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Blanch

A
  1. Becoming pale or white, often from fear
  2. Soaking of almonds to remove their outer layer of tan
  3. Boiling food briefly
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Cull

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  1. Select a variety of examples from many sources

2. Kill to reduce animals, to ensure the other’s survival

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Doff

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Take clothes off

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Don

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Put clothes on

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Flout

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Ignore a rule without embarrassment

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Flaunt

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Show off

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Fraught

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Loaded with danger or awkwardness

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limn

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represent

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mete

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give out, but measured (and good things are not measured)

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riff

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variation

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dole

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give

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roil/rile

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stir up

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Sap

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Idiot/weaken or destory/liquid from tree

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