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1.Weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor.
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Great intensity of feeling or expression.
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Exceedingly submissive; customary of or relating to slaves or slavery |
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To talk slowly, usually prolonging the vowels |
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To emit sparks; to sparkle or flash |
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To cut off the outer coating or layer. |
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Having good judgement |
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1.Making or having a harsh sound.
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To avoid work by feigning sickness |
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A flirt
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to flirt
2. to deal with something playfully rather than seriously |
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Courteous or gracious
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A strong, sweetened liquer
2. Anything that invigorates |
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Having become solid, firm, or coherent.
2. Brought together into a whole unit. |
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1.Foreknowledge of events.
2. Divine omniscience
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Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit. |
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A remark intended to start a conversation or make an intelligent point.
2. A calculated move where one seeks to gain an advantage |
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Avoiding the use of direct and plain language as from timidity |
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Divination from auspices or omens |
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To pray humbly;entreat a petition humbly |
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To implore urgently.
2. To beg eagerly for; solicit |
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Dispossession or loss. |
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A ring or collar, usually provided with holes for bolts, and screwed or welded over a tube to permit other object to attach. |
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The seeds of a vetch |
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Working or acting merely for money or reward.
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A professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.
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To exceed customary or proper limit. |
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Mental or emotional stability under strain;calm. |
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To be exceedingly covetous.
2. Insatiable in desiring things |
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Perversion where one takes great pleasure by the infliction of mental or physical pain on others.
2. Delight in cruelty |
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The crime of giving flase evidence under oath. |
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Deceptive or misleading |
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Characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm. |
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In agreement; agreeable; in accord; consistent |
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To roll about in water, snow, mud, dust, etc as for refreshment.
2. To live self-indulgently: to wallow in luxury
3. To flounder about; proceed clumsily
4. To billow forth as heat or smoke |
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The technical skill, fluency, or style exhibited by a virtuoso or composition.
2.An appreciation for or interest in the fine objects of art. |
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A social blunder; a faux pas (slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct.) |
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1. To place, put down, or set
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Old fashioned or out of date; antiquated; primitive |
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Lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid. |
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Vapid; uninteresting; childish; nugatory; immature; puerile |
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Of no real value; trifling; worthless |
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Childishly foolish; immature or trivial |
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The academic study of games |
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The science of human movement |
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To show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove. |
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Delicate work of fine silver, gold, or other metal wires. |
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a compound propositional form all of whose instances are true, as “A or not A.”
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A state of perplexity or confusion, especially as to what to do; a dilemma |
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A travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
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Sleight of hand (Performance or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands.) |
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A long speech often characterized by pompous language (Harangue) |
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1.Without previous thought or preparation: to decide offhand to take a trip
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Something, as property or investments, that has been divested (stripped or deprived). |
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1. To send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
2. To transact or dispose of (matter) with haste.
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1.The sending off of a messenger, letter, etc., to a destination
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Detached; standing alone; isolated.
Pertaining to an island or islands. |
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Inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in a conversation |
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Cowardly, pusillanimous
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A coward |
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Showing a strict regard for what one believes is right.
2. Precise and exact |
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A person devoted to luxury or pleasure |
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1.Elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc. Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
2.Supreme or outstanding
a sublime dinner
2. Complete, utter.
sublime stupidity |
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Causing sorrow or pity. (A rueful plight)
2.Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful. (The rueful look on her face.) |
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1. Of great weight; heavy; massive.
2. Akward and unwiedly (He carried a ponderous burden on his back.)
3. Dull and labored (A ponderous dissertation.) |
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A rigid policy of racial segregation of the nonwhite population |
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To merge, fuse; blend together, combind. |
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Forbidden, illegal, improper,taboo. |
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Airtight or tightly sealed; unaffected by anything outside itself.
2. Occult |
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To give into pressure, to surrender, to collapse.
His defense capitulated when the new evidence was presented. |
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To uplift; to benefit or instruct, especially morally.
We were edified by reading George Washington's rules for conduct. |
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The act of showing favoratism to relatives and friends in business or politics.
It was not nepotism, but talent that got Julian where he was. |
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To pollute, spoil, impair, corrupt, pervert.
Media violence is vitiating the morals of our young people. |
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To be dogmatic; to espouse a theory, doctrine, or belief system whether or not it is practical.
The more doctrinaire members of the congregation were offended by the views of the neo-orthadox minister. |
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Festive, friendly, good natured.
We wanted to stay longer because we enjoyed the good music, the good food, and the convivial company. |
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Immature, inexperienced, unsophisticated due to youthfulness.
As a callow youth of nineteen, I did not realize how wise my dad was. |
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