing

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Extremely upsetting

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Squirming

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Awkward movement

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Vaguely

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Not clearly expressed

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Fancies

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To want something

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Open-mic stand-up evening

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Everybody can sing or perform stand-up comedy

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Gender-bending

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A person who wears the clothes and copies the behaviour of the opposite sex

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Thorny

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Difficult to deal with

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Re-vamped

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To change something to improve it

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Coup

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A sudden illegal taking of government power

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Waging

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To fight a war

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Intervened

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To prevent something to happen

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Ceasefire

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An agreement between two armies to stop fighting and discuss peace

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Indicted

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To accuse someone of a crime

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Collateral damage

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During a war, the unintentional death of innocent people and damage that is caused to their homes and lives

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Heavy-handed

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Using too much force in dealing with someone

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Fuelling

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To make something worse

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Atrocity

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An extremely cruel act

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Provoked

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To cause a negative reaction

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To stem

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To stop something unwanted from spreading

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To take something with a pinch of salt

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To not completely believe something that you are told

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Precision

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Being exact

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To bridge

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To bring something together

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Grievances

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Treated unfairly

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Entrenched

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Old ideas that can’t be changed

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Harbouring

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To protect someone by providing a place to hide

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Tensions

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Feeling of fear between two who don’t trust each other

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Infested

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To be numerous in, as anything undesirable or troublesome

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Chronic

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Lasting a long time;

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Quack

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Being a quack

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Wheezy

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To breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound

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Stem cell

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A cell that upon division replaces its own numbers and also gives rise to cells that differentiate further into one or more specialized types, as various B cells and T cells

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Slippery slope

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A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous

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Minefield

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A subject, situation, etc, beset with hidden problems

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Pave the way for

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Make possible

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Overreliance

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Trusting someone to much

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Resistant

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Someone who resists

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Vivisection

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Action of cutting into or dissecting a living body or living animals, in order to learn more about disease and bodily functions

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Prone

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Having a natural tendency toward something

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IVF

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In Vitro Fertilization

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Cackles

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To laugh in this way

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Self-deprecating

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Undervaluing oneself

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Deadpan

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Straight-faced

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Gullible

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Too willing to believe everything

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Sniggering

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To laugh quietly but disrespectfully

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Giggles

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A silly, often high-pitched laugh

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Peculiar

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Strange

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Spoof

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A lighthearted imitation of someone or something

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Slapstick

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Comedy characterized by silly, noisy, and physically violent action

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Corny

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Old-fashioned

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Punchline

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The point in a joke and is the source of humor

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PC

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Politically correct

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Hysterics

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A fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping

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Detained

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To keep under restraint

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Suspended

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Temporarily keeping someone, or a group or team, out of a job, organization, school, etc.

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Mitigating

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To lessen in force or intensity

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Gross

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Flagrant and extreme

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Misconduct

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To misbehave

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Libellous

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Containing, constituting, or involving a libel

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Eminent

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High in rank or reputation

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Destitute

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Without means to live

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Clamped

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Impose stricter control

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Unprovoked

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Having no apparent cause or reason

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Culprits

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A person guilty of an offense or fault, or one accused

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Inciting

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To stimulate to action;

stir up

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Riot

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A noisy, violent public disorder

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Flab

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Unwanted fat

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Mind-numbing

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Extremely boring and uninspiring

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Hail

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To cheer, salute, or greet

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Banter

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Playful teasing

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Likelihood

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Probability

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Devout

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Having or showing deep religious feeling or commitment

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Lapse

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a brief failure of concentration

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Moralise

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Comment on issues of right and wrong

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Merits

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The quality of being particularly good

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Secular

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Not connected with religious or spiritual matters

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Sceptical

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Not easily convinced

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Evangelical

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Of or according to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion

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Reincarnation

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The rebirth of a soul in another body

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Pagan

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A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions

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Dabbled

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Immerse (one’s hands or feet) partially in water and move them around gently

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Verging

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Be very close or similar to

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Hubcap

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A removable cover for the center of the exposed side of an automobile wheel, covering the axle

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Bonnet

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An automobile hood

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Junction

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A place or point where two or more things meet or are joined, such as a station where railroad lines meet, cross, or diverge, or an intersection of roads

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Budge

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To (cause to) move slightly

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Sulk

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To keep oneself from normal conversation or apart from others while remaining in a sullen, angry, or offended mood

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Xenophobe

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A person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs

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Fleeced

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To take money or belongings by dishonesty, fraud, or deception

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Clingy

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To remain attached, as to a person

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Stroppy

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Termsbad-tempered or hostile

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Earnest

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Full seriousness

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Dodder

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To shake;

tremble

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Demographic

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A single vital or social statistic of a human population, as the number of births or deaths

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Scrap-heap

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A place for dumping useless things

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Livid

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Enraged;

furiously angry

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Minefield

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an area of land or water where mines have been put

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Throwaway comment

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something that someone says or writes quickly, without thinking carefully about it

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Mortified

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to humiliate (someone), as by an injury to self-respect

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Faux pas

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an embarrassing social error

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De rigueur

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strictly required, as by etiquette, usage, or fashion

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Blasé

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indifferent to or bored with life

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Effing

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euphemism for fuck: eff off

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Blinding

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extremely bright

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Blasphemous

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(an act of) speaking or acting irreverently or disrespectfully concerning God or sacred things

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Dumbing

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lacking intelligence or good judgment;

stupid

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Dogged

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persistent in effort;

refusing to give up

108
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B-movies

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a low-budget movie made esp. to accompany a major feature film on a double bill

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The rails

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begin behaving in an uncontrolled or unacceptable way

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Resurrect

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to raise from the dead;

bring to life again

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Tabloids

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a newspaper about half the size of an ordinary newspaper, usually with many pictures and often featuring sensational stories

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Sham

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a person or thing pretending to be someone or something else;
fraud

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Denominator

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something shared or held in common;

standard

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Injunction

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an order by a court requiring a person to do a particular act

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