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The action or crime of making a false spoken statementdamaging to aperson's reputation.

Synonym: defamation

"That is no slander, sir, which is a truth"

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Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

Synonym: contemplative

"My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now"

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Having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion.

Synonym: artful

"Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks"

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The action of providing or supplying something for use.

Synonym: supply

"We shall be short in our provision: ’Tis now near night"

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Compensate for the faults or bad aspects of (something).

Synonym: vindicate

"Come to redeem me? there’s a fearful point!"

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A length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial.

Synonym: winding sheet

"And hide me with a dead man in his shroud"

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Literary under a curse.

Synonym: ill-fated

"Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!"

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Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.

Synonym: mesmerize

"Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!"

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Make better; improve.

Synonym: alter

 "Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended"

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Destructive to life; deadly.

Synonym: noxious

"What a pestilent knave is this same!"