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1
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Abate

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To lessen, subside

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Aberration

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Stray away from what is normal

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Abet

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To encourage somebody […in doing wrong…]

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Abeyance

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Suspended action

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Abhor

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To hate

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Abide

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To be faithful, to endure

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Abjure

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Promise or swear to give up

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Ablution

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Cleansing, washing

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Abraded

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Worn away by friction, rubbed off

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Abrogate

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To repeal

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Abstruse

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Difficult to comprehend, obscure

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Acclamation

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Public approval, often given loudly

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Acquiese

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Agree, accept

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Adamant

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Unyielding

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Advent

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Arrival, coming

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Affidavit

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A written statement given under oath

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Agowilt

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Sickening terror, Sudden unnecessary fear The passage of the heart past the epiglottis

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Alacrity

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Readiness, eagerness

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Allibosh

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A glaringly obvious falsehood

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Ambiance

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Atmosphere, character

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Amoretto

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Cupid

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Anathema

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Something highly distasteful

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Anecdote

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Brief story of an amusing or interesting incident

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Antipodean

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Direct opposite

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Apposite

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Appropriate

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Ardour

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Passion

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Attaccabottoni

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A bore who corners people with sad, pointless tales

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Baleful

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Harmful, ominous, causing evil

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Balk

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Refuse to proceed

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Baneful

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Causing pain or ruin, pernicious, destructive

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Barbiturate

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Sedative, hypnotic drug

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Barrage

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An artificial obstacle built over a river

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Bastion

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Strong defense, projecting part of a fort

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Beatify

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To bless, make happy, ascribe a virtue to

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Bedizen

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To adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner

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Belabor

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To beat hard

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Ben

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A hog-like mammal from New Guinea

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Benevolence

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wish, activity in doing good

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Benign

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Kind and gentle

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Berate

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Scold sharp

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Betrothal

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Engagement to marry

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Bey

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Prince, nobleman

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Billet-Doux

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Love letter

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Bimp

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A disappointment, a futile rage,v. to cut,neglect or forsake

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Blatant

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Noisy and rough

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Blaze

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Mark by cutting a piece of bark from a tree, intense fire

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Bleesh

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An unpleasant picture,vulgar or obscene artwork

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Blithely

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Cheerfully, in a light-hearted, care-free way

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Bloom

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Youthful glow, Algae growth

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Borborygmite

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filth-talker

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Buckle

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To crumple, to fasten

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Cadge

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To beg, or get by begging

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Cajole

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Coax, persude by flattery or deceit

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Calumny

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Slander, aspersion

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Candidate

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seeker of office

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Canoodle

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To cuddle and kiss amorously

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Cant

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Jargon, insincere talk

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Canvass

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To request votes from electors

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Capital

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Involving death

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Capricious

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Guided by whim, inconstant

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Carapace

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Shell, protective layer or attitude

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Cardsharp

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Professional cheater at cards

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Caress

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To stroke gently

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Castigation

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Severe punishment

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Caustic

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Sarcastic, biting

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Censure

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Expression of blame, a rebuke

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Chary

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Cautious, wary

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Chastisement

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Punishment

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Chauvanist

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a blindly devoted patriot

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Chivalrous

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Courteous

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Churl

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a bad-tempered person

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Close

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Intimate, confining

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Coalescing

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To come together, uniting a substance as one

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Cog

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a tooth on a gear wheel, one who plays a vital but minor role

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Cohere

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To hold together

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Coif

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Tight fitting cap, hairstyle

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Col

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short ridge connecting 2 mountains

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Collusion

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have an alliance

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Compact

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Formal agreement, a small case for carrying cosmetics

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Complacent

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Self-satisfied

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Concierge

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A hotel service person who assists people with special arrangements

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Confound

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Bewilder, confuse

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83
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Conjugal

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Marital

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84
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Contemporaries

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Alive at the same time

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Contritely

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Humbly, with remorse, regret

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Corollary

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Direct result, consiquence

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Cos

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Lettuce with large dark green leaves

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Digmix

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An unpleasant, uncomfortable, or dire occupation unwelcome duty

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Kex

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Dried hemlock

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90
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Kheda

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An enclosure for capturing wild elephants

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Mansuetude

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Tameness; sweetness of temper

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Meniscus

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The curved upper surface of liquid in a tube

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Mesothesis

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That which is put in the middle to serve as a balance

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Mulm

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The organic sediment that settles at the bottom of an aquarium

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Musnud

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The cushioned throne of an Indian prince

