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prepossession

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noun

A preconceived liking.

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prerogative

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adjective

Having superior rank or precedence.

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presage

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verb

To foretell.

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prescience

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noun

Knowledge of events before they take place.

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prescient

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adjective

Foreknowing.

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prescript

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adjective

Prescribed as a rule or model.

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prescriptible

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adjective

Derived from authoritative direction.

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presentient

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adjective

Perceiving or feeling beforehand.

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presentiment

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noun

Foreboding.

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presentment

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noun

Semblance.

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presumptuous

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adjective

Assuming too much.

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pretension

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noun

A bold or presumptuous assertion.

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preternatural

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adjective

Extraordinary.

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pretext

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noun

A fictitious reason or motive.

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prevaricate

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verb

To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.

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prickle

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verb

To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.

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priggish

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adjective

Conceited.

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prim

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adjective

Stiffly proper.

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prima

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adjective

First.

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primer

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noun

An elementary reading-book for children.

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primeval

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adjective

Belonging to the first ages.

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principality

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noun

The territory of a reigning prince.

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priory

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noun

A monastic house.

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pristine

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adjective

Primitive

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privateer

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noun

A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.

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privity

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noun

Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter.

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probate

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adjective

Relating to making proof, as of a will.

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probity

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noun

Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.

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proctor

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noun

An agent acting for another.

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prodigal

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noun

One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property

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prodigious

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adjective

Immense.

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proffer

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verb

To offer to another for acceptance.

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profiteer

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noun

One who profits.

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profligacy

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noun

Shameless viciousness.

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profligate

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adjective

Abandoned to vice.

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progression

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noun

A moving forward or proceeding in course.

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prohibition

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noun

A decree or an order forbidding something.

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prohibitionist

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noun

One who favours the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

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proletarian

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noun

A person of the lowest or poorest class.

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prolix

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adjective

Verbose.

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prologue

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noun

A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse or performance.

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promenade

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verb

To walk for amusement or exercise.

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prominence

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noun

The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.

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promiscuous

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adjective

Brought together without order, distinction or design (for sex).

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promissory

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adjective

Expressing an engagement to pay

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promontory

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noun

A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.

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promulgate

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verb

To proclaim.

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propaganda

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noun

Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.

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propitious

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adjective

Kindly disposed.

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propriety

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noun

Accordance with recognized usage, custom and principles.

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prosaic

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adjective

Unimaginative.

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proscenium

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noun

That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.

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proscribe

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verb

To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation

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proscription

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noun

Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.

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proselyte

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noun

One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.

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prosody

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noun

The science of poetical forms.

57
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prospector

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noun

One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.

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protege

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noun

One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.

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Protestant

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noun

A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment.

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protomartyr

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noun

The earliest victim in any cause.

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protocol

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noun

A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.

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protuberate

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verb

To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.

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provident

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adjective

Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.

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providential

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adjective

Effected by divine guidance.

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provincial

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adjective

Uncultured in thought and manner.

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proviso

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noun

A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.

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proximately

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adverb

Immediately.

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prudential

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adjective

Proceeding or marked by caution.

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prudery

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noun

An undue display of modesty or delicacy.

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prurient

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adjective

Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires

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lascivious

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feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire.

72
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pudgy

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adjective

small and fat.

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puerile

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adjective

Childish.

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pugnacious

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adjective

Quarrelsome.

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puissant

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adjective

Possessing strength.

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punctilious

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adjective

Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.

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pupilage

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noun

The state or period of being a student.

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purgatory

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noun

An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering.

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purl

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verb

To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.

80
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purloin

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verb

To steal.

81
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purport

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noun

Intent.

82
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purveyor

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noun

One who supplies.

83
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pusillanimous

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adjective

Without spirit or bravery.

84
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putrescent

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adjective

Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.

85
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pyre

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noun

A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.

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pyromania

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noun

An insane propensity to set things on fire.

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pyrotechnic

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adjective

Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture.

88
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quadrate

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verb

To divide into quarters.

89
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qualm

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noun

A fit of nausea.

90
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quandary

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noun

A puzzling predicament

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quartet

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noun

A composition for four voices or four instruments.

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quarto

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noun

An eight page newspaper of any size.

93
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quay

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noun

A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbour or projecting into it.

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querulous

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adjective

Habitually complaining.

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quiescent

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adjective

Being in a state of repose or inaction.

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quietus

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noun

A silencing, suppressing or ending.

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quintessence

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noun

The most essential part of anything.

98
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quintet

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noun

Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.

99
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Quixotic

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adjective

Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.

100
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rabid

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adjective

Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.

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racy

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adjective

Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.

102
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radix

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noun

That from or on which something is developed.

103
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raillery

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noun

Good-humoured satire.

104
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ramify

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verb

To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.

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ramose

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adjective

Branch-like.

106
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rancor

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noun

Malice.

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