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Word List 4 Flashcards

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Abrupt

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Sudden

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Accessory

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Addition

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Addictive

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Habit-forming

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Adoration

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Worship

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Affinity

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Attraction

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Aggregate

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To gather

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Ailment

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Sickness

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Alibi

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Excuse

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Aloof

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Distant

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Amenity

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Something that provides pleasure

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Analogy

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Comparison

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Angular

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Sharp

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Antisocial

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Unfriendly

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Arrogant

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Acting superior

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Attend

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To be present

To take care of

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Authoritarian

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Favoring authority

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Bedridden

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Unable to move

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Benign

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Kind

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Bleak

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Depressing

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Blunder

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To make a foolish mistake

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Bounty

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Reward

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Bypass

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A detour

To avoid

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Callous

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Unfeeling, hard

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Compensate

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To give equal value to

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Compound

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To add to

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Conceit

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Thinking your great

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Condense

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To concentrate
To make shorter
To change from vapor to liquid

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Conform

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To do as others do

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Constrain

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To limit ones movement

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Convey

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To carry

To send

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Credulous

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Gullible, believing everything

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Cyclical

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Moving in cycles

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Delinquent

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Someone with bad behavior

Overdue

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Derive

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To arrive at by reasoning

To reduce

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Detrimental

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Harmful

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Discord

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Disagreement

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Discrepancy

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Inconsistency

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Dispirited

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Depressed

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Distinction

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Difference

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Drawback

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Disadvantage

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Dune

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Hill of sand

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Dwindle

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To decrease

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Ecstasy

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Great happiness

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Embitter

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To make angry or bitter

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Abode

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Home

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Emergence

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Coming forward

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Endeavor

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Task

To try

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Erratic

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Unsteady

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Ethnic

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Having to do with a particular race or population

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Exasperate

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To frustrate

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Exertion

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A lot of effort

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Exotic

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Unusual in an exciting way

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Fallacy

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A false idea

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Fickle

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Often changing

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Foremost

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First highest rank

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Formidable

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Strong,intimidating

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Franchise

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Right to vote

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immoderation

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extreme behavior

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impeach

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to accuse a public official of a crime

to cast doubt on

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implausible

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unbelievable

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impregnate

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to make pregnant

to fill

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inclined

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favoring a certain point of view

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inconsequential

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not important

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indespensible

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necessary

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infer

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to conclude from the evidence or facts

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insomnia

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inability to sleep

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insupportable

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impossible to justify

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intrinsic

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natural

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jollity

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being jolly

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knit

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to sew

to bring together closely

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larceny

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stealing

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legacy

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inheritence

lasting result

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liquidate

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to destroy

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lucid

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easily understood

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mannerism

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an affected gesture

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mediator

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one who settles differences between people

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mere

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insignificant

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minute

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very small

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mutual

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common

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nontransferable

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unable to be given to eachother

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nurture

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to nourish

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opportunist

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one who takes advantage of opportunitys

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overdrive

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beyond normal limits

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patchwork

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something made up of unrelated pieces

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perceptive

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observant

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persistence

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endurence

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pictorial

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relating to pictures

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playwright

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one who writes plays

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pompous

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acting self-important

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precede

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to come before

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premise

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a statement upon which a conclusion was based

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preside

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to lead

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prevelent

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widespread

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propagandist

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one who spreads false ideas

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proverb

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a short saying that expresses an obvious truth

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pushover

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one who is easily defeated

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random

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without direction

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recede

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to retreat

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reclaim

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to rescue

to make land fertile again

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reconcile

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to settle

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render

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to give

to perform

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reside

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to live in

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retaining

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holding in

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rigid

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stiff

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servile

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acting like a servant

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sober

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serious

not drunk

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sonic

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involving sound

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sprout

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a young plant

to begin to grow

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stanza

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a section of a poem

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stimulation

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motivation

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submissive

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obedient

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summons

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an order to show up

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suspect

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to believe

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symmetry

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balance

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tedious

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boring

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tentative

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uncertain

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tyranny

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a cruel rule

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uncork

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to remove the cork from

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unsolicited

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not asked for

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vain

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useless

conceited

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virtue

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goodness

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wit

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cleverness

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