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Quagmire

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A usually low-lying area of waterlogged ground.

A difficult and dangerous situation.

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Quarter

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A particular region or geographic sector.
One or more people who provide help, information or a particular reaction to something but who are not usually named.
A show of kindness and forgiveness towards a person that you have defeated, especially in allowing them to love.
To send soldiers to live in a place.

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Querulous

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Given to complaining

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Quintessential

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Constituting or describing an archetype.

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Quintile

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1/5th (72 degrees) of a circle.
Each of the four values of a variate which divide a frequency distribution into five equal groups; each of the five groups so produced.

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Quorum

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The number of individuals needed to perform a particular action.

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Rakish

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Marked by lighthearted nonchalance.

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Rambunctious

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Full of energy and difficult to control.

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Rapacious

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Overly or shamefully acquisitive.

Having or showing a strong desire to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force.

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Raze

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To lay waste as by plundering or destroying

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Reactionary

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One who strongly favours the existing order.

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Recapitulate

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To put into words, to give a recap.

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Reciprocal

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A reciprocal action or arrangement involves two people or groups of people who behave in the same way or agree to help each other and give each other advantages.

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Reclamation

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The act of getting back or regaining.

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Reconnoitre

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To obtain information about an idea or the size and position of enemy forces.

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Rectify

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To bring into a state of agreement or accord

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Red herring

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A fact, idea or subject that takes people’s attention away from the central point being considered.

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Redolent

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Having a pleasant odour, smelling strongly of something or having qualities (especially smells) that make you think of something else.

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Regatta

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A sports event consisting of boat races.

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Regime

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A system by which a political unit is controlled.

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Regnant

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Of or relating to a monarch or monarchy.
Reigning, ruling.
Of a thing, quality - predominant, dominating prevalent, widespread.

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Relegate

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To lower in rank of status.

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Remedial

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Serving to cure from disease/ a problem

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Renege

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To fail to keep a promise or an agreement

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Repute

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When someone or something has a bad/good reputation.

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Resound

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To send back the sound of/ to be filled with sound.

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Restitution

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The return of times stolen or lost.

An amount returned/ given to someone for something stolen or lost.

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Retrench

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To be sparing in order to economise, save money.

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Roil

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A large powerful horse. Later, an inferior or spiritless horse.
A large, ungainly woman.

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Rope-a-dope

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Any strategy where an apparently losing position is assumed in the hope of eventual victory.
(literally in boxing)

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Roster

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Information written down item by item.

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Ruddy

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Flushed with a healthy, reddish colour.

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Rue

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A feeling of regret for one’s misdeeds.

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Ruminant

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In animals, to bring up food from the stomach and chew it again.

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Sagacity

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The intellectual power to decide wisely

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Sampan

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A small boat with a flat bottom used along the coasts and rivers of China and South East Asia.

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Sanatorium

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A special type of hospital, usually in the countryside, where people can have treatment and rest, especially when getting better after a long illness.

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Sanctity

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The quality or condition of being safe from violation.
When something is very important and deserves respect.
The quality of being holy.

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Sandbagger

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Generally, any golfer who misleads others about his ability level, claiming to be worse than he actually is at goflf.

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Sanguine

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Expecting a favourable outcome.

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Sciatica

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Pain in the lower part of the back and the back of the legs.

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Score

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A notch or incision.

A cut or depression by a blow or pressure.

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Scruple

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A feeling that prevents you from doing something that you think is morally wrong or makes you uncertain about doing it.

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Scut work

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As a term of contempt: a foolish work, an objectionable job.

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Scuttle

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To move with quick light steps.

To stop something happening, or to cause a plan to fail.

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Seder

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As a term of contempt: a fool, an objectionable person.

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Seminary

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A college for training people to become priests.

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Senescent

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Growing old, elderly, ageing.

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Sensibility

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The quality or condition of being discernible by touch

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Septic

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Being in a state of decay

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Serendipity

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the lucky tendency to find interesting or valuable things by chance.

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Seriatim

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One after another, one by one in succession.

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Shaman

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In certain religions, a person who has special powers to control or influence good and evil spirits.

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Sidle

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To walk towards or away from someone, trying not to be noticed.

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Sierra

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A range of steep mountains, especially in North and South America and Spain

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Simony

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The buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges. eg. pardons or benifices.
The money maid for such privileges.

