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To appease or pacify esp by concessions or gestures. |
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Heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm--burning, glowing, intensely hot, passionate. |
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A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation. A person of puzzling character. A saying, question, picture containing hidden meaning (riddle) |
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Wastefully or recklessly extravagent; lavishly abundant; profuse. |
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Not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light--dark, dull, stupid. Hard to understand--not clear/lucid. |
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Characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly. |
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To make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate--to sooth or calm. |
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To hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly. |
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Easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible--rational or sane. |
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Allowing the possibility of several different meanings esp with intent to deceive or misguide--deliberately ambiguous. Uncertain significance. |
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Deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement or form. Odd, peculiar, strange condition. |
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Fervent or enthusiastic devotion, often extreme or fanatical in nature, as to a religious movement, political cause, ideal, or aspiration. |
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Talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous. |
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To produce, cause, or give rise to. To beget; procreate--come into existence. |
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Of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations. Of or pertaining to the affairs of state or community. |
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Absense or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement. Lack of interest in or concern for things that other finds mvoing or exciting. Absence of emotion. |
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Deserving praise, commendable, admirable. |
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A person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning. A person who overemphasizes rules or minor details. A person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense. |
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Lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory. Lasting but one day. |
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To make more certain; confirm |
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To dry thoroughly. Preserve food by removing moisture; dehydrate. |
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Characterized by or liable to sudden unpredictable changes in attitude or behavior; impulsive; fickle and obsolete. Fanciful or witty. |
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Conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners. Appropriateness to the purpose or circumstances; rightness or justness. |
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To waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute. To sway unsteadily. To oscillate or fluctuate. |
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To lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, pain. Make less severe, milder or more gentle. |
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Using few words; expressing much in few words; concise. |
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Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless. Inventive, orignial. Insolent; brazen. Lively; unrestrained; uninhibited. |
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To speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression. |
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Pertaining to drowsiness, sluggish; lazy--abnormal lack of energy esp result of disease |
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To regard or treat with reverence. Hold in deep respect. To honor in recognition of qualities of holiness, excellence, wisdom. |
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Long often cylindrical cushion or pillow for a bed or sofa etc. Anything used as support. |
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To sway to and fro; flutter. Become unsteady, shake/tremble. To feel or show doubt, indecision. To fluctuate or vary. |
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Benevolent; charity; love of humanity. |
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Unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding. Resistant to moral influence. |
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A natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion. Object of habitual dislike. An instinctive contrarietyor opposition in feeling. |
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A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. False proposition. An opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion. |
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Depleted of strength or vitality. |
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Harsh discordance of sound; dissonance. A meaningless mixture of sounds. |
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Free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; severe. Honorable or noble. Artless; innocent; naive; frank; straight-forward. |
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Excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner esp about trivial matters. |
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To laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock; ridicule. |
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Inharmonioius or harsh sound; discord; cacophony. Music. Disagreement or incongruity. |
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Pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance; display intended to impress others. |
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