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loch
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noun: A lake.
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intrinsic
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adjective: Inherent.
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debase
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verb: To lower in character or virtue.
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irritate
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verb: To excite ill temper or impatience in.
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authentic
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adjective: Of undisputed origin.
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invalid
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noun: One who is disabled by illness or injury.
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contradictory
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adjective: Inconsistent with itself.
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redemption
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noun: The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
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transitory
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adjective: Existing for a short time only.
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finite
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adjective: Limited.
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witchcraft
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noun: Sorcery.
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literacy
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noun: The state or condition of knowing how to read and write.
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academician
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noun: A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
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didactic
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adjective: Pertaining to teaching.
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bulrush
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noun: Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
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eloquent
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adjective: Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech.
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thermoelectricity
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noun: Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
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parable
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noun: A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
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landmark
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noun: A familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track
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assess
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verb: To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid).
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sequel
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noun: That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened.
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inimical
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adjective: Adverse.
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exposition
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noun: Formal presentation.
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huckster
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noun: One who retails small wares.
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antitoxin
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noun: A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
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commission
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verb: To empower.
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duration
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noun: The period of time during which anything lasts.
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abscess
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noun: A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
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ruth
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noun: Sorrow for another's misery.
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intercession
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noun: Entreaty in behalf of others.
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script
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noun: Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
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progression
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noun: A moving forward or proceeding in course.
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convolution
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noun: A winding motion.
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manifesto
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noun: A public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions, or
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substantive
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adjective: Solid.
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exclude
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verb: To shut out purposely or forcibly.
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trenchant
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adjective: Cutting deeply and quickly.
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disciplinary
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adjective: Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
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annuity
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noun: An annual allowance, payment, or income.
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rancor
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noun: Malice.
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alley
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noun: A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
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version
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noun: A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion.
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diabolic
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adjective: Characteristic of the devil.
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revere
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verb: To regard with worshipful veneration.
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weal
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noun: Well-being.
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epitome
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noun: A simplified representation.
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oratorio
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noun: A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures.
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resistant
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adjective: Offering or tending to produce resistance.
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clearance
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noun: A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
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reorganize
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verb: To change to a more satisfactory form of organization.
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corroborate
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verb: To strengthen, as proof or conviction.
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carouse
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verb: To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
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darkling
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aderb: Blindly.
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persecution
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noun: Harsh or malignant oppression.
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evoke
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verb: To call or summon forth.
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misty
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adjective: Lacking clearness
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beset
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verb: To attack on all sides.
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persevere
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verb: To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
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depress
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verb: To press down.
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complicate
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verb: To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
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circumlocution
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noun: Indirect or roundabout expression.
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arboriculture
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noun: The cultivation of trees or shrubs.
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equitable
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adjective: Characterized by fairness.
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skiff
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noun: Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
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preordain
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verb: To foreordain.
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kinsfolk
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noun: pl. Relatives.
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soprano
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noun: A woman's or boy's voice of high range.
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corruptible
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adjective: Open to bribery.
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menagerie
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noun: A collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition.
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impulsive
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adjective: Unpremeditated.
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inkling
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noun: A hint.
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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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emergent
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adjective: Coming into view.
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overhang
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noun: A portion of a structure which projects or hangs over.
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abridgment
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noun: A condensed form as of a book or play.
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uproarious
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adjective: Noisy.
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reticence
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noun: The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
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avarice
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noun: Passion for getting and keeping riches.
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misuse
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verb: To maltreat.
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transfer
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verb: To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
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diffusion
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noun: Dispersion.
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forecourt
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noun: A court opening directly from the street.
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specious
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adjective: Plausible.
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profuse
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adjective: Produced or displayed in overabundance.
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administrator
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noun: One who manages affairs of any kind.
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incoercible
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adjective: Incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled.
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diagnosis
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noun: Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease.
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accommodate
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verb: To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
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bibulous
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adjective: Fond of drinking.
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officious
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adjective: Intermeddling with what is not one's concern.
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tact
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noun: Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
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truism
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noun: A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
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globular
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adjective: Spherical.
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rife
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adjective: Abundant.
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altruism
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noun: Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
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expectorate
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verb: To cough up and spit forth.
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divagation
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noun: Digression.
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requite
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verb: To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.
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voluble
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adjective: Having great fluency in speaking.
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adumbrate
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verb: To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
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betroth
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verb: To engage to marry.
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retract
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verb: To recall or take back (something that one has said).
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equilibrium
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noun: A state of balance.
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clarify
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verb: To render intelligible.
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timorous
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adjective: Lacking courage.
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braggart
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noun: A vain boaster.
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deluge
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verb: To overwhelm with a flood of water.
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crustacean
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adjective: Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.
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misnomer
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noun: A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
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coercion
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noun: Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
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conduit
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noun: A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
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multiform
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adjective: Having many shapes, or appearances.
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conveyance
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noun: That by which anything is transported.
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differential
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adjective: Distinctive.
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affectation
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noun: A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
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sheer
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adjective: Absolute.
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biology
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noun: The science of life or living organisms.
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circumnavigate
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verb: To sail quite around.
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magnificent
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adjective: Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action.
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alternate
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noun: One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
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projection
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noun: A prominence.
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Christ
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noun: A title of Jesus
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effectual
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adjective: Efficient.
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Catholicism
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noun: The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Arthurian
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adjective: Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.
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egoist
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noun: One who advocates or practices egoism.
