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bona fide

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genuine, real

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bonhomie

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good-natured, friendly

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boon

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a blessing

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boor

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a rude person

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bootleg

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to smuggle, to sell/make illegally

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booty

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loot

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bosky

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covered with a lot of trees/shrubs

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botch

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to spoil something by doing it badly

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bouillabaisse

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a stew made of fish; a mixture of things

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bowdlerize

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to omit, abridge, or modify a work of literature that is considered offensive

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bracing

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energizing, stimulating, healthy and fresh

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brandish

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to flaunt

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brash

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hasty and reckless

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bravado

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a false or boastful display of courage

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brawn

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great muscular strength

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brazen

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bold, shameless

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brazier

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a pan for holding burning coals

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breach

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to violate

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breadth

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width

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brevity

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briefness

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brigand

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a bandit or robber

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broach

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to bring up a subject for discussion

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brogue

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an accent, regional dialect

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bromide

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a cliché, a chemical compound used as a sedative

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brook

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to bear or tolerate

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brouhaha

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an uproar, hubbub

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brusque

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impolitely abrupt, curt

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buffoon

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a comical person

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bureaucracy

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a large administrative system

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burgeon

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to flourish, expand

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burlesque

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exaggerated imitation

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burnish

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to polish or rub

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butte

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an isolated mountain with steep sides on a large plain

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buttress

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support for a wall, encouragement or support

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Byzantine

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difficult to understand and complicated

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cabal

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a small group of people who plan a secret plot, especially political

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cachet

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a mark of prestige and approval

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calamity

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a disaster

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camaraderie

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friendship

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canard

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a false story with the intention of misleading

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canon

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a principle, decree, law

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canopy

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something covering from weather

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cant

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insincere statements made to give one tje appearance of goodness

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canvass

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to conduct a survey

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capitulate

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to surrender under certain conditions

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captious

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quick to point out faults

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carapace

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a protective covering, a shell

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carcinogenic

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likely to cause cancer

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cardinal

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of great importance, chief

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careen

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to move fast and unsteadily

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carnage

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a massacre

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carp

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to complain and find fault about unimportant things

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carrion

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dead and rotting flesh

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cascade

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resembling a waterfall

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cataclysm

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a violent upheaval or change

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catacomb

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underground cemetery

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cataract

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a large waterfall, an eye abnormality

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categorical

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absolute, unconditional

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catheter

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a flexible tube inserted into a bodily channel to permit injection of fluids

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catholic

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universal, embracing everything

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caustic

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acidic, corrosive

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cavalier

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casual, showing arrogant disregard

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cavil

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to quibble

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cavort

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to strut, to prance

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cede

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to give up, as by treaty

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celerity

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speed

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celibacy

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abstinence from sex

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cessation

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stopping of

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chafe

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to irritate, to rub

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chaff

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anything worthless

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chagrin

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humiliation, disappointment

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chalet

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a Swiss farmhouse with overhanging eaves

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chanteuse

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a female singer in nightclubs

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charisma

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ability to attract followers

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chary

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careful, cautious

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chaste

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morally pure

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chastise

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to punish, discipline

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chateau

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a French estate or large house

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cherub

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an angel represented in art as a beautiful

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chimerical

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fanciful, imaginary, absurd

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chintzy

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gaudy, cheap, tacky

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chloroform

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a chemical that produces anesthesia

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chortle

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to laugh with pleasure and glee

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chronicle

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a history, a record of events

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chronology

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an order of events

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churl

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a rude or vulgar person

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chutzpah

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audacious behavior that is sometimes admired but often rude

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cinematic

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relating to motion pictures

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cipher

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a code, a solution to a code

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circuitous

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not following a direct path

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circumlocution

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indirect speech, talking around the facts

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circumnavigate

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to travel all the way around

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circumscribe

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to restrict

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circumspect

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cautious

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circumvent

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to surround, enclose

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cite

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to quote by way of example

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clairvoyant

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having the ability to foresee things

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clamor

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uproar

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claque

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a group hired to applaud at a performance

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clarify

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to make clear

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