Vocab Flashcards

Question

Beholden

Answer 1

Owing thanks or having a duty to someone in return for help

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Puzzle, confuse or bewilder someone

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Fail to give a true notion or impression

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To spoil the appearance of something otherwise perfect

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Have a severely detrimental effect on

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Show a casual indifference considered to be improper

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Uncompromisingly fortright

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Prop up, strenghten

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Something helpful or beneficial

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A person that boasts about achievements

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Wave as a threat or in anger/excitement

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Bold and without shame

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Put something under control

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Relating to the pleasant aspects of country life

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Showing no sympathy for others

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Showing good judgement

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Restrict within limits

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Pointing indirectly to someone's guilt but not directly proving it

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Continuous loud banging/ringing

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Related to office work (or to the church)

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Logical, clear, convincing

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In proportion. According to size or degree

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Showing smug or uncritical self-satisfaction

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Accepting something, often unwillingly

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Accept/allow to continue

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Standing out as clearly visible

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Deal effectively with something difficult

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Cause someone to submit to one's wishes through intimidation

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Clever at achieving one's objectives through deception or indirect means

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Sad and disappointed

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Showing skill in achieving your ends by deceit or evasion

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Hasty and not detailed

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Make less by cutting away some part

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Make someone feel intimidated

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Sudden collapse into disaster

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Reduce in value, quality or character

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Respectfully submissive to the desires/opinions of others

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Capable, skilfull, clever in action

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Harmful or injurious (especially to health)

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Describe or portray in great detail

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Raise doubts/objections; show reluctance

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Not straight nor direct; winding; roundabout

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Modest or shy

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Make someone feel uneasy or embarrased

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To make irritably dissatisfied

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To make irritably dissatisfied

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To hide behind a false semblance; conceal the true nature of

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Debauched (corrupt) living; dissipation

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Having or showing doubt; skeptical

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Deceitful speech or action

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Having too high an opinion of oneself

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To make extremely happy or proud

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To take away the strength of

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Involve something as necessary or inevitable part or consequence

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An earnest/humble request

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Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous

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Former; of an earlier time

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Cause someone to no longer be close or affectionate to someone

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Tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing; fleeting

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Making great demands of one's skill, attention, or other resources

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Requiring immediate attention; urgent; critical

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A means of attaining an end, especially if it's convenient but immoral

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Still in existence; current; not extinct

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Very attentive to detail and accuracy

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Weak or incompetent; innefective

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Becoming worse or more intense, especially through negligence

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Quickly changing without reason or warning, especially in allegiance

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Openly disregard

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To make something the most prominent or important feature

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To prevent or hinder by taking action beforehand

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To omit or decline to take something valuable

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Happening by chance, as a coincidence

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Irritable and quarrelsome

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To stimulate into awareness or activity

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Awkward; clumsy

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Having relevance to a certain matter; pertinent

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Made commonplace by overuse

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A person or thing that signals the approach of another

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To take notice of

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Be a sign that something is about to happen

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Be a sign that something is about to happen

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Unwilling or unable to change because of convention

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An obstacle

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Urging or exciting to a course of action with strong arguments

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Monotonous; lacking variety

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Attacking or breaking away from established values or tradition

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To confine within walls

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Having little money

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Acting or done quickly and without thought or care

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Not showing good sense or judgement

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Being boldly disrespectful; insolence

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Not subject to transfer or removal

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Very angry

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Tending to stir up conflict

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Persisiting tirelessly

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Avoidant of activity; azy

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Too great to calculate

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Lacking in judgement

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Blend closely

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In a way that involves detailed knowledge

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Not easily controlled, managed or persuaded

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Refusing to alter an idea in response to others' wishes; uncompromising

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To entice by flattery or clever talk

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Causing annoyance; tiresome

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To throw or drop something from an aircraft or ship

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Extremely sharp; able to cut readily and finely

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Related; similar in kind

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Scope for freedom of action or thought

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To view or treat someone as a celebrity or extraordinary person

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Given to talking too much

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Sensational; shocking

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A temporary or improvised arrangement

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Not skillful; clumsy

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Low in quantity, extent, strenght, or richness

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Volatile in temper

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Fashionable

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Growing larger

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Not fully explained/understood, especially with concealed dishonesty

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Irritate or annoy

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Not showing excitement or anxiety; cooly confident

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Harmful, dangerous or destructive

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Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion

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Criticize sharply; berate

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Servile; attentive to an excessive degree; fawning

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Avoid; prevent

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Confidently stylish, flamboyant manner

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Relating to the country life; rural

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Easily recognizable; obvious

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Dull; lacking inspiration or excitement

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Done quickly and as a matter of routine; performed without care

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Astuteness; keenness of mental perception

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Not given to shows of emotion or interest

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Crucial; on which something is contingent

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To move slowly or heavily; trudge

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To be a sign that something bad will happen

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Knowing something in advance

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Act or speak in an evasive way

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Having strong moral principles; honesty and decency

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Spending resurces recklessly

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Extravagant and wasteful

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Too wordy; tediously lengthy

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Promote or make widely known

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Kept in position; supported

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Commonplace

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A person authorized to act on behalf of another

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Showing great attention to detail

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State of perplexity over what to do in a difficult sittuation

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Impractical; too idealistic; unrealistic

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Talk or write at length in a confused/inconsequential way

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Little known

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To appear again after a period of dormancy

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Great enjoyment

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Unable to remain still

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An effusively enthusiastic expression of emotion

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Optimistic (in a difficult situation)

