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Leverage

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The action of a lever

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Liability

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being liable

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panorama

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a picture exhibited a part at a time

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Paradox

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Contrary to received opinion

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Savvy

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Showing comprehension

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Taciturn

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Disinclined to talk

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Trajectory

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Curve that a body describes in space

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Paradoxical

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Self-contradictory

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Paucity

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Insufficient quantities

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Validation

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Make valid

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Bohemian

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Unconventional social habits

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Dessicate

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Remove the moisture from

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Repugnance

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Strong dislike

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Adamant

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Maintaining a position

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Autonomy

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Self-governing state

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Ford

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Shallow part of water

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Prudent

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Careful

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Traverse

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Obstacle

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Console

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Giving comfort

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Convivial

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Friendly

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Cunning

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Clever at planning something

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Eminence

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Famous, respected

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Ensuing

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Happening after sonething

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Entrepreneurial

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Starting their own business

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Sublimity

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Sublime

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Intermittent

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Not continuous

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Carapace

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Hard upper shell

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Inebriate

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Drunk

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Phantasmagoria

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A sequence of real/imaginary images

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Recumbent

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a person lying down

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Deprivation

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Lack of something

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Stymied

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Prevent the progress of

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Fecund

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Capable of producing

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Bided

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Stay somewhere

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Subside

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Become less intense

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Ominous

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Impression that something bad is going to happen

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Ephemeral

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Lasting for a very short time

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Incendiary

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Cause fires

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Ludicrous

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Ridiculous

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Unscathed

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Without suffering any injury

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Veracity

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Accuracy

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Vestiges

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A trace of something that no longer exists

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Immoderation

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Being excessive

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Lament

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Complaint

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Pathological

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Involving/caused by a physical or mental disease

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Stabilizing

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Become unlikely to overturn

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Tedious

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Too long, slow

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Tyranny

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Cruel rule

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Unsubstantial

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Imaginary

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Onerous

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Law

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Escapade

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Adventure

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Volatile

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Easily evaporated

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Autocratic

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Ruler who has absolute power

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Rhetorical

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Relating with the art of rhetoric

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Laceration

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A deep cut in skin

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Massif

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A compact group of montains

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Lambaste

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Criticize someone

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Ungulate

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Mammal

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Voyeur

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Curious about other people’s personal lives

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Unequivocal

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No doubt

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Finesse

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Delicate manner

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Flaunt

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Display

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Gregarious

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Sociable

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Incorrigible

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Not able to be corrected

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Inequity

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Lack of justice

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Inherent

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Existing in something as a permanent

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Ironic

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Irony

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Anonymous

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Not identified

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Skepticism

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Incredulity

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Affinity

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Casual connection

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Apartheid

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Racial segregation

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Arcane

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Secret

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Astride

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With one leg on each side

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Dire

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Urgent

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Feral

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Wild

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Conjecture

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Formation of expression of an opinion

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Ingest

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To take into the body

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Incapacitated

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Unable to act

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Aboriginal

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Original

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Agitated

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Excited

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Alpinist

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Mountaineer who climbs glaciated mountains

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Banalities

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Banal

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Bravado

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Courage

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Commune

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A group of people living together

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Flamboyant

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Rich in color

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Oblique

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Diverging from a given straight line

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Succumb

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To give way to superior force

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Scrupulous

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Precise

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Tenacious

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Firm hold

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Pensive

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Dreamily

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Recalcitrant

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Hard to deal with

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Naïve

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Innocent

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Sobriquet

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Nickname

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Abiding

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Enduring

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Rapturous

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Enthusiasm

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Staid

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Serious

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Ramparts

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Wall of a castle

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Metastasize

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Spread to other sites in the body by metastasis

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Rueful

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Expressing regret

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Epiphany

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Manifestation of a divine

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Excruciating

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Painful

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Spindrift

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Driving snow or sand

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