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Sinecure

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A position which involves little work, but for which the person is paid.

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Sisyphean

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Or or pertaining to Sisyphus, in Green mythology, a king of Corinth whose punishment in Hades was to push uphill a stone which rolled down again as soon as he reached the top; resembling the fruitless toil of Sisyphus; endless and ineffective.

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Smorgasbord

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A miscellaneous assortment or collection or things.

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Sojourn

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A short period when a person stays in a particular place.

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Solvent

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Being financially sound enough to not be in debt to anyone.

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Somatic

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Of, pertaining to, or affecting the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

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Sophistry

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The clever use of arguments which seem true but are really false in order to deceive people.

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Spa

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A town where water comes out of the ground and people come to drink it or lie in it because they think it will improve their health.

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Specious

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Seeming true or plausible, but actually wrong.

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Specter

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The idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future

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Spurious

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False and not what it appears to be, or (of reasons and judgments), based on something that has not been correctly understood and therefore false

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Stagflation

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An economic condition in which rising prices, high unemployment and little or no economic growth is present

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Stalwart

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Loyal, especially for a long time.
Able to be trusted.
Strong.

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Stanch/Staunch

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To stop something happening, or to stop liquid, especially blood, from flowing out

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Stentorian

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Using a very loud voice or (of a voice) very loud.

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Steppe

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A large area of land with grass but no trees, especially in South Eastern Europe, Russia and northern Asia

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Sticky wicket

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A difficult situation

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Stilted

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Of or relating to pompous, affected speech and writing.

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Stipulate

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To state exactly how something must be done

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Stoicism

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The capacity of enduring hardship or inconvenience without complaint or overt short of emotions.

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Stratagem

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A carefully planned way of achieving or dealing with something, often involving the trick

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Sui generis

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Of its own kind; peculiar, unique

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Sunder

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To break or wrench apart.

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Superfluous

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More than is needed or wanted.

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Supposition

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An uncertain belief.

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Surplice

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A white loose piece of clothing, which is worn over other clothing during religious ceremonies by some Christian priests and members of groups who sing in churches

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Surrealism/Surrealistic

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A type of 20th century art and literature in which unusual or impossible things are shown happening

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Sward

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The skin of the body, especially the rind of pork or bacon.

A piece of undeveloped land for cultivation or pasturage.

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Sycophantic

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Praising people in authority in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them.

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Syllogism

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A process of logic in which two general statements lead to a more particular statement

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Table d’hôte

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Food that is served in a restaurant as a complete meal at a fixed price but with no choice of dishes

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Tactile

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Related to touch.

Has a surface which is pleasant or attractive to touch

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Tai chi

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A form of exercise involving slow movements of muscles, originally practiced in China

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Tailgate

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To drive too closely behind the vehicle in front

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Talk turkey

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To discuss something honestly and directly.

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Tariff

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A charge or list of charges either for services or on goods entering a country.

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Tchotchkes

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A small ornament.

Has a connotation of worthlessness or disposability as well as tackiness.

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Temperance

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Control of your own behaviors, such as not drinking or eating too much

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Tessellate

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To fit together in a pattern with no spaces in between.

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Tipping point

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Critical point in an evolving situation and at least that leads to a new and irreversible development

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Titan

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A person who is very important, powerful,strong, big, clever

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Torpid

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Not active, moving or thinking slowly especially as a result of being lazy or feeling like you want to sleep

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Totem

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An object which is respected by a group of people, especially for religious reasons

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Traction

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The ability of a wheel or tyre to hold the ground without sliding.

A form of medical treatment which involves using special equipment to push gently an injured part of the body especially an arm or leg for a long period of time

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Transcend

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To go beyond, rise above or be more important or better than something, especially a limit.

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Transient

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Lasting for only a short time; temporary

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Transmute

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To change something completely, especially into something different and better

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Treacly

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Contrived or unrestrained sentimentality.

Cloying, overly sweet.

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Trepidation.

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Fear and anxiety about what is going to happen

106
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Triage

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The action of sorting samples of commodities according to quality.

Assign a degree of urgency of need to (a casualty); separate out by triage.

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Trifle

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A matter or item of little value or importance.

Slightly.

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Trundle

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To cause something to move slowly and unevenly on wheels.

To develop or operate smoothly; disapproving.

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Tussle

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A brief, hostile contact.

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