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| the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course. |
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| temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension |
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| sour or astringent in taste |
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| sharpness; acuteness; keenness |
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| to caution, advise, or counsel against something |
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| expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body |
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| a person who has or professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature |
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| unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others |
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| to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate |
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| lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless |
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| very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive |
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| of doubtful authorship or authenticity |
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| capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage |
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| a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons |
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| to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate |
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| Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage. |
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| insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth. |
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| a large cage or a house or enclosure in which birds are kept |
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to declare frankly or openly; own; acknowledge; confess; admit:
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| to mention or suggest for the first time |
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| any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall. |
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| a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack |
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| of or having the nature of a cherub, or an angel represented as a rosy-cheeked child with wings; angelic |
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| like a churl; boorish; rude |
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| characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious |
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| having the same measure; of equal extent or duration |
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| existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent |
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| a flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like |
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| of, pertaining to, or characteristic of marriage: |
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| tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome |
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| a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words, as What is black and white and read all over? A newspaper; anything that puzzles |
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| large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful |
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| bulkiness or largeness of body; fatness; portliness |
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| a group of people who associate closely. |
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| willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible. |
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| mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous |
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| a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person |
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| an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack |
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| a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people |
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| to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office. |
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| a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism |
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| the quality or state of being modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence |
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| tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy. |
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| discontented and disloyal, as toward the government or toward authority |
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| passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling |
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| to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of |
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| to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: |
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| free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: |
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| disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant. |
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| to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from) |
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| the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means |
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| a person, especially an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; a weak-minded or foolish old person |
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| deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing |
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| extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant |
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| used in, suitable for, or resembling a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
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| to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; |
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| to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate. |
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| to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass |
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| resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious |
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| a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom |
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| lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory |
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| a person who cultivates a refined taste, especially in food and wine; connoisseur |
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| to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge |
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| knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning; scholarship |
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| understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite |
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| to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause |
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| extremely delicate or refined:light, airy, or tenuous |
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| to praise highly; laud; eulogize |
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| foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly |
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| producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful |
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| the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss |
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| having an offensive odor; stinking |
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| frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity |
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| a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect |
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| taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret |
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| to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate |
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| to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place |
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| insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity. |
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| the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good |
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| a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church |
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| a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc. |
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| deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech. |
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| the action or spirit of a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition. |
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| not mutable; unchangeable; changeless |
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| not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable |
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| strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force; unconquerabe |
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| to challenge as false; cast doubt upon |
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| beginning to exist or appear; in a initial stage |
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| penetrating; cutting;biting;trenchant |
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| incapable of being injured or impaired |
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| violating generally accepting standards of good taste or propriety |
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| incapable of being tired out, not yielding to fatigue, untiring |
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| not harmful or injurious; harmless; not likely to irritate or offend |
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| incapable of being investigated, analyzed or scrutinized, impenetrable |
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| without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid |
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| to utter with a particular tone or modulation of voice. |
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| not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate |
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| belonging to a thing by its very nature |
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| to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words; rail (usually followed by against) |
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| settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: |
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| easily provoked to anger; very irritable |
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| to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency. |
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| a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances |
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| to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
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| using few words; expressing much in few words; concise |
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| a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc. |
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| generous bestowal of gifts |
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| weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor |
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| the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity. |
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| bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible |
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| gruesome; horrible; revolting |
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| wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious |
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| tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental |
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| to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course |
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