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Caul,

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the amniotic membrane enclosing a fetus

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amniotic fluid

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fluid surronding a fetus

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efflugent

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shining brightly, radiant

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mezzanine

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a partial second floor.

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parsimonious

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excessively unwilling to spend

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penurious

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excessively unwilling to spend,poor

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genteel

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(putting on an act) of being polite refined, respectable

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hagiography

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idealized biography,

writing of the lives of saints

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perorate

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to speak at length, make a long grandiloquent speech

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grandiloquent

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extravagant manner( in a way that is meant to impress others)

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integument

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a natural covering, like a skin or shell or rind.

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jeremiad

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a prolonged lamentation, in a pessimistic way

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noetic

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of or relating to the mind

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siblicide

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the killing of a sibling, especially observed in certain animals.

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15
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henatrice

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a female cockatrice

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bivouac (biv-oo-ac)

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to make or have a temporary shelter

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Fletcherize

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to chew food slowly and thoroughly

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abjure

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to renounce under oath

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ang moh

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a singapore english word for caucasian, a light skinned person

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palaver

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a long meeting between people of different cultures? an unnecessarily long and complicated meeting or discussion

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celerity

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swiftness, speed.

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alacrity

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cheerful willingness , eagerness

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apatite

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a calcium flouride phosphate of variable composition. used in fertilizer, as a gemstone, and in pigment.

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parafango

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a medical bath made with volcanic mud and paraffin wax

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wherefore

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why

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irrefragable

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not to be disputed or contested

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dogleg

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something with a sharp turn, such a stairs

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greeze

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a, large satisfying meal, food

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dally

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to act playfully

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tocsin

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a signal, like an alarm

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31
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placcy

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Australian word for plastic

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totemic

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regarded as distinctive of a group or individual

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canorous

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songful

34
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Raj

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the period of british influence in india from 1600 to 1947

35
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pseudosopher

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a person who falsely believes themselves to be wise

36
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nummular

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(obsolete,rare) Of or relating to coins or money, disc-shaped like a coin, forming flat rounds shapes.

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sumptuous

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Of size or splendor suggesting great expense, lavish

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cantillate

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to chant, intone

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gobo

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a screen placed between light and an illuminated actor or object in order to defuse glare.

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ecumenical

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of worldwide scope or applicability

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bildungsroman

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A type of German novel concerned with the growth and education of the young protagonist

42
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meritorious

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deserving of honor or esteem

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scrimmaging

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moves energetically or restlessly

44
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freight

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to load with cargo, to rent out a vehicle, to transport

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undulate

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to cause to move in a smooth wave like motion

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corvine

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pertaining to or resembling a crow

47
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utility pole

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The electric pole on the side of the road

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paramedic

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the doctors that show up in ambulances

49
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Agrarian

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A community is an agricultural society, it also means a person who advocates for distribution of land.

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Inveigle

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to entice lure or ensnare by flattery and artful talk

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Inducements

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a thing that persuades or influences someone to do something.

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juggernaut

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A massive force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in it’s path.

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Vacuous

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Devoid of intelligence, asinine

54
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palingenesis

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rebirth or regeneration

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opine

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to express an opinion

56
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witching

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searching for water underground, dowsing

57
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vitreous

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having the nature of glass

58
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Contumacious

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stubborn, rebellious ,willfully disobedient.

59
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wizened

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Wrinkled by age

60
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yurt

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A tentlike dwelling of the Mongols and Turks consisting of cylindrical wall of poles in a lattice arrangement, conical roof of poles and covered by felts or skins.

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lattice

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crossed over in a diamond or square like shape

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dedition

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to surrender

63
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banjulele

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banjo and ukulele combination

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epigone

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inferior follower or imitator

65
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wirewove

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a type of fine paper

66
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Valentia

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device for drawing wine or beer out of a cask

67
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treatise

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a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.

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apheresis

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taking away a sound or syllable a the beginning of a word

69
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hagioscope

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opening in a wall to enable viewing of altar

70
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lordolatry

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worship of nobility

71
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ornithobiography

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life history of birds

72
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furfuraceous

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branny, scaly

73
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enjambment

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(in poetry)Continuation of the sense of a verse without pause.

74
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pilule

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little pill

75
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quinquagesimal

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belonging to a set of 50

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emblements

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growing crops, or the profit from growing crops

77
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coadjutor

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a bishop appointed to assist a diocesan bishop, and often also designated as his successor.

78
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emulsion

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a fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.

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