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supplicate
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verb: To beg.
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moderator
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noun: The presiding officer of a meeting.
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Briticism
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noun: A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British.
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unconscious
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adjective: Not cognizant of objects, actions, etc.
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subservient
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adjective: Servilely following another's behests.
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lingua
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noun: The tongue.
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blaze
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noun: A vivid glowing flame.
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frugal
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adjective: Economical.
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left-handed
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adjective: Using the left hand or arm more dexterously than the right.
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consort
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noun: A companion or associate.
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elasticity
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noun: That property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed.
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abdicate
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verb: To give up (royal power or the like).
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addle
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verb: To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
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ravage
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verb: To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
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underworld
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noun: Hades.
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dispossess
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verb: To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
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prediction
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noun: A prophecy.
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induct
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verb: To bring in.
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motto
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noun: An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith.
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theorist
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noun: One given to speculating.
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extrude
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verb: To drive out or away.
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botany
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noun: The science that treats of plants.
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variegate
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verb: To mark with different shades or colors.
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crustaceous
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adjective: Having a crust-like shell.
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turpitude
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noun: Depravity.
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perspicacity
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noun: Acuteness or discernment.
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cajole
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verb: To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
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grapple
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verb: To take hold of.
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memento
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noun: A souvenir.
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circumscribe
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verb: To confine within bounds.
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claimant
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noun: One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
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premature
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adjective: Coming too soon.
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convertible
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adjective: Interchangeable.
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exclamation
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noun: An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling.
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brazier
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noun: An open pan or basin for holding live coals.
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microphone
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noun: An apparatus for magnifying faint sounds.
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rigmarole
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noun: Nonsense.
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inexpressible
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adjective: Unutterable.
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waive
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verb: To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim.
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blockade
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noun: The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces.
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laudable
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adjective: Praiseworthy.
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convalescence
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noun: The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
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demonstrable
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adjective: Capable of positive proof.
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superfluous
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adjective: Being more than is needed.
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concurrent
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adjective: Occurring or acting together.
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copious
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adjective: Plenteous.
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degrade
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verb: To take away honors or position from.
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alleviate
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verb: To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
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ogre
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noun: A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings.
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venom
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noun: The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete.
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delirious
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adjective: Raving.
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secretary
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noun: One who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others.
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pacify
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verb: To bring into a peaceful state.
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assailant
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noun: One who attacks.
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enact
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verb: To make into law, as by legislative act.
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intangible
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adjective: Not perceptible to the touch.
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demobilize
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verb: To disband, as troops.
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retroactive
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adjective: Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
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gynecocracy
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noun: Female supremacy.
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injunction
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noun: Mandate.
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abject
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adjective: Sunk to a low condition.
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affluence
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noun: A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
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horde
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noun: A gathered multitude of human beings.
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legible
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adjective: That may be read with ease.
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overpower
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verb: To gain supremacy or victory over by superior power.
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irritancy
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noun: The quality of producing vexation.
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octogenarian
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adjective: A person of between eighty and ninety years.
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involve
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verb: To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively.
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facet
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noun: One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem.
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tendency
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noun: Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end.
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witless
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adjective: Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
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magnificence
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noun: The exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth, or power.
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remission
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noun: Temporary diminution of a disease.
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coronet
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noun: Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.
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transpire
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verb: To come to pass.
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inedible
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adjective: Not good for food.
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knighthood
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noun: Chivalry.
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vacuous
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adjective: Empty.
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recrudescence
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noun: The state of becoming raw or sore again.
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avert
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verb: To turn away or aside.
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panel
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noun: A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
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obligate
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verb: To hold to the fulfillment of duty.
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cohesion
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noun: Consistency.
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optometry
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noun: Measurement of the powers of vision.
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disservice
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noun: An ill turn.
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alter
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verb: To make change in.
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nocturnal
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adjective: Of or pertaining to the night.
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conformance
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noun: The act or state or conforming.
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mete
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verb: To apportion.
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fervid
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adjective: Intense.
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lunar
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adjective: Pertaining to the moon.
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convalesce
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verb: To recover after a sickness.
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solvent
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adjective: Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
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decagon
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noun: A figure with ten sides and ten angles.
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unwise
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adjective: Foolish.
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agrarian
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adjective: Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.
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mead
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noun: A meadow.
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venial
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adjective: That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.
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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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egregious
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adjective: Extreme.
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slothful
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adjective: Lazy.
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miscreant
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noun: A villain.
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homologous
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adjective: Identical in nature, make-up, or relation.
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staid
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adjective: Of a steady and sober character.
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felony
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noun: One of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment.
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delicacy
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noun: That which is agreeable to a fine taste.
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financial
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adjective: Monetary.
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gauge
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noun: An instrument for measuring.
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jargon
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noun: Confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech.
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exhilarate
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verb: To fill with high or cheerful spirits.
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happy-go-lucky
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adjective: Improvident.
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Neolithic
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adjective: Pertaining to the later stone age.
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deportment
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noun: Demeanor.
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sextuple
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adjective: Multiplied by six.
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menace
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noun: A threat.
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inquisitor
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noun: One who makes an investigation.
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disillusion
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verb: To disenchant.
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guile
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noun: Duplicity.
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likelihood
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noun: A probability.
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laudation
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noun: High praise.
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penance
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noun: Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of
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kilometer
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noun: A length of 1,000 meters.
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possessive
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adjective: Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
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aspiration
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noun: An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach.
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