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Myocide

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An agent that kills mould

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Nigroglobulate

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To blackball

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Noria

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An apparatus for raising water, made up of buckets attached to a wheel

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Nummamorous

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Money loving

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Ogygian

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Incomparably ancient,antediluvian

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Antediluvian

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Relating to the period before the biblical flood extremely old

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Ormolu

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Bronze or brass that has been gilded

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Podsnappery

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Self-satisfied philistinism

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Philistinism

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A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

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Ptarmic

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That which causes sneezing

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Cowcat

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A person whose main function is to occupy space

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Craven

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Defeatist, Cowardly

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Culpable

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Blameworthy

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Cynic

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A person who thinks other people’s motives are usually bad or selfish

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Dainty

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Pretty, delicate

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Daunt

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Intimidate, make fearful

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Dawdler

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A waste of time, a slow person

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Dearth

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Shortage

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Debacle

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To break up, overthrow, sudden disaster

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Decorously

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Politely, with proper manners

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Defalcation

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Misuse, misappropriation

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Delude

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Mislead, decieve

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Deluge

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A heavy rush of water, great flood

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Demagogue

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Rabble rouser, agitator

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Denigrate

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Blacken, sully, belittle, defame

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Denoument

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The outcome or solution, the unraveling of a plot

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Deprave

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To corrupt or make morally bad

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Deprecate

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Disapprove, belittle

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Dereliction

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Leaving to fall to ruin, deserting

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Derisive

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Expressing mockery or ridicule

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Desultory

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Random, disconnected

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Diabob

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An object of amateur art

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Dilate

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To make wider, expand

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Diplomatically

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Tactfully, cautiously

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Disenfranchise

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To deprive or deny a right of

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Dissension

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Dissagreement in opinion, discord

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Dissuade

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To advice or persuade against

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Divulge

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To reveal

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Dor

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A large European scaraboid beetle

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Ecumenical

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related to christian church as a whole

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Egregiously

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Extremely, in a notorious or glaring fashion

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Eminently

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Very, to a high extent

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Emperical

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Based on the results of experience/experiment

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Endorse

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To support, approve

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Endow

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To provide financial support

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Enmity

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Deep hatred, ill will

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a very short time

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Epicure

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A person who enjoys fine food and drink

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Equitable

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Just to all

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Esoteric

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Secret, Mysterious

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Euphony

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A pleasing sound

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Euphoric

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Elated, having a sense of well-being

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Exacerbate

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Increase the violence of

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Exacuoacumenist

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One who sharpens wit

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Exasperate

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Irritate strongly

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Excerpt

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small selection from a book or document

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Exhumed

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Dug from the grave

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Exigency

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Urgent need

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Expeditiously

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In an efficient way, speedily

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Extempore

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On the spur of the moment

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Fastidious

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Pernickety

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Fatuous

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silly, idiotic

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Fickle

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Changeable

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Flaccid

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Fond of showing off

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Flinch

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To wince, to draw back

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Fortuitous

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Happening by lucky accident or chance

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Founder

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Stumber, fail utterly, to fill with water and sink

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Frantic

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Wildly excited, agitated

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Frenetic

A

Frantic, frenzied

165
Q

Gab

A

Chattering or meaningless talk

166
Q

Gad

A

A sharp pointed rod

167
Q

Gar

A

Any slender fish

168
Q

Garnish

A

To sieze by legal authority

169
Q

Gelasin

A

A dimple occuring when you smile

170
Q

Gerrymander

A

To manipulate the boundaries of an electoral constituency to favour a particular party