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Relating to tailoring or dress

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Small or insufficient

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Harm; injure

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Brilliantly clever or skillful

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Adhering strictly to standards or ethics

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To briefly take part in a group fight

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Counterfeit

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Avoid or neglect

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Easily scared

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Catch or trap

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Economical

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Stop or check (especially the flow of something)

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Bad tempered

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Acting servile to gain advantage

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Person that says little; reserved

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Showing little enthusiasm

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Using resources carefully

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Nervous and with little confidence

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Of little value or importance

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Unoriginal

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Not proper or appropriate

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Clear of suspicion

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Vehement; loud; forceful

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Talking readily or incessantly

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Seek the favour of

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Very curious to see something

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Without deception; without effort/pretentiousness; without skill

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Person that boasts in an unpleasant way

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Variety show; farce

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Discordant mixture of sounds

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Concluding event, remark, section

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Prove wrong

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Do something that one considers to be beneath someone's dignity

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Not sincere

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Be extremely fond of; adore

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Provide with a quality or asset

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Treating something serious with inappropriate humor

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Move in a way that shows lack of confidence; stumble

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Struggle uselessly

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Look widely for food and provisions

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The substance or essence of a text

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Something very light, delicate, thin or insubstantial

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Lenghty and aggressive speech

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Formal accusation or charge for a serious crime

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Lacking enthusiasm or energy

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Sit/lie/stand in a lazy way

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Spoil the appearance or quality of something

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Use polite/moderate expressions to show disapproval

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Ill-tempered

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Not direct; evasive

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Too complicated; exaggerated

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Long for the return of

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Put forward as a basis for argument

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Bitterly regret

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Deeply think about something

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Walk in a stiff and arrogant manner

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A displacement of the beats and accents so that strong beats become weak and viceversa

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Flashy but cheap

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Sparing in the use of words

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Full of difficulty

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Bland; offering nothing stimulating

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Lenghty and trivial talk/writting

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Deliberate and unprovoked

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Pass gently through the air

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Attractive; charming

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Shriveled or wrinkled with age

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Humiliation; degradation

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Inform or tell

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Concentrated outpouring

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Large group of people or things

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An unrefined and ill-mannered person

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Excessive loyalty or support for one's cause/group/gender

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Unwilling to take risks

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Moral corruption

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Short statement that shows a general principle

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Amusingly curious

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Move in a circular way

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Adjective expressing a quality characteristic of something; smear

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Praise enthusiastically

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Minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character

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Bold and insolent behavior

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Device, action or remark that is risky, designed to gain an advantage

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Provoke or annoy to elicit a reaction

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Obtain money by deceit

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Protest; complain

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Permeate with a feeling/quality

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Judicial investigation

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Using very few words

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Cautious, circumspect

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Clear and accesible

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Self-pityingly sentimental

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Background; social environment; sphere

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Involve in a difficult situation

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Gloomy; ill-tempered

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Fashionable

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Model; exemplar

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Avoid; evade

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Terse; brief and vigorously expressive

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Puritanical

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Doubt; reservation

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Calm; pacify

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Nitpick; argue about a trivial matter

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Uncooperative toward authority

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Most noticeable; obvious

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Act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when alone; monologue (especially in a play)

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A writ ordering a person to attend a court

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Principle or belief

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Endorse in an aggressive manner

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Sophisticated, refined

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Excite or stimulate (desire, interest or appetite)

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State of temporary disuse or suspension

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Disavow; solemnly renounce a cause, claim or belief

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Inoffensive; bland

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Swindle; defraud. Obtain money without justification or through deceit

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Unfounded rumor or story

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The procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote

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Enlist compulsorily; draft

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Care for and protect in an overindulgent way; pander to

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Small group of people with shared interests/tastes

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Person who cultivates an area of interest without real commitment or knowledge

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Cheerful; full of energy

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Used as an inferior substitute

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The quality of being pleasing to the ear

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Brawl; scuffle

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Series of shots/missiles fired in quick succession; bombardment

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Unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator

Answer 282

Speak against; oppose

Answer 283

Period of time in the past that was very happy and peaceful

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Perfect time; honeymoon

Answer 285

Dishonorable

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Call into question

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Cause of distress or anxiety

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The sound of a bell, especially solemnly

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Unfilled space or interval

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Criticize harshly

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Situation of violent turmoil

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More generous than is usual

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The lowest point in the fortunes of a person

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Having an extremely offensive smell

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A pet scheme or favorite remedy, especially for bringing about some reform

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Stop; obstruct

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Song or praise or triumph

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Complete or impressive collection of things

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Artistic work consisting of a medley of pieces from different sources

Answer 300

Comprehensible

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Feeling of indignation from a slight

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Strong verbal or written attack

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Whiny; complaining in a petulant way

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Period of inactivity

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Amusing storyteller

Answer 306

Meal; banquet

Answer 307

Referral to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way; indecent

Answer 308

Spineless; weak

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Servile; groveling

Answer 310

Defiant; aggressive

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Pompous; bombastic

Answer 312

Novice; neophyte

Answer 313

Offense; annoyance

Answer 314

Find fault with; scold; rebuke

Answer 315

Destroy or impair the legal validity; scrap; put an end to

Answer 316

Cruel and bitter criticism

Answer 317

A confused mass

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Filter out; sift out

Answer 319

Tie; subjection

Answer 320

Contradict; disguise

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Excessively talkative

Answer 322

Trickery; deception

Answer 323

Avoid giving a clear answer

Answer 324

Undeveloped; beginning

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