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Append

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Attach

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Appellation

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Name, title

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Bluster

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Blow in heavy gusts
Threaten emptily
Bully

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Bode

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Foreshadow

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Bogus

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Counterfeit

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Bohemian

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Unconventional in a artistic way.

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Boisterous

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Violent, rough, noisy

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Bolster

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Support reinforce

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Bolt

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Door bar, fastening pin or screw, length of fabric

Dash or drift off, fasten a door, gobble.

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Bombardment

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Attack with Missiles

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Bombastic

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Pompous

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Booming

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Deep and resonant, flourishing, thriving

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Boon

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Blessing, benefit

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Boorish

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Rude, insensitive

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Boundless

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Unlimited

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Bourgeois

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Middle class, selfishly materialistic, dully conventional

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Bovine

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Cow like, placid and dull.

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Bowdlerise

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Remove material that is considered inappropriate or offensive.

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Boycott

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Refrain from buying or using

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Braggart

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Boaster

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Brandish

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Wave around, flourish

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Bravado

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Swagger

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Brawn

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Muscular strength

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Brazen

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Insolent

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Breach

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Breaking of contract or duty

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Breadth

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Width, extent

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Brevity

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Conciseness

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Bristling

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Rising like bristles or showing irritation

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Brittle

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Easily broken, difficult

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Broach

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Open up , introduce

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Brochure

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Pamphlet

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Browbeat

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Bully, intimidate

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Browse

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Graze, skim or glance at casually

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Brunt

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Main impact or shock

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Brusque

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Blunt, abrupt

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Buccaneer

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Pirate

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Bucolic

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Pastoral, rustic

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Buffet

Noun

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Table with food set out for people to serve themselves.

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Buffet

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Slap, batter, knock about

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Buffoonery

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Clowning

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Bulwark

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Earthwork or other strong defence, person who defends.

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Bumptious

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Self- assertive

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Bungle

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Mismanage, blunder

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Buoyant

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Able to float, cheerful and optimistic

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Bureaucracy

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Over regulated administrative system marked by red tape.

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Burgeon

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Grow forth, send out buds

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Burlesque

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Give and imitation that ridicules

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Burly

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Husky, muscular

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Burnish

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Make shiny by rubbing, polish

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Bustle

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Move about energetically, teem

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Buttress

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Support, prop up

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Buxom

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Plump, full- blossomed.

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Cabal

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Small group of people secretly united to promote their own interests.

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Cache

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Hiding place

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Cacophonous

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Discordant, inharmonious

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Cadaver

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Corpse

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Cadence

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Rhythmic rise and fall of words and sound)

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Cajole

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Coax, wheedle

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Calamity

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Disaster, misery

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Calculated

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Deliberately planned, likely

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Caldron

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Large kettle

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Caliber

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Ability, quality

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Calligraphy

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Beautiful writing, excellent penmanship

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Callous

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Hardening, unfeeling

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Callow

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Youthful, immature, inexperienced

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Calorific

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Heat - producing

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Calumny

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Malicious misrepresentation, slander

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Camaraderie

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Good fellowship

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Cameo

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Shell or jewel carved in relief, stars special appearance in minor role in a film.

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Camouflage

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Disguise, conceal

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Candor

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Frankness, open honesty

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Canine

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Related to dogs.

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Canny

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Shrewd, thrifty.

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Cant

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Insincere expressions of piety, jargon of thieves.

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Cantankerous

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Ill humoured, irritable.

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Canter

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Slow gallop

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