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Bombastic

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Boastful; grand language with no real meaning

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Asinine

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Silly; stupid

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Serene

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Peaceful; quiet, calm

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Sublime

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Impressive; awe-inspiring, majestic

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Bovine

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Stupid, dull, resembling an ox or a cow

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Supine

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Lying flat on your back, face up; horizontal

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Forebode

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To predict or fortell

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Maritime

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Having to do with the sea

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Winnow

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To rid of undesirable parts

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Spawn

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Offspring; to produce many of

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Prodigious

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Enormous in size; quantity, degree; marvelous, amazing

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Boor

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A rude, unrefined person

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Panache

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Dashing elegance of manner or style

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Forbearance

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Patience

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Agog

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Highly excited by eagerness; extremely enthusiastic

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Forthright

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Straight to the point

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Profound

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Intellectually deep; insightful; rising from or affecting the depths of one’s nature

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Fiasco

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Disaster; complete failure

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Doleful

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Extremely sad; sorrowful

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Opaque

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Not transparent; dull & without luster; hard to understand

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Annals

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Descriptive record; history

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Tome

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A large book

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Cataract

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A large waterfall; an eye abnormality

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Booty

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A valuable prize; goods or property seized by force

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Animated

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Having life; alive; filled with spirit or activity

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Jetsam

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Cargo or equipment thrown overboard to lighten a vessel in trouble; discarded odds at ends

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Portal

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An entrance, door or gate

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Throng

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A large group of people gathered together

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Barrage

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A curtain of military fire; any overwhelming attack, as of words or blows

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Elite

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The best or most skilled members of a group

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Fetter

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To restrain; to hamper; a chain or shackle; a restraint

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Torpid

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Dormant; inactive; sluggish; lacking physical or mental energy

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Torrid

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Intensely hot (describing weather, land); passionate; rapid

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Pinguid

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Fatty, oily; rich, fertile(describing land)

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Dishevel

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To make untidy; to disarrange hat or clothing of

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Nettle

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To irritate; vex

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Mottle

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To make with spots of blotches of different shades or colors; an irregular pattern of patches or spots of different colors

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Prattle

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To babble; to talk meaninglessly

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Balk

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To stop short and refuse to proceed

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Curb

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To control or check

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