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to deprive/ strip
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shame/disgrace
from obstructing what is pro (forward)
IE: what you are doing moves against us |
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to verify/ assert
from root: ver |
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lacking self-confidence/ distrustful
(the new tutor was somewhat diffident and had a hard time reaching students) |
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nonchalant/fluent/ easy
(like a political answer)
--> a glib jibe |
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to appease/ regain goodwill
(propitiate the angry gods) |
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unenclosed grassland
(the hobbits wandered a whispering bent) |
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accept what is undesirable
(inured to grief/violence/vendetta) |
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light-hearted/casual
(certainly not Bryce) |
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profligate/wasteful
(Bruce Wayne the prodigal son) |
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| able to pay (dissolve) the debt |
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disown/ push away from
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to acquire/ sieze/ become preeminent
(it was a preemptive strike)
(State law preempts federal) |
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native/ prevalent
(endemic to the peoples) |
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beget/produce
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brusque
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cause/ fall/ throw violently/ quickly
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| hot air. Pretentions/ over-inflated |
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depart secretly/ hide
(the dish absconded with the spoon) |
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| to Negrify. Seriously. To blacken. |
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to remove the armor of/ thwart
(comfit = sugar-coated seed) |
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| annoyingly talkative (Mulcahy) |
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halfway out of this reality
(not yet coherent) |
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stubborn adherence to belief
(intransigent Israelites) |
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mutiny/ treachery
(perfidious Newt Gingrich) |
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jelly-like: viscid
(from viscum: mistletoe?!) |
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to give notice
(let me apprise you regarding the upcoming appraisal) |
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to dilute/ moderate/ restrain
(reheat and cool the metal) |
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| to make more robust; to sustain/ certify |
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| poverty. having/saving pennies. thrifty |
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| not held back/ unrestrained |
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winding/ twisted
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idiotic/ silly/ overconfident
(Dennis Nedry) |
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to polish
(burnish the balustrade) |
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unruly/ quarrelsome/ creating factions
(fracturing the group) |
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comprehensive/ holistic/ common-view
(syn + Optic: combined sight) superficial |
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| to have a tendency towards/ biased |
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admitting maximum light
super-lucid |
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faithful/ exact
(L: fides: faith/ trust) |
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limit or to restric (noun: period of time)
not a stent, which was created by Charles Stent and does the opposite by allowing flow |
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confused
(L: no more-- can't see it anymore) |
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to anticipate/ make unnecessary/ allow avoidance
(The Q and A session obviated our later discomfort) |
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simulate/ hide under false appearance
(Macaulay Caulkin dissembles well as the good son) |
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