171
Q

Gesticulate

A

Make lively gestures, moves hands about

172
Q

Gripe

A

To grumble or complain

173
Q

Guileless

A

Sincere, without deception

174
Q

Hail

A

To aclaim, call out

175
Q

Halcyon

A

Ideallicaly happy, peaceful

176
Q

Harp

A

To persist or dwell tediously on a subject

177
Q

Hirci

A

Armpit hair

178
Q

Hirsute

A

Hairy

179
Q

Hone

A

To sharpen, improve, perfect

180
Q

Honorary

A

One for which no salary is paid

181
Q

Horde

A

A large group of people, crowd

182
Q

Ignominiously

A

With disgrace, dishonourably

183
Q

Impeccable

A

such that no fault could be found

184
Q

Implore

A

To ask someone to do or not do something in a very sincere way

185
Q

Importune

A

To plead annoyingly

186
Q

Inception

A

Beginning

187
Q

Incessant

A

Never-stopping in an annoying, unpleasant way

188
Q

Inclement

A

Severe, stormy or cold, merciless

189
Q

Incoherent

A

Hard to understand

190
Q

Incorrigible

A

Incapable of being corrected

191
Q

Incumbent

A

Office holder

192
Q

Indefatigable

A

Tireless

193
Q

Indelible

A

Unable to be forgotten

194
Q

Indubitably

A

Without Question or doubt

195
Q

Infatuation

A

Romantic attachment, attraction

196
Q

Ingenuous

A

Candid, open, without guile

197
Q

Innocuous

A

Harmless

198
Q

Inscrutably

A

Mysteriously, in an incomprehensible way

199
Q

Insular

A

Overly meticulous, sourounded by sea

200
Q

Intermittently

A

Every now and then

201
Q

Intimate

A

To hint, imply

202
Q

Irascible

A

Prone to anger

203
Q

Irritainment

A

Irritating television programmes you can’t stop watching

204
Q

Itenerant

A

Travelling, moving from place to place

205
Q

Jauntily

A

In a lively manner, lightly

206
Q

Jingoism

A

The extreme belief that one’s belief is always best

207
Q

Judicial

A

Pertaining to the court of the law

208
Q

Ken

A

To know, understand

209
Q

Lambaste

A

Scold, beat or whip soundly

210
Q

Languid

A

Sluggish, without vigour, weak

211
Q

Liable

A

legally obliged, responsible

212
Q

Liase

A

To speak to people in order to exchange information with them

213
Q

Litter

A

A stretcher for carrying a sick or injured person

214
Q

Livid

A

Eraged, furious

215
Q

Lobbyist

A

Advocate

216
Q

Loquacious

A

Very talkative

217
Q

Malinger

A

To pretend illness to escape duty

218
Q

Manifestly

A

Plainly, in a way that is easily understood

219
Q

Maverick

A

An unbranded or stray calf

220
Q

Melanotrichous

A

Hairy black hair

221
Q

Meritriciously

A

Deceptively, in an insincere, vulgar way

222
Q

Miniature

A

Reduced to a small scale

223
Q

Misanthropic

A

Distrustful of everyone, cynical

224
Q

Mitigated

A

Made less severe

225
Q

Moot

A

Open for discussion, debatable

226
Q

Moribund

A

About to die

227
Q

Mos

A

Custom, habit

228
Q

Nee

A

Born as

229
Q

Noop

A

Tip of elbow

230
Q

Nuance

A

Fine distinction, subtelty

231
Q

Nubile

A

Young and Attractive

232
Q

Obsequiously

A

Like a servant, obediently

233
Q

Odious

A

Repulsive, hateful

234
Q

Orient

A

To adjust to one’s circumstances or surroundings

235
Q

Orutund

A

Bombastic, pompous

236
Q

Pallid

A

pale, wan

237
Q

Pandemonium

A

A wild uproar, tumult

238
Q

Paradigm

A

A model of something, a very clear, typical example of something

239
Q

Paramour

A

Lover

240
Q

Parry

A

to ward off, to avert an attack

241
Q

Pedantic

A

Overly meticulous, narrow minded

242
Q

Peremptory

A

Final, leaving no opportunity for debate or denial

243
Q

Pernicious

A

Exeedingly harmful

244
Q

Pernickety

A

Fussy, hard to please, meticulous

245
Q

Persistance

A

Perseverance

246
Q

Petulant

A

Impatient, irritable

247
Q

Plenary

A

Compulsory full attendance

248
Q

Poky

A

Cramped, small, confined

249
Q

Predicate

A

To assert or affirm as true

250
Q

Prepossessing

A

Appealing, charming

251
Q

Preposterously

A

Ridiculously, absurdly

252
Q

Prerogative

A

Privelage or right by virtue of position or rank

253
Q

Presentiment

A

Premonition

254
Q

Profound

A

Intense, needing or showing great insight

255
Q

Profusely

A

Extravagantly, without limitation

256
Q

Prowess

A

Outstanding skill, courage

257
Q

Pusillanimously

A

Timidly, in a faint-hearted way

258
Q

Pyre

A

A pile of wood

