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malcontent

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expound

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eschatological

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inexorable

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recompense

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magistrate

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chthonic

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exhort

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substantiate

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metic

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deme

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envisage

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paragon

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eschew

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presage

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tantamount

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revelry

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indolent

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sinews

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deportment

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cautery

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dexterity

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paltry

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propitrate

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indelibly

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lye

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exordium

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alight

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singe

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rivulet

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forsooth

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unyoke

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dale

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wend

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unguent

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(n.) a soft greasy or viscous substance used as ointment or for lubrication

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suffuse

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swart

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odaer

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artifice

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hie

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chattel

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wiles

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sea-wrack

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gird

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artificer

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offal

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quoit

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espying

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dirge

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ruth

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amity

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(n.) (frm.) a friendly relationship

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furtherance

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henceforward

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suppliant

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raiment

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mire

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ken

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mien

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sepulcher

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requite

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eddying

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ere

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periplus

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(n.) a voyage or a trip around something (as an island or a coast); an account of a circumnavigation

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exigency

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bedrabbled

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prodo

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bestrode

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entrails

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reck

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babel

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bier

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helmsman

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ensnare

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tarry

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doughty

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helter-skelter

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lame

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baldric

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blithe

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plaited

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bard

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disquieted

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noisome

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ambrosia

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guile

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triffle

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demesile

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discomfit

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surfeit

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metes

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inviolate

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infirmity

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tiding

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arcade

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consummate

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bandying

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innard

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iniquity

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harbinger

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pell-mell

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panoply

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portent

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especial

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exult

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Hellespont

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thicket

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inexorable

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vizor

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serried

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brandish

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suborning

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tempests

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diadem

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respite

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bane

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wont

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exultant

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hurly-burly

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pining

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sojourn

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perforce

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hemmed

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glade

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beseech

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mettle

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stave

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foretell

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aglow

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firebrand

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wanton

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impudent

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righteous

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valiant

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tambourframe

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pall

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hussies

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squalid

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contemptuous

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baying

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dun

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plaintive

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portended

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fatuous

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contrive

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ribald

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(adj.) referring to sexual matters in an amusingly coarse or irreverent way

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forebodings

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merriment

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quiver

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valor

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prodigies

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duly

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louts

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bereft

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henceforth

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feeble

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distaff

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clamor

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vagabond

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disport

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noose

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gadfly

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brime

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cask

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constancy

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clad

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shroud

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dowered

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bewail

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stout

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eminent

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blandishment

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propitiate

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draughts

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damask

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ewer

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hied

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brooding

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comeliness

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prophesy

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perchance

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rapt

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cloisters

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comely

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braggart

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tambour

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assent

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prating

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creditable

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victuals

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flaying

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singeing

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hoist

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forestays

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