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To make greater, richer, more powerful.

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Aggrandize

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Lacking freshness or originality; commonplace, ordinary

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Banal

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Trickery, specially in legal dealings; the use of subterfuge or trickery in debate

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Chicanery

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To indicate

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Denote

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One who organizes and manages a business, assuming the risk of profit or loss

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Entrepreneur

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An inanimate object thought to have inherent magical powers, and therefore worshiped

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Fetish

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Hatefully bad or wicked; abominable

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Heinous

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Thinking deeply or seriously, often sad or melancholy things

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Pensive

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To evoke resentment in

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Pique

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Expressing sorrow; mournful

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Plaintive

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Forceful and effective; keen, penetrating

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Trenchant

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Green with growing plants or grass; green in color

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Verdant

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To erase or remove something as if by rubbing

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Efface

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Outstandingly bad

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Egregious

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To flow forth or originate from a source

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Emanate

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To illustrate something by acting as an example

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Exemplify

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Going beyond what is reasonable; excessive

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Exorbitant

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To lessen the seriousness of the circumstance by giving excuses

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Extenuate

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To drink; to absorb or take in with the senses as if by drinking

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Imbibe

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To imprison

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Incarcerate

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To protect against or compensate for damage or loss

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Indemnify

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Without excitement or appeal

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Insipid

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Fearless

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Intrepid

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To cover with water; to overwhelm as if with a flood

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Inundate

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To officially renounce power or neglect to complete a responsibility or duty
Abdicate
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To make greater ,as in size, quantity, and strength; to supplement
Augment
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To make clear or plain especially by explanation
Elucidate
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Not capable of sin; faultless
Impeccable
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Not easily discouraged or defeated; unconquerable
indomitable
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Rising in active revolt against constituted authority
Insurgent
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Feeling sorrow for one's sins and being willing to repent
Penitent
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Tendency to destroy life; dangerous to the moral, social, or political welfare of society
Pestilent
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To put off doing something until a future time; to postpone habitually.
Procrastinate
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To chew the cud; to meditate or reflect on
Ruminate
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Loud, harsh, and granting
Strident
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Susceptible to wounds; open to attack
Vulnerable
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Revealing hostility and readiness to fight
Belligerence
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Intonation of the voice
Cadence
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Mercy in the exercise if authority power; leniency toward an offender or enemy
Clemency
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A funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning
Dirge
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The quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily
Frugality
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A break or interruption in something; a gap; a pause
Hiatus
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Extreme poverty
Penury
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Condition of the soul lost in eternal punishment
Perdition
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The act of stealing and using the ideas or writings of another as one's own
Plagiarism
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A person or thing that goes before and heralds the coming of another person or thing; one who precedes another in a course or office
Precursor
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Authoritative permission for an action
Sanction
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The direction of an object through space
Trajectory
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One who holds that the existence of God is unknown and unknowable; one who asserts that all claims to knowledge are uncertain
Agnostic
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A person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation; a formal ecclesiastical curse or ban
Anathema
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A person or thing greatly detested
Anathema
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A curse or imprecation generally
Anathema
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A course taken
trajectory
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Penalty imposed to encourage compliance to a law
Sanction
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Measured movement, such as in music and writing
Cadence
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Unripe in knowledge or judgement; unsophisticated
Verdant
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To arouse
Pique
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Any irrationally reverenced; obsession
Fetish
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To exaggerate
Aggrandize
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Capable of burning corroding, or destroying tissue by chemical action
Caustic
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Cutting or sarcastic in utterance
Caustic
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A test, rule, or standard by which something is judged.
Criterion
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A leader who appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace in order to obtain power
Demagogue
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An indefinitely long time
Eon
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A name or title used to describe or characterize a person or thing
Epithet
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A temperament peculiar to an individual; any personal peculiarity or mannerism
Idiosyncrasy
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A supposed remedy for all diseases or ills
Panacea
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Excess; superabundance
Plethora
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A fictitious name, as one assumed by an author
Pseudonym
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Occurring in occasional or isolated instances
Sporadic
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To force someone to comply or obey, as by pressure, threats, or intimidation; to effect by force
Coerce
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To strengthen or confirm by agreeing statements or new evidence
Corroborate
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To cause uneasiness, embarrassment, or confusion.
Discomfit
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To thwart the plans or purposes of
Discomfit
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Reclining; lying down; resting
Recumbent
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The act of objecting or protesting
Remonstrance
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The act of formally or voluntarily giving up a claim or a title
Renunciation
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Abundantly supplied; well-filled
Replete
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Deserving of blame, rebuke, or censure
Reprehensible
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Forcible seizure in retaliation for injuries received; injury done in return for injury received
Reprisal
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An interval of relief or rest; a delay of punishment
Respite
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Inclination to be silent
Reticence
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Punishment for offenses; compensation
Retribution

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