259
Q

Qua

A

In so far as, in the character of, as

260
Q

Quicksilver

A

Unpredictable, changeable

261
Q

Quintessential

A

Highly typical

262
Q

Rakish

A

Appearing fast

263
Q

Rectify

A

To correct

264
Q

Recur

A

To happen again, return to mind

265
Q

Redoubtable

A

Formiddable, commanding respect

266
Q

Relevent

A

Relating to the matter at hand

267
Q

Repeal

A

To cancel, withdraw

268
Q

Ret

A

Prepare for use

269
Q

Retrograde

A

Tending to revert or backwards

270
Q

Roseate

A

Rose coloured

271
Q

Rue

A

Bitterness, Disappointment

272
Q

Ruminating

A

Thinking deeply about something

273
Q

Rut

A

Sexual desire of other various mammals

274
Q

Sanguine

A

Confident, hopeful, optimistic

275
Q

Scorned

A

Rejected, ignored with contempt

276
Q

Sear

A

Scar, burn mark

277
Q

Sedentary

A

Sitting, Seated… for a period of time

278
Q

Seriatim

A

One after the other

279
Q

Shibui

A

Restrained elegance

280
Q

Sojourn

A

Temporary residence or stay, a visit

281
Q

Sop

A

To dip in any liquid

282
Q

Spurious

A

Not genuine

283
Q

Squire

A

to escort, accompany

284
Q

Swain

A

Suitor

285
Q

Swoon

A

To faint from emotion

286
Q

Synoptic

A

Pertaining to an overall view

287
Q

Tat

A

Pony

288
Q

Tenterhooks

A

Hooks or bent nails or a framework that hold cloth taut for drying

289
Q

Terse

A

Concise

290
Q

Tod

A

A bush

291
Q

Traipse

A

Wearily wander, trudge, walk aimlessly

292
Q

Transient

A

Temporary

293
Q

Truculent

A

Agressive, bellicose, fierce

294
Q

Turista

A

Gastro-intestinal illness afflicting travelling people

295
Q

Tête-â-Tête

A

A private talk

296
Q

Umfriend

A

a person with whom one has had a brief sexual encounter

297
Q

Uncanny

A

Inexplicable, beyond the normal, expected

298
Q

Unequivocally

A

Conclusively, without conditions

299
Q

Urchin

A

A young child who is playful or mischevious

300
Q

Usurp

A

Taking over one’s position/power without having the right to do so

301
Q

Utterly

A

Fully, to a totaly extent

302
Q

Uxorious

A

Excessively fond of wife

303
Q

Vacillate

A

To waver

304
Q

Vale

A

Earthly life, world

305
Q

Vat

A

A large vessel

306
Q

Venality

A

openess to corruption, bribery

307
Q

Vicariously

A

By substitute, through the experience of another

308
Q

Visceral

A

Pertaining to the viscera,Instinctive, profound

309
Q

Vitiate

A

Weaken, make ineffective

310
Q

Vivacious

A

Lively, spirited, outgoing

311
Q

Volatile

A

Explosive, unstable

312
Q

Wabi

A

The beauty of simplicity

313
Q

Wantoly

A

Unjustifiably, recklessly

314
Q

Winsome

A

Charming, attractive, engagement

315
Q

Zwischenraum

A

Literally the space between 2 objects

316
Q

Pushkin

A

A strainer hung on a barrel tap to catch and strain cider, of vinegar

317
Q

Quisquillous

A

Made of rubbish

318
Q

Rammish

A

Strongly scented

319
Q

Roorback

A

False report circulated to damage the reputation of a political candidate

320
Q

Rundle

A

Ladder rung

321
Q

Sanguisugent

A

Bloodsucking

322
Q

Saponify

A

To convert to soap

323
Q

Scissel

A

The strip of metal from which the the blanks for coins are made

324
Q

Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious

A

Very good

325
Q

Eriff

A

A two year old canary

326
Q

Errhine

A

Made to be snuffed into the nose

327
Q

Exigent

A

Urgent,needing immediate attention

328
Q

Fenks

A

Whale blubber refuse; rotten blubber

329
Q

Fescue

A

A small stick used by teachers to point at letters of numbers

330
Q

Ganch

A

To execute by impaling on hooks

331
Q

Gelogenic

A

Tending to produce laughter

332
Q

Helminthous

A

Infested with worms

333
Q

Hippocaust

A

The burning of a horse in sacrifice

334
Q

Ichor

A

In mythology, the fluid that ran instead of blood in the veins of the gods

335
Q

Ignivomous

A

Vomiting fire

336
Q

Impavid

A

Without fear

337
Q

Izzard

A

Ancient term for the letter z

338
Q

Jargoon

A

A second-rate zircon

339
Q

Keckle

A

To preserve from chafing by covering with powder

340
Q

Tacenda

A

Things that should not be mentioned

341
Q

Thunk

A

A very light verse that plays with syntax

342
Q

Xenoglossia

A

Understanding a language that one has never learned

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